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 five must-watch movies hitting streaming services this weekend.
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1. Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (Paramount+)
With the year in movies winding down and crowd-pleasing spectacles like Sinners and One Battle After Another hogging most of the attention and acclaim, it’s strange to think that, after all the anticipation, Ethan Hunt’s (allegedly) final mission has sort of been forgotten. It made good money but mostly disappointed audiences and critics, even while featuring some typically bonkers Tom Cruise stunts. Maybe its streaming release will cause some level of reappraisal – just try to watch on a decent-sized TV. Read Time Out’s review.
Watch Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning now on Paramount+
2. Jay Kelly (Netflix)
George Clooney and Adam Sandler do The Trip? That’s sort of the direction of Noah Baumbach’s new midlife-crisis dramedy, which also serves as a meta examination of the pursuit of fame and what gets sacrificed along the way. Clooney plays a suave but aging actor – in other words, a George Clooney type – who journeys across Europe in an effort to reconnect with his estranged daughter. Clooney’s character might have the title, but it’s Sandler, as his manager, confidant and travel companion, who’s generating Oscar buzz.
Watch Jay Kelly now on Netflix
3. It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley (HBO Max)
One of the most angelic rock singers of the 1990s, Jeff Buckley released a single, transcendent album – including the only cover of Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ you’ll ever need to hear – before suffering a tragic and enigmatic death, drowning in the Mississippi River at age 30. Naturally, a saintly mystique has generated around his memory, which Amy Berg’s already-acclaimed documentary attempts to humanise through archival footage and interviews with artists who both knew and were inspired by him. Read Time Out’s review.
Watch It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley now on HBO Max
4. Didi (Peacock)
One of 2024’s underseen gems, director Sean Wang’s feature debut is a tender and funny portrait of coming of age in the era of social media as a first-generation Taiwanese-American. Set in 2008, it follows young Chris Wang, aka Di Di, a 13-year-old discovering himself and the world around him by making silly, juvenile YouTube videos. Full of heart and insights into the experience of immigrants and their children, it deserves far more attention than it got. Read Time Out’s review.
5. Oh. What. Fun. (Prime Video)
Christmas movies don’t have to be ‘good’ to be good, but this one, from The Idea of You and The Big Sick director Michael Showalter, might actually be good. Michelle Pfeiffer – yes, that Michelle Pfeiffer – stars as an overworked, underappreciated mother who ditches her family at the holidays and heads to Hollywood to participate in a televised ‘Holiday Mom Contest’. Sounds cheesy as any other streaming holiday flick, but Showalter has shown an ability to wring genuine emotion from the corniest setups. Read Time Out’s ranking of 2025’s crop of Christmas movies.