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It's Friday night and you're probably looking for a movie to stream on the couch. (Or, maybe, at a movie theater? I hope not a movie theater. Wear a mask at the very least, please.)
While a lot of new releases have been delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic, plenty are still being released directly to on-demand, and are available to rent or on platforms right now.
Here are 17 of our favorite movies that have come out recently.
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1. Knives Out
Rotten Tomatoes score: 97%
Rian Johnson's whodunit is so lovingly made, so well acted, and so charmingly written, it's hard not to fall completely in love with this picture. Daniel Craig is spectacular as a Southern Hercule Poirot but Don Johnson might steal the show here. Don Johnson!
2. The King of Staten Island
Rotten Tomatoes score: 72%
Judd Apatow helms this Pete Davidson coming-of-age story. But, you know, a coming-of-age story about a man who's already of age. Apatow has done the man-child thing before, but there are a few standout scenes and some good laughs.
3. 2040
Rotten Tomatoes score: 100%
A hope-filled documentary that looks to children as the ones who will guide us out of the current global climate crisis. A story about a family, as well as a world full of young people who are committed to leaving the planet better than the one they inherit.
4. Yourself and Yours
Rotten Tomatoes score: 92%
This fantastical South Korean drama witnesses a man go through a breakup, and then sees his ex disappear … only for another woman who looks exactly like her show up in town the next day. Artful, strange, and beautiful.
5. Miss Juneteenth
Rotten Tomatoes score: 98%
A powerful movie on a mother, a daughter, and a competition that threatens to tear them apart. With strong performances from Nicole Beharie and Alexis Chikaeze.
6. Judy & Punch
Rotten Tomatoes score: 79%
Listen, a period film about a puppeteer isn't going to be for everyone, but this movie is charming, funny, and odd in all the right ways. Grab some strings and give it a whirl.
7. Premature
Rotten Tomatoes score: 94% Videosolo dvd creator 5 1 60.
A star is born in Zora Howard, who not only stars as Ayanna in this film, but co-wrote the screenplay with director Rashaad Ernesto Green. The movie feels effortless at times, and so real it can seem like more a documentary than a scripted drama.
8. The Vast of Night
Particle fleet: emergence 1 1 4. Rotten Tomatoes score: 92%
A low-budget ode to the early works of Steven Spielberg, this movie is so magical almost because of its low budget. Director Andrew Patterson has to rely on precise taste and perfect, inventive effects to make the movie, and he succeeds oh so well.
9. Shirley
Rotten Tomatoes score: 88%
Elisabeth Moss is wonderfully devilish in this movie about the horror writer Shirley Jackson and the inspiration for her newest novel. It's not quite a biopic, but instead almost like another Jackson work come to life.
10. To The Stars
Rotten Tomatoes score: 82%
An at times sweet, at times fearless coming-of-age story about two young women who befriend each other in a small town in the 1960s.
11. The Photograph
Rotten Tomatoes score: 74%
A movie that looks to the past to find meaning, The Photograph is about one woman (Issa Rae) and her quest to connect with the death of her mother. In doing so, she meets and falls for a journalist, played by Lakeith Stanfield.
12. Blue Story
Rotten Tomatoes score: 91%
A London gangland drama that's elevated by strong performances from sure to be rising young stars Michael Ward and Stephen Odubola.
13. The Lovebirds
Rotten Tomatoes score: 66%
A loving couple has their car commandeered and used in a brutal crime, and they must take off on the run. It's silly and dumb and you'll laugh hard throughout.
14. Valley Girl
Rotten Tomatoes score: 57%
A charming, perhaps saccharine 80s musical, with a great cameo by the queen herself, Alicia Silverstone.
15. The High Note
Rotten Tomatoes score: 70%
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This is standard romcom fare elevated by a great performance from Tracee Ellis Ross, who does a not so thinly veiled performance inspired by her mother, Diana Ross.
16. True History of the Kelly Gang
Rotten Tomatoes score: 78%
Charlie Hunnam and Russell Crowe have a blast in this not-so-true biopic on the infamous Australian criminal Ned Kelly.
17. The Willoughbys
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Rotten Tomatoes score: 90%
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Out now on Netflix, the Willoughbys is a delightfully dark animated movie with voice acting from Ricky Gervais, Maya Rudolph, and Martin Short.
