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 and in the near future. Here are the five must-watch movies hitting streaming services this week.
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1. The Rule of Jenny Pen (Hulu)
John Lithgow torments Geoffrey Rush’s judge with a therapy doll after the latter suffers a stroke and ends up in an elder care facility. Sound more curious than frightening? Maybe. But when Lithgow is in horror villain mode, there are few creepier actors.
Watch The Rule of Jenny Pen now on Hulu
2. The Perfect Neighbor (Netflix)
Director Geeta Gandbhir’s documentary makes prodigious use of police bodycam footage to chart how a dispute between neighbours in Florida left a 35-year-old African-American mother of four dead. Expect a true-crime doc that’s both deeper and more devastating than what the genre typically produces.
Watch The Perfect Neighbor on Netflix starting October 17
3. OTHER (Shudder)
A former beauty queen (Thunderbolts*’ Olga Kurylenko) returns to her childhood home after her mother’s death to discover she’s being surveilled by a sinister entity, forcing her to wear a creepy mask for some reason. Seems freaky.
Watch OTHER on Shudder starting October 17
4. John Candy: I Like Me (Prime)
Colin Hanks directed this documentary on the late, beloved comic actor, who was only 43 when he died yet feels strangely immortal due to the ubiquity of his roles in comedy classics like Planes, Trains and Automobiles and Home Alone. Hanks collects a wealth of rare archival footage, plus interviews with collaborators and contemporaries including Steve Martin, Bill Murray and Tom Hanks. (How’d he land that last one?)
Watch John Candy: I Like Me now on Prime
5. Vicious (Paramount+)
Dakota Fanning gives an impressive one-woman performance (more or less) in this psychological horror movie from Bryan Bertino, director of the impressive 2008 home-invasion chiller The Strangers. Fanning is a reclusive thirtysomething who spirals deeper into a mental breakdown after a stranger leaves her an empty box with very specific instructions of what to fill it with.