{"id":492748,"date":"2026-02-20T16:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/492748\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T16:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:19:14","slug":"the-five-best-new-movies-to-stream-this-weekend-february-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/492748\/","title":{"rendered":"The Five Best New Movies To Stream This Weekend (February 20)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Streaming ain\u2019t easy. Sure, if you\u2019re a cinephile, practically every movie you could ever want to watch is at your fingertips. But therein lies the problem: knowing what\u2019s out there, and where to find it, can become overwhelming. Here, we\u2019re doing the hard work for you, by cutting through the clutter and getting straight to the best new movies available to watch right now. Here are the\u00a0four must-watch movies hitting streaming services this weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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1. Urchin (Hulu)<\/p>\n

Babygirl and Triangle of Sadness hunk Harris Dickinson wears his influences on his sleeve in his directorial debut \u2013 namely, Mike Leigh and the Safdie brothers \u2013 but he does right by them in this impressive first outing. A slice of life about the cycle of poverty and addiction, it\u2019s helped mightily by a powerful performance from Frank Dillane, best known for portraying Tom Riddle in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, here showing a ton of raw, damaged soul as a street kid consistently let down by the system, and himself. One of 2025\u2019s great surprises. Read Time Out\u2019s review.<\/a><\/p>\n

Watched Urchin now on Hulu<\/a><\/p>\n

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2. Rental Family (Hulu)<\/p>\n

Mononymous filmmaker Hikari takes a sharp left turn from her last major directorial effort, helming multiple episodes of Netflix\u2019s acclaimed Beef, with this sweetly sentimental \u2013 and sometimes just purely sentimental \u2013 domestic dramedy. Brendan Fraser is an American actor living in Japan who takes a gig with a company that provides surrogates for strangers in need of filling some sort of void in their lives. (A real thing, apparently.) When he\u2019s assigned to act as a father for a young girl, his feelings naturally grow complicated. Read Time Out\u2019s review.<\/a><\/p>\n

Watch Rental Family now on Hulu<\/a><\/p>\n

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3. The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (Paramount Plus)<\/p>\n

SpongeBob Squarepants is really the ultimate in family entertainment, equally appealing to kids, stoned teenagers and stoned parents. In this fourth cinematic adventure to the depths of Bikini Bottom, our porous hero embarks on a mission to find the ghost pirate known as the Flying Dutchman, voiced by Mark Hammill, aka Luke Skywalker.<\/p>\n

Watch The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants now on Paramount Plus<\/a><\/p>\n

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4. Dead of Winter (HBO Max)<\/p>\n

Emma Thompson gets the Taken treatment in this action-thriller. She\u2019s a recent widow spreading her late husband\u2019s ashes at his favourite isolated ice-fishing spot when she comes across a couple (Judy Greer and Marc Manchaca) holding a young woman hostage, making her both a target and the woman\u2019s only hope. Luckily, she possesses a certain set of skills. Well, not really. But she is quite resourceful.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Watch Dead of Winter now on HBO Max<\/a><\/p>\n

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5. The Astronaut (Hulu)<\/p>\n

A sci-fi horror flick that largely evaded attention during its theatrical run, this perfectly fine jump-scare\u2013a-thon stars Kate Mara as an astronaut who returns to Earth from a botched mission and discovers some\u2026thing may have hitched a ride back with her. Laurence Fishburne is around, too, which is always welcome.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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