Best Films to Stream This Week in the UK

With cinemas on the cusp of reopening, we highlight the best new streaming releases, including a fascinating doc about retirement

While cinemas in the UK remain closed, we'll have to wait a bit longer for the proper big screen experience. Fear not: we’ve rounded up the best of the latest streaming releases to keep you entertained until the capital's dream palaces return. Whatever you're in the mood for, from bold dramas to timely documentaries, WeLoveCinema has you well and truly covered…

 

New Releases

Some Kind of Heaven

Where to watch it: Various digital platforms

Lance Oppenheimer helms this fascinating documentary about the world’s largest retirement community, a hedonist paradise concealing a dark underbelly (read our full review).

 

The Woman in the Window

Where to watch it: Netflix

Joe Wright’s long delayed thriller, starring Amy Adams as a woman confined to her apartment who witnesses a murder, finally arrives on Netflix.

 

Oxygen

Where to watch it: Netflix

Mélanie Laurent gives a dazzling solo performance in Alexandre Aja’s “one room” thriller about a woman who wakes up inside a futuristic chamber with no memory (read our full review).

 

Servants

Where to watch it: Various digital platforms

This starkly drawn moral tale tells the story of two students at a Catholic seminary who must decide whether to collaborate in totalitarian Czechoslovakia.

 

Objector

Where to watch it: True Story

Molly Stuart’s documentary paints a captivating portrait of a young woman who’s imprisoned for refusing to do military service in her homeland of Israel (read our full review).

 

Born in Flames

Where to watch it: MUBI

Lizzie Borden’s 1983 cult classic, now restored and re-released thanks to MUBI, is a blazing work of feministic futurism, set in a dystopian vision of NYC

Still Streaming…

Apples

Where to watch it: Curzon Home Cinema

Christos Nikou, former protege of the great Yorgos Lanthimos, makes his feature debut with a sweetly strange story of an amnesia outbreak in Athens (read our full review).

 

Identifying Features

Where to watch it: Various digital platforms

A mother sets out to find her lost son against the hellish backdrop of the Mexican borderlands in this powerful migrant drama from first-time filmmaker Fernanda Valadez (read our full review).

 

The Bike Thief

Where to watch it: Various digital platforms

This modern riff on Italian classic Bicycle Thieves transposes the original setting to Brexit era London in order to craft a timely tale of the modern gig economy (read our full review).

 

Atlantis

Where to watch it: MUBI

Valentyn Vasyanovyc’s latest film follows a former soldier as he navigates a dystopian vision of Ukraine following a devastating war with Russia (read our full review).

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Reviews

The Innocent review – 60s-inspired heist movie with an existential twist

In his fourth feature film, writer-director Louis Garrel explores with wit and tenderness the risk and worth of second chances

Baato review – Nepal’s past and future collide in an immersive, fraught documentary

A mountain trek intertwines with a road-building project, granting incisive, if underpowered, insight into a much underseen world

The Beanie Bubble review – a grim new low for the “corporate biopic” genre

With none of the saving graces of Tetris, Air, or Barbie, this ambition-free look at the Beanie Baby craze is pure mediocrity

Everybody Loves Jeanne review – thoroughly modern fable of grief, romantic confusion, and climate anxiety

Celine Deveaux's French-Portuguese debut can be too quirky for its own good, but a fantastically written lead character keeps it afloat