The Best New Movies to Stream This Week
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Looking to settle in with a good movie? Me too. That’s why I’ve pored over release schedules to bring you the best original and new-to-streaming movies you can watch on Netflix, Prime, Max, Hulu, and other streaming platforms this week.
Things are a bit sleepy in terms of the quantity of new releases this week, but the quality is there, particularly in Clint Eastwood legal drama Juror #2, a courtroom potboiler you should not miss.
Juror #2
Directed by 94-year-old icon Clint Eastwood and starring Tony Collette, J.K Simmons, Chris Messina, Kiefer Sutherland, and Nicholas Hoult, Juror #2 is a legal drama exploring justice and personal responsibility. Hoult plays Justin Kemp, an everyman serving on the jury of high-profile murder case. When Kemp realizes he might have personal knowledge of the crime, he must decide whether he’ll try to sway the rest of the jury. This movie is getting extremely good reviews from critics.
Where to stream: Max
Blink
Directed by Oscar winners Edmund Stenson and Daniel Roher, Blink is a family-friendly documentary about the Lemay-Pelletier family of Montreal. After three of their four children are diagnosed with incurable, degenerative eye disease retinitis pigmentosa, their parents take them on a trip around the world to see the most beautiful and majestic things on Earth before their vision disappears forever.
Where to stream: Hulu
The Six Triple Eight
Tyler Perry gets historical in The Six Triple Eight, a movie detailing World War II’s only Women’s Army Corps unit of color, the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion. Their job during the war was sorting through a backlog of millions of pieces of mail addressed to American soldiers. Kerry Washington plays Captain Charity Adams who heads up a division of 855 women who help defeat Hitler by making sure letters get to their intended recipients. Because you can’t win a war with low morale.
Where to stream: Netflix
Last week’s picks
Conclave (2024)
Set in Vatican City, critically acclaimed thriller Conclave begins with the announcement that the Pope is dead, and proceeds to take us inside the complicated rituals and politicking that lead to the selection of a new Holy Father. Cardinal Lawrence, played by Ralph Fiennes, is the man in charge of the election, and his already difficult task becomes monumental when he uncovers dark secrets that could bring down the church. Joining Fiennes is a dream cast including Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, and Isabella Rossellini. Don’t miss this one.
Where to stream: Peacock
Carry-On
This Christmas-themed thriller is set in at Los Angeles International Airport on Christmas Eve, where a TSA agent who couldn’t get the holiday off matches wits with a terrorist mastermind. Taron Egerton plays everyman TSA dude Ethan Kopek who receives a phone call from a mysterious traveler (Jason Bateman) threatening to kill his girlfriend if he doesn’t allow a dangerous package onto a Christmas Eve flight. This is, I think you’ll agree, a great set-up for a single-location thriller.
Where to stream: Netflix
A Sudden Case of Christmas
Danny Devito, Andie MacDowell, and Wilmer Valderrama stars in this holiday trifle set in The Dolomites, Italy. In it, a young girl named Claire, played by Antonella Rose, learns that her parents are splitting up. But she wants one last Christmas together with the family, and even though it’s August, everyone agrees. Hulu describes this original Christmas flick as a “fun, warm, touching family comedy,” and I won’t argue.
Where to stream: Hulu
Beau Is Afraid (2023)
A harrowing look at mental illness from Ari Aster, Beau Is Afraid isn’t like any other movie. It’s a terrifying, surreal, and often inscrutable journey into the psyche of the main character, played by a fully committed Joaquin Phoenix. Beau’s routine trip to visit his mother turns into an epic personal journey in which reality and delusion merge.
Where to stream: Prime
Sugarcane
This critically acclaimed documentary from National Geographic aims to uncover what happened at St. Joseph’s mission, a Catholic native residential school in Canada. Evidence of unmarked graves was found on the grounds in 2021, leading to an investigation that uncovered long-buried secrets and revealed the troubling history of Canada’s boarding schools for Native people.
Where to stream: Hulu
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Through interviews with family and friends, this documentary tells the story of the rise of the actor the world would come to know as Superman, the near-fatal accident that left him paralyzed, and his activism in its aftermath. Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story isn’t a hagiography; Reeves was a complex man, and this movie isn’t afraid to delve into his frustration over being typecast as Superman and battles with his own demons.
Where to stream: Max
Nature of the Crime
In Nature of the Crime, we follow three incarcerated men as they get ready for parole hearings after decades in prison. These men were convicted in their teens; now middle-aged, they face a board of citizens who must weigh the protection of society against the rehabilitation of longtime convicts.
Where to stream: Max
