You’re going to see a lot of Christmas movies on Hulu through the end of the year. ‘Tis the season for the Huludays, after all. While we’ll go over your Christmas options at a later date, this month’s selections of the best movies on Hulu feature a new original film, Quiz Lady, as well as A Haunting in Venice, which recently finished its theatrical run. The other prominent new additions are Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and the comedy biopic Driven.
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Quiz Lady2023
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Driven2019
Quiz Lady (2023) new
Quiz Lady features a unique pairing of Awkwafina and Sandra Oh as sisters Annie and Jenny Yum, respectively. When their mother flees the country to avoid a gambling debt, the struggling Jenny moves back home with her younger sister. While Annie effortlessly answers the questions as she watches a TV game show, Jenny films it and later posts it online where it goes viral.
This attracts the wrong kind of attention to Annie’s talent, as a criminal kidnaps the family dog to blackmail Annie into going on the game show in order to cover her mother’s debt and get their pet back. What Annie doesn’t realize is that Jenny also has other ulterior motives to get her sister on TV.
A Haunting in Venice (2023) new
Kenneth Branagh’s Hercule Poirot is accustomed to murder mysteries, but less so to ghosts in A Haunting in Venice. Just two years after World War II, Poirot is ready to put his life as a detective in the past. However, Poirot just can’t resist the opportunity to unmask a fraud when he is invited to attend a seance held by Joyce Reynolds (Michelle Yeoh).
It doesn’t take Poirot long to figure out how Joyce pulls off her supposedly supernatural tricks. But much to Poirot’s alarm, someone soon tries to murder him before Joyce’s body is discovered. Now, Poirot has to figure out if he is dealing with a conventional murderer, or something more sinister from beyond the grave.
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) new
The curse of Jumanji returns for a new generation of characters in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. Now transformed into a video game, Jumanji entices four teenagers – Spencer Gilpin (Alex Wolff), Anthony “Fridge” Johnson (Ser’Darius Blain), Bethany Walker (Madison Iseman), and Martha Kaply (Morgan Turner) – into playing without fully understanding the consequences of their decision.
Suddenly, the group finds themselves physically transported into the game, with Spencer in the body of Dr. Xander “Smolder” Bravestone (Dwayne Johnson), Fridge as Franklin “Mouse” Finbar (Kevin Hart), Bethany as Professor Sheldon “Shelly” Oberon (Jack Black), and Martha as Ruby Roundhouse (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3‘s Karen Gillan). Each of the kids has only three lives to escape from Jumanji. But first, they have to locate the fifth player in their group.
Driven (2019) new
Most movie fans probably know the name DeLorean from Doc Brown’s time machine in Back to the Future. But the man behind the cars, John DeLorean (Lee Pace), is a key player in Driven, a film inspired by a true story from DeLorean’s life. In the early ‘80s, DeLorean’s grand plans are crashing and he needs income fast to save his car business.
Enter Jim Hoffman (Ted Lasso‘s Jason Sudeikis), a pilot and drug trafficker who recently came under the thumb of the FBI after they caught him in the act. Now an informant answering to Special Agent Benedict Tisa (Corey Stoll), Hoffman ropes DeLorean into an illegal drug scheme that he hopes will pave the way for his own freedom. Yet it won’t be as easy to pull off as Hoffman believes.
No One Will Save You (2023)
Kaitlyn Dever stars in the Hulu original movie No One Will Save You as Brynn, a young woman who lives a solitary existence in large part because she is a pariah in her small town. That’s one of the reasons why Brynn has no one to turn to when an alien invades her home. In the aftermath, Brynn finds no support from her fellow humans, and she discovers just how alone she really is.
No One Will Save You barely has any dialogue at all, but Dever’s expressive and earnest performance carries the entire film. It also goes a long way toward making little gray men scary again, especially when Brynn meets the more horrific aliens.
Doctor Sleep (2019)
Doctor Sleep is Stephen King’s sequel to The Shining, and Dan Torrance (Ewan McGregor) just can’t seem to check out of the experiences he had at the Overlook Hotel decades earlier. Dan even literally carries those ghosts in his head as he turns to alcohol to numb his pain. Fortunately, Dan finds redemption as a medical worker in a small town, which helps him get sober.
But Dan’s plan to live a quiet life is upended by Abra Stone (Kyliegh Curran), a young girl who reaches out to Dan with psychic powers that dwarf his own. Because of her abilities, Abra is targeted by a cult that feeds on psychics, and Danny has to find a way to protect her and save himself.
It Chapter Two (2019)
The Stephen King renaissance continues with It: Chapter Two, which once again features Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise the Dancing Clown. When the killer clown stalks innocents in Derry twenty-seven years after the first film, Mike Hanlon (Isaiah Mustafa) summons the remaining members of the Losers Club: Beverly Marsh (Jessica Chastain), Bill Denbrough (James McAvoy), Richie Tozier (Bill Hader), Ben Hanscom (Jay Ryan), and Eddie Kaspbrak (James Ransone).
At first, the Losers don’t have many memories about how they killed the clown. Yet their shared trauma comes back to haunt them when Pennywise turns his attention to the Loser Club. And this time, the Losers aren’t convinced that they can win.
Nightmare Alley (2021)
Despite its name, Nightmare Alley is not a horror story, and also one of director Guillermo del Toro’s most grounded drama to date. Bradley Cooper stars as Stanton “Stan” Carlisle, a con man who has a gift in getting people to believe that he can physically speak to their loved ones who have died.
While this skill gets him out of the carnival, it also sets Stan up for a fall when Judge Kimball (Peter MacNeill), a former skeptic who wants to speak with his dead son. Stan also appears to have met his match with Dr. Lilith Ritter (Cate Blanchett), a con artist who is even more ruthless than he is.
The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
There are few things more heartbreaking than when your best friend suddenly decides they don’t like you anymore. Writer and director Martin McDonagh explores this idea in his dark comedy The Banshees of Inisherin. Colin Farrell stars as Pádraic Súilleabháin, an ordinary man living on Inisherin, who is absolutely bewildered and hurt when his best friend, Colm Doherty (Brendan Gleeson), abruptly ends their relationship.
Pádraic assumes that he’s somehow offended Colm and bends over backwards to apologize … to no avail. Even the efforts of Pádraic’s sister, Siobhán Súilleabháin (Kerry Condon), fail to reconcile Colm and Pádraic. And soon, Colm threatens to take drastic actions if Pádraic doesn’t stop trying to speak with him.
Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
Bend It Like Beckham was one of the most beloved sports comedies of the 2000s, thanks to strong performances by Parminder Nagra and Keira Knightley. Nagra plays Jesminder “Jess” Kaur Bhamra, a young woman of Indian descent living near London who develops a love for soccer despite the disapproval of her traditional Sikh parents.
Regardless, Jess befriends Juliette “Jules” Paxton (Keira Knightley) and joins her local soccer team, which is coached by Joe (Jonathan Rhys Meyers). While Jess hides her extracurricular activities from her family, she also develops romantic feelings for Joe, which may threaten her friendship with Jules.
Phone Booth (2003)
Colin Farrell literally spends most of Phone Booth’s running time trapped inside one, and yet it really works well as a thriller. Farrell plays Stuart “Stu” Shepard, a man who is cheating on his wife, Kelly (Radha Mitchell), with a woman named Pam (Katie Holmes). When Stu answers a call in a phone booth, an enigmatic caller (Kiefer Sutherland) warns Stu that he has to confess his infidelity or he’ll be shot dead.
The Caller quickly proves that his threats are not idle, and as the police blame Stu for the carnage, the Caller tells him that he has to choose between the two women in his life. And whoever he doesn’t choose will be murdered.
Ford v Ferrari (2019)
Between Wolverine and Indiana Jones movies, director James Mangold tackled the larger than life rivalry between Henry Ford II (Tracy Letts) and Enzo Ferrari (Remo Girone). However, neither man is the central character in Ford v Ferrari. Instead, the focus falls on ex-racer turned car designer, Carroll Shelby (Matt Damon), and Ken Miles (Christian Bale), a fiery racer whom Shelby recruits to help him build a Ford that can outrace a Ferrari.
Miles quickly makes enemies inside Ford who threaten to derail the entire operation just to sideline him. But once Miles gets behind the wheel of the car he helped design, he delivers the race of a lifetime.
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
Rami Malek won the Oscar for Best Actor for his performance as Farrokh Bulsara, the man who became Freddie Mercury, the legendary lead singer of Queen. Bohemian Rhapsody is named after Queen’s most famous song, but this is really Freddie’s story, as well as his rise and fall alongside his bandmates Brian May (Gwilym Lee), Roger Taylor (Ben Hardy), and John Deacon (Joe Mazzello).
On his way to the top, Freddie is engaged to Mary Austin (Lucy Boynton) before he falls in love with Paul Prenter (Allen Leech) and allows him to guide his career. But when Freddie’s bad decisions catch up to him, it’s going to take something tragic to bring Queen back together.
Flamin' Hot (2023)
What do you do when there’s a true story that may not be true? As was famously said in the 1962 Western classic The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, “when the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” The story of Flamin’ Hot is truly inspirational regardless of whether these events actually played out this way in reality. The film is based on the memoir of Richard Montañez (Jesse Garcia), the man who claims that he created Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. And he didn’t do it alone.
With the support of his wife, Judy Montañez (Annie Gonzalez), and his co-worker, Clarence C. Baker (Dennis Haysbert), Richard rises from the rank of janitor and works up the nerve to pitch his Flamin’ Hot ideas to Frito-Lay executive Roger Enrico (Tony Shalhoub). From there, a snack food legend is born.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
The Planet of the Apes franchise has gone through a few different incarnations, but the modern reboot, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, is a cut above the rest.
Andy Serkis stars as Caesar, a remarkably intelligent chimpanzee who lives with his adoptive father, Dr. William Rodman (James Franco). Will’s attempt to cure Alzheimer’s disease has catastrophic results for the world, but it also greatly enhances the intelligence of apes. And when Caesar is locked away with this fellow apes, he takes the initiative to lead a revolution.
Something in the Dirt (2022)
An exciting example of the kind of narrative ingenuity that only a worldwide pandemic can foster, Something in the Dirt is the latest film from writer-director duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (The Endless, Synchronic), and is arguably the most primitively fascinating work of these two collaborators. Shot over the course of a year with a crew of just 12, our story follows Levi and John, apartment-dwelling neighbors who decide to make a documentary about a range of supernatural events occurring in their Los Angeles residence. But as the two men discover that these kinds of extraordinary happenings are taking place all over L.A., their findings lead them to a combative exchange of theories and calculations.
The Valet (2022)
War Dogs (2016)
Ultrasound (2022)
In director Rob Schroeder’s Ultrasound, Mad Men alum Vincent Kartheiser stars as Glen, an unassuming everyman who just so happens to encounter some car trouble on a dark and stormy night. Seeking some help, he knocks on the door of a perfectly kind stranger named Arthur (Bob Stephenson), leading the former down an uncanny rabbit hole of deceit and mind control. Presenting a nail-biter of a story without diving into carnage and other typical screen grabs, Ultrasound does its best work as a quietly curious foray into a world that’s hard to pin down.
The Worst Person in the World (2021)
The Last Tourist (2021)
Hellraiser (2022)
It’s about time the world of Hellraiser received some much-needed reimagining. For years now, the franchise has seen sequel after sequel, and while Cenobite fans are always pleased to see Doug Bradley donning his Pinhead garb, the series has certainly run into its fair share of cinematic duds. But director David Bruckner has come along to get the saga on track once more. The 2022 remake stars Odessa A’zion as Riley, an on-the-mend drug addict who comes into the possession of a runic puzzle box — a mysterious device that summons an armada of hellish entities. Led by the Hell Priest (Jamie Clayton), Odessa is plunged into a fight for survival when the demonic visitors begin wreaking havoc in the real world. Bruckner’s Hellraiser reboot may not satisfy all of the saga’s diehards, but when you consider it as a gruesome yet polished homage to Clive Barker’s source novella and first batch of films, the 2022 version more than gets the job done.
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Dinner in America (2022)
Pig (2021)
The Bob's Burgers Movie (2022)
Prey (2022)
Flee (2021)
Apollo 11 (2019)
Sundown (2022)
Three Identical Strangers (2018)
Death on the Nile (2022)
Fresh (2022)
Spencer (2021)
No Exit (2022)
Deep Water (2022)
In the Earth (2021)
The Obituary of Tunde Johnson (2019)
The Vigil (2020)
Wander Darkly (2020)
Another Round (2020)
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