With Christmas just around the corner, the best streaming services are giving away great new movies. But when you're short on choices, narrowing down what to watch can be a task in itself.

So here are the best new streaming movies to add to your watch list this weekend Netflix has two big new releases this week: the war drama “The Six Triple Eight” starring Tyler Perry and the Jason Schwartzman and the comedy-drama “Between the Temples,” starring Jason Schwartzman. Max has Clint Eastwood's courtroom drama “Juror No. 2,” and Disney Plus has the moving new documentary “Blink. Anora,” a front-runner in the awards race, will also make its streaming debut on Video on Demand.

Without further ado, here are the new streaming movies to watch this weekend. And if you're looking for more streaming recommendations, be sure to check out our roundup of the best new shows of the week.

Nathan Silver's comedy-drama “Between the Temples” follows Carol Kane and Jason Schwartzman as they form an unlikely bond between May and December amidst grief and new beginnings. Schwartzman plays Ben, a cantor who is grieving the sudden loss of his wife.

Ben moves in with his Jewish mother, and a chance encounter with his elementary school music teacher, Carla Kessler (Carol Kane), pushes him to dream of a bat mitzvah. He reluctantly takes her on as a student, and as they work together, a special connection begins to develop between the unlikely pair.

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“Juror No. 2” will be Clint Eastwood's last film, and it will end on a high note. Nicholas Hoult stars as Justin Kemp, a recovering alcoholic and soon-to-be father.

On trial is James Scythe (Gabriel Basso), a young man whose girlfriend (Francesca Eastwood) is found dead under a bridge after a drunken bar fight. This is the same bar where Justin broke his sobriety ban and hit an animal he thought was a deer with his car on his way home that night. As an ambitious prosecutor (Toni Collette) tries to make an example of Scythe in an important election year, Justin struggles to convince his fellow jurors that they have caught the wrong man without revealing his involvement.

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Tyler Perry's World War II drama was not on my bingo card for 2024, but here it is. Featuring an ensemble cast that includes Kerry Washington, Ebony Obsidian, Dean Norris, and Oprah Winfrey, “The Six Triple Eight” is the story of the only black female battalion to serve overseas during the war.

The women had the daunting task of tackling a three-year mail backlog that left 17 million pieces of mail in limbo. Faced with an unfamiliar country, discrimination, and brutal wartime conditions, the women brought hope to the front lines by delivering a desperate morale boost to troops at a critical turning point in the war effort.

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In this season of missing heartwarming stories, look no further than Disney Plus' “Blink.” This moving new documentary from Edmund Stenson, Academy Award winner Daniel Roher, and National Geographic follows a family desperate to see as much of the world's beauty as possible before it's too late.

After learning that three of their four children will eventually go blind from a rare and incurable eye disease, parents Edith Lemay and Sebastien Pelletier set out on a journey around the world in an attempt to create special visual memories for their children to cherish as their vision fades. Filled with breathtaking destinations and once-in-a-lifetime adventures, this is an inspiring story about family and resilience. Critics have also praised the documentary, which scored 87% on Rotten Tomatoes.

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Sean Baker's “Anora” is a film to watch this awards season. The romantic comedy-drama already won the Cannes Film Festival's top prize in May, making it the first American winner in 13 years. Mikey Madison stars as Ani, a 23-year-old stripper and sex worker in Brooklyn who falls in love with her client Ivan (Marc Eidelstein), the spoiled son of a wealthy Russian oligarch.

After a whirlwind romance and wedding, Ani's Cinderella story begins to fall apart when Ivan's parents expose their marriage, demand an annulment, and even send in hired muscle to blackmail them. Anora has an impressive 96% critical score on Rotten Tomatoes. Vanity Fair called the film “vastly entertaining and elaborately acted,” while Variety's chief film critic, Peter DeBruge, praised it as a “whirlwind sex romance” that “sparkles like the tinsel in the leading lady's hair.” [Tillman Singer wrote and directed “Cuckoo,” with Hunter Shafeh as Gretchen, a 17-year-old American She is not happy to be with her father's new family, but she has no other choice.

Struggling to adjust to her foreign surroundings and wary of how close her father's boss, Mr. Koenig (Dan Stevens), is with her outspoken half-sister, Gretchen begins to suffer from bloody hallucinations and strange noises. She teams up with a detective (Jan Broutaert) to get to the bottom of a dark family secret that looms over Gretchen's entire world.

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“Judas and the Black Messiah” swept the 2021 Academy Awards, earning five nominations, including Best Picture and two for Best Supporting Actor.

The film, with Kaluuya as Hampton and LaKeith Stanfield as Bill O'Neal (also nominated), tells the true story of the FBI's infiltration of the Illinois Black Panther Party, in which the FBI fired 100 bullets inside Hampton's apartment before another The story ends with Hampton's assassination during a raid that claimed the life of a party member and wounded several others. Even knowing how the story ends, the betrayal and brutality of the authorities remains stinging.

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