After two weekends in second place at the box office, A24’s You Can See Everything, co-directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, finally took the crown last weekend. But can it stay at the summit? Alessandro Carloni and Erica Rivinoja‘s new Cat in the Hat movie, writer/director Takashi Yamazaki‘s Godzilla Minus Zero, Fathom Entertainment’s Jimmy, and the John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell-led Oscar contender Wild Horse Nine will all make their box office debuts and fight You Can See Everything for the top spot this weekend. But what about the small screen? What is fighting for your streaming attention these next couple of days? Here’s a look at three movies you should watch this weekend on Netflix.
Disclaimer: These titles are available on US Netflix.
1
‘Carolina Caroline’ (2026)
Rotten Tomatoes: 90% | IMDb: 6.6/10
From the Ready or Not sequel to the action comedy Over Your Dead Body, Samara Weaving has had a busy 2026. Earlier this week, Weaving’s other recent gem was added to Netflix and should be right at the top of your watchlist. Carolina Caroline, which also stars Kyle Gallner and Kyra Sedgwick, follows a young woman as she embarks on a passionate journey with a con man on the run.
“Anyone who loves a good crime movie that doesn’t take itself too seriously will need to get their butts into the theater for this one,” wrote Therese Lacson in Collider’s review of the movie. You might not be able to catch it on the big screen, but you don’t want to let this adrenaline-fueled blend of drama and romance pass you by on Netflix. Carolina Caroline is directed by Adam Carter Rehmeier and written by William Thomas Dean IV.
Four love stories, four completely different ideas of what it means to
be somebody’s person. This is the one that matches how you actually fall, and what it would ask of
you.
You do not fall for strangers. You fall for the person you have
already been talking to for years, which is the slowest and by some distance the most
durable way anybody has found to do this.
- When Harry Met Sally made the case that the best romance is an argument you enjoy,
conducted over a decade, by two people refusing to admit what is happening. - You want to be known rather than swept away. Somebody who remembers your worst story is
doing better work than anybody arriving with flowers. - The film is unusually honest about timing. These two are wrong for each other repeatedly
until suddenly they are not, and neither of them engineered it. - You would still be talking about everything at eighty. That is the entire promise.
You want a partner, not an audience. Somebody who wants their own
life as badly as you want yours, and who would never ask you to be smaller to make the
relationship easier.
- This is the rare romance where both people have a real career and the film takes both of
them equally seriously. - You would rather be pushed than protected. The right person for you is also a bit of a
rival, and that never entirely goes away. - It understands the actual problem in ambitious relationships. Not whether you love each
other, but whose turn it is this year. - You would still be competing at forty. That is how you would know it was working.
The intensity was never the problem. The secrecy is. You are
drawn to a love that lives entirely in private, and to the particular ache of wanting
somebody you are not supposed to want.
- Heated Rivalry runs on the oldest engine in romance: two people on opposite sides,
meeting in secret, getting far more attached than either of them planned. - You keep your private life genuinely private, and something in you finds hidden things
more real than public ones. - The tension is not only between the two of them. It is between what they have and what
it would cost either one to say it out loud. - Years of this, and the whole story is really about whether either of them will finally
stop hiding.
You do not do this cautiously. When it happens for you it is
immediate and total and it rearranges everything, and you would not accept a smaller version
of it.
- Titanic gave us the biggest romance in film history and then made it last about five
days, which is precisely the point of it. - You measure love by intensity rather than duration. A few days of the real thing beats
decades of something merely comfortable. - The film is not only about the romance. It is about a woman who went on to live an
enormous life afterwards because of it. - You would still be telling this story at a hundred years old, and telling it exactly the
same way.
2
‘Whiplash’ (2014)
Rotten Tomatoes: 94% | IMDb: 8.5/10
One of the best additions to the Netflix catalog this month is Whiplash, Damian Chazelle‘s (La La Land) genius musical thriller starring Miles Teller as promising young musician Andrew. After enrolling at a cut-throat music conservatory, his chance at greatness will come via the near-impossible standards of Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons), an instructor who employs particularly terrifying teaching methods.
One of the best movies of the 2010s, this stylish, enthralling thriller will have you on the edge of your seat for every beat. Whiplash won three Academy Awards back in 2015, including a Best Supporting Actor nomination for Simmons, who delivers one of cinema’s most chilling villainous performances. Paul Reiser, Melissa Benoist, Austin Stowell, and more also feature in Chazelle’s magnum opus.
3
‘Stand by Me’ (1986)
Rotten Tomatoes: 92% | IMDb: 8.1/10
Why don’t you use this weekend to finally watch a movie everyone should see at least once in their lives? Directed by the late, great Rob Reiner and based on a novella by Stephen King, Stand by Me follows four boys (Gordie, Chris, Teddy, and Vern) as they go on a journey across the Oregon railroad tracks to find a dead body, with their lives, friendships, and perspectives changing forever along the way.
“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12,” says the adult narrator (Richard Dreyfuss) in Stand by Me, perfectly encapsulating the powerful coming-of-age themes at the heart of this true masterpiece. 40 years later, those themes are just as relevant, with Stand by Me bursting with a sense of emotionally moving nostalgia that will leave you smiling through your tears.
Stand by Me
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