Anyone with a Prime subscription is currently glued to the final season of the hit superhero satire series, The Boys. Created by Eric Kripke, the show needed a bounce back after a mixed fourth outing, with the opening episodes of Season 5 already showing signs of improvement. Now three episodes in, there won’t be another installment of Karl Urban‘s Billy Butcher, Jack Quaid‘s Hughie Campbell, Antony Starr‘s Homelander, and the rest until this Wednesday. So what should you watch in the meantime? With that in mind, here’s a look at three Prime Video movies you should give a try.
One of the newest arrivals on Prime Video that might have flown under your radar is Balls Up, the latest comedy from Dumb and Dumber director Peter Farrelly. The film follows marketing executive Brad (Mark Wahlberg), who teams up with Elijah (Paul Walter Hauser) to pitch a condom sponsorship for the World Cup. However, a PR disaster erupts when the pair is involved in a drunken scandal.
For some over-the-top, cringe-inducing entertainment this weekend, look no further than Balls Up. From its very title alone, your expectations should be set for some silly fun that is best when not taken seriously. In anticipation of the FIFA World Cup this summer, go on a chaotic journey with Wahlberg, Hauser, and other notable names, including Borat himself, Sacha Baron Cohen.
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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‘Sarah’s Oil’ (2025)
Rotten Tomatoes: 85% | IMDb: 6.8/10
Set in the same historical period as Martin Scorsese‘s epic Western Killers of the Flower Moon, don’t miss out on this gripping true story. Sarah’s Oil stars Naya Desir-Johnson as Sarah Rector, an 11-year-old African American girl born in the early 1900s in the Oklahoma Indian Territory. Believing there is oil beneath the land, Sarah must fight off greedy oil sharks with the help of family, friends, and faith.
One of the better religious movies currently on Prime Video, Sarah’s Oil is a gem in a vast catalog. Featuring a powerful and impressive young performance from Desir-Johnson, the movie acts as both a perfect slice of weekend entertainment and an educational ode to the real trailblazer herself. Wholesome and heartwarming, Sarah’s Oil is worth your time.
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‘The Running Man’ (2025)
Rotten Tomatoes: 61% | IMDb: 6.4/10
After three months of dominating the Paramount+ streaming charts, a pulse-racing 2025 remake hits the Prime Video catalog this weekend. An adaptation of Stephen King’s novel of the same name, Edgar Wright‘s interpretation of The Running Man stars Glen Powell as Ben Richards, a desperate father who enters the deadly titular competition and puts his life at risk.
A fast-paced, thrilling adaptation that, although not as strong as the first, still has plenty to enjoy. The Running Man is one of the biggest movies heading to Prime Video this month. Alongside Powell, the cast for the film is stacked with talent, including William H. Macy, Lee Pace, Michael Cera, Emilia Jones, Daniel Ezra, Jayme Lawson, Sean Hayes, Colman Domingo, and Josh Brolin.
