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5 must-watch movies & TV shows streaming right now
The best of what's new streaming on Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, Disney Plus, and more.
Welcome to Boston.com’s weekly streaming guide. Each week, we recommend five must-watch movies and TV shows available on streaming platforms like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Disney+, HBO Max, Peacock, Paramount+, and more.
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New Movies Streaming
‘The Roses’ (2025)
Based on the Warren Adler novel “The War of the Roses” and the 1989 film of the same name starring Kathleen Turner, Michael Douglas, and Danny DeVito, “Roses” brings together Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman as the couple who loves to hate each other. Director Jay Roach (“Austin Powers,” “Meet the Parents”) has structured the film a little bit differently than the previous entries, foregrounding more of the happier times between the warring couple. In some ways, this choice makes the second half of the film almost too dark and bitter to handle, but there’s a lot of fun to be had in the depths of the couple’s destruction.
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How to watch: “Roses” is streaming on Hulu.
‘Train Dreams‘ (2025)
Based on Denis Johnson’s novella of the same name, “Train Dreams” follows a laborer (Joel Edgerton) in the early 20th century who spends long stretches away from his home in the Pacific Northwest working on a railroad that will connect across America. Set a century before our present day, the story of an American worker grappling with a rapidly changing world, trying to make a good life for his wife and daughter, is as evergreen as the trees that fill the landscape — until (slight spoiler alert) they don’t.
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How to watch: “Train Dreams” is streaming on Netflix.
More new movies streaming this weekend: “After the Hunt” (Prime Video), “The Family Plan 2” (Apple TV)
New TV Shows Streaming
‘A Man on the Inside’ (2025)
Ted Danson is back as retired professor turned private investigator Charles Nieuwendyk, reteaming with “The Good Place” and “Parks and Recreation” creator Mike Schur for another lighthearted mystery. This time, Charles is investigating a college president (Max Greenfield), who is being blackmailed while trying not to get distracted by a free-spirited music teacher (Marty Steenburgen).
How to watch: “A Man on the Inside” Season 2 is streaming on Netflix.
‘The American Revolution’ (2025)
Watching Ken Burns’ newest, you get exactly what you would expect: A thorough, deeply illuminating look at the most important period in American history. At the same time, “The American Revolution” is something altogether different. Rather than panning and zooming across old photographs set to music (known as the Ken Burns effect), the filmmaker taps reenactors to aid his historical retelling. It’s a bold choice that has failed in other docuseries, but like everything Burns touches, it’s handled beautifully.
How to watch: “The American Revolution” is streaming on PBS.
‘The Beast in Me’ (2025)
Two of the best prestige TV actors of this century team up in this Netflix crime thriller, with Claire Danes (“Homeland”) playing a famous author named Aggie Wiggs whose personal tragedy has left her with debilitating writers’ block, and Matthew Rhys (“The Americans”) as her new neighbor — and, as it turns out, the cure for what ails her. That’s because Rhys’ wealthy real estate magnate, Nile Jarvis, was the prime suspect in his wife’s disappearance, a case that dominated the tabloids for months. Even though he was only convicted in the court of public opinion, Nile wants Aggie to write a book about him to show the world he’s an OK guy. You don’t need me to tell you that those plans go awry.
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How to watch: “The Beast in Me” is streaming on Netflix.
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