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This list of the best new to Prime Video movies will help you plan out your weekend's viewing. On this page we've picked out three essential films to thrill you, chill you, and make you think.
We're kicking off with the latest instalment of the Mission: Impossible franchise – a terrific action movie that never lets up. We're following that up with a classic slice of David Fincher paranoia that stands as one of the director's best films. Finally for this week we've selected a brilliant and biting recent satire that comes highly recommended.
The 3 best Prime Video movies to watch this weekend
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Available: US
The eighth and most recent instalment in the spy series has just hit Prime Video. A direct sequel to the previous film, The Final Reckoning sees Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) tackling a lethal artificial intelligence known as the Entity, which has seized control of the world's nuclear arsenal. Can Ethan, Benji (Simon Pegg), and the rest of the IMF team find a way to stop the Entity before it brings about armageddon?
By this point, the Mission: Impossible franchise has long since given up on any pretence to realism. This instalment – potentially the last, though rumors abound that a ninth film may yet happen – is bigger, brasher, and a touch sillier than its predecessor. Still, there's a lot of explosive fun to be had in seeing what death-defying situations Cruise can force himself into this time.
Watch Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning.
American Fiction
Available: US/UK
This smart 2023 satire stars the always brilliant Jeffrey Wright. Based on Percival Everett's 2001 novel Erasure, it follows Thelonious "Monk" Ellison (Wright), a frustrated writer whose work is critically praised, but under-read. His publishers reject his latest work for supposedly not being "Black" enough. Meanwhile, another writer, Sintara Golden (Issa Rae) has penned a popular book that he believes panders to stereotypes. Monk decides to write a fake memoir that mocks these stereotypes – and so things begin to spiral rapidly out of control.
Written and directed by Cord Jefferson, American Fiction is sharp, insightful, and often very funny. The film was nominated for heaps of awards and rightly so – it's easily one of the best films from 2023 and a remarkable directorial debut.
Watch American Fiction.
The Game
Available: US
This lesser-seen David Fincher thriller is also one of the director's very best. The Game follows investment banker Nick Van Orton (Michael Douglas) who is about to turn 48. On his birthday his estranged brother Conrad (Sean Penn) pays him a visit and gifts him a voucher entitling him to apply to enter a mysterious game. He does so and is seemingly rejected. As a series of increasingly bizarre events start to follow him, however, Nick realizes that "the game" is very much afoot, and he needs to figure out the rules.
Released between the nightmarish Seven and the apocalyptic satire of Fight Club, this is prime era Fincher. It's a hallucinatory film with a delirious atmosphere that will keep you guessing.
Watch The Game.
Recommendations for what to watch on Prime Video this weekend have come via Will Salmon, GamesRadar's Streaming Editor. Will has been writing about film and TV for the last 20 years in the pages of SFX magazine and online here and loves mystery, sci-fi, and horror series in particular. If you still need a hand with what to watch this weekend, here's a little quiz to help:
