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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 streaming platforms this week. I'm most interested in checking out Amy Schumer's Kinda Pregnant, an original from Netflix. Also,The Wild Robot is excellent, and if you're looking for something from left field, check out We Are the Best! a tiny Swedish movie that punches well above its weight class.
Kinda Pregnant
In this Netflix original romantic comedy, comedian Amy Schumer plays Lainy, a woman who is so jealous of her pregnant friend, she straps on a fake stomach and tells everyone she has a baby on board too. Her mountain of lies grows with her fake belly, but things get really complicated when Lainy meets the man of her dreams. If you're into Schumer's brand of comedy or just like a little frothy rom-com action, check out Kinda Pregnant.
Where to stream: Netflix
The Wild Robot (2024)
The beautifully animated movie from Dreamworks is based on the best-selling children's novel by Peter Brown. It tells the story of Rozzum Unit 7134 (voiced by Lupita Nyong’o), a robot marooned on an island who must learn to be a mother to a gosling, despite lacking the programming for it. "Robot tries to be human" is well-worn, often mawkish, territory in film, but The Wild Robot transcends cliches and sentimentality through a sometimes dark script and a stunning visual style influenced by Renoir and Miyazaki. The Wild Robot has earned its nearly perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Where to stream: Peacock
We are the Best! (2014)
There are no recognizable actors in We are the Best! It was made for very little money in Sweden. Although it got good reviews, hardly anyone saw it—it barely broke a million dollars at the box office. It's hard to explain why anyone would care about three twelve-year-olds in Stockholm starting a terrible punk rock band in 1982, but I promise you will care if you watch it. It captures something elusive and true about youth and hope in a way that few films ever have. Seriously, watch this movie.
Where to stream: Max
Gladiator 2 (2024)
Alright, it doesn't quite live up to the 2004 original, but Gladiator 2 is still a solid flick. Directed by Ridley Scott, Gladiator 2 tells the story of Lucious (Paul Mescal), a slave whose only hope for redemption and freedom is surviving the punishing gladiator battles in the Roman Colosseum. Denzel Washington turns in a memorable performance as machiavellian Macrinus, a former gladiator turned power broker who sees potential (and potential utility) in young Lucious.
Where to stream: MGM+
Space Jam (1996)
If you like comforting nostalgia, 1996's cartoons-meet-basketball comedy Space Jam is available on Netflix. The movie pairs ancient sports superstars like Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, and Charles Barkley with ancient cartoon superstars like Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam, and Daffy Duck, and then has them play basketball on another planet. Somehow, this weird concept works and results in a movie that's great fun and superior in every way to the recent reboot.
Where to stream: Netflix
We Live in Time (2024)
If you're in the mood for a tragic drama about doomed romance in the vein of The Notebook, this is the movie for you. Anchored by solid performances from Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield, We Live in Time takes risks with structure, jumping around in time to tell the story of Pugh's character's cancer diagnoses and her decision to skip treatment to live her last days as fully as possible instead. We Live in Time was produced by A24, a company that rarely misses.
Where to stream: Max
Last week's picks
You're Cordially Invited
Comedic icons Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon star in a domestic comedy in which bridal parties battle for supremacy. A terrible planner booked both Ferrell's daughter's wedding and Witherspoon's sister's weddings for the same time and place. Instead of cooperating, the families go head-to-head and try to destroy each other. You're Cordially invited was directed by Nick Stoller (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Neighbors), so you're in good hands if you like solid comedy from solid comedy professionals.
Where to stream: Prime
You Hurt My Feelings
It's impossible to not like Julia Louis-Dreyfus. In You Hurt my Feelings, the Seinfeld alum plays a novelist whose world is shaken when she overhears her husband's actual opinion of her newest book. Directed by Nicole Holofcener (Friends with Money) and bearing the A24 Films mark of quality, You Hurt my Feelings earned unqualified raves from critics for its subtle, smart story about the lies we tell each other.
Where to stream: Netflix
Star Trek: Section 31
In this new original Trek movie, the amazing Michelle Yeoh reprises the role she played in Star Trek: Discovery. She is Emperor Philippa Georgiou, who joins a secret division of Starfleet and takes us inside the seedier parts of the federation. The advanced reviews have not been kind, with critics savaging the show's edgy, quirky take on the ST universe, but on the other hand, even bad Star Trek is better than no Star Trek, and at least they're trying something different.
Where to stream: Paramount+
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