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 five must-watch movies hitting streaming services this weekend.
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1. Train Dreams (Netflix)
Of all the awards hopefuls Netflix is trotting out, this gorgeously shot early 20th century period piece might be the best – and most low-key. Highly touted out of Sundance, it stars Joel Edgerton as a logger watching his way of life fade as the modern world comes into view. Adapted from the 2011 novella by Denis Johnson by Sing Sing co-writers Greg Kwedar and Clint Bentley and directed by the latter, it looks like a dark horse Best Picture contender. Read Time Out’s review.
Watch Train Dreams now on Netflix
2. Good Boy (Shudder)
If you’ve ever wondered why your dog barks at seemingly nothing, well, you might want to steel yourself before watching this clever little ghost story, which gives a pup’s-eye-view to a haunting in a rural farmhouse. As his owner falls ill, a remarkably charismatic retriever named Indy steps up to protect him from sinister supernatural forces. No wonder he campaigned for the Oscars to institute a Best Animal category – he’d beat most human actors.
Watch Good Boy now on Shudder
3. Thoughts and Prayers (HBO Max)
In the 23 years since Bowling for Columbine, America’s gun addiction has only grown more severe and the ‘solutions’ to the epidemic of school shootings more dystopian. Consider this doc the spiritual successor to Michael Moore’s Oscar-winner, as it explores, with a similar strain of grim humour, a country that would rather arm teachers and equip schools with robot dogs than make it harder for disturbed kids to get their hands on an AR-15.
Watch Thoughts and Prayers now on HBO Max
4. The Roses (Hulu)
Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman are a warring married couple in the throes of divorce in this slapstick satire, a remake of the 1989 comedy based on the Warren Adler novel – a somewhat peculiar replacement for Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, the stars of the original film. Great as they are, their buttoned-down Britishness doesn’t seem quite suited for a husband and wife attacking each other with crabs and weaponised oranges. But it’s precisely that dynamic which gives this decent reworking its unique flavour. Read Time Out’s review.
5. The Age of Disclosure (Prime Video)
If the state of governance in the United States wasn’t so profoundly screwed up, the revelations regarding UFOs and potential contact with extraterrestrial life that have slowly slipped out through official channels would probably be a much bigger deal. It might not convince the staunchest skeptics, but this doc, centred around interviews with highly credible government figures, goes far in chipping away further at the stigma that belief in alien visitation is only for crackpots.