There are tons of highly anticipated movies coming out in 2023 so if you’re champing at the bit for brand new content, we understand completely. Fortunately, so do the major streaming services! Between early year releases and regular additions of classics, January is a great month for movies. To help you keep track of what’s just arrived on your favorite streamer, we update this list of the best new movies to stream on Netflix, Hulu, Prime, HBO, and other streaming services.
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- Hulu
- Amazon Prime Video
- Netflix
- HBO and HBO Max
- Apple TV+
- Disney+
We also have guides to the best movies on Netflix, the best movies on Hulu, the best movies on Amazon Prime Video, and the best movies on HBO.
New movies to stream at a glance
Hulu
One Way (2022)NEW
96m
GenreAction, Crime, Thriller
StarsMachine Gun Kelly, Storm Reid, Drea de Matteo
Directed byAndrew Baird
Machine Gun Kelly stars in this high-octane thriller. Freddy (Kelly) has just robbed his former crime boss and is on the run with a bag full of cash, a potentially fatal wound, and a one-way bus ticket to the California desert. Hoping to salvage an unfulfilling life led in service of a ruthless criminal, Freddy seeks redemption with his family while literally clinging to life.
The Drop (2022)
92m
GenreComedy
StarsAnna Konkle, Jermaine Fowler, Aparna Nancherla
Directed bySarah Adina Smith
Pen15‘s Anna Konkle and Jermaine Fowler star romantic comedy as happily married couple Lex and Mani. They’re running their dream artisanal bakery in Los Angeles and are looking forward to starting a family together. So when their tropical island vacation for a friend’s destination wedding coincides with Lex’s ovulation schedule, it seems like a perfect time to conceive a baby. Unfortunately, Lex drops her friend’s (Aparna Nancherla) baby in front of everybody as soon as they get to the wedding, turning the vacation into an awkward, passive-aggressive, extremely unsexy adventure into uncertainty.
True Things (2022)NEW
102m
GenreDrama
StarsRuth Wilson, Tom Burke, Hayley Squires
Directed byHarry Wootliff
Kate (Ruth Wilson) is a benefits claims worker living peacefully on the fringes of society in a sleepy seaside town. But when an ex-con (Tom Burke) flashes her a grin one day, she finds herself increasingly intoxicated with the stranger. Despite pressure from her friends and family to stabilize and maintain her peaceful existence, Kate dives headlong into an overwhelming, shocking romance.
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
164m
GenreScience Fiction, Drama
StarsRyan Gosling, Ana de Armas, Harrison Ford
Directed byDenis Villeneuve
Picking up thirty years after the classic Blade Runner, things are even worse for replicants. The bioengineered humans are now slaves, but one replicant, K, works as a blade runner for the LAPD, hunting and killing rogue replicants. However, when K successfully completes a particular assignment, he finds himself going deeper down a rabbit hole to unearth a long-buried secret that has enormous consequences for both he and the remaining bits of society. To piece it all together, he’ll have to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
Mack & Rita (2022)
95m
GenreComedy, Fantasy
StarsDiane Keaton, Taylour Paige, Elizabeth Lail
Directed byKatie Aselton
Mack Martin (Elizabeth Lail) is a 30-year-old self-proclaimed homebody. But when she reluctantly joins her best friend Carla’s (Taylour Paige) Palm Spring bachelorette trip, Mack magically transforms into her 70-year-old self: “Aunt Rita” (Diane Keaton). Suddenly freed from expectations and self-doubt, Rita becomes a social media sensation and sparks an unlikely romance with Mack’s dog-sitter, Jack (Dustin Milligan). Sometimes, you just have to grow up a little.
Amazon Prime Video
Vengeance (2022)NEW
108m
GenreThriller, Mystery, Comedy
StarsB. J. Novak, Boyd Holbrook, J. Smith-Cameron
Directed byB. J. Novak
B.J. Novak wrote, directed, and stars in this dark comedy about a journalist and podcaster from New York City who travels to West Texas to investigate the death of a girl he was hooking up with. Abby Shaw’s family, led by her brother Ty Shaw (Boyd Holbrook), seem to think that Ben’s relationship with Abby was much deeper than it was. At Ty’s request, Ben attends the funeral, only to realize he’s being pulled down the rabbit hole of an intriguing story.
Jurassic World Dominion (2022)
147m
GenreAdventure, Action, Science Fiction
StarsChris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Laura Dern
Directed byColin Trevorrow
Something to know about this list is that blockbusters sometimes get free admission, even if they’re pretty bad. It would be poor form to ignore the newest Jurassic Park movie coming to streaming services for the first time. Dominion isn’t great, but it’s big and pulpy and full of dinosaur action. Four years after the destruction of Isla Nublar, dinosaurs are now living alongside humans all over the world, with predictably violent consequences. Still, a fragile balance exists. But paranoid humans will do whatever they must to remain the apex predators before the dinosaurs figure out they can’t be stopped.
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
115m
GenreAdventure, Action
StarsHarrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman
Directed bySteven Spielberg
The quintessential adventure movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark introduced the world to Dr. Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford), the world’s coolest archaeologist. When the government hires the whip-wielding archaeologist to locate the mystical Ark of the Covenant, Indy finds himself falling down a rabbit hole that puts him right in the crosshairs of the entire Nazi regime.
Nanny (2022)
98m
GenreHorror, Drama
StarsAnna Diop, Michelle Monaghan, Sinqua Walls
Directed byNikyatu Jusu
Winner of the U.S. Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic) at Sundance, Amazon picked up this dramatic horror and has released it as an Amazon Original. Aisha (Anna Diop), a Senegalese immigrant, lands a job nannying for the daughter of an affluent New York City couple (Michelle Monaghan, Morgan Spector). Aisha left her young son back in Senegal and is hoping that the work will help her fund his trip to the U.S. However, Aisha is increasingly unsettled by the family’s volatile home life and begins to experience nightmares. As her son’s arrival nears, the nightmares and reality begin to blur together, threatening the little slice of the American dream she is trying to pry for her own family.
Something from Tiffany’s (2022)
87m
GenreComedy, Romance
StarsZoey Deutch, Kendrick Sampson, Ray Nicholson
Directed byDaryl Wein
A new Amazon Original for the holiday season, Something from Tiffany’s tells the story of what happens when a special box from Tiffany’s upends several lives in New York City. Rachel and Gary (Zoey Deutch and Ray Nicholson) are doing fine, but they’re not quite ready to commit to marriage. Ethan and Vanessa (Kendrick Sampson and Shay Mitchell), on the other hand, are in the perfect relationship and about to take the next step. But when a mix-up of gifts causes all of their paths to cross, it sets off a chain of events that makes them all discover their current situations might not be right after all.
Netflix
The Pale Blue Eye (2022)NEW
130m
GenreMystery, Thriller, Horror, Crime
StarsChristian Bale, Harry Melling, Lucy Boynton
Directed byScott Cooper
A hardboiled detective story featuring an American literary icon, The Pale Blue Eye follows Augustus Landor (Christian Bale), an exhausted detective hired to discreetly investigate the gruesome murder of a cadet at West Point in 1830. Stymied by the other cadets’ code of silence and struggling to find any leads, Landor enlists the help of a strange but brilliant cadet: Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling).
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
134m
GenreDrama, Romance
StarsHeath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams
Directed byAng Lee
Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain is a modern classic, set in the summer of 1963 across rural Wyoming and Texas. Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) are two ordinary cowboys, rugged, reserved, and tough. But when they meet on a shepherding job one summer, they quickly forge a strong, complicated connection that neither man is able to comprehend or handle. It’s even more challenging and guilt-inducing to hide their torrid affair from their wives.
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
99m
GenreCrime, Thriller