With spooky season in the rearview mirror, we’re barreling through November at a steady clip, and another weekend ahead of us means the question of what to watch is fresh on our mind. Luckily, this week came with a wave of premieres on the best streaming services, so you’re spoiled for choice.
Over on paid video-on-demand platforms, two of the biggest movies of the year — Robert Pattinson’s queasy and mesmerizing turn in “Primetime” and Zach Cregger’s surprisingly hilarious “Resident Evil” adaptation — are both available to stream from the comfort of your catch. For fans of “You Can See Everything,” Netflix has a new drama called “Possible Love” that scratches the same itch.
So without further ado, let’s dive into all the best new movies on streaming this weekend.
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‘Primetime’ (PVOD)
Robert Pattinson’s been everywhere you look this year, but if you only see one of his blockbusters, I can’t recommend “Primetime” enough. Director Lance Oppenheim turns a real-life media scandal into a neo-gothic nightmare that oozes style in every frame. Pattinson is delightfully unnerving as Chris Hansen, the host of the controversial reality series “To Catch a Predator,” which became infamous for its televised sting operations of suspected child predators.
Hansen seems almost giddy about the prospect of publicly shaming his targets, but as he and ambitious producer Andie Bender (Merritt Wever) push for bigger ratings, the public spectacle drowns out any moral standing they might have started with. It all turns into a queasy yet hypnotic critique of our obsession with reality TV, and a chilling reminder that sometimes the people behind the camera are just as terrifying as those in front of it.
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