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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 must-watch movies hitting streaming services this weekend.
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1. Minions & Monsters (Peacock)
What a shame: they finally made a Minions movie that can appeal to audiences who’ve graduated from elementary school, and it bombed. Oh well. But if you’ve got kids who still love those nattering anthropomorphic Twinkies, this latest cash-grab is a tribute to the Golden Age of Hollywood even adults can appreciate. It’s the late 1920s, and the Minions are aspiring filmmakers struggling to adapt to the sound era – because they only speak Minionese, y’see. So they set out to make a classic monster movie, using real monsters. C’mon, doesn’t that sound kind of fun? Read Time Out’s review.
Watch Minions and Monsters now on Peacock
2. Ali G: Who Iz I? (Prime)
Oh, how the mighty have fallen – or rather, proven embarrassingly unable to move on. Sacha Baron Cohen launched his career 30 years ago as a patois-gibbering wannabe rapper from Staines before blowing up internationally with Borat, and at one point seemed like he could spin off his deep commitment to disguise into a high-level acting career. Now, he’s back to playing that same clueless poseur, making the same jokes by pranking the same types of people. At least he’s using his signature mockumentary style this time out – the first, narrative Ali G movie, from 2002, was nigh-unwatchable. Read Time Out’s review.
Watch Ali G: Who Iz I? now on Prime
3. Lucky Strike (Hulu)
Eastwood. Hanks. World War II. Why haven’t we heard more about this? Well, we should clarify, that’s Scott Eastwood and Colin Hanks. Still: a meeting of two of Hollywood’s top nepo babies at the Battle of the Bulge is worth some attention. Eastwood is an American soldier trapped behind enemy lines, with only his wits, a radio and a pack of cigarettes to help him get home. Hanks is his colonel.
Watch Lucky Strike now on Hulu
4. The Gentleman Thief (Hulu)
One of those streaming movies that barely seems real, and will functionally cease to exist within a few weeks, this alleged thriller stars John Travolta as a retired thief conscripted into a standard-issue one-last-job scenario to steal an expensive painting. His co-stars? Rapper Quavo and DJ Khaled. Again, this movie is already fading from the corporeal world as you read about it.