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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. Mother Mary (HBO Max)
In this trippy head-scratcher from writer-director David Lowery, Anne Hathaway is a pop star in need of a new tour outfit, bringing her back into contact with a fashion designer (Michaela Coel) with whom she has a, let’s say, complicated past. If that doesn’t sound terribly thrilling on the surface, the film brings together Vox Lux, Black Swan and maybe even a bit of The Craft into a mesmerising stew. While the film is enigmatic to the point of inscrutability, Lowery is one of the more underrated current filmmakers, and he makes it a head-trip worth taking – plus, if you haven’t your fill of her yet, Charli xcx provides the songs. Read Time Out’s review.
Watch Mother Mary now on HBO Max
2. I Swear (Netflix)
Sadly destined to be remembered, at least in America, for John Davidson’s involuntary racist outburst at the BAFTAs, this sweet-and-sour biopic about Davidson’s evolution into the UK’s poster child for Tourette’s syndrome advocacy deserves a better legacy, if only for the lead performance of Robert Aramayo. Bringing heart, soul and plenty of awkward curse words to Davidson’s unlikely life, he finds the humor and hardship in the subject’s struggles, lifting the film firmly above its streak of sentimentality. Read Time Out’s review.
3. The Christophers (Hulu)
Big week for Michaela Coel on streaming. In this latest splatter on the wall from the ever-prolific Steven Soderbergh, Coel is an art forger hired by the children of a reclusive painter (Ian McKellen) to complete a pair of unfinished works they can sell off when he dies. Like much of Soderbergh’s recent material, it’s an admirable if inconsequential film, but oddball pairing of Coel and McKellen make it a dark comedy worth watching before it’s buried by his next half-dozen projects. Read Time Out’s review.
Watch The Christophers now on Hulu
4. Rosebush Pruning (MUBI)
The Royal Tenenbaums meets Succession, or something like that, in this entertainingly mean-spirited satire from Brazilian iconoclast Karim Aïnouz. A cast including Callum Turner, Tracy Letts, Jamie Bell, Riley Keough and Pamela Anderson play the members of a wealthy American family holed up in a Catalonian mansion whose already dysfunctional dynamic is thrown further into chaos by the arrival of an outsider, played by Elle Fanning. It’s some odd, deranged stuff for fans of both Ruben Östlund and John Waters. Read Time Out’s review.
Watch Rosebush Pruning now on MUBI
5. Passenger (Paramount+)
A pair of van-lifers are harassed by a demonic spirit after witnessing a brutal roadside attack in this horror chiller from Norwegian filmmaker André Øvredal. While loaded with cliches, Øvredal still manages to do some clever things with them – and if you ever saw his found-footage fantasy flick, Trollhunter, from 2010, that should come as no surprise. A fine lower-tier horror flick for fans to tick off once they’ve already digested Backrooms, Obsession et al. Read Time Out’s review.