The best Apple TV movies that you can stream right now
The list of the best Apple TV movies is a collection that is constantly expanding. Now, we accept that Apple TV Plus might not automatically be the first platform you head for when it’s movie night, indeed, Apple’s commitment to entirely original content means that its film catalog is still more of a film pamphlet. After all, we actually had to wait until November 2021, two years after the streaming service’s all guns blazing launch, for its tally of feature-length pictures to get into double figures. Yet you could argue that this is a clear case of quality not quantity. After all, Apple TV Plus is the only streaming service which has managed to bag a Best Picture win at the Academy Awards. It’s also attracted some highly impressive talent both in front of and behind the screen. See Hollywood’s ultimate nice guy Tom Hanks (not just once, either), a Spandex-free Tom Holland and the first solo endeavour from a Coen brother for just three examples. And even though it can’t compete with the breadth and depth of Hulu, HBO Max and Netflix’s exhaustive collections, there’s still enough to satisfy most types of movie fans, with everything from animated fantasies and musical theatre recordings to Shakespearean tragedies and coming-of-age dramas available at the click of a remote. So, if you haven’t yet delved into the slim but solid world of Apple TV Plus’s cinematic output, here are the best Apple TV movies right now on the service. Where better to start than with the movie that pipped Netflix’s highly-fancied The Power of The Dog to the Best Picture Oscar earlier this year? Overshadowed on the big night by that big slap, CODA stars Emilia Jones as the only hearing member of her eccentric fishermen family. But after discovering a previously untapped singing talent, the teen and those who’ve relied upon her voice are forced to reassess their futures. Yes, CODA does have a glorified Disney Channel movie vibe with its feel-good musical narrative. But it’s a charming watch whose consistent use of sign language, alongside a beautiful scene which shuts off all sound, gives a rare authentic glimpse into deaf life. Intimate and post-apocalyptic would appear to be mutually exclusive terms, but they’re both fitting for this interesting spin on the one-man-and-his-dog tale. The ever-dependable Tom Hanks appears in every scene as the sickly sole survivor of a radioactive solar flare that’s entirely wiped out the rest of civilization. But it’s the robot, a lovable gangly creation akin to Johnny 5, he builds as a substitute dogsitter that very nearly steals the show.
