If you’re tired of watching Oscar nominees and blockbuster megahits, you’ve come to the right place.
Streaming services are particularly great at staying up to date on all the biggest must-see movies, but they also have plenty of features that deserve a little more love.
As the experts in all things streaming, Watch With Us has devised a guide for the best underrated movies you can find on platforms like HBO Max, Netflix and more.
Our first pick is Mistress America, a quirky indie comedy starring Greta Gerwig and Lola Kirke.
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‘Mistress America’ (2015) — Prime Video
New college student Tracy (Lola Kirke) has trouble adjusting to her new life at Barnard in New York City, and so reaches out to her soon-to-be stepsister, Brooke (Greta Gerwig), who lives nearby. Tracy becomes beguiled by Brooke, whose freewheeling life is seen by Tracy as aspirational. As the two young women cavort through the city together, Tracy suddenly finds creative inspiration for her writing. But things go south when Brooke discovers Tracy has been using her life as fodder for literary material.
Wacky, fast-paced and warm-hearted, Mistress America is fronted by two sensational and charismatic performances from Gerwig and Kirke, carried by a typical sharp yet gentle direction from Noah Baumbach. While not quite on par with Baumbach and Gerwig’s previous collaboration, Frances Ha, Mistress America is nevertheless a fantastic melding between the two lovers and artists who co-penned the screenplay together. Baumbach brings out Gerwig’s natural charm alongside the director’s signature dark sense of humor.
‘Revenge’ (2018) — Tubi
While enjoying a romantic getaway at her married boyfriend Richard’s (Kevin Janssens) luxury home in the desert, Jen (Matilda Lutz) sees her excursion interrupted by the unannounced arrival of Richard’s strange friends, Stan (Vincent Colombe) and Dimitri (Guillaume Bouchède). Though the friends are there to take part in a seemingly innocent hunting trip with Richard, tensions between the foursome progressively increase until things turn deadly. It leads to a shocking act of violence that leaves Jen clinging to her life. But when she comes to, she sets out on a quest to enact revenge on her tormentors.
Before French director Coralie Fargeat helmed the Academy Award-nominated The Substance, she directed this efficient little revenge thriller that served as an impressive feature debut. Revenge subverts tropes of the exploitation and rape/revenge genres to craft a highly affecting feminist film that is taut, stylish and fearless. Led commandingly by Lutz, Revenge offers a new perspective on a male-dominated film genre.
‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ (2020) — Netflix
Loosely adapted from the 2016 novel of the same name by Iain Reid, I’m Thinking of Ending Things follows a young woman (Jessie Buckley) who travels with her boyfriend, Jake (Jesse Plemons), on a snowy, stormy night to visit his parents (Toni Collette and David Thewlis) at their rural farmhouse. However, on the drive there, the woman ruminates on her misgivings towards their relationship and whether she should break things off. When the two arrive, their seemingly innocent trip becomes dark, surreal and constantly transforming.
Though I’m Thinking of Ending Things sports a deeply unconventional and even experimental narrative, the movie is eminently engaging, as mysteries pile on top of mysteries on top of inconsistencies and questions. Ultimately, the myriad of unanswered questions posed by the movie are less important than the mood and atmosphere they create, and the psychological horror that unfolds before viewers. Ultimately, I’m Thinking of Ending Things is an utterly unique experience that will leave you unsettled in the best way.
‘Alien: Covenant’ (2017) — HBO Max
A spaceship named Covenant is on its way to the planet Origae-6 for colonization. On board are colonists and human embryos in cryogenic stasis, but when an unexpected solar flare damages the ship, several colonists are killed. Some of the crew wake up alongside an android named Walter (Michael Fassbender), and during repairs, they divert their course to an uncharted planet when they discover a human broadcast. The planet is home to the sole survivor of the disastrous Prometheus mission from years ago, David (Fassbender), but neither he nor the planet is as hospitable as they appear.
Both of Ridley Scott‘s Alien prequels are vastly underrated, but perhaps more so is Alien: Covenant, which manages to be far darker, creepier, more violent and also funnier than Prometheus. Between both movies, Scott does an excellent job of expanding the world and lore of the original Alien movies and the origins of the terrifying Xenomorph, with fantastic cinematography, production design and sense of atmospheric horror. Plus, Fassbender’s dual performance as David/Walter is a weird and erotically charged wonder.
‘Kajillionaire’ (2020) — Peacock
Con artists Theresa (Debra Winger) and Robert (Richard Jenkins) have spent their time as parents training their only daughter, Old Dolio (Evan Rachel Wood), to swindle and scam her way through life while treating her more as an accomplice than as their child. After concocting a scam involving lost airplane luggage, Old Dolio and her parents meet a charming young woman named Melanie (Gina Rodriguez). Though Melanie willingly joins in on the family’s schemes, her involvement ends up changing Old Dolio’s life forever.
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True to director Miranda July‘s signature off-kilter style, Kajillionaire is a strange but bewitching comedy-drama film that manages to be sad, funny and deeply heartfelt all at once. The film is led by a singular performance from Wood, and her monotone, deadpan characterization manages to pair beautifully with Rodriguez’s perkier, more naturalistic portrayal. Wood transcends caricature to create a character that is deeply human in a bittersweet story about the need for connection.
