The latest installment in the Scary Movie franchise might have taken last weekend’s box office top spot, but the parody of modern horror movies isn’t dominating general movie discourse. The viral masterpiece Obsession and A24’s Renate Reinsve and Chiwetel Ejiofor-led Backroomscontinue to be the talk of Tinseltown, although they’ll face some tricky new competition this weekend, with the arrival of Steven Spielberg‘s long-awaited Disclosure Day. From the allure of the big screen to the best of the small, there is also plenty worth watching on streaming. With that in mind, here’s a list of three movies you should stream this weekend on Netflix.
Disclaimer: These titles are available on US Netflix.
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‘Father of the Bride’ (1991)
Rotten Tomatoes: 71% | IMDb: 6.6/10
It’s officially wedding season, and this weekend might be the perfect time to get in the mood with an undeniable classic of the genre. If you’re a fan of Hulu’sOnly Murders in the Building, then 1991’s Father of the Bride is a must-watch, featuring the very best of Steve Martin and Martin Short‘s undeniable comedic chemistry.
The film stars the former as George Banks, a man whose life is turned upside down when his precious daughter returns from studying abroad engaged. With the wedding planning in full swing, George struggles to come to terms with his daughter’s marriage. A remake of the 1950 film of the same name starring Spencer Tracy, this hilarious, heartwarming ’90s comedy gained some particular emotional poignance last year, following the passing of the great Diane Keaton.
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Collider Exclusive · Oscar Best Picture Quiz Which Oscar Best Picture Is Your Perfect Movie? Parasite · Everything Everywhere · Oppenheimer · Birdman · No Country
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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
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🪙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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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‘Hot Summer Nights’ (2017)
Rotten Tomatoes: 46% | IMDb: 6.4/10
Ahead of Dune: Part Three, the final installment in Denis Villeneuve‘s adaptation of Frank Herbert‘s novels, this December, why not check out one of star Timothée Chalamet‘s most underrated movies on Netflix? The neo-noir thriller Hot Summer Nights follows Chalamet’s sheltered teenager Daniel, who comes of age during one wild, romantic, and chaotic summer.
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Also starring Maika Monroe as the free-spirited McKayla, Hot Summer Nights features a Chalamet performance that, although it might not receive much recognition, is arguably one of his best. Its story might not be anything new, but it’s told with an eye for visual beauty, and makes for an indulgent coming-of-age tale that will keep you hooked this weekend.
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‘The Big Lebowski’ (1998)
Rotten Tomatoes: 79% | IMDb: 8.1/10
One of the most famous cult classics of all time, the Coen brothers‘ The Big Lebowskiis now universally beloved for good reason, and remains a movie everyone should watch at least once. The movie stars Jeff Bridges as the iconic The Dude, a man who thrives on living life in the slow lane. However, after being mistaken for a millionaire of the same name, he becomes embroiled in an unlikely world of crime.
One of Bridges’ best performances that even spawned its own mock religion, The Big Lebowski is both laugh-out-loud funny and utterly enthralling. The Coens at their quirky, twisty best, the film is best known for featuring some of the finest ensemble characters in ’90s cinema, from John Goodman‘s Walter to Julianne Moore‘s Maude.
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