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Milly Alcock’s Supergirl, Disney's latest live-action remake, Moana, and Minions & Monsters might've all struggled at the box office in recent weeks, perhaps released too close to the dominant Toy Story 5. But this past weekend's biggest arrival certainly hasn't struggled. Christopher Nolan's latest epic, The Odyssey, hopes to follow in the footsteps of his 2023 biographical thriller Oppenheimer, which exceeded expectations at the box office by grossing nearly $1 billion worldwide. With an impressive start to theatrical life, there's nothing to suggest The Odyssey can't hit those impressive heights. With many having now watched the historical epic, what should they be watching now? Here's a list of three movies you should stream on Netflix this week.
Disclaimer: These titles are available on US Netflix.
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'Heartstopper Forever' (2026)
Rotten Tomatoes: 93% | IMDb: 7.4/10
The freshest movie on Netflix is also one of the most poignant, as its acclaimed teen series comes to an end in feature form. Alice Oseman's young-adult series Heartstopper has been unstoppable during its run on the streamer, breaking boundaries and melting hearts in the process.
Late last week, Heartstopper Forever delivered a two-hour final installment in the young love story between Nick (Kit Connor) and Charlie (Joe Locke), with the former on the cusp of university and the reality of adult life beginning to dawn. Other fan-favorite faces, including William Gao, Yasmin Finney, Corinna Brown, and more, also feature in this heartwarming, joyous option for your week.
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Collider Exclusive · Oscar Best Picture QuizWhich Oscar Best Picture Is Your Perfect Movie?Parasite · Everything Everywhere · Oppenheimer · Birdman · No Country
Five Oscar Best Picture winners. Five completely different visions of what cinema can be — and what it can do to you. One of them is the film that was made for the way your mind works. Ten questions will figure out which one.
🪜Parasite
🌀Everything Everywhere
☢️Oppenheimer
🐦Birdman
🪙No Country for Old Men
QUESTION 1 / 10TONE
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What kind of film experience do you actually want?The best movies don't just entertain — they leave something behind.
QUESTION 2 / 10THEME
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Which idea grabs you most in a film?Great films are driven by a central obsession. What's yours?
QUESTION 3 / 10STRUCTURE
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How do you like your story told?Form is content. The way a story is shaped changes what it means.
QUESTION 4 / 10VILLAIN
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What makes a truly great antagonist?The opposition defines the protagonist. What kind of opposition fascinates you?
QUESTION 5 / 10ENDING
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What do you want from a film's ending?The final note is the one that lingers. What do you want it to sound like?
QUESTION 6 / 10WORLD
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Which setting pulls you in most?Where a film takes place shapes everything — mood, stakes, what's even possible.
QUESTION 7 / 10CRAFT
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What cinematic craft impresses you most?Every great film has a signature — a technical or artistic element that makes it unmistakable.
QUESTION 8 / 10PROTAGONIST
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What kind of main character do you root for?The protagonist is the lens. Who you choose to follow says something about you.
QUESTION 9 / 10PACE
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How do you feel about a film that takes its time?Pace is a choice. Some films sprint; others let tension accumulate slowly, deliberately.
QUESTION 10 / 10AFTERMATH
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What do you want to feel walking out of the cinema?The best films leave a mark. What kind of mark do you want?
The Academy Has DecidedYour Perfect Film Is…
Your answers have pointed to one Oscar Best Picture winner above all others. This is the film that was made for the way your mind works.
BEST PICTURE 2020
Parasite
You are drawn to films that operate on multiple levels simultaneously — that begin in one genre and quietly, brilliantly migrate into another. Bong Joon-ho's Parasite is a film about class, desire, and the architecture of inequality that manages to be darkly funny, deeply suspenseful, and genuinely shocking across a single extraordinary running time. Your instinct is for cinema that hides its true intentions until the moment it's ready to reveal them. Parasite is exactly that — a film that rewards close attention and punishes assumptions, right up to its devastating final image.
BEST PICTURE 2023
Everything Everywhere All at Once
You want it all — and this film gives you all of it. The Daniels' Everything Everywhere All at Once is one of the most maximalist films ever made: action comedy, multiverse sci-fi, family drama, existential crisis, and a genuinely earned emotional core that sneaks up on you amid the chaos. You are someone who responds to ambition, who doesn't want cinema to choose between being entertaining and being meaningful. This film refuses that choice entirely. It is overwhelming by design, and its overwhelming nature is precisely the point — because the feeling of being crushed by infinite possibility is exactly what it's about.
BEST PICTURE 2024
Oppenheimer
You are drawn to cinema on a grand scale — films that understand history not as a backdrop but as a force, and that place their characters inside that force and watch what happens. Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer is a film about the terrifying gap between what we can do and what we should do, told with the full weight of one of the most consequential moments in human history behind it. You want your films to feel important without feeling self-important — to earn their ambition through sheer craft and the gravity of their subject. Oppenheimer does exactly that. It is enormous, complicated, and refuses easy comfort.
BEST PICTURE 2015
Birdman
You are drawn to films that foreground their own construction — that make the how of the filmmaking part of the what it's about. Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman, shot to appear as a single continuous take, is cinema examining itself through the cracked mirror of a fading actor's ego. You respond to formal daring, to the feeling that a film is doing something that probably shouldn't be possible. Michael Keaton's performance and Emmanuel Lubezki's restless camera create something genuinely unlike anything else — a film that is simultaneously about creativity, relevance, self-destruction, and the impossibility of ever truly knowing if your work means anything at all.
BEST PICTURE 2008
No Country for Old Men
You are drawn to cinema that trusts silence, that refuses to explain itself, and that treats dread as a form of meaning. The Coen Brothers' No Country for Old Men is a film about the arrival of a new kind of evil — implacable, arbitrary, and utterly indifferent to the moral frameworks we use to make sense of the world. It is one of the most formally controlled films ever made, and its controlled restraint is what makes it so terrifying. You want your films to haunt you, not comfort you. You are not interested in resolution if resolution would be dishonest. No Country for Old Men is honest in a way that most cinema never dares to be.
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'Bugonia' (2025)
Rotten Tomatoes: 87% | IMDb: 7.4/10
The remarkable Emma Stone and director Yorgos Lanthimos have paired up on several acclaimed projects, and in 2025, they made their most accessible yet. A remake of Jang Joon-hwan's 2003 South Korean comedy Save the Green Planet!, BugoniafollowsStone's high-powered CEO Michelle, whose life is changed after being kidnapped by Teddy (Jesse Plemons) and Don (Aidan Delbis), who suspect her of being from another planet.
A fascinating, thought-provoking tale that is as absurd as it is grounded, Bugonia is one of the most underrated movies of the past year. Each of Stone, Plemons, and Delbis is electric throughout, with Stone earning yet another Academy Award nomination in the process. From its pulse-racing opening to a mind-blowing finale, Bugonia will keep you on the edge of your seat.
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'American Graffiti' (1973)
Rotten Tomatoes: 95% | IMDb: 7.4/10
Just four years before George Lucas changed sci-fi forever with the first of the Star Wars franchise, he nailed the coming-of-age genre with one of its finest earlier examples. American Graffiti, set against the gorgeous backdrop of California's central valley in the '60s, follows a group of teenagers on the edge of adulthood as they spend one final chaotic night together.
The cast for American Graffiti is stacked, including the likes of Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Harrison Ford, and more. Add to this a brilliant screenplay, some gorgeous cinematography, and the inclusion of Francis Ford Coppola as executive producer, and a recipe for genius is born. This is a movie everyone should watch once.