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. Die My Love (MUBI)
In her first new film in eight years, the great Lynne Ramsay delves into a postpartum character study, with Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson as new parents who relocate from New York to Montana and begin to experience a kind of shared psychosis. It’s a dark but wild depiction of a mental breakdown with a powerful, uninhibited performance from Lawrence at its center. Read Time Out’s review.
2. Bugonia (Peacock)
After the justifiably overlooked Kinds of Kindness, director Yorgos Lanthimos gets back to the good stuff, remaking the 2003 South Korean dark comedy Save the Green Planet! with some updates for our current conspiracy-ravaged world. Jesse Plemons is brilliant as a factory worker who kidnaps a pharmaceutical CEO (Emma Stone) he believes is an alien in disguise. It’s a typically mad Lanthimos offering with a deep core of sadness under the surface. Read Time Out’s review.
3. Cover-Up (Netflix)
Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has uncovered enough government conspiracies, including the My Lai massacre and the Abu Ghraib torture scandal, that it’s left him naturally suspicious of most people’s motivations. In this buzzy documentary, Oscar-winner Laura Poitras goes in-depth on Hersh’s legendary career, but not without pushback from the subject himself.
4. The Life of Chuck (Hulu)
Not all of Stephen King’s books are about manifestations of evil threatening children. (See also: the late Rob Reiner’s immortal Stand By Me.) Horror director Mike Flanagan plumbs the more sentimental end of the author’s bibliography with this exploration of the meaning of life – or at least, one life, that of an accountant named Charles Krantz (Tom Hiddleston) – which starts at the end of the world and works it way backward.
Watch The Life of Chuck now on Hulu
5. Goodbye June (Netflix)
Similar to last year’s His Three Daughters, this drama, directed by and starring Kate Winslet, uses the death of a parent as a pretense to put a cast of A-list actors in close proximity and watch them emote. Helen Mirren is the ailing matriarch; Winslet, Toni Collette and Andrea Riseborough are the siblings gathered at her bedside, indeed to say goodbye, and work through some long-simmering familial tensions.