Most people go to Rotten Tomatoes to see if a particular movie is “Fresh” or “Rotten.” It’s especially useful when streamers like Paramount+ add tons of new movies at the beginning of each month.
In June 2025, Paramount+ beefed up its already impressive library with a lineup of new releases and classic films. Watch With Us curated a brief list of movies that scored at least 90 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
Risky Business and Stand by Me are timeless classics from the ‘80s, while Call Me by Your Name is an Oscar-winning drama that catapulted Dune‘s Timothée Chalamet to fame.
‘Call Me by Your Name’ (2017)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 95 percent
Summer is just the right season to watch this swoony romance, which was nominated for four Oscars in 2018 and won one for Best Adapted Screenplay. Timothée Chalamet stars as Elio, a bored 17-year-old spending his vacation in an Italian cottage with his parents. When handsome 24-year-old Oliver (Armie Hammer) arrives to study with his father, Elio develops some complicated feelings for him — feelings that may be reciprocated by the curious graduate student.
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Directed by Luca Guadagnino, Call Me by Your Name faithfully captures the rush and misery of youthful romance — and the laziness of spending a summer waiting for something, anything, to happen. Chalamet made his mark with his performance here, and it’s even better all these years later.
Elio is moody, almost impossible and often irresponsible — but he’s also horny and eager to please. In other words, he’s a regular teenager in love and lust, and Chalamet always makes Elio interesting to watch, if not completely sympathetic.
Call Me by Your Name is streaming on Paramount+.
‘Risky Business’ (1983)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 93 percent
You can’t blame Joel Goodsen (Tom Cruise) for wanting to have some fun — he’s 17, his parents are away for a whole week and he’s been a model student and son. That’s why he hires call girl Lana (Rebecca De Mornay) to come over so he can have sex, but he gets more than he bargained for when her pimp Guido (The Matrix‘s Joe Pantoliano) doesn’t like her falling for Joel. When Guido steals something valuable from Joel, he has to raise a lot of money fast before his parents come back and discover the mess he’s gotten into.
On paper, Risky Business seems like your average teen sex comedy, but in execution, the movie is more serious than you’d expect. Joel isn’t just a horny jock — he’s worried about his place in life and isn’t quite certain who he wants to be. Even better is De Mornay’s Lana, who uses her sexuality to mask a keen intelligence. You never know if she likes Joel or if she’s playing him, and the beauty of De Mornay’s magnetic performance is that it could be both.
Risky Business is streaming on Paramount+.
‘Stand by Me’ (1986)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 92 percent
Stephen King is known more for his horror novels, but his short story, “The Body,” served as inspiration for this warm-hearted big-screen adaptation. Fortysomething writer Gordie (Richard Dreyfuss in the present, Wil Wheaton in the past) reflects on a summer in his childhood when he went looking for a dead body in a nearby town with his three friends, Chris (River Phoenix), Teddy (Corey Feldman) and Vern (Jerry O’ Connell). Along the way, the boys discover that they can’t be kids forever, and that the harsh reality of puberty and being an adult is just around the corner.
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Stand by Me is a classic coming-of-age tale that’s been ripped off in the 40 years since its release. It’s still the best in the subgenre, though, because of its simple story, unfussy performances from the cast and quietly devastating ending.
A standout is Phoenix as the bad boy Chris, who can’t seem to escape the reputation that everyone’s placed on him. It’s a performance with surprising depth and melancholy, which makes it all the more tragic that he didn’t live long enough to give more of them.
Stand by Me is streaming on Paramount+.
