The newly rebranded HBO Max is delivering the products in June. One in all its finest Could titles, Mountainhead, is in style on the streamer, and the return of And Simply Like That is already lighting up social media. (Rosie O’ Donnell as a virgin lesbian nun who sings songs from Depraved? Now that’s must-see TV!)
Along with these high-profile premieres, the streamer has a powerful library of underrated films which might be ready to be found.
Watch With Us has chosen three films which might be underappreciated and worthy of your time and a spotlight this weekend. The beneath checklist features a romantic drama (not a rom-com!), an unique thriller set in Hawaii and a creepy horror film starring a two-time Oscar winner.
‘The Sunlit Night time’ (2019)
Frances’ (Jenny Slate) life is a multitude. She broke up along with her boyfriend, her mother and father are getting divorced and she or he simply misplaced a job as a resident artist in Tokyo. Determined, she accepts a last-minute job serving to a Norwegian painter in Oslo. However Frances quickly finds herself overwhelmed by her new occupation and being a foreigner in a land the place the solar is out virtually on a regular basis. Her solely salvation lies in her artwork and Yasha (Alex Sharpe), a younger Russian who’s grieving his father’s current demise. Will Frances and Yasha’s unlikely romance be sufficient to drag them out of the doldrums?
Followers of Eat, Pray, Love and Regular Individuals will like The Sunlit Night time, which offers with comparable themes and has a protagonist who’s looking for her place on this planet. The film’s uncommon location makes it stand out from different rom-coms (what number of are set within the coronary heart of Scandinavia?), and Slate kills it as Frances, who isn’t as likable and predictable as your common Sandra Bullock heroine. The Sunlit Night time barely received a launch, however it deserves to be rediscovered now that it’s on HBO Max this month.
The Sunlit Night is streaming on HBO Max.
‘A Excellent Getaway’ (2009)
Cliff and Cydney (Steve Zahn and Milla Jovovich) simply received married, and to date their honeymoon in Hawaii has been a dream. However their idyll is shattered after two our bodies are found close by, with the prime suspects being an unidentified female and male couple.
Quickly, Cliff and Cydney meet two different {couples}: Nick (Timothy Olyphant) and Gina (Kiele Sanchez), and Kale (Chris Hemsworth) and Cleo (Marley Shelton). Is without doubt one of the pair the killers everyone seems to be in search of? And in that case, how can Cliff and Cydney notify the authorities in time earlier than they grow to be the subsequent victims?
A Excellent Getaway is a deceptively good thriller that retains delivering one shock after one other. The author-director, David Twohy, is aware of his means round a twist-filled narrative (he was the architect behind Pitch Black and Beneath), and he works comparable magic on this film. Every position is completely solid, with Zahn standing out as an everyman whose trip turns right into a bloody battle for survival.
A Perfect Getaway is streaming on HBO Max.
‘Backtrack’ (2016)
Earlier than Adrien Brody gained his second Oscar for The Brutalist in 2025, he began in numerous, properly, crap. And whereas Backtrack isn’t practically as nice as that Brady Corbet-directed drama, it’s efficient sufficient so that you can give it a glance this weekend.
Brody performs Dr. Peter Bower, a psychotherapist nonetheless grieving the current demise of his younger daughter, Evie. At some point at his workplace, he’s visited by a mute feminine baby named Elizabeth Valentine (Chloe Bayliss), who leaves her initials on a bit of paper earlier than leaving. Peter quickly discovers the woman died in 1987 and that her initials, E.V., sound like Evie’s title. Why is Peter being haunted by Elizabeth? And why is it linked to the practice tracks that relaxation simply exterior Peter’s workplace?
Backtrack is a mean ghost thriller that’s higher at evoking a sinister temper than telling a logical storyline. The film’s frequent flights of fancy are forgiven, although, by Brody, who invests as a lot emotion right here as he does in his Oscar-winning films. The actor makes you’re feeling Peter’s ache and confusion as he struggles to cope with a supernatural downside his scientific thoughts can’t absolutely comprehend.