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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. Splitsville (Hulu)
How often does the year’s best romcom also contain the year’s best fight scene? Probably as often as any romcom starts with a man standing over a dead stranger on the side of the highway, his penis unknowingly dangling from his shorts. A slapstick farce that’s a little Judd Apatow, a little Woody Allen, the second feature from co-writers and stars Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin is one of 2025’s great surprises, an exploration of open marriages involving two schlubs and their improbably gorgeous wives, played by Dakota Johnson and Aria Arjona.
2. Boys Go To Jupiter (HBO Max)
An animated coming-of-age tale unlike most others, Julian Glander’s wonderfully strange comedy looks something like The Sims updated to address the specific anxieties of Gen Z. A young boy named Billy 5000 navigates the gig economy in an effort to raise enough money to move out of his sister’s house – a plan sidetracked when he encounters a squishy alien creature he names Donut. Boasting a hip voice cast including Janeane Garofalo, Sarah Sherman, Cole Escola and Eva Victor, it’s as warm as it is weird.
Watch Boys Go to Jupiter now on HBO Max
3. La Grazia (MUBI)
Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino reunites with his muse, Toni Servillo, for a contemplative political drama about a fictional president’s final days in office. As his term winds down, Servillo’s head of state finds himself disturbed by his late wife’s infidelity and grappling with several tough decisions, including potential pardons and whether to sign a bill legalising euthanasia into law. Unusually restrained for Sorrentino, it relies much on Servillo’s quietly gripping performance – but it’s occasionally pretty funny, too.
4. Ella McCay (Hulu)
She’s just became the governor of the state she was born and raised in! Director James L Brooks’ first movie in a decade, an Obama-era period piece about a woman who, indeed, inherits the governorship of an unnamed state, was mostly met with wrinkled brows upon release, trying to figure out how the guy who made Broadcast News and The Simpsons could put out something so bizarrely bad. It does have a charming performance from Emma Mackey at its centre. And we’ll always have the Ella McCay Challenge. That’s not nothing! Read Time Out’s review.
5. Queen of Chess (Netflix)
The real Queen’s Gambit? Seems a bit late, but five whole years after the aforementioned Netflix series sparked a renaissance for the royal game, here comes a documentary on Hungarian prodigy Judit Polgár, the greatest female chess player of all-time, who went move-for-move against Garry Kasparov at only 17 years old. Maybe it’ll convince you to dust off the old board you bought back in 2020.
Watch Queen of Chess now on Netflix