Netflix gets the lion’s share of the streamers’ limelight — and with good reason. But don’t sleep on Peacock, as the NBC-owned platform boasts a surprisingly impressive library of new and classic movies.
But which ones should you stream in February? Watch With Us has the answer — three of them, in fact.
Using Rotten Tomatoes as our barometer, we selected three movies that scored around 90 percent on the Tomatometer.
The dramatic papal thriller Conclave, the sports romance Challengers and the Quentin Tarantino crime thriller Jackie Brown all qualify and should be on your watchlist this month.
‘Conclave’ (2024)
The unthinkable has happened —the Pope has died! But the real drama lies in the search for a successor, with multiple candidates vying for the coveted spot. Caught in the middle of this drama is Cardinal Thomas Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes), who must act as a middleman between different factions of the Catholic Church. When he discovers a tantalizing secret about one of the frontrunners, he must weigh whether to reveal it or keep it to himself.
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Conclave isn’t your usual thriller — instead of a traditional good versus evil narrative, the movie’s characters all have noble intentions and nefarious ambitions. Everyone believes they’ll make a great Pope, which makes Lawrence’s task an impossible one: which person is the best to lead them all in a world where organized religion isn’t as important and powerful as it once was?
Nominated for eight Oscars in 2024, Conclave has a lot of classy trappings — the acting is all top-notch and the production design makes you feel you’re right in the Vatican — but this is really a movie all about gossip and who is making up stories about the other to make them look bad in front of the popular crowd. It’s a surprisingly juicy and slightly bitchy movie with a humdinger of an ending that will leave your rosary on the floor.
‘Challengers’ (2024)
Art (Mike Faist) is a professional tennis player without a major title win under his belt. His coach and wife, Tashi (Zendaya), pushes him to enter a challenger’s tournament to bolster his chances to win the U.S. Open. But much to their dismay and secret delight, one of Art’s potential opponents in the final is Patrick (Josh O’Connor), Art’s former friend and Tashi’s ex-lover. Will these three revive a complicated love triangle in which no one comes out on top?
One of 2023’s most high-profile movies, Challengers was rightly praised for its kinetic direction by Luca Guadagnino and thumping techno score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. It’s also superbly acted, with a never-better Zendaya embodying a character whose motivations are always hidden from the viewer. What — or who — does Tashi want, anyway? Even if you’re not a tennis fan, you’ll love watching the three leads battle each other on and off the court in a complicated game of love filled with double faults. It’s a treat.
Jackie Brown (1997)
Jackie Brown (Pam Grier) is a fiftysomething flight attendant who smuggles money from Mexico to the United States for Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson). Tired of risking her job for not much money, she decides to double-cross Ordell and take $500,000. But since her plan involves the cops, who are already on Ordell’s trail, and a kindhearted bondman, Max Cherry (Robert Forster), Jackie will have to execute it flawlessly if she hopes to get away with her freedom and life. The best laid plans often go awry, and that’s exactly what happens to Jackie. Will she live long enough to make it out in one piece?
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In a career filled with great movies, Quentin Tarantino probably peaked with Jackie Brown. Working from Elmore Leonard’s excellent novel Rum Punch, Tarantino crafts not only one of the best crime thrillers ever made, but also a surprisingly touching midlife romance. Jackie and Max are old enough to be bruised by life, but are still open to the possibility of something — or someone — making their lives a little better. Forrester was rightfully nominated for an Oscar for his performance, but Grier wasn’t — and that remains one of Oscar’s biggest snubs of the ‘90s.
