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In 2017,\u00a0<\/span>Hulu made television history by becoming the first streaming network to win the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, thanks to the phenomenon that was\u00a0The Handmaid\u2019s Tale.<\/em><\/p>\n While Netflix has largely cornered the streaming market on\u00a0original movies\u2014and even managed to persuade A-listers like\u00a0Guillermo del Toro,\u00a0Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n, and\u00a0Martin Scorsese to come aboard\u2014Hulu is starting to find its footing in features too, securing the exclusive rights to a large number of Oscar-nominated movies like A Real Pain<\/em> and Anora<\/em>. Below are some of our top picks for the best movies (original and otherwise) streaming on Hulu right now.<\/p>\n Still looking for more great titles to add to your queue? Check out WIRED\u2019s guides to the best TV shows on Hulu, best movies on Netflix, the\u00a0best movies on Disney+, and the\u00a0best movies on Amazon Prime. Don’t like our picks, or want to offer suggestions of your own? Head to the comments below.<\/p>\n If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism.<\/em> Learn more.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n In the 15 years they\u2019ve been a couple, Dave Franco and Alison Brie have been married for nearly a decade and worked on at least five projects together, so they know a little something about togetherness. But writer-director Michael Shanks\u2019 version of intimacy was something totally new for the husband and wife. Millie Wilson (Brie) is an elementary school teacher who moves to the country for a new job, accompanied by her boyfriend of 10 years, aspiring musician Tim Brassington (Franco). It\u2019s a fresh start for the couple, who have been facing some emotional difficulties, especially in the wake of the traumatic death of Tim\u2019s parents. Following a bizarre incident during which they fall into a hidden cave, Millie and Tim find themselves literally sticking together. Codependency has never been so creepy.<\/p>\n Thirty years after the release of Heat<\/em>, which is widely considered one of cinema\u2019s greatest crime thrillers, Michael Mann is hard at work at a star-studded adaptation of Heat 2<\/em>, his 2022 novel (cowritten with Meg Gardiner) that serves as both a prequel and<\/em> sequel to the hit 1995 film. With a cast that\u2019s rumored to include Adam Driver, Leonardo DiCaprio, Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, and Austin Butler, there\u2019s already lots of buzz surrounding the film\u2019s release, despite it likely not happening until at least next year. In the meantime, you\u2019ve still got plenty of time to watch Mann\u2019s iconic original film, which has somehow yet to lose any of the potency that made it an instant classic. The movie centers on the cat-and-mouse games being played between LAPD detective Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino) and professional thief Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro), who has become Hanna\u2019s white whale. But he needs to act quickly if he\u2019s going to nab McCauley, who is planning his final job before calling it quits. Come for the chance to see De Niro face off against a predictably over-the-top Pacino, stay for one of the most beautifully executed heist scenes in cinema history.<\/p>\n While you\u2019ll have to hand over a rental fee to Prime Video, Apple TV+, or another streamer if you want to check out Predator: Badlands<\/em>, the newest film in the Predator<\/em> franchise, the series\u2019 earlier films are making their way back to Hulu. If you don\u2019t have time to watch them all, set your sights on 2022\u2019s Prey<\/em>\u2014the rare sequel, prequel, and\/or reboot that is actually great. As the fifth installment in the Predator<\/em> franchise (seventh if you count the Alien vs. Predator<\/em> crossovers), this 18th-century prequel follows the Arthurian adventures of Naru (Amber Midthunder), a young Comanche woman and fierce warrior who is determined to save her people from a highly evolved predator that is attempting to decimate her community. The film brilliantly mixes elements of survival horror and sci-fi with Western mythology to create what many have deemed the very best film in the nearly 40-year-old franchise, which all began with \u201980s-era Ahhnold.<\/p>\n Nearly 40 years after Troma Studios created a cult hero for the ages with release of The Toxic Avenger<\/em>, Game of Thrones<\/em> star Peter Dinklage endeavored to give the janitor-turned-mutant superhero new life. The bonkers remake follows a bullied janitor (Dinklage) named Winston Gooze who, through a series of unfortunate events, finds himself on the brink of death and dumped into a pile of toxic sludge. Rather than killing Gooze, it turns him into a toxic-powered superhero hellbent on revenge. It took two years for the film to actually see the light of day in theaters, and even then it was unrated. Kevin Bacon and Elijah Wood costar in this nutty (in a good way) ode to \u201980s B-movie culture.<\/p>\n Nearly 20 years before creating The Studio<\/em>, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg mined their own teenage friendship to cowrite and produce one of the most authentic coming-of-age movies the genre has ever seen. As they prepare to graduate high school and head off on their separate paths to college, best friends Seth (Jonah Hill) and Evan (Michael Cera) have one night to party with their classmates and have no regrets. Things, of course, don\u2019t go exactly as planned. In addition to introducing the world to some of the most talented up-and-comers in the business, including Cera, Hill, and Emma Stone, Superbad<\/em> also contains what might be one of the greatest comedic lines of the past 20 years: \u201cNo one\u2019s gotten a hand job in cargo shorts since \u2019Nam!\u201d<\/p>\n Natalie Portman gives what might well end up being the defining performance of her career in this dark dance drama from Darren Aronofsky. Nina Sayers (Portman) is a dancer with the New York City Ballet whose entire life has been dedicated to her art, in large part due to her overprotective mother (Barbara Hershey), who was also a ballerina and pushes her daughter to have the career she never did. Nina\u2019s life is turned upside down when she lands the coveted lead in a new production of Swan Lake<\/em>, only to realize that she\u2019ll be splitting the role with the free-spirited Lily (Mila Kunis), who quickly becomes both the only friend Nina has ever really had and her most bitter rival. Soon, she descends into a dizzying madness that is reflected in Aronofsky\u2019s directorial choices, which make the audience feel every bit of her emotions.<\/p>\n Nick Offerman absolutely shines in this timely and terrifying crime thriller as Jerry Kane, a father who pushes his extreme antiestablishment beliefs on his teenage son Joe (Jacob Tremblay). Just when Joe begins to question his dad\u2019s pro-violence rhetoric, and understands that there might be a better path for him in the world, a string of cataclysmic events forever changes the Kanes\u2019 world\u2014and that of the police chief (Dennis Quaid) who has taken an interest in the duo. The film is loosely based on real events that transpired in West Memphis, Arkansas, in 2010.<\/p>\n Bella Baxter (Emma Stone) is a young woman with the brain of an infant who is brought back to life by the lovably mad scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter, aka God (Willem Dafoe). But Bella is a fast learner and is intrigued by the many adventures the world has to offer her\u2014regardless of what polite society dictates. Mark Ruffalo, Ramy Youssef, and Christopher Abbott are among the men who are entranced by Bella\u2019s frankness (\u201cI must go punch that baby\u201d) in what is undoubtedly the most over-the-top title in Yorgos Lanthimos\u2019 filmography\u2014which is saying a lot. One caveat: Those who are easily offended by nudity or graphic sex might want to give this a skip. If you want to make it a Stone and Lanthimos marathon, Bugonia<\/em>, their latest collaboration, is streaming on Peacock.<\/p>\n Adam (the always superb Andrew Scott) is a television writer who largely keeps to himself, until an awkward encounter with his tipsy neighbor Harry (Paul Mescal) kick-starts a passionate new relationship. But when he\u2019s not in London with Harry, Adam is returning to the suburban home where he grew up\u2014and where he encounters and is able to interact with his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell), despite their having died 30 years ago. In the hands of a lesser director, the fantastical elements could seem forced. But with Andrew Haigh (Weekend<\/em>, 45 Years<\/em>) behind the camera, the surreal setup only augments the emotion.<\/p>\n Five-time Oscar nominee Sidney Lumet was a master of the crime drama, and his final film\u2014released in 2007\u2014was further proof of why. Hank (Ethan Hawke) and Andy (Philip Seymour Hoffman) are brothers who have taken separate roads in life, but both find themselves in similar situations at the same time when Andy, a shady broker who has taken liberties with other people\u2019s cash, and Hank, a divorced dad who is behind on child support, are both in desperate need of money. So they hatch a plan to rob their own parents\u2019 jewelry store, which only makes a bigger mess of their lives. Hoffman was always an electrifying on-screen presence, and remains so in Before the Devil Knows Your Dead<\/em>. The film also features a standout performance by Michael Shannon as Dex, a drug dealer who learns about the brothers\u2019 scheme and does what he can to see a piece of the action.<\/p>\n In the wake of a series of wars and plagues, civil society is a foreign concept to the human survivors who have tried to rebuild their lives. Hailey Freeman (Danielle Deadwyler), a one-time soldier, is one of the people who has attempted to find normalcy with her family by isolating themselves\u2014with plenty of security\u2014on a farm in the middle of nowhere. But when Hailey\u2019s son Emmanuel (Kataem O\u2019Connor) begins longing to experience the world beyond the confines of their home, the evils of the outside world could decimate the lives they\u2019ve built. Music video director turned feature filmmaker R.T. Thorne delivers a captivating view of society on the brink of collapse.<\/p>\n Three years before he set the box office on fire with this summer\u2019s Weapons<\/em>, Zach Cregger delivered this smart, scary, and oddly funny take on how collaborative consumption has allowed us to put our faith\u2014and lives\u2014in the hands of total strangers. Tess (Georgina Campbell) travels to Detroit to interview for her dream job and rents an Airbnb in a not-so-desirable neighborhood for the duration of her stay. When she arrives, she learns that the home has been double-booked and there\u2019s already a guest staying there. Fortunately for Tess, Keith (Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd)\u2014the current occupant\u2014is willing to go out of his way to help her and invites her to spend the night. While that may have been her first indication that something was not quite right, the real<\/em> threat is something you won\u2019t see coming, no matter how many red herrings are thrown at you.<\/p>\n Uma (Radhika Apte) and Gopal (Ashok Pathak) are a pair of social misfits who suddenly find themselves living as husband and wife in a tiny shack in Mumbai following an arranged marriage. Living in a new city, surrounded by strangers (her new hubby included), and longing to fight back against the path that society has set for the life ahead of her, Uma begins to rebel against the way the world has always been. Eventually, she becomes a semi-monster of her own making. Director Karan Kandhari uses all the cinematic tools at his disposal to turn his directorial debut, which premiered at Cannes, into an unforgettably funny dark comedy that uses movie magic to offer its own social critique of why the old-school treatment of women very much deserves to be a thing of the past.<\/p>\n It\u2019s hard to take a story about a homicidal toy monkey all that seriously. Fortunately for audiences, Osgood Perkins doesn\u2019t really try. The director\u2019s follow-up to Longlegs<\/em> (see below) is an adaptation of an old Stephen King short story about a wind-up toy that wreaks bloody havoc wherever it goes. Theo James stars in dual roles as twin brothers whose childhood was haunted by the toy and who now, as adults, must do their best to end its murder spree. Perkins creates some seriously memorable\u2014and gory\u2014set pieces yet never loses his sense of humor.<\/p>\n Steven Soderbergh remains Hollywood\u2019s premier experimental filmmaker, making a career out of embracing new technologies and narrative styles to keep audiences on their toes. In the case of Presence<\/em>, he offers a totally unique take on the haunted house genre. In the wake of a tragedy, a family\u2014parents Rebekah (Lucy Liu) and Chris (Chris Sullivan) and teenage kids Tyler (Eddy Maday) and Chloe (Callina Liang)\u2014move into a new house, only to realize there is something else living amongst them. It\u2019s a slow burn in the best way possible, and a film that will keep you guessing.<\/p>\n Five years after Danny Boyle and Alex Garland\u2019s post-apocalyptic triumph with 28 Days Later<\/em>, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo took the reins to continue telling the saga of the Rage Virus that has overtaken London. In this case, the US military has taken control of the island of Great Britain in an attempt to restore order and keep the survivors safe. The story focuses on a family\u2014parents Don (Robert Carlyle) and Alice (Catherine McCormack) and kids Tammy (Imogen Poots) and Andy (Mackintosh Muggleton)\u2014who might hold the key to a cure. It makes a perfect preshow to a screening of 28 Years Later<\/em>, the newest entry in the series, which reunited Boyle and Garland, and Nia DaCosta\u2019s upcoming 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple<\/em>, which arrived in theaters in January.<\/p>\n Just over two years after Barbara Walters\u2019 death, documentarian Jackie Jesko delves into the life of the trailblazing journalist who knew exactly which questions to ask someone to elicit an emotional response\u2014and how to get under her interview subjects\u2019 skin, too. Many of the people Walters both inspired and occasionally annoyed (see: Katie Couric and Oprah Winfrey) offer their insights into Walters and the important role she played in breaking down barriers for the female journalists who came after her.<\/p>\n We previously included The Order<\/em> in our list of \u201cThe 10 Best Movies You Missed in 2024,\u201d and we stand by that claim. Fortunately, the time has come for Hulu subscribers to right that wrong. Justin Kurzel directs this gritty tale of corruption and extremism from the Pacific Northwest to Middle America. Terry Husk (Jude Law) is an FBI agent who believes that a series of daylight robberies he\u2019s investigating are linked to a local white supremacist group that is attempting to fund a war on America. The investigation eventually leads him to Bob Mathews (Nicholas Hoult), the unlikely leader of The Order, a neo-Nazi group. That the film is based on a true story makes it all the more heartbreaking.<\/p>\n Eight months after winning the Best Actor Oscar for Oppenheimer<\/em>, Cillian Murphy delivered just as powerful a performance in this adaptation of Claire Keegan\u2019s 2021 novella. It brings Murphy back to the kind of films he\u2019s best known for\u2014quiet, character-driven indies about working class people. Here, he plays Bill Furlong, a coal merchant, husband, and father of five daughters who witnesses a disturbing scene with a young girl at the local convent and school for girls. When he feels compelled to investigate further, and question the young girl\u2019s treatment, Bill puts a target on his own back\u2014and that of his family\u2014when the convent\u2019s Mother Superior (Emily Watson) believes Bill is asking too many questions. Ultimately, despite veiled threats from the sister, his compassion overwhelms his fear of retribution.<\/p>\n Between It Follows<\/em>, The Guest<\/em>, Watcher<\/em>, and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle<\/em>, Maika Monroe has become this generation\u2019s scream queen. She adds to that genre resume in this offbeat thriller from Osgood Perkins (son of Psycho<\/em> star Anthony Perkins) playing Lee Harker, an FBI agent who has a sixth sense when it comes to murder investigations. But something feels eerily familiar when she\u2019s asked to investigate a string of murder-suicides that some of her colleagues believe is the work of a possible serial killer. Monroe delivers yet another great performance as Lee, but it’s Nicolas Cage who delivers the most unhinged (to the point of being unintentionally comical) performance here.<\/p>\n Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet shines in James Mangold\u2019s Bob Dylan biopic, which earned eight Oscar nominations in 2025, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Chalamet. The film follows Dylan\u2019s early career, beginning in January 1961\u2014when he hitchhiked from Minnesota to New York City to meet and perform for his musical idol, Woody Guthrie. That\u2019s also where the then-19-year-old met folk musician Pete Seeger (played by Edward Norton, who snagged a Best Supporting Actor nod), who became one of Dylan\u2019s earliest champions. Seeger was also instrumental in Dylan\u2019s game-changing performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, which is where the movie culminates. Whether you know everything or nothing about Dylan, it\u2019s a fascinating story.<\/p>\n Anora, who prefers to be called Ani (Best Actress winner Mikey Madison), is an exotic dancer whose services are called upon when Vanya (Mark Eydelshteyn), the spoiled son of a Russian oligarch, comes to the club where she works, asking for a dancer who speaks Russian. Their VIP room evening turns into a (paid) sexual encounter outside the club \u2026 then another, then another. During a spontaneous trip to Las Vegas, the two get married, with Ani believing she has found her happily-ever-after. Vanya\u2019s parents are less optimistic and make it clear that Vanya has two choices: his marriage or their money. Director Sean Baker, the critically acclaimed filmmaker behind The Florida Project<\/em> (2017) and Red Rocket<\/em> (2021), has yet again made a powerful dramedy that highlights the plight of marginalized characters.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you\u2019re Sly Stone, there\u2019s no blueprint for what comes next.\u201d That\u2019s the basic idea behind Sly Lives!<\/em>, Questlove\u2019s brilliant follow-up to the equally compelling Summer of Soul<\/em>\u2014the rockumentary that won the Roots\u2019 drummer an Academy Award in 2022. He could well be headed for Oscar recognition once again with this deep dive into the rise and fall of the groundbreaking band Sly & The Family Stone, and the higher standards to which Black artists have traditionally been held. Questlove knows what he\u2019s talking about, and so he serves as a perfect guide into this side of the music industry. The film was hauntingly timed, too, as Stone passed away on June 9, 2025.<\/p>\n Though it arrived in theaters in 1979, Alien<\/em> has lost none of its potency in the intervening years\u2014which isn\u2019t something most fortysomethings can say. By now you probably know the story by heart: The crew aboard the spacecraft Nostromo<\/em>, including warrant officer Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), put a presumably slight pause on their trip back to Earth in order to respond to a distress call from a nearby planetoid. But what they discover is a bizarre alien life-form that seems to delight in knocking off crew members in new\u2014and frequently terrifying\u2014ways. Can you say Facehugger? Or Chestburster? Alien<\/em> is also noteworthy for being the film that kicked off a bona fide, and legendary, sci-fi\/horror franchise\u2014and introduced the world to Ridley Scott, who changed the genre game yet again with his next feature, Blade Runner<\/em>. If you\u2019re itching for more Alien<\/em> content, Noah Hawley\u2019s prequel series, Alien: Earth<\/em>, is currently streaming on Hulu, too.<\/p>\n Kieran Culkin continues his run as Hollywood\u2019s most lovable scene-stealer in this buddy-ish road trip comedy written, directed, produced by, and costarring Jesse Eisenberg (who earned an Oscar nod for the screenplay). David (Eisenberg) and Benji (Culkin) travel to Poland in honor of their late grandmother, a Holocaust survivor. Despite going down two very different paths in life and their opposing personalities, the two find a way to reconnect and prove that blood is thicker than water. Culkin nabbed his first-ever Oscar for the role, while Eisenberg was gifted Polish citizenship.<\/p>\n Nicolas Cage does what Nicolas Cage does best (read: chew quite a bit of scenery) in this postapocalyptic thriller in which a father, Paul (Cage), and his twin sons Thomas (Jaeden Martell) and Joseph (Maxwell Jenkins) are three of the only people remaining on earth. Making this scenario even more challenging is the fact that they are terrorized at night by homicidal creatures dead-set on ridding the planet of all humans. When Thomas goes missing, Paul must venture out into the night to find him\u2014an ill-advised adventure that ultimately leaves Paul wounded, fighting for his life, and relying on his sons to keep them all alive.<\/p>\n June Squibb is the action hero you didn\u2019t know you needed. In the decade since her Oscar-nominated turn in Alexander Payne\u2019s Nebraska<\/em>, the 95-year-old actress has become one of Hollywood\u2019s most in-demand actors. Here, she plays the eponymous grandma who is swindled out of $10,000 by a phone scammer targeting elderly citizens. When the authorities seem reluctant to take any real action, Thelma grabs a gun and her motorized scooter and takes the law into her own hands. Best of all? This vigilante comedy is based on writer-director Josh Margolin\u2019s own grandmother.<\/p>\n In the 1970s, Jack Delroy (David Dastmalchian) is a late-night talk show host who is constantly chasing Johnny Carson\u2019s ratings but simply cannot compete. He scores the highest ratings of his career when he sits down for an interview with his beloved wife, Madeleine (Georgina Haig), who is dying of cancer. When she passes away shortly afterward, Jack halts production on his show entirely. When he\u2019s eventually ready to come back to work he\u2019s even more determined to compete with Carson, so he decides to throw an occult-themed Halloween show for the ages, complete with a psychic (Fayssal Bazzi), a parapsychologist (Laura Gordon), and a possessed teen (Ingrid Torelli) who seems to know more about Jack and Madeleine\u2019s relationship than he bargained for.<\/p>\n Pamela Adlon\u2019s directorial debut does for motherhood what Bridesmaids<\/em> did for marriage. New Yorkers Eden (Ilana Glazer) and Dawn (Michelle Buteau) are lifelong best friends with decades of history and traditions but now find themselves facing very different chapters in their lives. Dawn, who is struggling with postpartum depression, is trying hard to balance the demands of being a working mom and partner to her husband, while Eden has never been burdened by such demands. But when she discovers she\u2019s pregnant after a one-night stand and determines that she is ready to be a single mom, their friendship begins to fracture in ways they never would have imagined. Glazer and Buteau\u2019s chemistry as BFFs is undeniable in this brash comedy that isn\u2019t always pretty, in part because of its brutal honesty.<\/p>\n Sydney Sweeney produced this religious horror flick and also stars as Cecilia, a young nun (yep, you read that right) whose traumatic brush with death has convinced her that God saved her for a higher purpose. When she is invited to join a convent in the remote Italian countryside that assists older nuns at the end of their life, she happily accepts\u2014then quickly comes to realize that all may not be what it seems.<\/p>\n Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver) is a man who should have it all: the one-time race car driver and founder of the Ferrari car company oozes charm, wealth, and excitement. But behind the scenes, the walls are closing in on him. Set during the summer of 1957, Michael Mann\u2019s biopic finds Ferrari (the man) on the verge of bankruptcy, mourning the death of his son, and desperately trying to hide his past indiscretions from his estranged wife\u2014who helped build the car company and who holds the key to his financial future. Though the film earned mixed reviews, it does a solid job of telling the complex story of a complicated man. But its biggest selling point is Pen\u00e9lope Cruz\u2019s bravura performance.<\/p>\n Nearly 60 years into his career as a filmmaker, Wim Wenders managed to make one of his best films yet with Perfect Days<\/em>\u2014which is saying a lot when you consider that this is the same director who made Paris, Texas<\/em> (1984) and Wings of Desire<\/em> (1987). Hirayama (K\u014dji Yakusho) is a toilet cleaner in Tokyo who is blissfully content with the simplicity of his life, as it allows him the time to indulge his more personal passions: music (he\u2019s an avid collector of cassette tapes and allows his favorite music to set the soundtrack to his life), books, and nature. The movie is not punctuated by any overly dramatic storylines; just the quiet interactions that Hirayama has with those around him\u2014family, coworkers, total strangers\u2014and the way those interludes impact him. It\u2019s that poetic simplicity, and Yakusho\u2019s wonderful performance, that gives the film its heart.<\/p>\n Writer-director Ava DuVernay finds a way to yet again change the language of cinema with what is both a biopic and a historical document. The movie is based on the life of Isabel Wilkerson (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor), the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism for her work at The New York Times. It follows Wilkerson\u2019s journey to write her 2020 book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents<\/em>\u2014a project that took her from the US to Germany to India to research the troubling history of each country\u2019s caste system and the parallels that exist between them.<\/p>\n On January 11, 1998, 22-year-old comedian Tomoaki Hamatsu entered an apartment in Japan where he lived, nude and with no human contact, for 15 months as part of an understandably controversial game show titled Susunu! Denpa Sh\u014dnen<\/em>. Hamatsu had no idea his life was being broadcast. This riveting documentary delves into not just how anyone ever allowed this experiment to happen, but the real-world effects\u2014cultural, psychological, and beyond\u2014it had on both Hamatsu and the tens of millions of viewers who were somehow drawn into witnessing his on-camera abuse.<\/p>\n Between her starring roles in the Oscar-winning The Zone of Interest<\/em> and Anatomy of a Fall,<\/em> German actress Sandra H\u00fcller\u2014an Academy Award nominee herself\u2014made it clear that when it comes to scripts, she knows how to pick \u2019em. In this compelling courtroom drama, H\u00fcller plays a successful writer turned murder suspect when her husband (Samuel Theis) is found dead outside their home on a snowy day. Ultimately, it might be her son (Milo Machado-Graner) and\/or his guide dog (Messi, the movie\u2019s real<\/em> star) who ultimately seal Sandra\u2019s fate. It\u2019s a smart, twisty, and well-acted mystery that will keep you guessing.<\/p>\n It\u2019s Always Sunny in Philadelphia<\/em>\u2019s Glenn Howerton is practically unrecognizable in this immensely entertaining recounting of the rise and fall of BlackBerry\u2014the must-have cell phone that had the world entranced before the iPhone came along. Howerton costars as Jim Balsillie, the very real negotiator who, alongside Mike Lazaridis (Jay Baruchel), gave the world its first smartphone. Which is a lot more dramatic (and darkly humorous) than it sounds.<\/p>\n Ozark<\/em> star Julia Garner reunites with director Kitty Green (The Assistant<\/em>) for this taut psychological thriller in which BFFs Hanna (Garner) and Liv (Jessica Henwick) decide to backpack their way through the Australian outback. When they\u2019re offered the chance to live and work at a remote hotel in order to replenish their dwindling bank accounts, they jump at the chance\u2014despite Hanna feeling that something isn\u2019t quite right with their place of employment or its clientele. She\u2019s on to something. Garner has played one badass character after the next, and The Royal Hotel<\/em> is no exception.<\/p>\n New Girl<\/em>\u2019s Jake Johnson makes his feature directorial debut with this wonderfully weird and occasionally dark meta comedy, which he also wrote and stars in. Tommy Walcott (Johnson) is living a pretty ordinary existence until he\u2019s approached by Andy Samberg (as Andy Samberg), who offers him the chance of a lifetime: the opportunity to win $1 million as part of a massive reality competition. The only thing Tommy needs to do is not<\/em> get murdered for 30 days, despite being hunted by dozens of contract killers whose job is to ensure that no contestant walks away with the big prize. The catch? Contestants can only be killed when they\u2019re entirely alone. So Tommy takes it upon himself to partner up with another contestant, which is where Maddy (Anna Kendrick) comes in. Since they both have a cool mil to gain and a lot to lose (aka their lives) if they don\u2019t triumph, they make a pact to spend every waking moment of the next 30 days together. Just when you think you know where Self Reliance<\/em> is headed, it goes ahead and surprises\u2014and in the best ways possible.<\/p>\n Home invasion thrillers are never in short supply, but the really effective ones are hard to come by. Kaitlyn Dever shines\u2014and proves yet again that she can shoulder the weight of an entire film\u2014as Brynn Adams, a seamstress living a solitary existence in her childhood home and mourning the loss of her mother and closest friend. When she wakes up one night to discover that someone is in her house, that someone turns out to be something<\/em>. A home invasion thriller with extraterrestrials might not have been on your must-watch Bingo card, but No One Will Save You<\/em> is 93 minutes well spent.<\/p>\n Hal Porterfield (Christopher Abbott) has just been handed the keys to the castle following the death of his hotel magnate father. Rebecca Marin (Margaret Qualley) is a dominatrix who believes she deserves some of the credit\u2014and half the cash\u2014that comes with Hal\u2019s new CEO position. Sexual politics have rarely played out as twisted, or darkly funny, as they do in this mesmerizing, and often claustrophobic, thriller from Zachary Wigon.<\/p>\n Environmentalism meets heist movie in director Daniel Goldhaber’s thriller about a group of young people who try to\u2014as the title implies\u2014expose the fragility of the oil industry. It’s not often that a movie examining the fight against the climate crisis is also an edge-of-your-seat adventure, but here those elements come together beautifully. (You can give cinematographer Tehillah de Castro a bit of credit for that.) Smart, prescient, and nearly unprecedented, How to Blow Up a Pipeline<\/em> is more than worth the stream.<\/p>\n Raine Allen-Miller’s directorial debut offers a playful twist on the typical rom-com. Yas (Vivian Oparah) and Dom (David Jonsson) are both twentysomethings reeling from recent break-ups. After a chance\u2014and rather awkward\u2014first meeting, the pair spend a day wandering around South London, bonding over their shared experience, finding cheeky ways to get over the mourning of their previous relationships, and maybe discovering that romance is not dead after all.<\/p>\n Think of it like\u00a0Gilligan\u2019s Island<\/em>, but with more class commentary and vomit. When a bunch of rich people head out to sea on a luxury yacht, their plans are thwarted when a terrible storm leaves many of them stranded on a beach where none of their money or power can help them survive. That already gives away too much, but suffice to say, if you like\u00a0The Menu<\/em>-esque critiques of the excesses of wealth with just as many dark-comedy twists, this Oscar-nominated film is right for you.<\/p>\n Noa (Daisy Edgar-Jones) is a single woman who is on the lookout for a partner but tired of the online dating scene. When she meets Steve (Sebastian Stan), a quirky, handsome stranger, she decides to give him her number. The two hit it off on the first date and eventually find themselves making plans to spend a weekend away\u2014which is when Noa realizes that Steve has been hiding a few disturbing details about himself. Ultimately,\u00a0Fresh<\/em>\u00a0stands as a lesson in the horrors of dating in the digital age (both real and imagined).<\/p>\n Given the existence of Harold Ramis\u2019 near-perfect Groundhog Day<\/em>, it takes a whole lot of chutzpah for a filmmaker to add another picture to the infinite-time-loop rom-com canon. But writer-director Max Barbakow did it anyway with\u00a0Palm Springs<\/em>, and audiences are thankful he did. Building upon the rules originally established in\u00a0Groundhog Day<\/em>,\u00a0Palm Springs<\/em>\u00a0offers its own unique twist on the story. Instead of showing one person (Bill Murray\u2019s Phil Conners) slowly being pushed to the brink of insanity because he\u2019s the only one who seems to be experiencing the phenomenon,\u00a0Palm Springs<\/em>\u00a0has three wedding guests\u2014Nyles (Andy Samberg), Sarah (Cristin Milioti), and Roy (J. K. Simmons)\u2014living the same day again and again and working together to find a way out of it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
Together<\/em><\/h2>\n
Heat<\/em><\/h2>\n
Prey<\/em><\/h2>\n
The Toxic Avenger<\/em><\/h2>\n
Superbad<\/em><\/h2>\n
Black Swan<\/em><\/h2>\n
Sovereign<\/em><\/h2>\n
Poor Things<\/em><\/h2>\n
All of Us Strangers<\/em><\/h2>\n
Before the Devil Knows You\u2019re Dead<\/em><\/h2>\n
40 Acres<\/em><\/h2>\n
Barbarian<\/em><\/h2>\n
Sister Midnight<\/em><\/h2>\n
The Monkey<\/em><\/h2>\n
Presence<\/em><\/h2>\n
28 Weeks Later<\/em><\/h2>\n
Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything<\/em><\/h2>\n
The Order<\/em><\/h2>\n
Small Things Like These<\/em><\/h2>\n
Longlegs<\/em><\/h2>\n
A Complete Unknown<\/em><\/h2>\n
Anora<\/em><\/h2>\n
Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)<\/em><\/h2>\n
Alien<\/em><\/h2>\n
A Real Pain<\/em><\/h2>\n
Arcadian<\/em><\/h2>\n
Thelma<\/em><\/h2>\n
Late Night With the Devil<\/em><\/h2>\n
Babes<\/em><\/h2>\n
Immaculate<\/em><\/h2>\n
Ferrari<\/em><\/h2>\n
Perfect Days<\/em><\/h2>\n
Origin<\/em><\/h2>\n
The Contestant<\/em><\/h2>\n
Anatomy of a Fall<\/em><\/h2>\n
BlackBerry<\/em><\/h2>\n
The Royal Hotel<\/em><\/h2>\n
Self Reliance<\/em><\/h2>\n
No One Will Save You<\/em><\/h2>\n
Sanctuary<\/em><\/h2>\n
How to Blow Up a Pipeline<\/em><\/h2>\n
Rye Lane<\/em><\/h2>\n
Triangle of Sadness<\/em><\/h2>\n
Fresh<\/em><\/h2>\n
Palm Springs<\/em><\/h2>\n