MGM+ Review - PCMag

Formerly known arsenic Epix, MGM+ is simply a revamped, Amazon-owned video streaming service with a classical cinematic brand. When you perceive the big, aureate lion roar, you cognize a bully movie is astir to start. The service’s affluent movie room does justness to this pedigree, with aged classics alongside modern hits and archetypal shows. We conscionable privation utilizing the work felt a spot little antiquated.

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What Can You Watch connected MGM+?

Before it arrived connected streaming, MGM+ started arsenic a film-centric premium cablegram channel—think channels similar HBO, Showtime, and Starz. Its room consists of thousands of movies, including classics from MGM’s catalog, arsenic good arsenic caller hits from crossed each genres that person lone conscionable near the theaters. It's an enticing work for mainstream movie viewing.

MGM+'s modern movies see Candyman, Cyrano, House of Gucci, Smile, Snake Eyes, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, and Top Gun: Maverick. Besides arthouse services similar Criterion, galore streaming subscriptions conflict to supply films that weren’t made successful the past fewer years. However, the MGM+ room besides includes classical films similar 12 Angry Men, Midnight Cowboy, The Magnificent Seven, The Manchurian Candidate, The Pink Panther, Platoon, Red River, and The Silence of the Lambs.

Alongside the on-demand library, MGM+ features 4 “live” channels that broadcast films 24/7. The channels person antithetic themes, specified arsenic MGM+ Hits and MGM+ Drive-In, which is simply a large mode to conscionable beryllium backmost and admit the breadth of content. The room has immoderate occasional gaps, though. For example, you tin watercourse galore James Bond and Rocky movies, but not each azygous movie successful either of those beloved franchises. 

MGM+ focuses connected movies alternatively than tv (or anime). Still, it has breathtaking archetypal shows similar Godfather of Harlem, starring Forest Whitaker, and a documentary bid astir The Rolling Stones. MGM+ occasionally lets non-subscribers ticker episodes for free. MGM is present owned by Amazon, but you won’t find immoderate archetypal Prime Video shows present oregon vice versa. 

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How Much Does MGM+ Cost?

After a seven-day escaped trial, MGM+ costs $5.99 per period oregon $50 per year. Compared with different large premium channels, that’s a beauteous bully deal. For example, Starz costs $8.99 per month, portion Showtime costs $10.99. MGM+’s azygous ad-free tier is besides little costly than the ad-supported tiers for HBO Max, Hulu, and Netflix.

You tin subscribe to MGM+ arsenic a standalone work oregon acquisition it arsenic an add-on transmission for a larger streaming service, specified arsenic Amazon Prime Video oregon YouTube. MGM+ is disposable via browser, mobile (Android, iOS), and media streaming devices (Fire TV, Roku). It’s not disposable connected video crippled consoles.  

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MGM+ Mobile and Web Apps

On desktop, MGM+ has an astir shockingly lackluster interface. The Browse surface features rows of antithetic categories—such arsenic New This Month, Featured Movies, oregon MGM Comedies—but that’s it. You can’t propulsion up a genre list. There’s not adjacent a hunt tract to benignant successful movie names oregon actors. If there’s thing you specifically privation to see, navigating to it is truthful overmuch slower and much roundabout compared to fundamentally immoderate different streaming service. 

Once you prime a listing, the leafage features a abbreviated synopsis, rating, formed and crew, and a trailer if available. There are nary societal features similar sharing a nexus oregon leaving reviews and comments. However, the page's bottommost features related and recommended movies to ticker erstwhile you’re finished. The subordinate doesn’t person immoderate other functionality, and you can’t set video quality. Still, I could archer resolutions were HD, and playback was creaseless implicit my location Wi-Fi transportation (60Mbps download). 

I don’t urge utilizing MGM+ connected your desktop. If you privation the service’s large content, you whitethorn beryllium amended disconnected subscribing to it arsenic an add-on transmission for streaming work with a acold much robust interface. However, the MGM+ mobile app fixes astir of these problems. On the app, you tin hunt for circumstantial films and actors. Movies and archetypal shows person their ain abstracted tabs. Unlike connected the web, the MGM+ mobile apps lets you prevention movies to a idiosyncratic watchlist. You tin besides download movies for offline mobile viewing, successful SD oregon HD, and watercourse connected up to six devices astatine once. Even the interface looks amended connected mobile, acknowledgment to a denser and much breathtaking layout. Thankfully, each of these features are besides disposable successful the smart TV app, truthful you don’t person to take betwixt watching connected a large surface oregon gaining a due interface. 

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MGM+ Accessibility and Parental Controls

Accessibility is different country wherever MGM+ needs improvement. You tin crook English subtitles connected and off, but that’s it. You can’t customize subtitles oregon activate much precocious features, specified arsenic audio descriptions oregon adjusting playback speed. This is the lawsuit connected some the web and connected mobile.

As for parental controls, parents tin restrict their relationship from showing movies supra a definite MPAA property rating. But you can’t, say, make a kid relationship and an big relationship nether the aforesaid subscription.  

Using MGM+ With a VPN

A VPN is an indispensable instrumentality to support yourself harmless and unafraid online. It spoofs your geographic determination to different portion of the world, truthful many streaming services don’t enactment with VPNs due to the fact that of determination licensing deals.

Unfortunately, MGM+ is 1 of those services. MGM+ is lone disposable successful the United States, truthful I wasn’t amazed that the work didn’t enactment erstwhile the VPN connected to overseas ProtonVPN servers. However, I inactive couldn’t watercourse contented adjacent aft switching to US-based servers. MGM+ doesn’t enactment with VPNs astatine all.  

The Lion’s Den

MGM’s logo is “art for art’s sake,” and that’s evident successful MGM+. Few streaming services connection specified an affordable and straightforward mode to ticker truthful galore large movies. Its spot is its library, not the app itself, truthful it whitethorn beryllium amended arsenic a supplement to different streaming work alternatively than a pillar. Still, MGM+ is worthwhile viewing.