The number one movie on Prime Video this week is Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War, the highly anticipated film sequel to the Jack Ryan series. John Krasinski returns as the titular CIA operative and co-wrote the film with Aaron Rabin, with Andrew Bernstein directing. The movie, which follows Jack Ryan as he comes out of retirement to help foil an international terrorist plot, has been very popular on streaming ever since its premiere last week, even though the critical reception has been quite negative. It’s certainly a must-watch for fans of the gritty spy action franchise. But if you’re in the mood for something a little different, there are still plenty of options to explore on the platform. Here’s a look at three great movies that we think you should watch on Prime Video this week.
Written, directed, and co-produced by Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another is a black comedy action thriller inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland. The film follows Bob (Leonardo DiCaprio), a washed-up former revolutionary living off the grid as a single father, who is forced to return to his roots when his daughter (Chase Infiniti) is targeted by his old nemesis, corrupt military officer Steven J. Lockjaw (Sean Penn). The ensemble cast also includes Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, and more in prominent roles.
On the surface, One Battle After Another is a high-energy rescue adventure, but there are so many more layers to this story that reveal themselves as you watch it. Interrogating themes of rebellion and revolution through an intimate father-daughter dynamic, the movie is easily Paul Thomas Anderson’s most successful one to date, and it was a huge critical and commercial hit in 2025. The film has been universally acclaimed for its performances, writing, action, and cinematography, and it earned six Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
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Collider Exclusive · Action Hero Quiz Which Action Hero Would Be Your Perfect Partner? Rambo · James Bond · Indiana Jones · John McClane · Ethan Hunt
Five legends. Five completely different ways of getting out alive — with style, with muscle, with charm, with luck, or with a plan so intricate it probably shouldn’t work. Ten questions will reveal which action hero was built to have your back.
🎖️Rambo
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🍸James Bond
🏺Indiana Jones
🔧John McClane
🎭Ethan Hunt
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You’re dropped into a dangerous situation with no warning. What do you need most from a partner? The first few seconds tell you everything about who belongs beside you.
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You have to get somewhere dangerous, fast. How do you travel? How you get there is half the mission.
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You’re pinned down and outnumbered. What does your ideal partner do? This is when you find out what someone is really made of.
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The mission is paused. You have one evening to decompress. What does your partner suggest? Who someone is when the pressure drops is who they actually are.
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How do you prefer your partner to communicate mid-mission? Good communication is the difference between partners and a liability.
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Your enemy is powerful, well-resourced, and has the upper hand. How should your partner approach them? The approach to the enemy defines the partnership.
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Things go badly wrong and you’re captured. What do you trust your partner to do? Who someone is when you need them most is the only thing that matters.
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What does your ideal partner bring to the table that you couldn’t replace? A great partner fills the gap you didn’t know you had.
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Every partnership has a cost. Which of these can you live with? No one comes without baggage. The question is whether you can carry it together.
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It’s the final moment. Everything is on the line. What do you need from your partner right now? The last question is the most honest one.
Your Partner Has Been Assigned Your Perfect Partner Is…
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Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.
Rambo
Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.
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James Bond
Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.
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Indiana Jones
Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.
John McClane
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Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.
Ethan Hunt
Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.
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‘Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1’ (2024)
Directed, produced, and co-written by Kevin Costner, Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 is an epic Western that’s the first installment in a planned four-part film series, which chronicles the story of the titular settlement. Beginning in 1859, the movie follows the lives of various characters in and around Horizon as they are impacted by conflicts with an Apache tribe and the Civil War. Costner also stars in the film, leading an ensemble cast that includes Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Giovanni Ribisi, and more.
A passion project of Kevin Costner’s that’s been in development for a very long time, the Horizon series premiered its first chapter at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, and while the film hasn’t achieved much critical or commercial success, its ambition and scale are undeniable. Though the story may be a bit meandering and uneven, the film features powerful performances and gorgeous cinematography that support a layered, expansive exploration of the Old West with all its complications. The second chapter was released in the same year as well, premiering at the 2024 Venice International Film Festival.
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‘She Came to Me’ (2023)
Written and directed by Rebecca Miller, She Came to Me is a romantic comedy starring Peter Dinklage as a composer suffering from a creative block. Taking his therapist wife’s (Anne Hathaway) advice, he goes looking for inspiration and finds more than he could have imagined in the eccentric “romance addict” Katrina (Marisa Tomei). The movie also features Joanna Kulig, Brian d’Arcy James, Evan Ellison, Harlow Jane, and more in supporting roles.
She Came to Me had a pretty negative critical reception when it hit theaters in 2023, and it isn’t a very widely known movie. However, though it may fall short of its ambitions, the film is an enjoyable watch with a decidedly original story and engaging performances by its ensemble cast, particularly by Dinklage, Tomei, and Hathaway. The movie did receive praise for its music, particularly the Golden Globe-nominated original song “Addicted to Romance” by Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa.
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