This weekend, the box office feels the need for speed as Top Gunre-enters theaters, joined by its blockbuster 2022 sequel. In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the first movie, you can catch Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) and the rest of the high-flying crew on the big screen once again, although the movie will face difficult competition in the box office ranks. The current theatrical lineup is bursting with quality, including Hugh Jackman‘s The Sheep Detectives, the sequel to The Devil Wears Prada, the video game adaptation The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, Ryan Gosling‘s Project Hail Mary, and Antoine Fuqua’s musical biopic, Michael. So the box office is stacked, but what about streaming? Unsurprisingly, those wishing to stay home and watch a movie are spoiled for choice. With that in mind, here’s a list of three Prime Video movies you should watch this weekend.
For a hit of ’90s nostalgia this weekend, look no further than the coming-of-age gem Mermaids. The film follows eccentric single mother Rachel Flax (Cher) as she uproots her two daughters, Charlotte (Winona Ryder) and Kate (Christina Ricci), and moves to a small Massachusetts town. As they try to settle into their new home, Charlotte becomes romantically entangled with 26-year-old local caretaker Joe (Michael Schoeffling).
A warm-hearted, feel-good coming-of-age tale sure to bring a smile to your face, Mermaids is a visually gorgeous trip down memory lane. Perfect for fans of Moonstruck and Practical Magic, this delightful film explores the dynamic of strained mother-daughter relationships, with Cher and Ryder delivering impressive chemistry in their perfect performances.
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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‘Goodfellas’ (1990)
Rotten Tomatoes: 93% | IMDb: 8.7/10
Sometimes, you can’t go wrong with a certified classic. This weekend on Prime Video, don’t miss out on Martin Scorsese‘s magnum opus, Goodfellas. “As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster,” Ray Liotta‘s Henry Hill says in the opening of this epic crime flick, and the film never looks back, exploring the ups, downs, and in-betweens of a wannabe criminal who dreamed of having it all, before realizing that infamy came with plenty of problems.
Featuring Scorsese at his masterful best and performances from the likes of Liotta, Robert De Niro, and Joe Pesci, which have gone down in cinema history as some of the very greatest, Goodfellas is arguably unmatched. Despite being nominated for six Academy Awards, the movie shockingly only won one, with Pesci picking up Best Supporting Actor. If there is anything this classic’s legacy has taught us, it’s that this was a huge mistake by the Academy.
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‘A Minecraft Movie’ (2025)
Rotten Tomatoes: 48% | IMDb: 5.6/10
This week, it was announced that the sequel to the video game adaptation A Minecraft Movie was officially in production. With that in mind, why not get in the Chicken Jockey mood with a viewing of the first film this weekend? After being sent through a strange portal and into a cubic world full of adventure, A Minecraft Movie follows an unlikely group of four as they must traverse this new terrain to try and get back home.
Directed by Jared Hess of Napoleon Dynamite fame, A Minecraft Movie was one of the most successful movies of 2025 at the box office and is the latest in a burgeoning cinematic love for video game adaptations. Starring Jack Black and Jason Momoa alongside a strong supporting ensemble, this pixelated gem might not have impressed critics, but it’s an undeniable crowd-pleaser.
