Thanksgiving may be over, but Netflix, Max, Prime Video, and other top streaming services are still offering a feast of new movies this weekend. But with so much on offer, narrowing down the selection is no easy task.
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So let us do the hard work for you. We’ve rounded up the best films that have just landed on streaming. At the top is Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster biopic “Oppenheimer,” about the scientist who led the Manhattan Project – America’s attempt to build an atomic bomb during World War II. Oppenheimer is now available on premium video on demand, so you can purchase it and stream it on your favorite platform from the comfort of your couch.
Other new titles this week include the long-awaited sequel “Good Burger 2” on Paramount Plus, Adam Sandler as the class pet in Netflix’s animated coming-of-age musical “Leo” and the latest grisly entry in Sam Raimi’s “Evil Dead.” “Evil” series. Dead Rise, on Prime Video.
So without further ado, here are the best new movies streaming this week.
Oppenheimer (PVOD)
Christopher Nolan’s colossal film “Oppenheimer,” a sprawling biographical thriller about the man behind the development of the first nuclear weapons, landed on streaming this week. So if you missed the Barbenheimer Theater sensation this summer, you can also watch the doubleheader from home via VOD.
Cillian Murphy plays J. Robert Oppenheimer, an American theoretical physicist widely considered the “father of the atomic bomb.” The story follows young Oppenheimer from his college days to teaching quantum physics to spearheading America’s development of an atomic bomb in World War II after being recruited by Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves Jr. (Matt Damon).
As Oppenheimer sets up the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, New Mexico, he is joined by brilliant minds such as Isidor Isaac Rabi (David Krumholtz) and Edward Teller (Benny Safdie). But once the fighting is over and the smoke clears, Oppenheimer is haunted by his role in the war.
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Lion (Netflix)
Adam Sandler is back in another Netflix comedy, this time lending his voice acting talent to Leo, a 74-year-old lizard going through a midlife crisis. After decades of being stuck in the same fifth-grade classroom in Florida with his turtle buddy named Squirtle (Bill Burr), Leo begins to despair because he has never accomplished anything in his life.
He decides to escape and experience life outside and is given the perfect opportunity when a new teacher assigns each student to take turns bringing Leo home for a weekend. While trying to escape, Leo accidentally reveals to the students that he can talk. And as he delves into the children’s problems, freedom becomes an afterthought.
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Good Burger 2 (Paramount Plus)
Good Burger 2 joins the ranks of sequels that have come and gone decades after their predecessors (just look at Top Gun: Maverick and Coming 2 America). Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell reunite as Dexter Reed and Ed, respectively, in this sequel to the 1997 comedy based on a sketch from the Nickelodeon series All That.
Decades after the events of the first film, Dexter has quit his fast food job to try his luck as an inventor. When his dreams (and his home) go up in flames after a disastrous demonstration in front of potential investors, he returns to his job at Good Burger, where he is welcomed with open arms by Ed, the restaurant’s current owner. Only this time the two are joined by a new group of crazy colleagues. Naturally, banter ensues and the two band together against the looming threat of corporations threatening to shut down Good Burger forever.
Stream now on Paramount Plus
Evil Dead Rise (Prime Video)
Just because the scary season is over doesn’t mean the nightmares have to end. The latest entry in Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead series, Evil Dead Rise, has landed on Prime Video after a solid theatrical run earlier this year, earning $146 million at the box office and a solid critical score on Rotten Tomatoes of 84%.
Here’s the synopsis: An awkward reunion between two estranged sisters is interrupted by the emergence of flesh-obsessed demons, forcing them into a battle for survival as they confront the most haunting version of a family imaginable.
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Little Richard: I am everything (Max)
This documentary from CNN Films tells the story of the black, queer origins of rock and roll and how Richard Penniman, better known by his stage name Little Richard, changed the world of popular music forever.
Through interviews with family members, musicians, and black and queer scholars, the film explores how Richard created an art form for ultimate self-expression while struggling to navigate his own complicated inner world. A treasure trove of archival footage and performance footage brings to life a revolutionary figure who reinvented popular music.
Stream now on Max
Jinn (peacock)
‘Tis the season for new Christmas movies! And classic Christmas films. Oh, and Hallmark Christmas movies. With Thanksgiving coming up this week, the holidays are well and truly underway.
In the new fantasy comedy “Genie,” Melissa McCarthy is the titular ghost who has been doing his job for millennia. One day she is called by Bernard Bottle (Paapa Essiedu), whose marriage to his wife Julie (Denée Benton) is falling apart and whose young daughter Eve (Jordyn Mcintosh) barely knows him. Shortly before Christmas, Bernard misses Eva’s birthday and is fired. Desperate, he dusts off an old jewelry box and unintentionally releases Flora. Maybe, just maybe, she can help him get his family back.
Stream now on Peacock
Master Gardener (Hulu)
Director Paul Schrader’s latest crime thriller completes a trilogy of sorts that includes 2017’s First Reformed and 2021’s The Card Counter. All three are loosely connected by the image of a man sitting at his desk writing in a diary while the camera circles around him.
In Master Gardener, Narvel Roth (Joel Edgerton) is a meticulous gardener at Gracewood Gardens, a beautiful estate owned by the wealthy widow Mrs. Haverhill (Sigourney Weaver). When she demands that he take on her troubled great-niece Maya (Quintessa Swindell) as an apprentice, Narvel’s carefully cultivated life begins to unravel.
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Stamped from the start (Netflix)
Based on Dr. Ibram In this thought-provoking documentary, Academy Award-winning director Roger Ross Williams skillfully translates Kendi’s arguments into images, weaving together animation and images of historical photographs to illustrate how racist myths were so deeply rooted in culture and society.
It includes commentary from leading academics and activists such as Dr. Angela Davis, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Brittany Packnett Cunningham and Dr. Jennifer L. Morgan to delve into the history of anti-Black racist ideas and their power in shaping politics, culture and norms throughout American history.
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The Swamp King’s Daughter (PVOD)
Daisy Ridley stars in this psychological thriller based on the novel by Karen Dionne. Helena leads a seemingly ordinary life – married to husband Stephen (Garret Hedlund) and mother of a young daughter. But she is hiding a dark and dangerous secret: her estranged father is the infamous Swamp King (Ben Mendelsohn), who kidnapped her mother and held them both captive in the wilderness for years. Growing up, Helena knew nothing of her circumstances and idolized her father. Now he has escaped from prison and Helena fears for her and her daughter’s safety.
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