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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 Moment (HBO Max)
After poking the pop mainstream for years, the dam finally burst for Charli XCX in 2024, as her sixth album, Brat, laid claim to an entire summer. (If Kamala had won, she also could’ve claimed to have swung a presidential election.) In this half-real, half-satirical mock doc, the British singer-songwriter spoofs her own rise to ubiquity with what looks like a mix of Madonna’s Truth or Dare and Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping – an ideal feature film debut for the Queen of Letterboxd. Read Time Out’s review.
Watch The Moment now on HBO Max
2. Dead Man's Wire (Netflix)
Remember Gus Van Sant? Once a stalwart of the ’90s indie boom alongside Spike Lee and Steven Soderbergh, his output over the last twentysomething years has been hit or miss – or perhaps more accurately, passable to straight-up terrible. Dead Man’s Wire isn’t precisely a return to form, as ’70s-style true-crime thrillers were never quite his bag, but it’s got more blood in its veins than much of what he’s done this century. Bill Skarsgård is terrific as an Indianapolis man who, in 1977, took the president of a mortgage company hostage, causing a Dog Day Afternoon-esque media firestorm. Read Time Out’s review.
Watch Dead Man’s Wire now on Netflix
3. Scream 7 (Paramount+)
Yep, the ’90s slasher franchise is still screamin’ after all these years. How much juice could it possibly have left? Not much, turns out. After behind-the-scenes turmoil led to the departure of both the director and two main cast members, original star Neve Campbell was coaxed back in time to see her daughter (Isabel May) stalked by a fresh Ghostface Killer. It’s pretty useless, but it made a lot of money, meaning the studio will certainly try to squeeze more blood from the series’ stab-wound-laden corpse. Read Time Out’s review.
Watch Scream 7 now on Paramount+
4. Propeller One-Way Night Coach (Apple TV)
Sudden beret enthusiast John Travolta gets his Robert Zemeckis on in his directorial debut, adapting his own 1997 children’s book into a nostalgic, wide-eyed ode to the magic of air travel. (Apparently it was enjoyable once upon a time. Who knew?) A young boy and his mother set off on a cross-country flight to Hollywood, meeting several eccentric characters along the way. Does it soar or stall out on the tarmac? Well, one review compared it to “watching a toddler walk into a lamp post,” which doesn’t sound encouraging.
Watch Propeller One-Way Night Coach now on Apple TV
5. Psycho Killer (Hulu/Disney+)
After years working in Hollywood, mostly as a producer and agent, Gavin Polone makes his big-screen directorial debut with a movie whose title does not mislead. When her husband is murdered, a midwest cop (Barbarian’s Georgina Campbell) doggedly tracks the killer, who turns out to be quite psycho indeed. It looks exceedingly Longlegs-coded, but Malcolm McDowell is in the cast, and that dude can make anything creepy just by association.
Watch Psycho Killer now on Hulu/Disney+