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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. The Running Man (Paramount+)
Given his kinetic visual style, director Edgar Wright seemed like the ideal person to remake 1987’s The Running Man, a sci-fi action satire based on a Stephen King novel. His version even had Glen Powell replacing Arnold Schwarzenegger as the contestant competing for $1 billion on a dystopian life-or-death game show, presumably infusing the film with more everyman relatability. Alas, it underperformed at the box office – but considering all the pluses it has going for it, it seems primed for a streaming rediscovery. Read Time Out’s review.
Watch The Running Man now on Paramount+
2. The Rip (Netflix)
Hollywood’s most beautiful friendship travels from Boston to Florida, as Ben Affleck and Matt Damon star in Netflix’s now-annual winter action-thriller as Miami cops whose trust begins to fray after their team discovers $24 million in cash in an abandoned stash house. (One Battle After Another’s ascendant Teyana Taylor is also in the cast.) Director Joe Carnahan (Smokin’ Aces, Narc) can be hit-or-miss, but the premise is right in his aggro-crime-flick wheelhouse.
3. The Black Phone 2 (Peacock)
The first Black Phone was a major hit for horror studio Blumhouse, but it ended rather definitively, making a sequel unlikely. Of course, money always finds a way. And so, Ethan Hawke somehow returns as the masked child killer known as the Grabber, along with the rest of the main cast, in a film that, somewhat by necessity, has a more pronounced supernatural edge than its predecessor. Read Time Out’s review.
Watch The Black Phone 2 now on Peacock
4. Twinless (Hulu)
One of those small, unexpected indie gems you always hope to stumble across in any movie year, writer-director-star James Sweeney’s sophomore feature is a funny, dark but ultimately moving queer romcom. Two gay men (Sweeney and co-star Dylan O’Brien) meet-cute at a support group for twins who’ve lost their siblings. Soon, however, a shocking secret threatens to derail their burgeoning relationship.
Watch Twinless now on Hulu
5. Bone Lake (Netflix)
As if vacationing at a place called Bone Lake wasn’t enough of a red flag – what, was Blood Bay all booked up? – poor Sage and Diego shop up to discover another couple has double-booked their rental house. And so begins a weekend of disturbing psychosexual mind games. Well regarded out of Fantastic Fest in 2024, this erotic horror-thriller builds its creepy sense of dread well before exploding into a bloody finale.