The 5 best movies to watch this weekend on Prime Video, Peacock, and Hulu
Christmas may have come and gone, but the question of what to watch remains. Prime Video, Hulu, and more top streaming services share the gift of new movies to enjoy and watch as you ring in the new year.
We’ve rounded up the best new movies that just streamed, highlighting all the hits and none of the duds to make your next movie night go off without a hitch.
If you’re not ready to leave the Christmas spirit behind completely So far, Peacock’s The Holdovers is an unconventional holiday drama that reunites Paul Giamatti and director Alexander Payne nearly 20 years after the duo’s success on Sideways. The Flash is moving to Prime Video this week, so you can finally watch the most divisive superhero movie of the year from the comfort of your couch. Meanwhile, Max has a new behind-the-scenes documentary about The Color Purple hosted by Oprah Winfrey herself in honor of the latest adaptation of Alice Walker’s groundbreaking novel.
So, without further ado, here are the best new movies streaming this week.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Hulu)
I’m not the biggest Quentin Tarantino fan, but I found Once Upon a Time in Hollywood to be enjoyable enough. It’s not as gory as his other films (or at least not until the last 20 minutes or so) and Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt exude impeccable energy as they exist amidst the final moments of Hollywood’s Golden Age.
DiCaprio ends it as Rick Dalton, a once-successful Western TV star, now desperate to find the next opportunity that will pull his career out of the slump. With his license suspended after a DUI arrest, he is chauffeured around town with his best friend Cliff Booth (Pitt), who is also struggling to find work. When Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie) moves in next door with her husband, Roman Polanski, Dalton believes that connecting with a new generation of talent could be just the thing to revive his flagging career. The three’s twisting stories collide when a violent confrontation with the Manson Family rocks Hollywood one evening.
Watch it now Holo.
Flash (Prime Video)
The controversial superhero film starring Ezra Miller, Sasha Calle, Michael Shannon and Ron Livingston arrives on Prime Video just in time for Christmas. Even for a DC movie, The Flash struggled at the box office, with its summer theatrical release grossing about $270 million on a budget of $220 million.
It follows Barry Allen as he uses his super speed to travel back in time and rewrite history to save his parents. Of course, time travel shenanigans rarely go as planned, and complications with using the Speed Force lead to Allen going back in time to when he first got his superpowers. He’s trapped in an alternate reality where General Zod, the Kryptonian turned exile in the Phantom Zone who viewers will remember from Man of Steel, threatens to destroy the world. With no other superheroes to turn to, Flash works with other versions of himself to convince the real-life Batman to come out of retirement and rescue a Kryptonian prisoner who ends up not existing. completely The Superman he seeks.
Watch it now Prime Video.
Grippers (peacock)
In the mood for something more Christmas-y? The Holdovers reunites Sideways alumni Paul Giamatti and director Alexander Payne in a drama about three strangers who get snowed in during a vacation at a New England boarding school in 1970.
Paul Hunham (Giamatti) plays a miserly classics teacher who is universally disliked by his students and co-workers. His worst nightmare turns into reality when he has to stay on campus over Christmas break to supervise a group of boys who have nowhere else to go. As the days pass, he forms unexpected bonds with the smart but troubled Angus Tully (Dominic Cessa) and the school’s sad-sack chef (Da’Vine Joy Randolph). Left to their own devices on a completely empty school grounds, they encounter misadventures and find a semblance of family along the way.
Broadcast now peacock.
Opera and the Purple Journey (Max)
On Max, there’s a new behind-the-scenes documentary hosted by Oprah Winfrey that offers an inside look at the making of the new film The Color Purple, which hits theaters on Christmas.
Winfrey takes viewers inside a four-decade cultural phenomenon inspired by Alice Walker’s seminal work, exploring the significance of the novel, its multiple film adaptations, Broadway productions, and the ever-evolving conversation about the legacy of Walker’s novel.
Watch it now the above.
He lives inside (holo)
From the studio that brought us Parasite and The Killing of Two Lovers comes It Lives Inside, a supernatural horror film that deals with themes of cultural identity and the pressures of building a life in an unfamiliar landscape.
Desperate to fit in at school, Samida (Megan Suri) rejects her East Indian culture and family and takes up the name Sam in an attempt to better blend in with her white classmates. In doing so, she becomes estranged from her former best friend, Tamera, another student of South Asian descent. Now an outcast, Tamera begins carrying a strange glass jar that she claims contains a bogeyman from the children’s stories they read growing up. Embarrassed by her behavior, Sam opens the jar and inadvertently releases a demonic spirit that grows stronger by feeding on loneliness. She must come to terms with her heritage to defeat it.
Watch it now Holo.
