Another big new movie joins a stacked current theatrical lineup this weekend, as Mortal Kombat II brings another video game adaptation to the box office. Mortal Kombat II joins fellow video game adaptation sequel The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, the Meryl Streep,Anne Hathaway, and Emily Blunt-led The Devil Wears Prada 2, Ryan Gosling‘s new sci-fi masterpiece Project Hail Mary, and Antoine Fuqua’s musical biopic Michaelin a hugely inviting box office landscape. However, for those unable to get to their local theater, there are plenty of enticing movies available from the comfort of their own couch. With that in mind, here’s a look at three movies you should stream on Netflix.
Disclaimer: These titles are available on US Netflix.
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‘Meet the Parents’ (2000)
Rotten Tomatoes: 85% | IMDb: 7.0/10
Another modern comedy classic is getting a long-awaited sequel. Later this year, on November 25, a fourth Meet the Parents sequel titled Focker-In-Lawwill see Wicked favorite Ariana Grandejoin the likes of Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, and more in one of the year’s most must-see comedies. In anticipation of its arrival, why not take a moment to reflect on where this all began this weekend?
Meet the Parents, directed by Jay Roach, follows male nurse Greg Focker (Stiller) as he makes the bold move of meeting the parents of his loveable girlfriend. What is already a nerve-racking experience quickly spirals into a living nightmare for Greg, as he stays under the keenly watchful eye of his would-be father-in-law and former CIA agent Jack (De Niro). Hilarious and effortlessly quoteable, Meet the Parents will never get old.
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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‘Under the Skin’ (2013)
Rotten Tomatoes: 83% | IMDb: 6.3/10
A decade before he stunned the world to silence with The Zone of Interest, filmmaker Jonathan Glazer blended sci-fi and horror in a way many had never seen before in 2013’s Under the Skin. The movie follows Scarlett Johansson as a captivating alien predator, as she tracks and seduces men in late-night Scotland. However, after witnessing a tragedy, the alien becomes profoundly self-aware.
A bold and brave horror sci-fi that will keep you hooked for its entire 108-minute runtime, Under the Skin is a fresh viewing experience even 13 years later. A hit with critics, earning a pair of BAFTA nominations and plenty of other accolades, this absorbing film may not be everyone’s cup of tea with its limited dialogue and often vague theming, but it’s certainly worth a chance this weekend in case you, like many others, fall under its spell.
It isn’t just modern classics in the Netflix catalog, with this weekend’s brand-new must-watch movie arriving in the form of Remarkably Bright Creatures, an adaptation of Shelby Van Pelt‘s debut novel of the same name. Starring the likes of Sally Field, Lewis Pullman, and Alfred Molina, the film follows a grieving widow’s life-changing discovery within the walls of an aquarium.
Given the huge success of the source material, which has sold over 3.5 million copies to this day, there are going to be many eyes on Remarkably Bright Creatures. Sure to storm the streaming charts, this charming drama features a selection of talented performers, with the iconic Field starring opposite new MCU favorite Pullman ahead of his return in Avengers: Doomsday.
