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Streaming ain’t easy. Sure, if you’re a cinephile, practically every movie you could ever want to watch is at your fingertips. But therein lies the problem: knowing what’s out there, and where to find it, can become overwhelming. Here, we’re doing the hard work for you, by cutting through the clutter and getting straight to the best new movies available to watch right now. Here are the must-watch movies hitting streaming services this weekend.
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1. The Invite (HBO Max)
Are adult comedies back? Between The Drama and this bourgeoise sex farce, it’s safe to say… maybe. Olivia Wilde directs and stars as a bored, anxious stay-at-home mom in San Francisco who invites the sexy boho couple from upstairs (Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton) over for dinner, to the chagrin – then confusion, then curiosity, then finally sadness – of her grouchy husband, played by Seth Rogen. One of the best (and funniest) movies of the year. Read Time Out’s review.
Watch The Invite now on HBO Max
2. Moana (Disney+)
Turns out, doing a live-action reboot of a barely 10-year-old animated movie whose megahit sequel was just in theaters is not an automatic cash-cow. Indeed, Disney’s attempt to squeeze the last drop of juice from the coconut of its modern-classic oceanic adventure flopped hard, even with Dwayne Johnson reprising his role in-the-flesh as the wisecracking demigod Maui. But hey, if it ends killing off – or at least slowing down – these sort of creatively soulless cash grabs for good, that’s a fine-enough legacy. Read Time Out’s review.
3. One Spoon of Chocolate (Hulu)
Did you RZA from Wu-Tang Clan makes movies, too? Maybe you remember his martial arts pastiche, The Man With the Iron Fists, from over a decade ago. Well, he’s continued making films, investigating a variety of genres, from crime to musical drama. In his latest, he does a revenge thriller, in the style of his main inspiration and sometime collaborator, Quentin Tarantino, and acquits himself decently. Shameik Moore is a military convict who finds himself in a town overrun with white supremacists – which turns out to be bad luck for the town.
Watch One Spoon of Chocolate now on Hulu
4. The Cycle (Shudder)
A mix of procedural thriller and gross-out monster movie, this Shudder original looks a little bit Longlegs, a little bit The Thing. An FBI agent (True Blood’s Deborah Ann Wolf) is shocked when her long-lost father’s corpse turns up at a crime scene. But what happens from there shocks her even more. It looks pretty eerie from the trailer, and promises some nauseating practical effects. Well, ‘tis the season.
Watch The Cycle now on Shudder
5. Finding Emily (Peacock)
A musician meets his dream girl at a party, but she gives him an incomplete phone number. So he teams up with a female psychology student he views only as a friend in an attempt to track her down. Gee, wonder what happens? Yes, this young-adult romcom plays the hits of the genre, but stars Angourie Rice and Spike Fearn have solid chemistry. Sometimes, that’s all you need.