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The best of what’s new streaming on Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, Disney Plus, and more.
Welcome to Boston.com’s weekly streaming guide. Each week, we recommend five must-watch movies and TV shows available on streaming platforms like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Disney+, HBO Max, Peacock, Paramount+, and more.
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New Movies Streaming
‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’ (2025)
This charming comedy-drama from across the pond stars Tim Key (“The Paper”) as an eccentric two-time lottery winner (imagine the odds!) who uses his windfall to reunite his favorite folk duo (Tom Basden, Carey Mulligan) years after a personal and professional breakup.
How to watch: “The Ballad of Wallis Island” is streaming on Prime Video.
‘How to Train Your Dragon’ (2025)
I generally find Disney’s torrent of live-action remakes to be a deeply cynical cash grab. But DreamWorks fares better than its animation rival at the remake game with this slightly reimagined (but still quite similar) reprisal of its 2010 animated hit.
How to watch: “How to Train Your Dragon” is streaming on Peacock.
‘The Substance’ (2024)
“The Substance,” a 2024 Best Picture nominee newly arrived on HBO Max, is equal parts dark comedy and body horror, chronicling a former Oscar winner and current fitness guru (Demi Moore) who turns to a mysterious substance that promises to keep her fading figure and fleeting fame alive for decades. Without spoiling too many particulars, the substance allows Elizabeth to “unlock” her younger self, played with dead-eyed brilliance by Margaret Qualley.
Elizabeth’s quest to vanquish Father Time are both ludicrous and frequently grotesque. But in a world where people die from Brazilian butt lifts and a reality show about botched plastic surgery has aired for eight seasons and counting, “The Substance” is closer to reality than some would like to admit.
How to watch: “The Substance” is streaming on HBO Max.
New TV Shows Streaming
‘Boots’
You might reasonably assume that “Boots” — a series about a closeted teen (Miles Heizer, “13 Reasons Why“) and his best friend (Liam Oh) joining the Marines in 1990 —would repudiate the armed forces and the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that was in place 35 years ago. But the show is more complex than that; it doesn’t valorize the brutal treatment drill sergeants dish out, but it shows how a shared purpose and a collective trial by fire can help a man become his best self.
How to watch: “Boots” is streaming on Netflix.
‘Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars‘
With Boston now joining the cities whose restaurants are eligible for prestigious Michelin stars, this eight-episode Apple TV+ docuseries chronicling top chefs as they fight for their place among culinary royalty is especially timely.
How to watch: “Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars” is streaming on Apple TV+.
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