Our list of the best new movies and TV shows to watch on streaming this weekend includes one of this year’s Oscar nominees, highly anticipated returns, and a thrilling series finale. If these titles are not on your radar already, we’re about to tell you why they should be.
We know exploring the vast catalogues of some of the best streaming services, including Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney Plus, Max, and Apple TV Plus, can be overwhelming at times. Sometimes you spend so much time looking for something to watch that you end up giving up, not watching anything at all.
We’re here to prevent that from happening by listing the very best new releases. This week, we’re excited to be reunited with Alan Ritchson in Reacher season 3, which has just premiered on Prime Video, while we can’t wait to sink our teeth into Robert De Niro’s political thriller Zero Day on Netflix.
These titles follow some brilliant streaming hits in 2025, like HBO’s season 3 of The White Lotus, Netflix’s brilliant spy thriller The Night Agent season 2, and Apple TV Plus’ delightfully mysterious Severance season 2. We’re less than two months into the year, but the options available out there are already exceptional.
Below, we narrow down the best new movies and TV shows released from each major streamer, so you’re aware of the best shows to binge and the best movies to discover.
New movies
Flow (Max)
Available: US
Watch now: Max
One of this year’s Oscars 2025 nominees is now available to watch on Max, and you shouldn’t miss it. Nominated for Best International Feature and Best Animated Feature, Flow is an innovative and captivatingly beautiful film that follows a courageous cat after his home is devastated by a great flood. Along the story, the cat teams up with a capybara, a lemur, a bird, and a dog as they search dry land. Directed by Gints Zilbalodis, it’s a visually breathtaking adventure exploring the fragility of the environment and the importance of friendship and community.
For more, check out our guides to the best HBO shows and the best HBO movies.
New TV shows
Reacher season 3 (Prime Video)
Available: Worldwide
Watch now: Prime Video
Jack Reacher is back and he’s not pulling his punches. Season 3 of Prime Video’s popular series Reacher has premiered this week, with a new storyline based on Lee Child’s novel Persuader. As the synopsis read: “Reacher hurtles into the dark heart of a vast criminal enterprise when trying to rescue an undercover DEA informant whose time is running out. There he finds a world of secrecy and violence – and confronts some unfinished business from his own past.” Alan Ritchson’s hero is joined in this new adventure by an even bigger guy than him, Paulie (played by Dutch bodybuilder Olivier Richters), in what we can easily call the most lethal team-up in recent memory.
For more, check out all the best movies on Prime Video right now.
Zero Day (Netflix)
Available: Worldwide
Watch now: Netflix
A thrilling political thriller starring the one and only Robert De Niro, and with the legendary Angela Bassett playing the President of United States? We are so in. Available on Netflix this weekend, Zero Day comes from the showrunner of Narcos and Narcos: Mexico, Eric Newman, who is well versed in keeping us at the edge of our seats. The plot follows former US President George Mullen as he is tasked by the current president to find the perpetrators of a devastating cyber attack that killed over 3,000 people.
(For those Dillon Panthers fans out there, the show features a Friday Night Lights reunion between Connie Britton and Jesse Plemons, and we love that.)
For more, check out the best Netflix shows to watch right now.
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man season finale (Disney Plus)
Available: Worldwide
Watch now: Disney Plus
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man has come to an end on Disney Plus this week, as the last two episodes of the season (episodes 9 and 10) are now available to stream. The animated show has been a breath of fresh air for the MCU, with an alternate story for Peter Parker aka Spider-Man. No, this is not the Spidey we know from the movies starring Tom Holland, but a different version that explores his origin story with Norman Osborn as his mentor. There have been great moments in the season, particularly that Charlie Cox cameo as Daredevil ahead of the release of Daredevil: Born Again, and Colman Domingo’s stunning voice work as Osborn. The ending arrives only a few days after the release of Captain America: Brave New World in cinemas, which makes for the perfect MCU-themed weekend.
For more, read our review of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, and check out all upcoming Marvel movies and shows and our list for the best TV shows on Disney Plus.
Surface season 2 (Apple TV Plus)
Available: Worldwide
Watch now: Apple TV Plus
The first episode of Surface season 2 is now available to stream, following on the shocking cliffhanger of last season’s finale. There are some changes in this new batch of episodes though, with the action moving to London. Apple TV Plus’ psychological thriller follows Sophie (played by Loki star Gugu Mbatha-Raw) as she is forced to unravel the secrets of her past while suffering from amnesia. When a journalist unexpectedly reaches out to her about a new scandal, everything changes. The show co-stars Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Millie Brady, with new additions for this season including Ted Lasso star Phil Dunster, and Baby Reindeer’s Nina Sosanya.
For more, check out our lists for the best movies on Apple TV Plus and the best TV shows on Apple TV Plus.
A Thousand Blows (Hulu)
Available: US
Watch now: Hulu
Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight knows how to extract gold out of a real-life inspired historical thriller, and he aims to do it again with new Hulu original A Thousand Blows. Loosely based on various true stories depicting robbers, fighters, and other misfits in east London during the Victorian era, the show follows two best friends newly arrived from Jamaica who see themselves fighting for survival against veteran boxer Sugar Goodson. The cast includes Malachi Kirby, Stephen Graham ,and The Crown star Erin Doherty.
For more, check out the best Hulu shows to watch right now.
Looking for something else to watch? Check out our list of the best Netflix movies or the best movies on Disney Plus.
