The weekend is here! If you’re looking for something to watch, we can help. We’ve dug through Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max and Disney+ to find some of the best titles on each service. STREAMING ON NETFLIX ‘Cover-Up’
“There’s a history of America that’s always so hard to write,” explains the investigative journalist Seymour Hersh. “There’s always another level.” On one hand, this documentary from the directors Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus is biographical profile of Hersh; on the other, it’s a tough, often unsettling walk through contemporary American history via the many Earthshaking developments Hersh covered, from Watergate and Pinochet to Operation CHAOS and MK-ULTRA to Iraq and Abu Ghraib. But it’s not hagiography, and Poitras and Obenhaus don’t shy away from the flaws, fumbles and ego that have complicated his legacy in more recent years. Energetic and frequently enraging, it’s one of the best documentaries of 2025. These are the 50 best movies on Netflix.STREAMING ON NETFLIX ‘Solar Opposites’
Some of the creative personnel behind “Rick and Morty” and “Star Trek: Lower Decks” teamed up for this zany animated science-fiction comedy about a family of aliens trying to integrate into Earth society … somewhat. Assigned by their home planet, Shlorp, to determine whether their new home is ripe to be conquered and colonized, the Opposites alternate between tormenting bothersome humans and enjoying the slop of American popular culture. “Solar Opposite” similarly pings between biting satire, high fantasy and raunchy jokes. Our critic called the show “wild and funny and fast.” Here are 30 great TV shows on Netflix.STREAMING ON HULU ‘Heat’
Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, twin titans of their acting generation, had never shared a scene before the writer and director Michael Mann put them on opposite sides of the law in this moody, thrilling cops-and-robbers story (they appear in separate sequences in 1974’s “The Godfather Part II”). And Mann gives this matchup the proper weight: By the time it arrives halfway into this expansive, three-hour movie, we’re expecting fireworks, and we get them. But the best surprise is that there’s so much more to “Heat” than the big scene; it features a cool-as-a-cucumber heist, a heart-stopping shootout on the streets of Los Angeles, multiple meditations on the nature of obsession, stylish cinematography and a jaw-dropping bench of supporting players. That scene, though. It’s really something. Here are Hulu’s best movies and TV shows.STREAMING ON AMAZON PRIME VIDEO ‘Sinners’
The writer and director Ryan Coogler (“Black Panther,” “Creed”) crafts a thrilling combination of horror thriller, period drama and action extravaganza. Michael B. Jordan astounds in the dual role of the identical twins Smoke and Stack, two high rollers returning to their Mississippi hometown in the 1930s flush with cash from questionable ventures in Chicago, and ready to spend it opening a juke joint. What begins as a night of drinking, dancing and grinding turns into something far wilder and scarier. Our critic called it “a big-screen exultation — a passionate, effusive praise song about life and love, including the love of movies.” Here are a bunch of great movies on Amazon.STREAMING ON HBO MAX ‘One Battle After Another’
From an opening sequence in which members of “the French 75,” a band of leftist revolutionaries, liberate immigrant detainees near the United States border with Mexico, Paul Thomas Anderson’s dazzling period piece speaks unmistakably to present-day tensions in America. Part political thriller, part shaggy-dog comedy, “One Battle After Another” largely covers the fallout 16 years after the French 75 breaks apart and its members, like the munitions expert Bob Ferguson (Leonardo DiCaprio), hide from the authorities. Loosely inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s “Vineland” — Anderson’s second crack at Pynchon, after “Inherent Vice” — the film delves into the American underground, where forces of repression meet pockets of resistance. Manohla Dargis called it “snort-out funny, even when its laughs tremble with rage.” See more great movies streaming on HBO Max.STREAMING ON DISNEY+ ‘Bambi’
No one can forget the trauma of watching a hunter kill a young deer’s mother. But after that notorious moment, “Bambi” is watercolor poetry, following the fawn as he learns and grows alongside his woodland friends and eventually becomes a father himself. Without spelling it out in a big production number, the film quietly teaches children about the “circle of life” in all its beauty, wonder and occasional loss. “The colors,” our critic raved, “would surprise even the spectrum itself.” The 50 best things to watch on Disney+ right now.
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