Looking to settle in with a good movie? Me too. That's why I've pored over release schedules to bring you the best original and new-to-streaming movies you can watch on Netflix, Prime, Max, Hulu, and other platforms.
The best new-to-streaming movie you can watch this week is Love Lies Bleeding, and it's not even close. This is not to say that John Krasinski's high-concept family flick If, building-climbing documentary Skywalkers: a Love Story, and the rest of the films listed here aren't worthwhile. It's that Love Lies Bleeding is extremely good.
Love Lies Bleeding (2024)
This sexy, slow-burn thriller earned a 94% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes for its can-you-believe-this-shit? plot and nuanced performances from a talented cast including Kristen Stewart, Katy O'Brian, and Ed Harris. Love Lies Bleeding tells the story of Lou (Stewart), a gym owner in New Mexico who falls in love with Jackie (O'Brian), a 'roided-out new bodybuilder in town. The relationship and their lives quickly spiral out of control in unpredictable, violent ways that I won't spoil. But see this movie if you like edgy flicks that embrace riskiness and the unexpected.
Where to stream: Max
If
The Office star John Krasinski directed and stars in If, a high concept family movie about imaginary friends that makes its streaming debut this weekend. He plays the widower father of 12-year-old Bea, played by Cailey Fleming. Bea has the ability to see other people's imaginary friends and makes it her business to reunite people with them. In other words, it's whimsical. Although critics were lukewarm on If—it's at around 50% critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes—the people like it—it's around 90% for that. So if you're looking for a flick to watch with the fam, give If a shot.
Where to stream: MGM+
The Boy Next Door
Jennifer Lopez stars in good, old-fashioned domestic thriller The Boy Next Door. She's a teacher who has an affair with her much younger new neighbor, but he turns out to be one of her students, and he's a psycho who sets out to destroy her family and her life. You know the drill—it's a potboiler, but with the always charismatic J Lo at its center.
Where to stream: Netflix
Skywalkers: A Love Story
If you like white-knuckle cinema, Skywalkers is for you. It chronicles the life and relationship of Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus, a young couple who live to climb the world's tallest buildings. Skywalkers: a Love Story follows the couple's elaborate plans to conquer Malaysia’s Merdeka 118 super-skyscraper without harnesses, ropes, or permission. It makes me nervous just thinking about it.
Where to stream: Netflix
Faye
Faye tells the story of difficult-but-talented actress Faye Dunaway and her tumultuous life and career. Through archival footage and interviews with Dunaway and the people close to her, Faye takes us deep inside the life and times of one of the last real movie stars. If you like old Hollywood, this documentary will be right up your alley.
Where to stream: Max
My Spy The Eternal City (2024)
Released in 2020, My Spy is one of a fair number of action/comedies where a tough guy and a little kid become unlikely partners. The sequel explores this rarely-misses formula by reuniting stars Dave Bautista and Chloe Coleman for a feel-good family adventure. It begins with JJ volunteering to chaperone his new daughter’s choir group on a trip to Rome to perform for the Pope. Things go south when the pair run afoul of International terrorists. Hilarious character actors Ken Jeong and Kristen Schaal return, and are joined by Anna Faris, Craig Robinson, and Flula Borg. Eternal City is full of stars, laughs, and exciting-but-not-distressing action—a perfect summer family flick.
Where to stream: Prime
Wild Wild Space
This HBO original documentary tells the story of a wild west drama happening right now, just outside of our atmosphere, as visionaries and capitalist shoot satellites into space in a battle for control of the new frontier: low Earth orbit. Should we be around for The Future, there's a good chance the subjects of Wild Wild Space will have a hand in what it's like, so check this out for a sneak peak of a new age of space capitalism.
Where to stream: Max
Last week's picks
Descendants: Rise of the Red
If you, or anyone else in your life, is into princesses, Descendants: Rise of the Red is the movie for you/them. The fourth installment in Disney's Descendants series of musical-fantasy films is a stylish, modern re-imagining of Disney lore that follow the lives of the teenage children of famous Disney villains. In Rise of the Red, Red, played by Kylie Cantrall, is the daughter of the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland, and she teams up with Chloe Charming (played by Malia Baker), daughter of Cinderella, to prevent a coup at Auradon Prep, the Princess school.
Where to stream: Disney+
Criterion Channel's Times Square Collection
Before it became a Disney-fied, hyper-Capitalist tourist trap, New York's Times Square was a squalid nightmare of sleaze, street-crime, and urine-scented freedom. In July, The Criterion Channel is bringing the bad old days back with a slate of grimy films that pay tribute to those lost days, including Midnight Cowboy, Shaft, God Told Me To, Taxi Driver, Times Square, and many more. "I'm walkin' heah!"
Where to stream: The Criterion Channel
Tyler Perry’s Divorce in Black
Prolific writer/director/producer Tyler Perry takes on divorce in Divorce in Black, a drama starring Meagan Good and Cory Hardrict. Good plays Ava, a bank professional, whose life is upended when her husband (Hardrict) walks out of their home. She’s set on fighting to save her marriage until she uncovers secrets that suggest her husband has a very dark side and sabotaged a past relationship with Ava’s true soulmate.
Where to stream: Prime
Shark Week
Do you like sharks? Because HBO and Max are going shark crazy in July. Shark fanciers will gorge like a great white on a defenseless porpoise with these 20 Shark Week specials produced by the Discovery Channel, including Belly of the Beast: Bigger and Bloodier, Sydney Harbor Shark Invasion, Great White Serial Killer: Sea of Blood, something called Mothersharker: Hammertime and many, many more.
Here’s the full list:
Starts streaming July 7
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Belly of the Beast: Bigger and Bloodier
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Jaws vs. Leviathan
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Makozilla
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Sydney Harbor Shark Invasion
Starts streaming July 8
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Big Shark Energy
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Bodies in the Water
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Great White Serial Killer: Sea of Blood
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Shark Frenzy: Mating Games
Starts streaming July 8
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6000-Lb Shark
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Deadliest Bite
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Monster Hammerheads: Species X
Starts streaming July 10
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Alien Sharks: Ghosts of Japan
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Expedition Unknown: Shark Wrecks of WWII
Starts streaming July 11
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Caught! When Sharks Attack
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Great White Danger Zone
Starts streaming July 12
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Shark Attack Island
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Sharks of the Dead Zone
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The Real Sharkano
Starts streaming July 13
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Mothersharker: Hammertime
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Sharktopia
Sam Morril: You've Changed
Gravel-voiced standup Sam Morril takes the stage in a standup special where he drops hot takes on everything from the worst person he's ever dated, to the challenges of aging, to the dangers of social media, all delivered in the laid-back style Morril is known for. If you like people making ha-ha jokes at you, Sam Morril: You’ve Changed will make you laugh, or at least say “heh” a few times.
Where to stream: Prime
Quad Gods
Richard, Blake, and Prentice met at a New York rehab center where they were being treated for quadriplegia. They were all hardcore gamers and formed the Quad Gods, the first all-quadriplegic esports gaming team, where they pwned noobs all over the world. More than just a fun hobby, gaming is part of their cutting edge neurological rehab process; Quad Gods tells their story and digs into the medical advancements that might come from their hobby.
Where to stream: Max
Tickled (2016)
Tickled is one of the strangest documentaries I've ever seen. Journalist David Farrier starts off hunting a quirky story about the "sport" of competitive tickling, but uncovers a strange underworld that's not funny at all. I don't want to spoil any of the twists and turns in this narrative, so I'll just urge you to watch this movie.
Where to stream: Netflix
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