{"id":599615,"date":"2026-05-23T10:18:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T10:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/599615\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T10:18:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T10:18:22","slug":"the-five-best-new-movies-to-stream-this-weekend-may-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/599615\/","title":{"rendered":"The Five Best New Movies To Stream This Weekend (May 22)"},"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. Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (Peacock)<\/p>\n

Quentin Tarantino\u2019s career has pretty much played out as movie-geek wish fulfillment, which can be exhilarating or exhausting depending on the project. But as an example of a guy seemingly drilling a hole in his head and spilling every cinematic experience he\u2019s ever loved directly onto the screen, there\u2019s really nothing more purely thrilling than his martial-arts revenge saga. Always intended to function as one long epic, the two Kill Bill movies are now joined together as The Whole Bloody Affair, with a short animated coda, The Lost Chapter: Yuki’s Revenge, tacked onto the end credits.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Watch Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair now on Peacock<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n2. The Bride! (HBO Max)<\/p>\n

It bombed at the box office, with critics and with those few who saw it\u2026 but what if everyone was wrong about Maggie Gyllenhaal\u2019s gangster-monster-movie musical? It\u2019s such an audacious swing \u2013 a remake of 1935\u2019s The Bride of Frankenstein, set in 1930s Chicago, with Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale as a sort of revivified, undead Bonnie and Clyde \u2013 that it feels like it was meant to be misunderstood in its time and reappraised in time as a campy cult classic. Or, y\u2019know, maybe not. Regardless, if it\u2019s going to happen, it has to start now, with the movie arriving on streaming for anyone still morbidly curious. Read Time Out\u2019s review.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Watch The Bride! Now on HBO Max<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n3. Arco (Hulu)<\/p>\n

No, it\u2019s not a gas station origin story. In this stunning sci-fi animation from France, a time-traveling 10-year-old stumbles backward into the year 2075 and teams with a young girl and a robot to save a world on the brink of ecological collapse. Beautiful, colorful and uplifting, it was nominated for Best Animated Feature at this year\u2019s Academy Awards and deserves to be much more widely seen. Here\u2019s your chance. Read Time Out\u2019s review.<\/a><\/p>\n

Watch Arco now on Hulu<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n4. Ladies First (Netflix)<\/p>\n

Remember when Sacha Baron Cohen was a comedic master of disguise with the potential to win an Oscar one day? Now he\u2019s starring in this romcom fantasy as a chauvinistic CEO who\u2019s transported to an alternate timeline where women are dominant and men are the oppressed gender. Who needs to fire their agent more: Cohen or co-star Rosamund Pike?<\/p>\n

Watch Ladies First now on Netflix<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n5. Jack Ryan: Ghost War (Prime Video)<\/p>\n

Did you know there are six whole movies in the Jack Ryan series, based on Tom Clancy\u2019s political thriller book series? It\u2019s one of those franchises where it\u2019s unclear who exactly is watching, but someone clearly is, because here comes another. John Kransinki is back as the titular Marine turned stockbroker turned spy, pulled out of retirement for One Last Mission to recover information about a fellow former CIA agent gone rogue.<\/p>\n

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