3 Near-Perfect Prime Video Movies to Watch This Weekend
May begins with a bang at the box office, as several exciting new movies arrive. Among them, the most anticipated are a treat for horror fans with the Adam Scott-led Hokum and a fashionably late sequel to The Devil Wears Prada, with Meryl Streep,Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci all returning. Both these movies join an already stacked theatrical lineup that includes the video game adaptation sequel The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, Ryan Gosling‘s Project Hail Mary, and Antoine Fuqua’s musical biopic, Michael, for a weekend well spent in front of the big screen. However, if you can’t get down to the theater, don’t feel like you’re missing out, as there is plenty to watch from your own home. With that in mind, here’s a look at three Prime Video movies you should watch this weekend.
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‘Ford v Ferrari’ (2019)
Rotten Tomatoes: 92% | IMDb: 8.1/10
For those who enjoyed last year’s record-breaking blockbuster F1, starring Brad Pitt, then this movie featuring his Ocean‘s castmate is the perfect weekend watch for you. The sports drama Ford v Ferrari follows the very real racing rivalry between the Ford and Ferrari companies, as tradition goes head-to-head with revolution ahead of the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966.
Get ready for pulse-racing thrills and detailed historical drama in this excellent 2019 thrill-ride. Starring Matt Damon and Christian Bale, and directed by the brilliant James Mangold, Ford v Ferrari is one of the better sports biopics in recent memory, and earned the praise of not just audiences but critics, too. At the Academy Awards, the film was nominated in four categories, winning for Film Editing and Sound Editing.
Collider Exclusive · Oscar Best Picture Quiz Which 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
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What kind of film experience do you actually want? The best movies don’t just entertain — they leave something behind.
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Which idea grabs you most in a film? Great films are driven by a central obsession. What’s yours?
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How do you like your story told? Form is content. The way a story is shaped changes what it means.
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 Decided Your 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Of the many recent A24 movies, this one flew under most people’s radar. From writer and director Owen Kline, this Safdie brothers-produced dark comedy follows a teenage cartoonist, Robert Bleichner (David Zolghadri), who looks to find his own path in life following the tragic death of his mentor. In a misguided move for all the right reasons, Robert leaves his comfortable suburban life and moves into a basement apartment in New Jersey.
Called “one of the most distinct and often disturbing directorial debuts of the year” in Ross Bonaime‘s review for Collider, this introduction to the mind of Kline on a feature-length stage might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but it is simply so quirky and effortless that you won’t be able to keep your eyes from it. Don’t miss out on this gem on Prime Video this weekend.
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‘Migration’ (2023)
Rotten Tomatoes: 73% | IMDb: 6.6/10
If you’re looking for something to entertain the whole family this weekend, then the animated feature Migration is a perfect choice. Directed by the Oscar-nominated Benjamin Renner and brought to life by Minions creators Illumination, the movie follows a funny, feathered family of ducks as they head on the adventure of a lifetime.
Hilarious, heartwarming, and underrated all in equal measure, Migration deserves much more attention than it currently gets. One of the better original animated stories in recent years, the film attracted an impressive cast of famous voices to join its ensemble, including Kumail Nanjiani, Elizabeth Banks, Awkwafina, Danny DeVito, and Keegan–Michael Key. Take a flight you’ll never forget this weekend and watch Migration.
