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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. Backrooms (HBO Max)
In a year without Obsession, the biggest cinematic success story would be Backrooms, 21-year-old freshman director Kane Parson’s big-screen scale-up of his mega-viral YouTube series. Chiwetel Ejiofor is the depressed owner of a furniture store who discovers a portal to a parallel dimension that’s basically an endless maze of drab-looking office space. Maybe that doesn’t sound like much, but the production design is uniquely unsettling in a way that’s difficult to articulate. Read Time Out’s review.
Watch Backrooms now on HBO Max
2. Toy Story 5 (Disney+)
At this point, the Toy Story gang are basically the Muppets: cultural evergreens you’ll always be happy to reunite with every few years, even if the movies aren’t quite what they used to be. Thankfully, the first escapade for Andy’s Bonnie’s favorite playthings in seven years is still pretty good. Woody and Buzz take a backseat to Jessie and her trusty Bullseye in a very modern story about the encroachment of technology into children’s lives. It’s not quite as funny as its predecessors, but every bit as emotional. Read Time Out’s review.
Watch Toy Story 5 now on Disney+
3. Jackass: Best and Last (Paramount+)
Few things will make millennials feel like dusty skeletons than seeing the Jackass crew retire. In this glorified greatest hits compilation, the beloved grossout stuntmen retrace their most notorious gags, while also trying to make the audience scream with shock and joy one last time. You’ll laugh, you’ll dry-heave – and honestly, you’ll probably cry a bit, too. Read Time Out’s review.
Watch Jackass: Best and Last now on Paramount+
4. The Furious (Starz)
In the action genre, it’s not particularly hard to identify an instant classic – if you find yourself leaping out of your seat and celebrating with the nearest stranger over and over again over the course of two hours, you know right away you’ve got a new addition to the canon, and Kenji Tanigaki’s martial-arts blowout causes more involuntary high-fives than any movie since The Raid. Sledgehammers and bikes are swung with equal malice, a kid is dangled by their ankles from a speeding flatbed truck, and it all culminates in a nonstop 30-minute throwdown at a police station that’ll cause fans to springboard through their ceilings.
Watch The Furious now on Starz
5. Tuner (Paramount+)
Mix a less-caustic Emily the Criminal with a not-annoying Baby Driver and you get this low-stakes, well-executed crime thriller from Canadian filmmaker Daniel Roher. Leo Woodall is excellent as a piano tuner with a disorder that makes him overly sensitive to noise, whose supersonic hearing turns out to be useful for cracking safes – a heretofore untapped skill that ends up getting him in a lot of trouble. Read Time Out’s review.
6. Unabomber (Netflix)
You’ve seen Tony, now watch Ted – no, not the foul-mouthed teddy bear. That’s Ted as in Ted Kaczynski, the mathematician turned domestic terrorist known as the Unabomber. In this biopic, Jacob Tremblay plays the murdering Luddite as a young man, going back to his Harvard years to show his radicalization against the technological world. Shailene Woodley, meanwhile, is the FBI agent tracking him down in the present – or rather, the 1990s.
Watch Unabomber now on Netflix
7. Power Ballad (Starz)
Director John Carney specializes in what might be called ‘small joys’ – little movies with oversized hearts, usually involving musicians. Power Ballad is a bit louder and more garish than Once or Sing Street, but it’s still a total charmer. Paul Rudd is an American wedding-band singer living in Ireland who befriends a washed-up pop star played by Nick Jonas, only to have the latter steal one of his original songs and rejuvenate his career, leading the former into a spiral of resentment and determination to get the credit he deserves. Read Time Out’s review.