Unexpected love, teen angst and murderous hippies — it’s just another weekend if you’re watching some of Prime Video’s best new movies.
Watch With Us has lined up a solid triple-header of high-quality films that should keep you occupied throughout the weekend.
The just-released rom-com The Love Hypothesis with Lili Reinhart and Tom Bateman won’t win any Oscars, but it will win you over with its goofy charm.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood actually did win some Oscars — two, to be exact — and it’s one of Quentin Tarantino’s best movies.
If you’re eager to relive those awkward teenage years, join lead star Hailee Steinfeld as she tries to survive being on The Edge of Seventeen.
‘The Love Hypothesis’ (2026)
To prove to her friend she’s over a recent crush, Stanford grad student Olive (Lili Reinhart) does what anyone would do in her situation — strike up a fake relationship with a professor, Adam (Tom Bateman). Olive has her reasons, but why would Adam, a scholar so intimidating that his students call him “Dr. Evil” behind his back, agree to such an arrangement? Well, he needs funding for his new project, which means he needs to convince his bosses he’s not the unlovable professor many Stanford students loathe. But when their fake love connection starts to become real, will Olive and Adam find out that their love hypothesis turns out to be true?
Based on a bestselling book, The Love Hypothesis has a premise that is about as realistic as a Stanford professor having a chiseled body. There’s no way either can happen in real life (sorry, Stanford profs!), but part of the rom-com genre’s appeal is to fulfill a fantasy, and The Love Hypothesis does that with enough heart and humor to win you over. Bateman and Reinhart are good as a mismatched duo who find themselves falling for each other. Their attempts to sell their unlikely romance to their friends and colleagues are the film’s comedic highlights, and their easy chemistry together makes you buy the idea that their characters could actually love each other.
The Love Hypothesis is streaming on Prime Video.
‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ (2019)
In 1969, anything goes in Hollywood, and that includes once-thriving careers like Rick Dalton’s (Leonardo DiCaprio). He used to be a big-shot Western TV star, but now he’s reduced to guest-starring as villains-of-the-week on B-grade series and spending too much time with his longtime friend and stunt double, Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt). When a new neighbor moves into his Benedict Canyon home next door, Rick’s life doesn’t seem to change all that much. But as he gets to know up-and-coming actress Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie), he realizes just how special she is, and how women like her could be easy targets for social outcasts like Charles Manson (Damon Harriman).
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is a valentine, albeit a blood-soaked one, to a time and place when the studio system was run by maverick filmmakers and flower power and the free love movement dominated the zeitgeist. The Manson Family helped change all that, but what makes Once Upon a Time in Hollywood so mesmerizing to watch is director Quentin Tarantino’s note-perfect recreation of that brief period when optimism about everything — art, freedom, ending the war in Vietnam — seemed to prevail. Pitt won an Oscar for his work as the charismatic and slightly deranged Booth, who returns in a quasi-sequel later in the year called The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is streaming on Prime Video.
‘The Edge of Seventeen’ (2017)
Nadine Franklin (Hailee Steinfeld) has a serious case of being a teenager, and there’s no real cure until she grows up. That’s hard to do when no one understands her, and she’s on the outs with her best friend, Krista (Haley Lu Richardson), for sleeping with her older brother, Darien (Blake Jenner). The only person she can confide in is Mr. Bruner, a teacher who wants to help but can only do so much. While he shares some valuable advice, Nadine isn’t ready to listen, and she finds out the hard way that some of her problems might be the result of her own stubbornness.
The Edge of Seventeen is a low-stakes drama about the life of a teenage girl who can’t get out of her own way to find happiness. She wants the people around her to act the way she wants them to, and her unwillingness to accept that causes most of her problems. That’s not exactly a revolutionary discovery, but the director, Kelly Fremon Craig, reminds her viewers that every teenager thinks and acts a little like Nadine. The film is wise without being preachy or didactic, and it’s emotional without being saccharine. How many modern teen-centric movies can claim to be that? Not a lot, which makes The Edge of Seventeen all the more special to watch and cherish.
The Edge of Seventeen is streaming on Prime Video.
