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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 four must-watch movies hitting streaming services this weekend.
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1. Sentimental Value (MUBI)
A true actors showcase, Joachim Trier’s Oscar-nominated family drama features several of 2025’s best performances, including Stellan Skarsgård as an absentee filmmaker father, Renate Reinsve and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas as his neglected daughters and Elle Fanning as the movie star he tries to mold into their surrogate. It deals with heavy stuff, but it’s not without humour: make sure you’re up on Gaspar Noé’s Irreversible so you can get one of the year’s funniest blink-and-miss-it gags. Read Time Out’s review.
Watch Sentimental Value now on MUBI
2. Predator: Badlands (Hulu)
In just three years, Dan Trachtenberg has managed to make three of the best movies in the 40-year-old Predator franchise: 2022’s Prey, the direct-to-streaming animation Killer of Killers and this most recent entry, a coming-of-age story with Elle Fanning as a bisected android helping a young alien prove himself as an intergalactic sport hunter. You might not think you want a PG-13 Predator movie, but once again Trachtenberg has shown he knows what makes this series work better than anyone. Read Time Out’s review.
Watch Predator: Badlands now on Hulu
3. Blue Moon (Netflix)
Richard Linklater made two historically-informed films last year. The French New Wave tribute Nouvelle Vague initially received more attention, but it’s this biographical chamber drama that’s emerged as the clear standout, thanks to a tremendous performance from Ethan Hawke as the midcentury American lyricist Lorenz Hart. Set on a single evening in 1941, it observes the songwriter’s personal spiral on the night his former partner, Richard Rodgers, premieres his new hit musical, Oklahoma! Hawke is competing for an Oscar next month. See why. Read Time Out’s review.
Watch Blue Moon now on Netflix
4. Song Sung Blue (Peacock)
Don’t let the lighthearted trailers fool you: this biopic of Neil Diamond tribute act Lightning and Thunder is shockingly emotional and occasionally devastating. Chronicling the personal and professional ups-and-downs of musical couple Mike and Claire Sardina, it stars the always affable (and frequently bewigged) Hugh Jackman as the fake ‘Jewish Elvis’, with Kate Hudson as his partner onstage and off. Hudson, in particular, has won over critics and awards voting bodies, as she snuck into the Oscar race in one of the true surprises of the season.
Watch Song Sung Blue now on Peacock
5. Eternity (Apple TV)
On the sliding scale of the vanishingly few romantic comedies to hit theaters these days, this supernatural fantasy stands out as a fizzy little joy. Taking a bit of Defending Your Life, a bit of A Matter of Life and Death and some classic screwball energy, it stars Elizabeth Olsen as a recently deceased grandmother – she looks great for her age, right? – forced in the afterlife to choose which of her ex-husbands to spend eternity with: Miles Teller or Callum Turner? Appealing actors, intriguing premise – what else do you need? Are you listening, Hollywood? Read Time Out’s review.