Choose Your Next Binge-Worthy Watch with These Top Picks for Instant Streaming
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Streaming services have changed the way many of us watch movies, and if you happen to miss a title’s theatrical release, you don’t have to wait long to catch it at home.
Many of the best new movies are currently available to stream, and we’ve put together this guide to show you where to find them.
This list focuses on movies released in 2022 and later, and doesn’t stick to just one streaming service. However, platform availability has been noted for each title.
The second entry in Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s_Dune_ sees Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) continue his quest for vengeance against the Harkonnens by uniting the Fremen people of Arrakis.
Villeneuve’s ambitious sequel delivers on the sci-fi epic spectacle that defined the first film, but it also devotes more time to unpacking the source material’s themes. Paul’s journey is defined just as much by thrilling knife fights and ground-shaking sandworm rides as it is by a sense that the Fremen may be trading one occupying colonial force for another.
IMDb Rating : 8.3/10 Genre : Biography, Drama, History Starring : Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon Director : Christopher Nolan
Motion Picture Rating : R Running Time : 3 hours
Christopher Nolan’s award-winning biopic tells the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist who led the development of the first nuclear weapons during World War II.
Based on Kai Bird’s biography_American Prometheus_ ,Oppenheimer frames its subject as a brilliant but flawed scientific mind whose life’s work may have placed mankind on an inevitable path of self-destruction.
Murphy’s standout lead performance anchors a film largely comprised of extended sequences of people sitting in rooms having conversations, but it’s the star-studded ensemble cast that helps push Nolan’s film into the realm of instant classic.
More than two decades after moving away from her home in South Korea, Nora reunites with her childhood best friend, Hae Song, for a fateful weekend in New York City.
Partly inspired by real events in writer-director Celine Song’s life,Past Lives is a sensitive exploration of deep human connection and the paths our choices take us on.
IMDb Rating : 7.9/10 Genre : Comedy, Drama Starring : Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa Director : Alexander Payne
Motion Picture Rating : R Running Time : 2 hours, 13 minutes
Over the Christmas holiday in 1970, a cranky teacher (Paul Giamatti) reluctantly remains at his New England boarding school, where he’s joined by a misunderstood troublemaker (Dominic Sessa) and head cook Mary (Joy Randolph), whose son was recently killed in the Vietnam War.
Warm and emotional,The Holdovers feels destined to become a modern holiday classic thanks to its excellent performances and pitch-perfect period aesthetic.
Starring : Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone
Director : Martin Scorsese
Motion Picture Rating : R
Running Time : 3 hours, 26 minutes
Set in 1920s Oklahoma, Scorsese’s grueling epic centers on Mollie Burkhart, a member of Osage Nation, as her community suffers a series of murders driven by the discovery of oil under Osage land.
While_Killers of the Flower Moon_ drew mixed reactions for its heavy focus on the perpetrators of the Osage Nation murders at the expense of its victims, the film’s existential horror is profound and uncompromising, with America’s appalling history of violence perpetrated against Indigenous peoples reflected in Gladstone’s Academy Award-winning performance.