Looking for the top new movies to watch this week? We’ve rounded up the best new movies hitting Netflix, HBO Max, Hulu and Prime Video this week (May 11-17) — plus four standout picks from the last few weeks that are still absolutely worth your time.
Whether you’re in the mood for a feel-good family film, a survival thriller or one of the most twisty psychological thrillers in recent years, there’s something here for every kind of weekend.
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Top Movies to Stream at a Glance
Here’s a high-level view of the new movies streaming this weekend as well as our top picks from the prior month:
| Movie | Platform | Added |
| The AI Doc: Or How I Became a Apocaloptimist | Peacock | May 15 |
| Lurker | HBO Max | May 15 |
| GOAT | Netflix | May 14 |
| Marty, Life Is Short | Netflix | May 12 |
| Remarkably Bright Creatures | Netflix | May 8 |
| Send Help | Hulu | May 7 |
| Wuthering Heights | HBO Max | May 1 |
| Apex | Netflix | April 24 |
Keep reading for an overview of each movie, including plot details and why they’re worth watching.
Editor’s Pick: Best New Movie to Stream This Week
‘Lurker’ — HBO Max
Added: May 8 · Rating: PG-13 · Runtime: 1h 51m
From Alex Russell — a writer-producer on The Bear and Beef — comes one of the most unsettling, and underrated, films of 2025. Set in the social media storm of LA, Lurker follows Matthew (Théodore Pellerin), a retail worker who catches the attention of rising pop star Oliver (Archie Madekwe) and is pulled into his inner circle as his documentarian. What begins as a once-in-a-lifetime friendship quickly devolves into a jealous obsession that mirrors the increasingly common parasocial relationships between fan and creator in today’s increasingly connected world.
Why we picked it: Variety named it one of the ten best films of 2025, RT’s critics consensus calls it “devilishly examining the intersection of fame and obsession to thrilling effect,” and it won Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay at the Independent Spirit Awards. Pellerin’s performance is the kind that’s hard to shake. If you have plans this weekend, cancel them.
New Movies Streaming This Weekend
These are the new movies coming to streaming this week. All titles will be available to watch across streaming platforms by May 15.
‘The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist’ — Peacock
Platform: Peacock · Added: May 15 · Rating: PG-13 · Runtime: 1h 44m · Genre: Documentary · Director: Daniel Roher & Charlie Tyrell · Featuring: Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, Demis Hassabis, Reid Hoffman, Tristan Harris, Eliezer Yudkowsky · RT: 87% critics
This Sundance documentary follows filmmaker Daniel Roher — newly expecting his first child — as he sets out to understand the technology that will define his kid’s world. He interviews the people building it, the people warning against it and the people desperately trying to govern it, arriving somewhere between dread and cautious hope — which is where the title comes from.
Why watch it: RT’s consensus calls it “a balanced inquiry into a transformative technology that weighs the risks with a touching amount of humanity,” and one critic simply called it “the scariest film of the year.” It’s less a technical explainer and more a human reckoning — the kind of documentary that stays with you because it asks the right questions without pretending to have clean answers.
‘Lurker’ — HBO Max
Platform: HBO Max · Added: May 15 · Rating: R · Runtime: 1h 41m · Genre: Psychological Thriller · Director: Alex Russell · Cast: Théodore Pellerin, Archie Madekwe, Zack Fox, Havana Rose Liu, Sunny Suljic · RT: 95% critics / audience TBD
From the writer-producer of The Bear and Beef, Lurker follows an LA retail worker with dreams of something bigger who catches the eye of a rising pop star and is pulled into his inner circle — only for the lines between friendship, fandom and obsession to blur in increasingly dangerous ways.
Why watch it: One of the best-reviewed films of 2025. If Saltburn and Nightcrawler had a child raised on social media, it would look something like this. Pellerin’s performance alone is worth the watch.
‘GOAT’ — Netflix
Platform: Netflix · Added: May 14 · Rating: PG · Runtime: 1h 39m · Genre: Animated, Comedy, Adventure · Director: Tyree Dillihay · Cast: Caleb McLaughlin, Gabrielle Union, Aaron Pierre, Nicola Coughlan, David Harbour, Nick Kroll, Jennifer Hudson, Stephen Curry · RT: 85% critics / 93% audience
The animated sports adventure GOAT follows Will Harris, a scrappy young goat with big dreams who goes viral after challenging the league’s MVP to earn a spot on a struggling professional roarball team. His new teammates aren’t thrilled about it.
Why watch it: GOAT is a crowd-pleasing underdog sports comedy with the look and feel of the Spider-Verse films and a stellar voice cast to go with it.
‘Marty, Life Is Short’ — Netflix
Platform: Netflix · Added: May 12 · Runtime: 1h 41m · Genre: Documentary · Director: Lawrence Kasdan · Featuring: Martin Short, Steve Martin, Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, John Mulaney · RT: 100% critics
Directed by Lawrence Kasdan (Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Big Chill) — and close friend of his subject — Marty, Life Is Short traces Martin Short’s five-decade career from his breakout days on SCTV and Saturday Night Live through Hollywood stardom and his Tony-winning Broadway run, using never-before-seen home movies and interviews.
Why watch it: This is less a career retrospective and more a portrait of someone who figured out how to find joy as a survival strategy — and surrounded himself with the funniest people alive while doing it. A genuinely warm watch.
‘Remarkably Bright Creatures’
Platform: Netflix · Added: May 8 · Rating: PG-13 · Genre: Drama · Runtime: 1h 51m · Director: Olivia Newman · Cast: Sally Field, Lewis Pullman, Alfred Molina, Colm Meaney, Joan Chen
Sally Field stars in the Netflix adaptation of the bestselling novel Remarkably Bright Creatures as Tova, a widow working the night shift at a small-town aquarium who unexpectedly forms a bond with Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus voiced by Alfred Molina. At the same time, she connects with a soul-searching young man (Lewis Pullman), not knowing that both are looking for the same thing: family. Together, they uncover a mystery that changes all of their lives.
Why watch it: If you loved Where the Crawdads Sing or A Man Called Ove, this is your weekend pick — an emotionally layered mystery-drama with Sally Field at her best. Expect to ugly cry at least once.
‘Send Help’ — Hulu
Platform: Hulu · Added: May 7 · Rating: R · Runtime: 1h 53m · Genre: Dark Comedy, Thriller · Director: Sam Raimi · Cast: Rachel McAdams, Dylan O’Brien, Dennis Haysbert, Edyll Ismail, Chris Pang · RT: 93% critics / 87% audience
From Sam Raimi (Evil Dead, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness) comes a darkly comic survival thriller about a boss and subordinate who are stranded alone on a deserted island after their plane goes down on a trip to Bangkok. With no help coming and old grievances festering, the power dynamics between them shift in ways neither of them expected.
Why watch it: Deadline called it “the first movie gem of 2026” and the New York Times praised Raimi’s “darkly humorous tone and playfully yucky special effects.” This is Raimi at his best — part survival thriller, part workplace revenge fantasy, with a Danny Elfman score and a Rachel McAdams performance that will genuinely surprise you.
‘Apex’
Platform: Netflix · Added: April 24 · Rating: R · Genre: Action, Thriller · Runtime: 1h 35m · Director: Baltasar Kormákur · Cast: Charlize Theron, Taron Egerton, Eric Bana, Caitlin Stasey · RT: 66% critics / 49% audience
Charlize Theron plays Sasha, an adrenaline junkie processing grief from a climbing accident, who heads solo into the Australian wilderness — only to discover she’s being hunted by a methodical serial killer (Taron Egerton).
Why watch it: The Hollywood Reporter called it “brutal, bruising and reliably gripping”. The RT score undersells it — if you want a tight, no-filler 95-minute survival thriller with two committed lead performances and genuinely stunning cinematography, it delivers exactly that.
Related: Apex Cast Overview & Watch Guide
‘Wuthering Heights’
Platform: HBO Max · Added: May 1 · Rating: R · Genre: Drama, Romance · Runtime: 2h 8m · Director: Emerald Fennell · Cast: Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi, Hong Chau, Alison Oliver, Shazad Latif · RT: 58% critics / audience 76%
Emerald Fennell (Saltburn, Promising Young Woman) directs Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Cathy and Heathcliff in a boldly stylized, lustfully charged adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic. As the pair grows inseparable, their bond deepens into something far more consuming, shaped by class, jealousy and the rigid expectations of the world around them.
Why watch it: The critics are split — some called it a vibrant guilty pleasure, others found it emotionally hollow. The honest verdict: if you loved the aesthetic excess of Saltburn, this is in that vein. Robbie and Elordi are magnetic, the period visuals are stunning, and the Charli XCX score is genuinely excellent. Just don’t go in expecting a faithful literary adaptation.
Wuthering Heights is available to stream on DIRECTV via HBO Max.
This list of new movies to stream this week was last updated on May 13, 2026
And there you have it: the top movies streaming this weekend. Each week, this page will be updated to reflect the top movies across platforms, so make sure to check back here to keep up with what’s hot in entertainment.
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