Genie

Genie (2023) is a holiday fantasy comedy you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Sam Boyd and starring Melissa McCarthy alongside Paapa Essiedu. Bernard's life falls apart all at once — his wife leaves, his job disappears, and Christmas is days away. Then an old jewelry box he finds sets free Flora, a genie who has been locked inside it for two thousand years.

Flora has zero idea what a mobile phone, a traffic jam, or an awkward office party looks like. Bernard becomes her reluctant guide to the modern world; she tries to grant his wishes in return, with results that are consistently, hilariously wrong. The one thing he actually wants is to spend the holidays with his daughter.

McCarthy plays Flora as loud, warm, and completely unhinged by contemporary life — it's the kind of performance that carries a film like this. Stream Genie (2023) online on iFILM.