On the lookout for one thing nice to look at at house? Streaming subscribers are spoiled for selection between Hulu, Netflix, HBO Max, Disney+, Apple TV, Prime Video, Shudder, Paramount+, Peacock, and extra. And that is earlier than you even have a look at the huge libraries of flicks and tv packages inside every streamer!
Do not be overwhelmed or waste an hour scrolling via your companies to find out what to look at. We have got your again, no matter your temper. Mashable provides watch guides for the entire above, damaged down by style: comedy, thriller, horror, documentary, and animation, amongst others. However if you happen to’re in search of one thing model new (or simply new to streaming), we have you lined there, too.
Mashable’s leisure group has scoured the streaming companies to focus on essentially the most buzzed-about releases of the week and ranked them from worst to greatest — or least price your time to most watchable. Whether or not you are on the lookout for the ultimate chapter of Netflix’s main sequence, a buzzy conspiracy idea sci-fi, the steamiest present of the season, or a jaw-dropping animated epic, we’re right here for you.
13. 5 Nights at Freddy’s 2
The killer animatronics of your nightmares return in 5 Nights at Freddy’s 2, based mostly on Scott Cawthon’s hit horror recreation franchise. This time round, Freddy Fazbear, Bonnie, Chica, and Cunning aren’t the one animatronics in play. There’s additionally their “toy” variations to cope with, together with Marionette, Mangle, and Balloon Boy. That is definitely no enjoyable for safety guard Mike (Josh Hutcherson), but it surely’s loads of enjoyable for recreation followers.
Like the primary movie, 5 Nights at Freddy’s 2 was a field workplace smash, however critics did not take too kindly to it, with Mashable’s Leisure Editor Kristy Puchko writing in her overview that, “like the primary one, this sequel has only a lethal quantity of speaking, with too little scares, jokes, or surprises.” — Belen Edwards, Leisure Reporter
Starring: Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Lail, Piper Rubio, Matthew Lillard, Skeet Ulrich, Wayne Knight, Mckenna Grace, and Teo Briones
The best way to watch: 5 Nights at Freddy’s 2 is now obtainable on digital.
12. The Carpenter’s Son
Ever surprise what Jesus acquired as much as between his start in a manger and being the chief of apostles? Or possibly you’ve got been curious what it was like for Joseph to be the mortal father to the son of God? Nicely, author/director Lotfy Nathan will get into each of those tales with The Carpenter’s Son.
Following Joseph, Mary, and Jesus as they attempt to reside a modest and good life whereas ducking the temptations of Devil, The Carpenter’s Son is a gnarly spiritual horror providing. It not solely explores a surreal look into teen Jesus’s early understandings of his id, energy, and fervour, but in addition co-stars Nicolas Cage as an embattled Joseph. It is a wild one, so possibly do not collect the entire household for a watch. — Kristy Puchko, Leisure Editor
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Noah Jupe, Souheila Yacoub, Isla Johnston, and FKA twigs
The best way to watch: The Carpenter’s Son is now obtainable on digital.
11. Springsteen: Ship Me From Nowhere
The Bear star Jeremy Allen White unleashes his internal Bruce Springsteen on this musical biopic from author/director Scott Cooper. As a substitute of specializing in the Boss’ profession as an entire, Springsteen: Ship Me From Nowhere zeroes in on the making of Springsteen’s sixth studio album, Nebraska, which he recorded sparsely on a four-track in his bed room. The movie parallels the manufacturing with Springsteen’s struggles with melancholy, crafting a solemn portrait of the musician.
Whereas White turns in an admirable efficiency as Springsteen, the remainder of the movie pales as compared, hitting customary biopic beats like troubled childhoods and the flashes of genius that result in a terrific track. As I wrote in my overview, “Whereas the movie’s music stays basic as ever, and whereas White does an admirable job channeling Springsteen, Ship Me From Nowhere fails to ship something revelatory concerning the precise feelings behind the music.” — B.E.
Starring: Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Robust, Paul Walter Hauser, Stephen Graham, Odessa Younger, Gaby Hoffmann, Marc Maron, and David Krumholtz
The best way to watch: Springsteen: Ship Me From Nowhere is now on digital.
10. The Copenhagen Check
Simu Liu jumps right into a world of espionage and secrets and techniques in Peacock’s new thriller The Copenhagen Check. He performs Alexander, an intelligence analyst for the U.S. authorities who learns that unknown forces have hacked his eyes and ears, giving them entry to all the pieces Alexander witnesses. To find the reality behind his hackers’ motives, in addition to their identities, he’ll must sustain a nonstop efficiency with the intention to idiot them. However who can he really belief? And does the shadowy company he works for really have his greatest pursuits at coronary heart? Discover out on this slick spy sequence with a lightweight sci-fi twist. — B.E.
Starring: Simu Liu, Melissa Barrera, Sinclair Daniel, Brian d’Arcy James, Mark O’Brien, and Kathleen Chalfant
The best way to watch: The Copenhagen Check premieres Dec. 27 on Peacock.
9. Die My Love
Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson unlock their most unbridled natural tendencies in Die My Love, a formidable, hypnotic, highly effective drama from We Have to Speak About Kevin director Lynne Ramsay. The pair are Grace (Lawrence) and Jackson (Pattinson), a loved-up couple who cannot hold their fingers off one another. They transfer into Jackson’s rural household house, surrounded by forest and an extended stroll to his mom Pam’s (Sissy Spacek) home. With the arrival of their baby, Jackson’s work schedule means Grace is commonly house alone, an isolation which she initially celebrates however ultimately resents — even hates. And right here, Lawrence follows Grace to the brink.
“Grace’s journey will make you squirm, maybe cackle. However in her messy quest for one thing past being boxed in, she provides a radical freedom to her viewers,” Mashable Leisure Editor Kristy Puchko writes in her overview. “Within the discomfort of watching her bicker, battle, and act out, an pleasure of chance burns. The place may this lead, not only for her — however for us? Will you stroll away from Die My Love rattled? Feeling acknowledged? Or dared to be reborn?” — Shannon Connellan, UK Editor
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, LaKeith Stanfield, Nick Nolte, and Sissy Spacek
The best way to watch: Die My Love debuts on MUBI Dec. 23.
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8. Bugonia
Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone group up as soon as once more for Bugonia, a conspiracy caper that remakes Jang Joon-hwan’s Save the Inexperienced Planet! with a script by The Menu‘s Will Tracy. Stone and Lanthimos’ Sorts of Kindness collaborator Jesse Plemons performs Teddy, a conspiracy theorist who believes an alien race lives amongst us, certainly one of which is large pharma CEO Michelle Fuller (Stone). So, Teddy and his cousin Don (Aidan Delbis) kidnap her for a tête-à-tête about who she is, what the plans are, and whether or not the human race is price saving.
Critics have been divided on Bugonia, particularly round its bleak marathon run of matters. Mashable leisure editor Kristy Puchko writes in her overview, “Bugonia, regardless of having a sensational forged and clear imaginative and prescient for its world, lacks profundity in its smorgasbord of scorching matters. Environmentalism, oligarchy, the manosphere, healthcare for revenue — all of those make for a dizzying brew from which Teddy and Michelle come up on opposing sides.”* — S.C.
Starring: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Alicia Silverstone, Stavros Halkias
The best way to watch: Bugonia is obtainable for lease or buy on Prime Video and Apple TV and arrives on 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD on Dec. 23.
7. Ne Zha II
The very best-grossing movie of 2025 is perhaps one you missed in theaters. Now, you possibly can meet up with this jaw-dropping animated epic within the consolation of your individual house. However belief us, you are going to wish to watch Ne Zha first. Based mostly on Chinese language mythology, each movies have plenty of narrative floor to cowl. However the animated awesomeness of the sequel makes the primary movie definitely worth the time funding.
Ne Zha II follows the continued misadventures of the eponymous anti-hero, a boy born with the powers of a demon, who befriends a dragon/boy named Ao Bing, born with the powers of a heavenly spirit. Within the first movie, they battle earlier than turning into surprising pals. Within the second, they must share Ne Zha’s physique to finish a battle-centric quest to revive Ao Bing’s bodily type. In the meantime, the dragons are conspiring to overthrow their king, whereas a horrid menace faces Ne Zha’s homeland. All these threads make for a film that features monster battles, slapstick, tragedy, and gross-out gags. It may be dizzying, but in addition, unimaginable. — Okay.P.
Starring: Crystal Lee, Griffin Puatu, Aleks Le, Michelle Yeoh, and Vincent Rodriguez III
The best way to watch: Ne Zha is now streaming on Peacock, Netflix, Prime Video, and HBO Max, and Ne Zha II is now streaming on HBO Max.
6. 100 Nights of Hero
Julia Jackman’s 100 Nights of Hero was top-of-the-line movies we watched out of the BFI London Movie Competition this yr, and now it is coming to streaming. Based mostly on Isabel Greenberg’s graphic novel, this visually magnificent, queer, feminist fairy story is a triumph of manufacturing design with a hype-worthy look by Charli XCX. It follows Cherry (Longlegs‘ Maika Monroe), a noblewoman in a medieval patriarchy whose organized marriage to Jerome (Limbo‘s Amir El-Masry) is but to be consummated — and she or he’s on a literal deadline. Jerome leaves on enterprise, however not earlier than a guess with roguish lord Manfred (The Thought of You‘s Nicholas Galitzine) that his pal can not seduce his spouse in his absence. Fortunately, Cherry has a fierce protector in her maid, Hero (Nosferatu‘s Emma Corrin).
“At its whimsical coronary heart, 100 Nights of Hero is a narrative of ladies’s braveness and resilience, of pursuing data and fervour past the perilously excessive fences of patriarchy,” I wrote in my overview. “It is a dazzling world of suppressed queer id and need, of male bravado and paranoia, and of the ability of storytelling itself. Jackman has crafted us a topical deal with, finely wearing splendour and social commentary. It is nothing wanting heroic.” — S.C.
Starring: Emma Corrin, Maika Monroe, Amir El-Masry, Nicholas Galitzine, Charli XCX, Richard E. Grant, Felicity Jones, and Varada Sethu
The best way to watch: 100 Nights of Hero is obtainable to lease or buy on Prime Video beginning Dec. 23.
5. The Lifetime of Chuck
Catch top-of-the-line — and most underrated — movies of the yr when Mike Flanagan‘s The Lifetime of Chuck hits Hulu this week. Based mostly on the novella of the identical title by Stephen King, the movie introduces viewers to Chuck Krantz (Tom Hiddleston), an accountant who’s acquired some critical dance strikes. To say extra concerning the plot can be to spoil a lot of The Lifetime of Chuck’s affect, so attempt to go in as blind as attainable. (However undoubtedly go in!)
From Physician Sleep to Gerald’s Recreation, Flanagan has confirmed repeatedly that he can adapt the hell out of a Stephen King novel. That is no completely different with The Lifetime of Chuck, which Mashable Leisure Editor Kristy Puchko referred to as “superb” in her overview, writing, “It is unimaginable. It is a film that comprises a lot that it simply should not work. It is simple to think about an iteration that fell too exhausting into the darkness, or depended too intensely on treacly sentimentality, or relied on its dashing star energy to gloss over some underwritten turns. However The Lifetime of Chuck is masterfully informed.” — B.E.
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tom Hiddleston, Annalise Basso, Benjamin Pajak, Karen Gillan, Mia Sara, Matthew Lillard, Carl Lumbly, Samantha Sloyan, Harvey Guillén, Jacob Tremblay, Kate Siegel, and Mark Hamill
The best way to watch: The Lifetime of Chuck premieres Dec. 26 on Hulu.
4. Love Lies Bleeding
Rose Glass, the author/director who awed critics in 2020 together with her beautiful spiritual horror movie Saint Maud, has blessed us with a follow-up that’s as scorchingly attractive as it’s deeply unsettling.
Set towards a cruel desert city, Love Lies Bleeding stars Kristen Stewart as a surly loner who manages a rundown fitness center. Issues start to lookup when a superbly permed and righteously ripped bodybuilder (Katy O’Brian) rolls into her squalid realm. Their attraction is prompt, their loyalty is probably deadly. So once they run afoul of a neighborhood kingpin (Ed Harris, sporting a mangy skullet), this noir thriller veers into a spot of jaw-dropping violence and grievous vengeance, with a climax that’s as outrageous as it’s exhilarating. As I wrote in our overview, “There are films that seize you by the throat. There are films that punch you within the intestine. Love Lies Bleeding is each, and I fucking find it irresistible.”* — Okay.P.
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Katy O’Brian, Jena Malone, Anna Baryshnikov, Dave Franco, and Ed Harris
The best way to watch: Love Lies Bleeding is now on MUBI.
3. Heated Rivalry, Season 1 finale
It looks like simply yesterday that Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams) and Ilya Rozanov (Connor Storrie) had been suggestively swapping a water bottle in Heated Rivalry‘s premiere episode. Now, the web fan-favorite sequence wraps up its first season after a six-episode run filled with hockey, angst, and tons of no-holds-barred intercourse scenes. Contemplate this your signal to get caught up on all issues Hollanov earlier than the finale blows up social media. — B.E.
Starring: Hudson Williams, Connor Storrie, François Arnaud, Christina Chang, Dylan Walsh, Ksenia Daniela Kharlamova, Sophie Nélisse, and Callan Potter
The best way to watch: Heated Rivalry is now streaming on HBO Max, with the finale airing Friday, Dec. 26.
2. Pluribus, Season 1 finale
One of many greatest exhibits of 2025, Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus has stored viewers hooked with its story of Carol Sturka (Rhea Seehorn), essentially the most depressing girl Earth, and the alien virus hive thoughts that is taken over the world. By the tip of Pluribus‘ penultimate episode, Carol had begun a romantic relationship with Zosia (Karolina Wydra), one of many Others. However the imminent arrival of fellow survivor Manousos (Carlos-Manuel Vesga) in Albuquerque may upend the delicate steadiness Carol has reached.
So what can followers anticipate from the finale? Will Carol’s assembly with Manousos renew her need to save lots of the world? Will we learn the way the Others might be defeated? Tune in to search out out — and possibly pour your self a tall glass of milk when you’re at it. — B.E.
Starring: Rhea Seehorn, Karolina Wydra, and Carlos-Manuel Vesga
The best way to watch: The Pluribus Season 1 finale is now streaming on Apple TV.
Better of Streaming this week: Stranger Issues, Season 5: Quantity 2
The Stranger Issues farewell tour continues with the discharge of Season 5, Quantity 2, which is able to hopefully reply a few of our most urgent questions from Quantity 1. What’s subsequent now that Will (Noah Schnapp) has powers? What does Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) have deliberate for the kidnapped youngsters of Hawkins? Will Max (Sadie Sink) and Holly (Nell Fisher) escape from Vecna’s mindscape? And the way will Eleven’s (Millie Bobby Brown) misplaced sister Kali (Linnea Berthelsen) determine into issues?
Season 5 acquired off to an overstuffed however undeniably thrilling begin, so look ahead to extra jaw-dropping Upside Down motion because the Duffer Brothers hold upping the ante. Plus, extra episodes means extra time with Stranger Issues‘ beloved characters, who stay the present’s spotlight via and thru. As I wrote in my Quantity 1 overview, Stranger Issues‘ “flashy battles and lore bombshells can get the blood pumping, but it surely’s the characters who’ve stored viewers coming again for a lot of, a few years. Understanding we’ll be saying goodbye to them solely makes these episodes sweeter, exhaustion be damned.” — B.E.
Starring: Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Noah Schnapp, Sadie Sink, Joe Keery, and Maya Hawke
The best way to watch: Stranger Issues Season 5, Quantity 2 premieres Dec. 25 at 8 p.m. ET on Netflix. The sequence finale premieres Dec. 31, additionally at 8 p.m. ET.
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