This weekend at the box office, the last in July 2026, only a few small new movies make their debut, including Her Private Hell and Pinocchio Unstrung. This leaves the door open for Christopher Nolan‘s latest masterpiece, The Odyssey, based on Homer‘sancient Greek epic, to dominate on its second weekend. The movie has already broken box office records, becoming Nolan’s biggest global opening of all time. But if you’ve already caught this ambitious, sweeping film, then what else should you watch this weekend? With that in mind, here’s a list of three Prime Video movies you should give a shot.
If you’re looking for something to entertain the whole family this weekend, then you can’t go wrong with one of the best animated movies of the decade. Directed by Chris Sanders,The Wild Robot follows service robot Roz (Lupita Nyong’o), who crash-lands on an island and must learn to live with the wildlife. Little does Roz expect that she will soon find her home and become the adopted mother of a gosling.
DreamWorks Animation’s The Wild Robot, based on Peter Brown‘s original novel, is a visually striking, emotionally captivating animated masterpiece that everyone should watch at least once. The movie was nominated for a trio of Academy Awards, alongside many other accolades, and even features one of the final performances of the late great Home Alone star,Catherine O’Hara.
Collider Exclusive · Oscar Best Picture Quiz Which Oscar Best Picture Is Your Perfect Movie? Parasite · Everything Everywhere · Oppenheimer · Birdman · No Country
Five Oscar Best Picture winners. Five completely different visions of what cinema can be — and what it can do to you. One of them is the film that was made for the way your mind works. Ten questions will figure out which one.
🪜Parasite
🌀Everything Everywhere
☢️Oppenheimer
🐦Birdman
🪙No Country for Old Men
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What kind of film experience do you actually want? The best movies don’t just entertain — they leave something behind.
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Which idea grabs you most in a film? Great films are driven by a central obsession. What’s yours?
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How do you like your story told? Form is content. The way a story is shaped changes what it means.
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What makes a truly great antagonist? The opposition defines the protagonist. What kind of opposition fascinates you?
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What do you want from a film’s ending? The final note is the one that lingers. What do you want it to sound like?
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Which setting pulls you in most? Where a film takes place shapes everything — mood, stakes, what’s even possible.
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What cinematic craft impresses you most? Every great film has a signature — a technical or artistic element that makes it unmistakable.
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What kind of main character do you root for? The protagonist is the lens. Who you choose to follow says something about you.
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How do you feel about a film that takes its time? Pace is a choice. Some films sprint; others let tension accumulate slowly, deliberately.
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What do you want to feel walking out of the cinema? The best films leave a mark. What kind of mark do you want?
The Academy Has Decided Your Perfect Film Is…
Your answers have pointed to one Oscar Best Picture winner above all others. This is the film that was made for the way your mind works.
Parasite
You are drawn to films that operate on multiple levels simultaneously — that begin in one genre and quietly, brilliantly migrate into another. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is a film about class, desire, and the architecture of inequality that manages to be darkly funny, deeply suspenseful, and genuinely shocking across a single extraordinary running time. Your instinct is for cinema that hides its true intentions until the moment it’s ready to reveal them. Parasite is exactly that — a film that rewards close attention and punishes assumptions, right up to its devastating final image.
Everything Everywhere All at Once
You want it all — and this film gives you all of it. The Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once is one of the most maximalist films ever made: action comedy, multiverse sci-fi, family drama, existential crisis, and a genuinely earned emotional core that sneaks up on you amid the chaos. You are someone who responds to ambition, who doesn’t want cinema to choose between being entertaining and being meaningful. This film refuses that choice entirely. It is overwhelming by design, and its overwhelming nature is precisely the point — because the feeling of being crushed by infinite possibility is exactly what it’s about.
Oppenheimer
You are drawn to cinema on a grand scale — films that understand history not as a backdrop but as a force, and that place their characters inside that force and watch what happens. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a film about the terrifying gap between what we can do and what we should do, told with the full weight of one of the most consequential moments in human history behind it. You want your films to feel important without feeling self-important — to earn their ambition through sheer craft and the gravity of their subject. Oppenheimer does exactly that. It is enormous, complicated, and refuses easy comfort.
Birdman
You are drawn to films that foreground their own construction — that make the how of the filmmaking part of the what it’s about. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, shot to appear as a single continuous take, is cinema examining itself through the cracked mirror of a fading actor’s ego. You respond to formal daring, to the feeling that a film is doing something that probably shouldn’t be possible. Michael Keaton’s performance and Emmanuel Lubezki’s restless camera create something genuinely unlike anything else — a film that is simultaneously about creativity, relevance, self-destruction, and the impossibility of ever truly knowing if your work means anything at all.
No Country for Old Men
You are drawn to cinema that trusts silence, that refuses to explain itself, and that treats dread as a form of meaning. The Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men is a film about the arrival of a new kind of evil — implacable, arbitrary, and utterly indifferent to the moral frameworks we use to make sense of the world. It is one of the most formally controlled films ever made, and its controlled restraint is what makes it so terrifying. You want your films to haunt you, not comfort you. You are not interested in resolution if resolution would be dishonest. No Country for Old Men is honest in a way that most cinema never dares to be.
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‘Bones and All’ (2022)
Rotten Tomatoes: 82% | IMDb: 6.8/10
Timothée Chalamet has been on an incredible run of movies as of late, even picking up two Academy Award nominations for Best Actor in consecutive years. Ahead of the December 18 release of Dune: Part Three, which might even nab Chalamet his third nomination in a row, why not try one of his most underrated performances in Luca Guadagnino‘s Bones and All, based on the 2015 novel by Camille DeAngelis.
Following the cross-country trip of Chalamet and Taylor Russell‘s young cannibals, Lee and Maren, Bones and All proved a thought-provoking, intense follow-up to 2017’s Call Me by Your Name. Also starring the likes of Michael Stuhlbarg, André Holland, Chloë Sevigny, David Gordon Green, Jessica Harper, Jake Horowitz, and Mark Rylance, this clever gem is as impressive a body horror flick as it is a coming-of-age movie.
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‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ (2013)
Rotten Tomatoes: 79% | IMDb: 8.2/10
Earlier this month, a fascinating three-part documentary titled The Real Wolf of Wall Street premiered on Paramount+, which looked at the very real story behind Martin Scorsese‘s 2013 masterpiece The Wolf of Wall Street. In light of the true-crime doc’s success, why not catch one of Scorsese’s best modern movies on Prime Video this weekend?
The Wolf of Wall Street stars Leonardo DiCaprio in one of his best performances ever as Jordan Belfort, who lied, cheated, and stole his way to the life of a wealthy stockbroker. He is joined by a stunning supporting cast, which includes Jonah Hill and Margot Robbie, in this fast-paced, hilarious, and oddly heart-wrenching dark comedy that earned itself an impressive five Academy Award nominations.
