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. One Battle After Another (HBO Max)
Paul Thomas Anderson has made crime movies, romcoms, period pieces, psychedelic detective stories and intense, enigmatic character studies, all with high rates of success, but nothing he’s done suggested that he’d eventually make an all-time great action movie. Leonardo DiCaprio, embodying any number of classic ’70s paranoiacs, with a touch of the Dude, is a leftwing radical turned burned-out recluse whose past comes back to destroy him in the form of human throbbing-forehead-vein Sergeant Lockjaw, detestably played by Sean Penn. Watch it: it’s the consensus best movie of 2025 for a reason. Read Time Out’s review.
Watch One Battle After Another now on HBO Max
2. Megadoc (Criterion Channel)
Francis Ford Coppola spent decades insisting Megalopolis was his magnum opus, and when he finally put up millions of his own wine money to get it made, the end result was, well, a bit perplexing: an incoherent sci-fi epic about the rise and fall of a future utopia that looked like a Linkin Park video from the early 2000s. It’s an example of a movie whose production might be more interesting than what ended up onscreen, a theory proved true by Mike Figgis’s fascinating behind-the-scenes documentary. Watch as the likes of Adam Driver and Aubrey Plaza struggle to realize Coppola’s vision, while everyone struggles to deal with Shia LaBeouf.
Watch Megadoc now on Criterion Channel
3. Him (Peacock)
In this psychological horror-thriller, directed by Justin Tipping and produced by Jordan Peele, Marlon Wayans is a Hall of Fame-level quarterback on the verge of retirement who invites a young phenom (Tyriq Withers) to train with him – and that’s when things get freaky. It’s a bit like the sports version of The Menu or Opus, exploring where the cult of celebrity meets literal cult, which is obviously a bit overdone. But Wayans’ strong performance, along with some unnerving imagery, make it worth a watch. Read Time Out’s review.
Watch Him now on Peacock
4. Queens of the Dead (Shudder)
Director Tina Romero, daughter of George A, engages with her birthright in her feature debut, a zom-com set in the LGBTQ underground. It’s a straightforward premise – a disparate group of drag queens and club kids must band together when a zombie outbreak spreads through a warehouse party – but that’s about the only thing ‘straight’ about it. Love Lies Bleeding’s Katy O’Brian, Margaret Cho, Pose’s Dominique Jackson and a host of other queer luminaries make up the cast. Slay? You damn well better.
Watch Queens of the Dead now on Shudder
5. London Calling (Hulu)
After ending up exiled in Los Angeles after a job gone wrong, a London-based hitman (Josh Duhamel) strikes a bargain with a new acquaintance in order to get back home by taking the latter’s socially awkward son (Jeremy Ray Taylor) under his wing. It’s a pretty derivative action-comedy premise straight out of the post-Tarantino ’90s, but Duhamel and his young costar have enough chemistry to make this a fun Friday night distraction watch.
Watch London Calling now on Hulu
