Streaming ain’t easy. Sure, if you’re a cinephile, practically every movie you could ever want to watch is at your fingertips. But therein lies the problem: knowing what’s out there, and where to find it, can become overwhelming. Here, we’re doing the hard work for you, by cutting through the clutter and getting straight to the best new movies available to watch right now and in the near future. Here are the five must-watch movies hitting streaming services this week.

The Friend (Paramount+)

Naomi Watts is a writer in New York whose best friend and mentor, played by Bill Murray, dies suddenly and leaves her with a 180-pound metaphor for grief: his massive Great Dane, Apollo. Mawkish? At points, sure. But the film mostly succeeds due to Watts, the lovely New York location photography and

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