Looking for something to watch over the weekend on Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO, or Hulu? Check out our list of the best new shows and movies on various streaming services, including the beautiful Polish romance Cold War, a documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, and much more.
Streaming entertainment is bigger than ever, and with so many streaming services adding new shows and movies every week, it can be nearly impossible to sort through the good and the bad. If you need something to watch and don’t want to wade through the digital muck that washes up on the internet’s shores, follow our picks below for the best new shows and movies to stream on Netflix, Hulu, HBO, Amazon, and other services.
On the list this week: A beautiful Polish romance, a documentary about a notorious Silicon Valley fraud, and more
Roma was not the only stunning black-and-white foreign film of 2018. Paweł Pawlikowski’s romantic drama Cold War is a similarly gorgeous work, one that shows the director’s elegant craftsmanship and storytelling. Beginning in Poland after World War II, Cold War opens on a rural village, where Wiktor (Tomasz Kot) and Irena (Agata Kulesza) are recording the music of the provinces. Working for the communist government, they are building a program to gather the rough musical talents of the Polish countryside and train them to perform for the nation’s glory. An enigmatic young woman named Zula (Joanna Kulig) catches Wiktor’s eye — she has a golden-tongue and an aura of danger — and the two begin an affair that will persist over the coming years, as the two split apart and come together time after time across Europe.
