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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. Michael (Starz)
A Michael Jackson biopic seems like a third-rail not worth touching, but director Antoine Fuqua found a successful workaround: ignore the tough stuff altogether and just play the hits. In fairness, certain legal details pretty much forced his hand. Regardless, no one but critics seemed to care: the movie made a bazillion dollars, opening the door for a sequel where they might actually address the Elephant Man’s Bones in the room. If you find the whole affair distasteful, that’s fair – but in a vacuum, Fuqua’s re-creations of those world-iconic moments do contain inarguable magic. Read Time Out’s review.
2. Hamlet (Prime)
How many different reinterpretations of Shakespeare’s archetypal tragedy do we possibly need? A lit major might argue there is no limit. If that’s the case, behold another adaptation, in this case transposing the events to modern London, with Riz Ahmed as the scion of a wealthy British-Indian family out to avenge his father’s murder. Sure, you’ve seen it before in countless guises, but first-time director Aneil Karia refurbishes the old story with rare, fresh intensity. Read Time Out’s review.
3. Normal (HBO Max)
Bob Odenkirk’s transition into action-movie ass-kicker must shock even him, but then, who could’ve guessed, back in his Mr. Show days, that he’d turn out to be one of the better dramatic actors working? The guy’s full of surprises, and this gloriously gory little thriller from Kill List director Ben Wheatley allows him to let loose as a grizzled sheriff forced to take up arms against the town he was sworn to protect. Read Time Out’s review.
4. Don't Say Good Luck (Netflix)
It’s the year of the Sandler sisters! Following Sadie Sandler’s well-received turn in Chandler Levack’s Roommates, younger sibling Sunny takes the spotlight in this weepy teen dramedy. She’s a high-schooler preparing for a starring role in her school’s production of Waitress when her mother’s cancer returns. Melanie Lynskey and Max Greenfield play her parents, with Steve Buscemi as her grandpa. Works for us.
Watch Don’t Say Good Luck now on Netflix
5. Girls Like Girls (Peacock)
Queer coming-of-age stories are still too rare, so props to writer-musician-director Hayley Kiyoko for adapting her own book into something so warm and inviting. Newcomer Maya da Costa is a 17-year-old whose summer in rural Oregon opens her up to all manner of self-discovery, particularly as it comes to another teenage girl named Sonya (Myra Molloy). And did you know there’s another Ethan Hawke-Uma Thurman spawn? His name is Levon, and he’s in it, too!
Watch Girls Like Girls now on Peacock
5. Wizard of the Kremlin (Hulu)
A rather straightforward primer on the history of post-Soviet Russia and the rise of Vladimir Putin, Olivier Assayas’ biopic mostly succeeds on its performances – even if there’s hardly an actual Russian in sight. Jude Law is wildly entertaining as the perpetually shirtless autocrat, here in his days as a KGB officer with a thirst for power, with Paul Dano portraying the media mogul helping him grasp for it. Read Time Out’s review.
Watch Wizard of the Kremlin now on Hulu
6. Deep Water (MGM+)
A plane goes down over the Pacific Ocean. A few passengers survive, but they’re not necessarily the lucky ones, as they have to contend with – you guessed it – a bunch of hungry sharks. Unabashed slopmaster Renny Harlin turns in a halfway decent B-movie thriller, produced by a slopmaster of another kind, Gene Simmons of KISS. (It’s true – look it up.) One question, though: what the heck is Ben Kingsley doing in this?
Watch Deep Water now on MGM+