Looking for the best movie to watch this weekend on Netflix, Max, Prime, or Hulu? Here are the best movies new to streaming platforms in July 2024.
July is finally here, and the release calendar for summer movies is really heating up! We’ve got Longlegs, Twisters, and Deadpool & Wolverine to look forward to, not to mention all the exciting recent releases coming to streaming and VOD this month, like Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, The Bikeriders, Thelma, and more! If you’re looking for some great flicks to watch from the comfort of your own home in between this month’s biggest releases, though, we’ve got you. We’ve pulled together the best movies new to Netflix, Hulu, Max, and more this July for you to stream.
This month, we’ve got a stone-cold Steven Soderbergh classic starring George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez, the new animated fantasy from Studio Ghibli successor Studio Ponoc, a sci-fi manga adaptation about a doe-eyed cyborg from Robert Rodriguez, and a whole lot more.
Here are the movies new to streaming services you should watch this month.Editor’s pick: Out of Sight
Where to watch: Criterion Channel
Genre: Crime comedy
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Jennifer Lopez has attempted a bit of a movie star comeback over the past few years. After her critically acclaimed turn as resident den mother Ramona Vega in Hustlers, Lopez has starred in bad rom-coms (Marry Me, Shotgun Wedding), bad action movies (The Mother, Atlas), and bad bizarre vanity projects (This Is Me. Now: A Love Story). We have to go back to when Lopez was a legitimate movie star. We have to go back to Out of Sight.
Undoubtedly the sexiest movie in Steven Soderbergh’s oeuvre, Out of Sight adapts an excellent Elmore Leonard novel (as if there is any other kind) about Jack Foley, a career bank robber (George Clooney), and U.S. Marshal Karen Sisco (Lopez). After Foley breaks out of jail, the two share a moment and an instant connection, and the rest of the movie follows their cat-and-mouse game as she chases him for work and they chase each other for pleasure.
Clooney and Lopez’s chemistry is absolutely scintillating, and it’s a master class in putting two extremely attractive, charismatic people on screen and letting them do their thing. Out of Sight also has great supporting players for them, too — Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, Steve Zahn, Luis Guzmán, Nancy Allen, Viola Davis, and even cameos from Michael Keaton and Samuel L. Jackson. This was the first of many collaborations between Clooney and Soderbergh, and a high point in Lopez’s film career that has yet to be matched. —Pete VolkNew on NetflixThe Imaginary
Genre: Fantasy
Director: Yoshiyuki Momose
Cast: Kokoro Terada, Rio Suzuki, Sakura Ando
Studio Ponoc, the Japanese anime production company formed by Studio Ghibli veteran Yoshiaki Nishimura (producer of When Marnie Was There and The Tale of the Princess Kaguya), returns to full-length feature filmmaking for the first time since 2017 with the fantasy adventure The Imaginary.
