What’s new to streaming this week? (Dec. 25, 2025)

In search of one thing nice to observe at dwelling? Streaming subscribers are spoiled for selection between Hulu, Netflix, HBO Max, Disney+, Apple TV, Prime Video, Shudder, Paramount+, Peacock, and extra. And that is earlier than you even take a look at the huge libraries of films and tv packages inside every streamer!

Do not be overwhelmed or waste an hour scrolling via your providers to find out what to observe. We have your again, no matter your temper. Mashable presents watch guides for the entire above, damaged down by style: comedy, thriller, horror, documentary, and animation, amongst others. However should you’re searching for one thing model new (or simply new to streaming), we have you lined there, too.

Mashable’s leisure staff has scoured the streaming providers to spotlight essentially the most buzzed-about releases of the week and ranked them from worst to finest — or least price your time to most watchable. Whether or not you are on the lookout for the ultimate chapter of Netflix’s main collection, a buzzy conspiracy principle sci-fi, the steamiest present of the season, or a jaw-dropping animated epic, we’re right here for you.

13. 5 Nights at Freddy’s 2

The killer animatronics of your nightmares return in 5 Nights at Freddy’s 2, primarily based on Scott Cawthon’s hit horror recreation franchise. This time round, Freddy Fazbear, Bonnie, Chica, and Cunning aren’t the one animatronics in play. There’s additionally their “toy” variations to deal with, together with Marionette, Mangle, and Balloon Boy. That is definitely no enjoyable for safety guard Mike (Josh Hutcherson), however it’s loads of enjoyable for recreation followers.

Like the primary movie, 5 Nights at Freddy’s 2 was a field workplace smash, however critics did not take too kindly to it, with Mashable’s Leisure Editor Kristy Puchko writing in her assessment that, “like the primary one, this sequel has only a lethal quantity of speaking, with too little scares, jokes, or surprises.” — Belen Edwards, Leisure Reporter

Starring: Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Lail, Piper Rubio, Matthew Lillard, Skeet Ulrich, Wayne Knight, Mckenna Grace, and Teo Briones

watch: 5 Nights at Freddy’s 2 is now obtainable on digital.

12. The Carpenter’s Son

Ever surprise what Jesus received as much as between his start in a manger and being the chief of apostles? Or possibly you have been curious what it was like for Joseph to be the mortal father to the son of God? Properly, author/director Lotfy Nathan will get into each of those tales with The Carpenter’s Son.

Following Joseph, Mary, and Jesus as they attempt to dwell a modest and good life whereas ducking the temptations of Devil, The Carpenter’s Son is a gnarly non secular horror providing. It not solely explores a surreal look into teen Jesus’s early understandings of his id, energy, and fervour, but additionally co-stars Nicolas Cage as an embattled Joseph. It is a wild one, so possibly do not collect the entire household for a watch. — Kristy Puchko, Leisure Editor

Starring: Nicolas Cage, Noah Jupe, Souheila Yacoub, Isla Johnston, and FKA twigs

watch: The Carpenter’s Son is now obtainable on digital.

11. Springsteen: Ship Me From Nowhere

The Bear star Jeremy Allen White unleashes his interior Bruce Springsteen on this musical biopic from author/director Scott Cooper. As an alternative of specializing in the Boss’ profession as a complete, Springsteen: Ship Me From Nowhere zeroes in on the making of Springsteen’s sixth studio album, Nebraska, which he recorded sparsely on a four-track in his bed room. The movie parallels the manufacturing with Springsteen’s struggles with melancholy, crafting a solemn portrait of the musician.

Whereas White turns in an admirable efficiency as Springsteen, the remainder of the movie pales compared, hitting customary biopic beats like troubled childhoods and the flashes of genius that result in an excellent music. As I wrote in my assessment, “Whereas the movie’s music stays traditional as ever, and whereas White does an admirable job channeling Springsteen, Ship Me From Nowhere fails to ship something revelatory in regards to the precise feelings behind the music.” — B.E.

Starring: Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Sturdy, Paul Walter Hauser, Stephen Graham, Odessa Younger, Gaby Hoffmann, Marc Maron, and David Krumholtz

watch: Springsteen: Ship Me From Nowhere is now on digital.

10. The Copenhagen Check

Simu Liu jumps right into a world of espionage and secrets and techniques in Peacock’s new thriller The Copenhagen Check. He performs Alexander, an intelligence analyst for the U.S. authorities who learns that unknown forces have hacked his eyes and ears, giving them entry to the whole lot Alexander witnesses. To find the reality behind his hackers’ motives, in addition to their identities, he’ll need to sustain a nonstop efficiency in an effort to idiot them. However who can he actually belief? And does the shadowy company he works for actually have his finest pursuits at coronary heart? Discover out on this slick spy collection with a light-weight sci-fi twist. — B.E.

Starring: Simu Liu, Melissa Barrera, Sinclair Daniel, Brian d’Arcy James, Mark O’Brien, and Kathleen Chalfant

watch: The Copenhagen Check premieres Dec. 27 on Peacock.

9. Die My Love

Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson unlock their most unbridled natural tendencies in Die My Love, a formidable, hypnotic, highly effective drama from We Have to Speak About Kevin director Lynne Ramsay. The pair are Grace (Lawrence) and Jackson (Pattinson), a loved-up couple who cannot hold their palms off one another. They transfer into Jackson’s rural household dwelling, surrounded by forest and a protracted stroll to his mom Pam’s (Sissy Spacek) home. With the arrival of their youngster, Jackson’s work schedule means Grace is commonly dwelling alone, an isolation which she initially celebrates however ultimately resents — even hates. And right here, Lawrence follows Grace to the brink.

“Grace’s journey will make you squirm, maybe cackle. However in her messy quest for one thing past being boxed in, she presents a radical freedom to her viewers,” Mashable Leisure Editor Kristy Puchko writes in her assessment. “Within the discomfort of watching her bicker, battle, and act out, an pleasure of chance burns. The place might this lead, not only for her — however for us? Will you stroll away from Die My Love rattled? Feeling acknowledged? Or dared to be reborn?” — Shannon Connellan, UK Editor

Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, LaKeith Stanfield, Nick Nolte, and Sissy Spacek

watch: Die My Love debuts on MUBI Dec. 23.

8. Bugonia

Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone staff up as soon as once more for Bugonia, a conspiracy caper that remakes Jang Joon-hwan’s Save the Inexperienced Planet! with a script by The Menu‘s Will Tracy. Stone and Lanthimos’ Sorts of Kindness collaborator Jesse Plemons performs Teddy, a conspiracy theorist who believes an alien race lives amongst us, certainly one of which is huge pharma CEO Michelle Fuller (Stone). So, Teddy and his cousin Don (Aidan Delbis) kidnap her for a tête-à-tête about who she is, what the plans are, and whether or not the human race is price saving. 

Critics have been divided on Bugonia, particularly round its bleak marathon run of matters. Mashable leisure editor Kristy Puchko writes in her assessment, “Bugonia, regardless of having a sensational solid and clear imaginative and prescient for its world, lacks profundity in its smorgasbord of sizzling matters. Environmentalism, oligarchy, the manosphere, healthcare for revenue — all of those make for a dizzying brew from which Teddy and Michelle come up on opposing sides.”* — S.C.

Starring: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Alicia Silverstone, Stavros Halkias

watch: Bugonia is offered for lease or buy on Prime Video and Apple TV and arrives on 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD on Dec. 23.

7. Ne Zha II

The very best-grossing movie of 2025 is perhaps one you missed in theaters. Now, you may meet up with this jaw-dropping animated epic within the consolation of your personal dwelling. However belief us, you are going to need to watch Ne Zha first. Based mostly on Chinese language mythology, each movies have quite a lot of narrative floor to cowl. However the animated awesomeness of the sequel makes the primary movie definitely worth the time funding.

Ne Zha II follows the continued misadventures of the eponymous anti-hero, a boy born with the powers of a demon, who befriends a dragon/boy named Ao Bing, born with the powers of a heavenly spirit. Within the first movie, they battle earlier than turning into surprising mates. Within the second, they need to share Ne Zha’s physique to finish a battle-centric quest to revive Ao Bing’s bodily type. In the meantime, the dragons are conspiring to overthrow their king, whereas a horrid risk faces Ne Zha’s homeland. All these threads make for a film that features monster battles, slapstick, tragedy, and gross-out gags. It may be dizzying, but additionally, unbelievable. — Okay.P.

Starring: Crystal Lee, Griffin Puatu, Aleks Le, Michelle Yeoh, and Vincent Rodriguez III

watch: Ne Zha is now streaming on Peacock, Netflix, Prime Video, and HBO Max, and Ne Zha II is now streaming on HBO Max.

6. 100 Nights of Hero

Julia Jackman’s 100 Nights of Hero was probably the greatest movies we watched out of the BFI London Movie Competition this 12 months, and now it is coming to streaming. Based mostly on Isabel Greenberg’s graphic novel, this visually magnificent, queer, feminist fairy story is a triumph of manufacturing design with a hype-worthy look by Charli XCX. It follows Cherry (Longlegs‘ Maika Monroe), a noblewoman in a medieval patriarchy whose organized marriage to Jerome (Limbo‘s Amir El-Masry) is but to be consummated — and he or she’s on a literal deadline. Jerome leaves on enterprise, however not earlier than a wager with roguish lord Manfred (The Concept of You‘s Nicholas Galitzine) that his pal can’t seduce his spouse in his absence. Fortunately, Cherry has a fierce protector in her maid, Hero (Nosferatu‘s Emma Corrin).

“At its whimsical coronary heart, 100 Nights of Hero is a narrative of ladies’s braveness and resilience, of pursuing information and fervour past the perilously excessive fences of patriarchy,” I wrote in my assessment. “It is a dazzling world of suppressed queer id and need, of male bravado and paranoia, and of the ability of storytelling itself. Jackman has crafted us a topical deal with, finely wearing splendour and social commentary. It is nothing in need of heroic.” — S.C.

Starring: Emma Corrin, Maika Monroe, Amir El-Masry, Nicholas Galitzine, Charli XCX, Richard E. Grant, Felicity Jones, and Varada Sethu

watch: 100 Nights of Hero is offered to lease or buy on Prime Video beginning Dec. 23.

5. The Lifetime of Chuck

Catch probably the greatest — and most underrated — movies of the 12 months when Mike Flanagan’s The Lifetime of Chuck hits Hulu this week. Based mostly on the novella of the identical identify by Stephen King, the movie introduces viewers to Chuck Krantz (Tom Hiddleston), an accountant who’s received some severe dance strikes. To say extra in regards to the plot can be to spoil a lot of The Lifetime of Chuck’s influence, so attempt to go in as blind as potential. (However undoubtedly go in!)

From Physician Sleep to Gerald’s Recreation, Flanagan has confirmed repeatedly that he can adapt the hell out of a Stephen King novel. That is no completely different with The Lifetime of Chuck, which Mashable Leisure Editor Kristy Puchko referred to as “superb” in her assessment, writing, “It is unbelievable. It is a film that accommodates a lot that it simply should not work. It is easy to think about an iteration that fell too exhausting into the darkness, or depended too intensely on treacly sentimentality, or relied on its dashing star energy to gloss over some underwritten turns. However The Lifetime of Chuck is masterfully advised.” — B.E.

Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tom Hiddleston, Annalise Basso, Benjamin Pajak, Karen Gillan, Mia Sara, Matthew Lillard, Carl Lumbly, Samantha Sloyan, Harvey Guillén, Jacob Tremblay, Kate Siegel, and Mark Hamill

watch: The Lifetime of Chuck premieres Dec. 26 on Hulu.

4. Love Lies Bleeding

Rose Glass, the author/director who awed critics in 2020 along with her beautiful non secular horror movie Saint Maud, has blessed us with a follow-up that’s as scorchingly attractive as it’s deeply unsettling.

Set in opposition to a cruel desert city, Love Lies Bleeding stars Kristen Stewart as a surly loner who manages a rundown health club. Issues start to lookup when a wonderfully permed and righteously ripped bodybuilder (Katy O’Brian) rolls into her squalid realm. Their attraction is prompt, their loyalty is doubtlessly deadly. So once they run afoul of an area kingpin (Ed Harris, sporting a mangy skullet), this noir thriller veers into a spot of jaw-dropping violence and grievous vengeance, with a climax that’s as outrageous as it’s exhilarating. As I wrote in our assessment, “There are motion pictures that seize you by the throat. There are motion pictures that punch you within the intestine. Love Lies Bleeding is each, and I fucking like it.”* — Okay.P.

Starring: Kristen Stewart, Katy O’Brian, Jena Malone, Anna Baryshnikov, Dave Franco, and Ed Harris

watch: Love Lies Bleeding is now on MUBI.

3. Heated Rivalry, Season 1 finale

It looks like simply yesterday that Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams) and Ilya Rozanov (Connor Storrie) had been suggestively swapping a water bottle in Heated Rivalry‘s premiere episode. Now, the web fan-favorite collection wraps up its first season after a six-episode run filled with hockey, angst, and tons of no-holds-barred intercourse scenes. Take into account this your signal to get caught up on all issues Hollanov earlier than the finale blows up social media. — B.E.

Starring: Hudson Williams, Connor Storrie, François Arnaud, Christina Chang, Dylan Walsh, Ksenia Daniela Kharlamova, Sophie Nélisse, and Callan Potter

watch: Heated Rivalry is now streaming on HBO Max, with the finale airing Friday, Dec. 26.

2. Pluribus, Season 1 finale

One of many finest reveals of 2025, Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus has stored viewers hooked with its story of Carol Sturka (Rhea Seehorn), essentially the most depressing girl Earth, and the alien virus hive thoughts that is taken over the world. By the tip of Pluribus‘ penultimate episode, Carol had begun a romantic relationship with Zosia (Karolina Wydra), one of many Others. However the imminent arrival of fellow survivor Manousos (Carlos-Manuel Vesga) in Albuquerque might upend the delicate stability Carol has reached.

So what can followers count on from the finale? Will Carol’s assembly with Manousos renew her need to save lots of the world? Will we find out how the Others may be defeated? Tune in to seek out out — and possibly pour your self a tall glass of milk whilst you’re at it. — B.E.

Starring: Rhea Seehorn, Karolina Wydra, and Carlos-Manuel Vesga

watch: The Pluribus Season 1 finale is now streaming on Apple TV.

Better of Streaming this week: Stranger Issues, Season 5: Quantity 2

The Stranger Issues farewell tour continues with the discharge of Season 5, Quantity 2, which is able to hopefully reply a few of our most urgent questions from Quantity 1. What’s subsequent now that Will (Noah Schnapp) has powers? What does Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) have deliberate for the kidnapped kids of Hawkins? Will Max (Sadie Sink) and Holly (Nell Fisher) escape from Vecna’s mindscape? And the way will Eleven’s (Millie Bobby Brown) misplaced sister Kali (Linnea Berthelsen) determine into issues?

Season 5 received off to an overstuffed however undeniably thrilling begin, so stay up for extra jaw-dropping Upside Down motion because the Duffer Brothers hold upping the ante. Plus, extra episodes means extra time with Stranger Issues‘ beloved characters, who stay the present’s spotlight via and thru. As I wrote in my Quantity 1 assessment, Stranger Issues‘ “flashy battles and lore bombshells can get the blood pumping, however it’s the characters who’ve stored viewers coming again for a lot of, a few years. Figuring out we’ll be saying goodbye to them solely makes these episodes sweeter, exhaustion be damned.” — B.E.

Starring: Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Noah Schnapp, Sadie Sink, Joe Keery, and Maya Hawke

watch: Stranger Issues Season 5, Quantity 2 premieres Dec. 25 at 8 p.m. ET on Netflix. The collection finale premieres Dec. 31, additionally at 8 p.m. ET.

(*) denotes a blurb got here from a previous checklist.