3 New to Prime Video Movies I’m Watching This Weekend (November 28-30): ‘Mickey 17’ and More
It’s officially Black Friday, but Amazon isn’t just a destination for great deals on blenders.
Its streaming service, Prime Video, is a great platform to watch movies from all genres.
Watch With Us has curated a list of three different movies to watch this weekend.
Sci-fi nerds will like 2025’s Mickey 17, while ‘80s teen movie fans will get a nostalgic kick out of WarGames.
Finally, the rom-com film The Break-Up is perfect for those who like love stories with a little edge to them.
‘Mickey 17’ (2025)
In the near future, space travel is common and human cloning is a fact of life. For Mickey 17 (Robert Pattinson), all he cares about is fleeing from a loan shark who wants to be paid. That’s why he volunteers to become an “Expendable,” a laborer who performs dangerous tasks and is brought back to life via a combined process involving cloning and memory imprinting. When everyone thinks Mickey has died while on a work assignment, Mickey 18 takes his place. But when he returns to take his rightful place, he discovers that Mickey 18 doesn’t want to go — or leave behind Nasha (Naomi Ackie), the object of both Mickeys’ affections. How do you get rid of your own worst enemy when it’s yourself?
Mickey 17 is directed by the South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon Ho, who won an armful of Oscars for his social satire, Parasite, in 2020. Like that film, Mickey 17 is constantly surprising — you never know if you’re going to get a straightforward sci-fi tale, a bureaucratic comedy or a slightly twisted love story.
Two clones look at each other in ‘Mickey 17.’ Warner Bros.
That he’s able to blend all three in a story that makes sense is a small miracle, which still doesn’t explain why audiences largely rejected the movie when it was released earlier this year. Now that it’s streaming on Prime Video, avoid the same mistake they made. Watch Mickey 17, and get in on the ground floor of what’s sure to be a cult classic for future generations.
Mickey 17 is streaming on Prime Video.
‘WarGames’ (1983)
David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) is a Seattle teenager with a knack for hacking into computer systems he has no place being in. When he tries to hack a computer game system’s operating system, he begins to play a strange game of Global Thermonuclear War with the company’s artificial intelligence. This innocent game has deadly real-world consequences as David realizes he hacked into the North American Aerospace Defense Command and unintentionally convinced its AI, nicknamed WOPR, to attack the Soviet Union. It’s a race against time as David must convince the U.S. military that he’s the only one who can “talk” to WOPR and stop it from starting World War III.
In many ways, WarGames is hopelessly outdated. From its early ‘80s technology to its Cold War politics, it’s very much a movie of its time. But its central premise remains relevant — what if a computer became self-aware and decided to initiate a military strike on its own? Paranoia about AI is already a part of our lives, and when you watch WarGames, you see the seeds of that fear.
WarGames remains a tense thriller that shows just how precarious the future of the world really is in the age of nuclear weapons. Like the recent 2025 Netflix film, A House of Dynamite, it reminds you that we still live in a world that could be gone at a moment’s notice with the push of a few buttons.
WarGames is streaming on Prime Video.
‘The Break-Up’ (2006)
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Gary (Vince Vaughn) and Brooke (Jennifer Aniston) are a longtime Chicago couple who are getting on each other’s nerves. Brooke thinks Gary is too immature, while Gary thinks Brooke is too controlling. After a dinner party goes awry, they decide to break up — but remain in the same condo as roommates. That’s a recipe for disaster, as both try to sabotage the other when they try to move on and start dating other people. Gary and Brook still have feelings for each other, but is that enough to reconcile? Or is it just better for them to move on?
A big hit in 2006, The Break-Up hasn’t lost any of its appeal all these years later. That’s due largely to the two leads, who play to their individual strengths. Vaughn’s Gary is a working-class dude you can relate to — sure, he’s a bit messy and irresponsible, but he means well and doesn’t want to hurt Brooke. In contrast, Aniston’s Brooke is a perfectionist who is too fussy to accept Gary’s flaws — or her own. Directed by future MCU helmer Peyton Reed, The Break-Up is a surprisingly honest portrait of a dysfunctional relationship. Just because Gary and Brooke care for each other doesn’t mean they should be together, and the film allows its characters to grow enough by the end to recognize that.
The Break-Up is streaming on Prime Video.
