It’s almost unfair for Hulu content to be featured all over Disney+ because the former is a fully functional streaming service with a great selection of movies … while the latter is not. As new films have slowed to a crawl on Disney+, Hulu has continued to put out a lineup that few other streamers can match. Even The Batman and Joker are on Hulu this month, but only through June 30. That’s the only reason we didn’t add them to this update.
Instead, we’re putting the spotlight on four films that are going to stick around for a while: The First Omen, Bullet Train, Slums of Beverly Hills, and It Follows. Between those flicks, horror fans, action aficionados, and comedy lovers should be very happy. Hopefully, July will bring some more romance options to Hulu as well. In the meantime, our complete roundup of the best movies on Hulu right now is below.
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The First Omen (2024)
66%
6.5/10Depending upon whether you consider the made-for-TV movie Omen IV: The Awakening as canon, the story of The Omen has been over since the third film hit theaters in 1981. And yet The First Omen reinvigorates the franchise with a prequel set in the early 1970s before the events of the original film.
The film follows Margaret (Nell Tiger Free), an American who has come to Rome to train for a life as a nun out of her religious devotion. Almost from the start, Margaret finds herself targeted by a conspiracy that she doesn’t understand. The forces of evil have decided that Margaret is the perfect woman to bring the antichrist into the world, whether she wants to or not.
Bullet Train (2022)
49%
7.3/10Brad Pitt was 58 years old when Bullet Train hit theaters in 2022, and yet you can’t tell his age by looking at him. As Pitt has grown older, he’s also gotten a lot funnier, and this movie makes his character, Ladybug, the butt of a lot of the jokes in the film. Ladybug is an assassin who is very unlucky, to the point where he wants to leave the life of a killer behind him. But he’s roped into filling in for an operative on a Japanese bullet train for a supposedly easy job.
All Ladybug has to do is retrieve a briefcase full of stolen money and slip out of the train before anyone realizes it’s missing. It’s easy to say, and almost impossible to do when multiple assassins get on the train, each with their own agendas. Ladybug may not have been looking for trouble, but it’s found him. And there’s an even more dangerous threat awaiting everyone at the end of the line.
Slums of Beverly Hills (1998)
68%
6.7/10Natasha Lyonne was still very early in her career when she nabbed the leading role in the coming of age comedy Slums of Beverly Hills. Lyonne plays Vivian Abromowitz, the 15-year old daughter of Murray Abromowitz (Alan Arkin), a hardworking father who can’t support his kids in the 1970s … at least not without the help of his wealthy older brother, Mickey Abromowitz (Carl Reiner).
When Mickey’s adult daughter, Rita Abromowitz (Marisa Tomei), comes to live with Murray and his family, Vivian finds herself roped into keeping Rita from relapsing into addiction and getting into trouble. The problem is that Vivian wants to spend time figuring out who she is, and what she’s going to be like. She may be a bad influence on her older cousin, and the reverse is also true.
It Follows (2015)
83%
6.8/10It Follows is one of the most inventive horror films of the century because it came up with a new breed of monster/slasher. The monster in this film is a curse that can take on the form of almost anyone as it relentlessly pursues the last person who had sex with the previous victim. Jaime “Jay” Height (Longlegs star Maika Monroe) discovers this only after her new boyfriend, Hugh (Jake Weary), sleeps with her and passes on the curse.
Only someone who has been touched by the curse can see the entity, which never runs after its victims. And it never has to. The entity always knows where Jay is, and no matter how far away she gets, it’s always going to be there unless Jay figures out how to break the curse.
Bad Boys for Life (2020)
59%
6.5/10To paraphrase the immortal words of Danny Glover from the Lethal Weapon movies, Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are getting too old for this bleep in Bad Boys for Life. That can’t be avoided when the sequel comes out 17 years after the second film. This does work to the movie’s advantage, as Detective Lieutenants Mike Lowrey (Smith) and Miles Burnett (Lawrence) clash over whether they should retire from the force.
Before they can think about stepping away for good, they’ll have to contend with someone from Mike’s past, Isabel “La Bruja” Aretas (Kate del Castillo). Isabel is the widow of a drug kingpin, and she’s sent her son, Armando Aretas (Jacob Scipio), to Miami to wipe out their enemies and get her revenge on Mike. And when Armando strikes, he strikes hard.
Black Hawk Down (2001)
74%
7.7/10Alien director Ridley Scott doesn’t need outer space monsters to make an intense action movie. Black Hawk Down is harrowing enough without any otherworldly elements. The film is a dramatization of a real incident that happened during the Battle of Mogadishu in 1993.
While on a mission to arrest advisers for a renegade Somali general, one of the Black Hawk helicopters is shot down in enemy territory. Suddenly, the superior firepower and technology of the Americans doesn’t mean very much when they’re forced to fight against overwhelming odds to save their fellow soldiers and themselves.
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
76%
7.6/10If you’re watching a quirky and dramatic comedy with an all-star cast and an odd color palette, then chances are good that it’s a Wes Anderson movie. Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums adopts a narrative style that may remind you of Arrested Development, even though the film predates the show. Gene Hackman stars as Royal Tenenbaum, the husband of Etheline Tenenbaum (Anjelica Huston), and the father of three brilliant children: Chas (Ben Stiller), Richie (Luke Wilson), and their adoptive sister, Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow).
The now adult children haven’t been the same since Royal walked out on the family years ago. But as soon as Royal learns that Etheline intends to remarry, he fakes a fatal illness in order to reconcile with his family. This only causes more tension among the Tenenbaums, as their past and present failures keep coming to light. Regardless of their shortcomings, the Tenenbaums are still a family … but they’re just a little weirder than your family.
Walk the Line (2005)
72%
7.8/10The greatest special effect of Walk the Line is that Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon actually sing in the movie and on the soundtrack while playing country legends Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash, respectively. Their performances are great as well, but it’s their voices that allow viewers to accept them in their roles.
Walk the Line is primarily about Johnny Cash’s life as he overcomes a difficult childhood to become a world-famous singer. However, Johnny’s personal demons and his overpowering addictions threaten to derail any chance of happiness he might have with either June or his first wife, Vivian Cash (Ginnifer Goodwin).
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
82%
7.4/10The end of the reboot trilogy arrives in War for the Planet of the Apes, and Caesar (Luther: The Fallen Sun‘s Andy Serkis) is no longer the idealistic leader he used to be. This is understandable considering that humans killed his wife and oldest son. With the Colonel (Woody Harrelson) making a final push to defeat Caesar’s tribe, Caesar plots to lead his tribe to sanctuary and avoid the war.
While attempting to lead the Colonel’s forces away from his followers, Caesar and Maurice (Karin Konoval) encounter a young mute human girl they call Nova (Amiah Miller). And despite Caesar’s reluctance to feel anything for Nova, her friendship may prove to be critical in the struggle against the Colonel.
Legends of the Fall (1994)
45%
7.5/10According to director Edward Zwick’s memoir, Brad Pitt was hard to work with and he wasn’t satisfied by the final cut of Legends of the Fall. But 30 years after the film’s release, it holds up well as one of Pitt’s best movies. This historical drama also doubles as an epic romance as Susannah Fincannon (Julia Ormond) inadvertently comes between the three sons of Colonel William Ludlow (Anthony Hopkins).
Susannah is drawn to Tristan Ludlow (Pitt), but she marries his brother, Samuel (E.T.‘s Henry Thomas). The affairs of the heart get even more complicated after World War I, as Tristan attempts to find his own way despite Susannah’s desire to be with him. But love is never easy in this film.
Poor Things (2023)
88%
8.1/10Emma Stone won her second Oscar for Best Actress for her performance as Bella Baxter in Poor Things. Max McCandles (Ramy Youssef) falls for Bella before he learns that a mad scientist, Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe), brought her back to life with a newborn’s brain. That doesn’t dissuade Max from wanting to marry Bella, but she has other ideas.
Bella runs away with a lawyer, Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo), so she can experience everything that the world has to offer her. Much like Max, Duncan’s influence over Bella only goes so far before she starts setting the agenda for herself, and no one is prepared to accept that.
Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
86%
7.8/10Anatomy of a Fall was a five-time nominee at the Oscars, and the winner for 2023’s Best Original Screenplay. The story revolves around the death of Samuel Maleski (Samuel Theis) and the discovery of his body by his son, Daniel Maleski (Milo Machado-Graner). Did Samuel fall from the attic in his home, or was he pushed?
The police soon openly suspect that Samuel’s wife and Daniel’s mother, Sandra Voyter (Sandra Hüller), attacked Samuel and pushed him to his death. Even Daniel doesn’t quite know what to think when the truth about his parent’s strained marriage is brought out to the open. Affairs and resentment are only a small part of why Sandra and Samuel were estranged. But it looks damning when one of the leading characters in Sandra’s new novel contemplated killing her husband in a similar manner.
Life of Pi (2012)
79%
7.9/10Life of Pi is not a fantasy, but there’s a touch of magic in director Ang Lee’s adaptation of Yann Martel’s hit novel. The film and the book are the story of Piscine Molitor “Pi” Patel (Suraj Sharma), a teenager who accompanies his family and their zoo animals as they travel by sea to immigrate to Canada. Tragedy strikes when the boat sinks, killing Pi’s family and most of the animals.
Only a handful of animals make it off the ship with Pi, including a large Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. Soon, it’s just Pi and the tiger as the former attempts to find a way to co-exist with Richard Parker without being eaten or attacked. Because the boy and the tiger need each other to survive while stranded in the open waters of the sea.
Suncoast (2024)
61%
6.6/10Laura Chinn’s Suncoast is largely based on true events that happened to her and her family, but the movie does take some dramatic license with the story. Nico Parker stars as Doris, a teenager who is overwhelmed by the brain cancer afflicting her brother, Max (Cree Kawa), and from her attempts to deal with their mother, Kristine (Laura Linney).
When Max enters hospice care, Doris befriends Paul (Woody Harrelson), an activist who is fighting to keep a woman named Terri Schiavo hooked up to life support despite her persistent vegetative state and the wishes of her husband. As for Doris, she has to face the very real possibility that her brother will never come home from hospice.
The Lost City (2022)
60%
6.1/10The Lost City plays a bit like a mixture of Argylle and Uncharted, while casting Sandra Bullock as Loretta, a wildly successful romance novelist who is still mourning her late husband. After being pushed into going on a book tour with her cover model, Alan (Channing Tatum), Loretta is kidnapped by an eccentric billionaire, Abigail Faifax (Daniel Radcliffe), who is convinced that the research of Loretta’s husband can lead him to a hidden treasure.
Alan, having already fallen for Abigail, mounts a rescue mission alongside Jack Trainer (Brad Pitt). But when Jack goes down, Alan and Abigail are left on their own as they attempt to escape from Fairfax and his men.
Uncharted (2022)
45%
6.3/10Fans of the Uncharted video games may have done a double take when the MCU’s Spider-Man, Tom Holland, was cast as a much younger version of adventurer Nathan “Nate” Drake. The Uncharted movie is an alternate take on Nate’s origin story and how he formed a partnership with Victor “Sully” Sullivan (Mark Wahlberg), a treasure hunter who claims to have been the partner of Nate’s missing brother, Sam Drake (Rudy Pankow).
In the way of Nate and Sully’s first expedition is Santiago Moncada (Antonio Banderas), a very wealthy man who hires Jo Braddock (Tati Gabrielle) and her mercenaries to take out anyone in their path. Nate and Sully only have Chloe Frazer (Sophia Ali) to call upon for help, but even she may be less than trustworthy.
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (2019)
83%
7.6/10If Quentin Tarantino is serious about making only one more movie, then his penultimate film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, will go down as one of his best pictures. In this alternate version of history, Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a faded Hollywood star, and his best friend and bodyguard, Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), is a dangerous man with a murky past. Rick is desperate for a comeback, and his opportunities are drying up.
Meanwhile, Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie) is on the rise as a prominent actress, unaware that the Manson family’s violent ambitions may mean the death of her. Tarantino creates so much tension whenever the Mansons menace any of the three leads in this film that the inevitable violence is almost cathartic when it finally arrives.
Quiz Lady (2023)
58%
6.7/10Quiz 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)
63%
6.6/10Kenneth 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)
58%
6.9/10The 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.
No One Will Save You (2023)
60%
6.3/10Kaitlyn 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.
The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
87%
7.7/10There 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.
Flamin' Hot (2023)
65%
5.8/10What 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.
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)
Ultrasound (2022)
55%
5.8/10In 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 Last Tourist (2021)
7.3/10Hellraiser (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.
Derek DelGaudio's In & Of Itself (2020)
82%
8.2/10This Mountain Life (2018)
7.2/10Dinner in America (2022)
80%
7.2/10Pig (2021)
82%
6.9/10Prey (2022)
79%
7.3/10Flee (2021)
91%
8/10Sundown (2022)
70%
6.6/10Three Identical Strangers (2018)
81%
7.6/10Fresh (2022)
67%
6.7/10Spencer (2021)
76%
6.6/10No Exit (2022)
54%
6.1/10Deep Water (2022)
53%
5.4/10Wander Darkly (2020)
66%
5.8/10Another Round (2020)
79%
7.8/10
