The Best Movies to Stream on Amazon Prime Video Right Now

Wolf Man

​Director: Leigh Whannell
Cast: Christopher Abbott, Julia Garner, Sam Jaeger
Runtime: 1h 43
Rating: R
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Rotten Tomatoes: 48% (Critics), 55% (Audience)

Universal has been slowly updating some of its old-school monster movies (see 2020’s The Invisible Man) for new audiences, and The Wolf Man is the latest entry, now streaming on Prime. It’s also one that really ups the modern relevance, layering in a missing father, a marriage on the rocks, and a father-daughter relationship, which makes the werewolf transformation of its protagonist, Blake (Christopher Abbot), all the more high-stakes. With strong turns from Abbot (and Julia Garner as his wife, Charlotte), Wolf Man is a cool new twist on a classic tale.

Nosferatu

Director: Robert Eggers
Cast: Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp
Runtime: 1h 52m
Rating: R
Genre: Horror
Rotten Tomatoes: 93% (Critics), 97% (Audience)

​Filmmaker Robert Eggers is known for his dark, stylish films, such as The Witch (2015) and The Lighthouse (2019), which makes adapting the classic vampire flick Nosferatu right up his alley. Beautifully shot and relentlessly compelling, this film takes the best elements from both the 1922 original and Bram Stoker’s Dracula to create a truly haunting experience. Starring Lily-Rose Depp as a young woman named Ellen who inadvertently forms a psychic bond with Nosferatu, Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgård), the film is as Gothic as it is creepy.

If you dug the brooding tone of previous Eggers films, you’ll really vibe with this one. Just don’t watch it if rats freak you out.

A Quiet Place: Day One

Director: Michael Sarnoski
Cast: Lupita Nyong’o, Joseph Quinn, Alex Wolff
Runtime: 1h 40m
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Rotten Tomatoes: 86% (Critics), 72% (Audience)

A Quiet Place is quickly becoming one of the most thrilling and engrossing horror franchises out there, something that Day One proves in spades. A disaster film and a horror film, A Quiet Place: Day One takes you back to the origins of later films with chilling detail. Featuring an excellent performance from Lupita Nyong’o, this horror prequel is a bit more reserved than other entries in the Quiet Place universe, without sacrificing the humanity and frightfulness that hhaveas made this such a winning series.

A Working Man

Director: David Ayer
Cast: Jason Statham, Jason Flemyng, Michael Peña
Runtime: 1h 56m
Rating: R
Genre: Action, Thriller
Rotten Tomatoes: 47% (Critics), 87% (Audience)


When the director of The Beekeeper teams up with Sylvester Stallone to write an action movie, you know you’re in for a good time. Starring Jason Statham, A Working Man tells the story of a former Royal Marine turned Chicago construction worker who must save his boss’s daughter from a trafficking scheme.

Statham is a fixture in this kind of movie for a reason: he always delivers. A Working Man does, too, with plenty of thrilling action sequences, shootouts, and hand-to-hand combat.

Better Man

Director: Michael Gracey
Cast: Robbie Williams, Jonno Davies, Steve Pemberton
Runtime: 2h 11m
Rating: R
Genre: Musical, BIopic, Drama
Rotten Tomatoes: 89% (Critics), 90% (Audience)



Chances are, if you saw any trailers for Better Man, you may not have realized that it’s a movie about an actual musician, Robbie Williams. That’s because, unlike recent musical biopics like A Complete Unknown or Straight Outta Compton, Better Man recasts its lead as an anthropomorphic CGI monkey.

If that idea gives you pause (or even if you think the movie looked dumb when you saw a preview), take a look at the movie’s impressive Rotten Tomatoes score. Somehow, this bizarrely daring idea just works. If you were on the fence about seeing it in theaters, the fact that you can stream Better Man (and ditch it if it’s too weird for you) is the perfect way to experience it. You may be quite surprised at just how human its monkey protagonist is.

Conclave

Director: Edward Berger

Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow

Runtime: 2h 0m

Rating: PG

Genre: Mystery, Drama, Thriller

Rotten Tomatoes: 93% (Critics), 86% (Audience)

In Conclave, Ralph Fiennes plays Cardinal Lawrence, a member of the Vatican tasked with running the next papal election after the current pope dies of a heart attack. What could be stale and boring becomes an edge-of-your-seat watch, as various nations and Cardinals jockey for others’ heaven-inspired votes. The mystery offers all the same fun as the best episodes of HBO’s Succession, with great performances to boot. Who knew that one of the most thrilling films of the past decade would be centered on the secret process of choosing the next Pope? The Catholic Church hasn’t been this exciting since The Da Vinci Code.

Black Bag

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Cast: Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender, Marisa Abela
Rating: R: 1h 52m
Genre: Spy Thriller

Rotten Tomatoes: 93% (Critics), 97% (Audience)



In Black Bag, Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender play married intelligence agents whose loyalty is put to the test when Blanchett’s character, Kathryn, is suspected of treason. Whether or not spy thrillers are your thing, the marriage at the heart of this film (not to mention excellent performances by Blanchett and Fassbender) makes it incredibly gripping as the plot starts to twist and turn.Director Steven Soderbergh has made a lot of great movies, but when it comes to suspenseful movies like Black Bag and Ocean’s Eleven, he really seems to shine. Coming it at just over an hour-and-a-half, this is a gripping movie that’s perfect for an at-home date night.

Novocaine

Director: Dan Berk, Robert Olsen

Cast: Jack Quaid, Amber Midthunder, Ray Nicholson

Runtime: 1h 50m

Rating: R

Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller

Rotten Tomatoes: 80% (Critics), 84% (Audience)

Novocaine’s tagline spells the plot out the best (and most elegantly): “Meet Nathan Caine. He can’t feel pain.” Well, that’s mostly it. In this movie, Nathan (played by Jack Quaid) uses his unique ability as a strength when he must rescue the woman he loves (played by Amber Midthunder). It’s an inventive, albeit sometimes painful, ride, effectively straddling the worlds of action and comedy quite well as its protagonist battles through enemies and encounters gross-out humor. ​If you’re squeamish, the blood and violence may be a bit much, but for those who dig the premise, you’ll likely be laughing through every adrenaline-pounding moment.

Jurassic World

Director: Colin Trevorrow
Cast: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Irfan Khan
Runtime: 2h 4m
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Adventure, Action, Sci-Fi
Rotten Tomatoes: 72% (Critics), 78% (Audience)

Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park is one of the greatest films of the 20th century, meaning that Jurassic World had some tyrannosaurus-sized shoes to fill when it came out. Thankfully, Colin Trevorrow’s reboot of the beloved franchise is, like the original, a complete blast. It features great performances from Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard, as well as some memorable dinos like Velociraptor Blue and the Indominus Rex.

Challengers

Director: Luca Guadagnino
Cast: Zendaya, Josh O’Connor, Mike Faist
Runtime: 2h 2m
Rating: R
Genre: Drama
Rotten Tomatoes: 88% (Critics), 75% (Audience)

Meme’d as the “horny tennis movie,” Challengers is so much more than that. But, let’s be honest, it’s a lot of that, too. A thoroughly captivating love triangle, the film follows Tashi Duncan, a former tennis phenom played by Zendaya, and the sexual and athletic tensions between her, her husband, and her former boyfriend. It’s messy, engrossing, and edited to some near-perfect needle drops thanks to an epic soundtrack of pounding synths by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.

The Devil Wears Prada

Director: David Frankel
Cast: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Stanley Tucci
Runtime: 1hr 49m
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Rotten Tomatoes: 75% (Critics), 75% (Audience)

Witty, fun, and full of great performances, it’s hard not to love The Devil Wears Prada. Sure, the romance between Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) and Nate (Adrian Grenier) hasn’t aged super-well since the film’s release in ‘06… But that’s beyond the point when you’ve got some A+ performances from actors like Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci, and Emily Blunt (not to mention Hathaway). Bottom line: this deep dive into the cutthroat and hilarious fashion world is a cut above the rest.

Bottoms

Director: Emma Seligman
Cast: Rachel Sennott, Ayo Edebiri, Havana Rose Liu
Runtime: 1h 28m
Rating: R
Genre: Comedy
Rotten Tomatoes: 91% (Critics), 89% (Audience)

It’s hard to think of a comedy since Superbad (maybe Booksmart?) that turned the teen sex comedy on its head like Bottoms does. Featuring hysterical turns by Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri as friends who start an underground fight club in order to seem cool, the film captures the absurdity of adolescence with a winning mix of pop-culture relevance and endearing nostalgia. It’s a heartwarming, fantastically irreverent hour-and-a-half.

The Fall Guy

Director: David Leitch
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Runtime: 2h 6m
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Action, Romance, Comedy
Rotten Tomatoes: 82% (Critics), 85% (Audience)

There are a lot of genres at play in The Fall Guy, and somehow this action rom-com never feels false. Super-charged by the chemistry of Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, the movie follows a stuntman, his relationship with a rising director, and a major conspiracy. Blending stupid comedy with true charm, Fall Guy is a real winner. In fact, it’s hard to imagine the film not appealing to anyone with its excellent cast and fun, genre-blending premise.

Twisters

Director: Lee Isaac Chung
Cast: Glen Powell, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Maura Tierney
Runtime: 2h 2m
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Action, Adventure
Rotten Tomatoes: 75% (Critics), 90% (Audience)

Twisters is the rare sequel/reboot that really sticks the landing. Centered on a team of tornado-chasers, the action film packs a heaping dose of thrills into its two-hour runtime. Director Lee Isaac Chung makes sure that the special effects and disaster set pieces are delivered with gale force impact—but it’s the winning charisma of Glen Powell that really elevates this movie above more run-of-the-mill disaster-film counterparts.

Legally Blonde

Director: Robert Luketic
Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Selma Blair
Runtime: 1hr 36m
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Rotten Tomatoes: 72% (Critics), 72% (Audience)

From the bend-and-snap to its musical adaptation, Legally Blonde has had a long-running impact on pop culture. That alone is reason to revisit this decades-old rom-com classic, featuring pitch-perfect performances from Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, and, of course, Jennifer Coolidge. While Coolidge made waves recently in HBO’s The White Lotus, all of her talents are on full display in this hilarious film about blonde Elle Woods and her quest to get into Harvard and win her ex-boyfriend back. What, like it’s hard?

Past Lives

Director: Celine Song
Cast: Greta Lee, Teo Yoo,  John Magaro
Runtime: 1h 34m
Rating: R
Genre: Dark Comedy
Rotten Tomatoes: 95% (Critics), 93% (Audience)

The second love triangle film on this list, Past Lives takes a much more serious tone than Challengers. Interestingly, its writer/director, Celine Song, is married to Challengers screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes. Read into that what you will, but whatever the tea may be, just know that Past Lives is one of the best films of the 2020s. Heartfelt, heartbreaking, and impeccably acted, this is a film infused with real heartache—a heartache that you yourself take on and carry with you long after the credits roll.

Air

Director: Roland Emmerich
Cast: Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman
Runtime: 1h 52m
Rating: R
Genre: Drama, Sports
Rotten Tomatoes: 93% (Critics), 97% (Audience)

Damon and Affleck have been a winning duo since Good Will Hunting, and Air is no exception to the rule. This film about Nike’s fateful partnership with Michael Jordan and the resulting sneaker empire is a slam dunk. Movies about business aren’t always the most entertaining, but when they are, they really are. Thanks to a game cast and some impeccable comedic timing, Air is entertaining from its first scene to the time that credits roll.

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