Jeremy Renner as Cole Lambert, looking in a room in a house and looking devastated in Wind RiverImage via STX Entertainment
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In over three years at Collider, senior author Jake has now penned over 2500 articles covering a wide range of TV and film for the resources, lists, utilities, news, and interview teams. Alongside interviewing stars such as Selin Hizli, Rose Ayling-Ellis, and Chelsea Peretti, Jake was lucky enough to visit the set of Aardman and Netflix's Wallace and Gromit: A Vengeance Most Fowl in 2024, getting the chance to chat with four-time Academy Award winner Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham. Jake has also worked for other publications, including Agents of Fandom.
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This past weekend, an underwhelming run of weekends at the box office was changed for the better, as Wicked: For Good defied both gravity and expectations by hitting an enormous $226 million worldwide. With seemingly everyone taking time to leave their homes and head to the theater to discover the second half of Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) and Glinda's (Ariana Grande) journey, and with the Ozdust settling on the most impressive box office weekend of 2025, it's now time to come back to streaming reality and discover what's on offer on the world's biggest streamer. So, without further ado, here's a list of three movies you should watch on Netflix this week.
For more recommendations, check out our list of the best shows and movies on Netflix.
Disclaimer: These titles are available on US Netflix.
3 'The Sandlot' (1993)
Rotten Tomatoes: 66% | IMDb: 7.8/10
Why not treat your Thanksgiving week with a heartwarming family classic that everyone can enjoy? David Mickey Evans's The Sandlot follows Scotty Smalls (Thomas Guiry), the new boy in town, as he befriends the local kids playing baseball in the titular Sandlot. Getting up to all sorts of mischief, the boys accidentally take it too far when Scotty borrows his step-father Bill's (Denis Leary) priceless ball, only to lose it in dangerous territory, sparking a quest to get it back.
Alongside the likes of Major League, A League of Their Own, and Rookie of the Year, The Sandlot is one of the best coming-of-age baseball movies from the subgenre's golden era. Featuring many memorable performances and countless quoteable lines, there isn't a moment in this film that isn't either heartfelt or hilarious. In a retrospective review, Collider's Chase Hutchinson perfectly summarized the film as "timeless."
2 'Christmas with the Kranks' (2004)
Rotten Tomatoes: 5% | IMDb: 5.5/10
As Christmas fast approaches, it's high time you started your festive viewing. However, this underrated Christmas comedy from the noughties is about to leave Netflix, so you'll want to hurry. The film follows suburban parents Luther and Nora Krank (played by Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis), who decide one festive season that they want to skip Christmas entirely. Of course, this decision leads to some hilarious and chaotic consequences.
A criminally underrated dose of festive fun, Christmas with the Kranks might be the owner of a 5% critics' score on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, but 20 years on, it now feels right at home among the wave of Hallmark-adjacent Christmas films proving extremely popular. An adaptation of John Grisham’s novel Skipping Christmas, this laugh-a-minute slapstick comedy will keep the whole family entertained.
1 'Wind River' (2017)
Rotten Tomatoes: 87% | IMDb: 7.7/10
Who doesn't love a Taylor Sheridan project to keep them entertained? Wind River follows Sheridan's Mayor of Kingstown star Jeremy Renner as seasoned game tracker, Cory Lambert, who makes a gruesome discovery, leading to his involvement in the investigation to solve a murder and partnership with the inexperienced FBI Agent Jane Banner (Elizabeth Olsen).
One of Sheridan's most underrated projects, at a time when the acclaimed producer and filmmaker is dominating streaming once again with a trio of shows, don't let Wind River pass you by. An unflinching mystery packed with twists and turns, the movie benefits from fantastic lead performances from a duo of MCU alumni, with Renner and Olsen proving an unmissable partnership.
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