5 Best Movies to Watch This Weekend on Prime Video, Peacock, and Hulu

5 Best Movies to Watch This Weekend on Prime Video, Peacock, and Hulu

The New Year is upon us, and the question of what to watch is endless. The best streaming services, including Prime Video and Hulu, are sharing their gifts of new movies to unwind and watch after a night out on New Year's Eve.

We've rounded up the best new movies that have just landed on streaming and spotlighted all of the hits and all of the duds to get your next movie night off without a hitch.

If you want to keep the Christmas spirit alive a little longer, Peacock's "The Holdovers" is an unconventional holiday drama that reunites Paul Giamatti and director Alexander Payne nearly 20 years after their hit "Sideways." This week, "The Flash" arrives on Prime Video, allowing viewers to watch the most controversial superhero movie of the year from the comfort of their couch. Meanwhile, Max is celebrating the latest film adaptation of Alice Walker's classic with a behind-the-scenes documentary of "The Color Purple," hosted by Oprah Winfrey herself.

Without further ado, here are the top new films streaming this week.

I'm not a huge Quentin Tarantino fan, but I thoroughly enjoyed Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. It's not as bloody as his other films (at least, not until the last 20 minutes or so), and Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt exude impeccable energy in the final moments of Hollywood's golden era.

DiCaprio is superb as Rick Dalton, a once-successful Western TV star now desperate to find the next opportunity to bring his career out of the doldrums. His license is suspended after a DUI arrest, and he has his best friend and stunt double Cliff Booth (Pitt) driving him around town. When Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie) moves in next door with her husband Roman Polanski, Dalton thinks that networking with a new generation of talent is just the thing to revive his flagging career. One night, the three's meandering stories collide when a violent confrontation with the Manson family rocks Hollywood.

Watch now on Hulu.

The hot superhero movie starring Ezra Miller, Sasha Carre, Michael Shannon, and Ron Livingston comes to Prime Video just in time for Christmas Even for a DC movie, "The Flash" struggled at the box office, opening in summer theaters with a $220 million budget and grossed approximately $270 million at the box office.

The film follows Barry Allen as he uses super-speed to literally travel back in time and rewrite history in order to save his parents. Of course, time travel shenanigans rarely go according to plan, and as a result of using the Speed Force, Allen is sent back in time to when he first acquired his super powers. He is trapped in an alternate reality where General Zod, a Kryptonian exile to the Phantom Zone, familiar from "Man of Steel," is trying to destroy the world. With no other superheroes to rely on, Flash works with other versions of himself to retire this reality's Batman and rescue the Kryptonian prisoners.

Watch it now on Prime Video.

In the mood for something more Christmas-y? Paul Giamatti (Sideways) and director Alexander Payne re-team for The Holdovers, a drama about three outsiders who are snowed in during the vacations at a New England boarding school in 1970.

Paul Hanham (Giamatti) plays a cantankerous classics teacher, disliked by students and colleagues alike. His worst nightmare becomes reality when he is forced to stay on campus during Christmas break to supervise a male student who has nowhere else to go. As the days pass, he forms an unlikely bond with the smart but troubled Angus Tully (Dominic Cessa) and the grieving head cook of the school (Davine Joy Randolph). Spending their free time in an empty schoolyard, they have adventures and find something of a family in the process.

Available on Peacock.

Max has a new behind-the-scenes documentary hosted by Oprah Winfrey.

Winfrey takes viewers inside the 40-year cultural phenomenon inspired by Alice Walker's seminal novel, exploring the novel's importance, multiple film adaptations, Broadway productions, and the evolving conversation surrounding the legacy of Walker's novel.

Watch it now on Max.

From the studio that brought us "Parasites" and "The Lovers' Murder," "It Lives Inside" is a supernatural horror film that tackles themes of cultural identity and the tensions of building a life in a strange land.

Desperate to fit in at school, Samida (Meghan Suri) rejects her East Indian culture and family and begins taking the name Sam to blend in with her white classmates. As she does so, she begins to distance herself from her former best friend, Tamira, who is also of South Asian descent. Tamira, ostracized by her peers, begins carrying around a strange glass jar that she says contains the boogeyman from a fairy tale she read as a child. Embarrassed by her behavior, Sam breaks the bottle, unwittingly releasing the soul of a demon that feeds on loneliness to grow stronger. She must come to terms with her heritage in order to defeat the demon.

Watch now on Hulu.

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