The best new movies to stream this weekend (April 24)

1. Marty Supreme (HBO Max)

Academy voters dinged Timothée Chalamet for his shit-talking during award season, but honestly, the kid earned his arrogance, because he gives one hell of a performance in his Josh Safdie stress-out-test about a 1950s ping-pong wizard who’ll stop at nothing – and run over everyone – to prove his greatness. Backed by an incongruous yet awesome synth-spangled score from Daniel Lopatin, it’s a movie that occasionally does a little too much, but Chalamet is never less than magnetic even while portraying a world-class jerk. You’ll get ‘em next time, champ. Read Time Out’s review.

Watch Marty Supreme now on HBO Max

2. No Other Choice (Hulu/Disney+)

Oddly shut out at the Oscars, Korean master Park Chan-wook’s blood-soaked satire is nonetheless a wickedly entertaining jab at the inhumanity of late-stage capitalism. After getting laid off from his job at a paper company, a bumbling middle-manager (Squid Game’s Lee Byung-Hun) determines to find employment by any means necessary – even if it means killing off his competition. Chan-wook’s kinetic visual style achieves new levels of sinuous virtuosity, as he sends his camera gliding over rooftops, through beer mugs and into his protagonist’s mouth for the second-most uncomfortable bit of DIY dentistry in his oeuvre. Read Time Out’s review.

Watch No Other Choice now on Hulu/Disney+

3. Sound of Falling (MUBI)

If by Sound of Falling you mean a Wilhelm scream, you’re actually not far off. German director Mascha Schilinski’s brutally bleak drama deals with some harrowing stuff, tracing intergenerational family trauma across a century, all centred within the same Bavarian farmhouse. Unsurprisingly, it won’t be for everyone, but purveyors of arthouse cinema will be rewarded with a superbly crafted meditation on inherited pain that’ll shake you to your core. Read Time Out’s review.

Watch Sound of Falling now on MUBI

4. Apex (Netflix)

Haven’t had your fill of human-on-human sport hunting in movies yet? Good, because here comes the third such film in a little over a month. Charlize Theron, still in her Streaming Action Star Era, is a widow hoping to exorcise her grief in the Australian wilderness who ends up pursued by a bow-and-arrow-wielding psychopath (Taron Egerton) – or what the Aussies call ‘a fun weekend getaway’.

Watch Apex now on Netflix

5. Cheech and Chong’s Last Movie (Paramount+)

Although their humor is a relic of the countercultural 1970s – a time when smoking literal vanloads of weed was considered a revolutionary act – the comic rapport between Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong largely transcends the peak of the duo’s popularity. In this documentary, the now-elderly duo jump in a car for one last road trip together, reminiscing about their friendship and career ups and downs… and maybe, just maybe, inhaling a joint or five along the way.