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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. Avatar: Fire and Ash (Disney+)
Hey, remember Avatar? You should – it’s made, like, a gazillion dollars worldwide. But that’s the strange thing about James Cameron’s multipart sci-fi odyssey: no one seems to think about it until the next instalment is thrust into your eyeballs, then everyone goes to see it. Clearly, though, the franchise has its fans, and most of them agree that Fire and Ash is the most middling so far, despite still containing Cameron’s state-of-the-art visuals and exceptional universe-building. Please don’t ask us to explain what’s happening at this point in the story – something involving oppressed whales, maybe? – but then, if you care, you probably don’t need us to, anyway. Read Time Out’s review.
Watch Avatar: Fire and Ash now on Disney+
2. Undertone (HBO Max)
Before the twin phenomena of Obsession and Backrooms, this supernatural chiller, from debuting filmmaker Ian Tuason, was being touted as ‘the scariest movie of the year.’ That was always a bit hyperbolic, even before the stiff competition arrived, but it’s effectively goosebump-raising. The skeptical co-host of a paranormal podcast begins experiencing petrifying events after airing some spooky, unidentified recordings on her show. If nothing else, the sound design is exceptional, which, given the concept, is really the most important point. Read Time Out’s review.
Watch Undertone now on HBO Max
3. In the Hand of Dante (Netflix)
Director Julian Schnabel returns to deliver a star-studded crime thriller with a twist of lit. Oscar Isaac plays author Nick Tosches (who wrote the 2002 novel the film is based on) who’s recruited by the mob to authenticate, and subsequently steal, a handwritten copy of Dante’s The Divine Comedy. Schnabel alternates between the modern-day gangster plot and a timeline of Dante (also Isaac) writing the manuscript in the 1400s. Sounds kinda insufferable, but the bizarre cast also includes Gerard Butler, John Malkovich, Gal Gadot, Al Pacino, Jason Momoa and Martin Scorsese. Is it so insane it could actually work.
Watch In the Hand of Dante now on Netflix
4. Two Prosecutors (Criterion Channel)
A sterling example of form meeting function, Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s historical thriller, set against the background of Stalin’s Great Purge, uses the elements of slow cinema to show how the totalitarian apparatus used grinding bureaucracy as a weapon. In 1937, an idealistic young prosecutor seeks justice for a political prisoner, never quite realising how rigged the system is against him – until it’s too late. Slow, yes, but mesmerising. Read Time Out’s review.
Watch Two Prosecutors now on Criterion Channel
5. Forbidden Fruits (Shudder)
The Craft meets Mean Girls in this proudly campy horror-comedy. A coven of Marilyn Monroe-worshipping mall goths have the sanctity of their witchy clique challenged by the arrival of a new employee at the suburban clothing store where they all work. It’s nasty, sassy fun from new arrival Meredith Alloway.
Watch Forbidden Fruits now on Shudder
6. Little Brother (Netflix)
John Cena is a successful real estate agent whose life is turned upside down when he takes in his estranged ‘little brother’ — that is, the kid he mentored way back in high school, played by comedy anarchist Eric Andre. A typical odd-couple setup, yes, but this particular pairing has potential, as both guys excel at making stupid ideas work.