What is new to streaming this week? (July 25, 2025) by way of NewsFlicks

Searching for one thing nice to look at at house? Streaming subscribers are spoiled for selection between Hulu, Netflix, HBO Max, Disney+, Apple TV+, Top Video, Shudder, Paramount+, Peacock, and extra. And that’s the reason ahead of you even have a look at the huge libraries of flicks and tv techniques inside each and every streamer!

Do not be crushed or waste an hour scrolling thru your services and products to decide what to look at. We have were given your again, no matter your temper. Mashable provides watch guides for all the above, damaged down by way of style: comedy, mystery, horror, documentary, and animation, amongst others. However in case you are in search of one thing brand-new (or simply new to streaming), we have now were given you coated there, too.

Mashable’s leisure crew has scoured the streaming services and products to focus on essentially the most buzzed-about releases of this week and ranked them from worst to best possible — or least value your time to maximum watchable. Whether or not you are within the temper for Wes Anderson, creature options, or soapy a laugh, we have now were given one thing only for you.

Honorable point out: The Unbelievable 4 films

With The Unbelievable 4: First Steps starring Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Joseph Quinn hitting cinemas July 26, you could bring it to mind’s now not the primary time the First Circle of relatives of the MCU have hit the massive display screen. However the place are you able to movement the former Unbelievable 4 films?

Sooner than we get into the frankly not-so-fantastic films, simply know you’ll be able to movement the 1994 Unbelievable 4 animated sequence on Disney+. Within the mid-2000s, Hornblower lovers have been handled to Ioan Gruffudd as Reed Richards along Jessica Alba as Sue Hurricane, Michael Chiklis as Ben Grimm, and a pre-Captain The us Chris Evans as Johnny Hurricane in 2005’s Unbelievable 4 and 2007’s Unbelievable 4: Upward push of the Silver Surfer. In 2015, a reboot of Unbelievable 4 featured long run Black Panther supervillain Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Miles Teller, and Jamie Bell. And not omit, you’ll be able to catch John Krasinski as Mr. Unbelievable in a cameo from Physician Peculiar within the Multiverse of Insanity. — Shannon Connellan, UK Editor

How one can watch: The Unbelievable 4 sequence (1994), Unbelievable 4 (2005), Unbelievable 4: Upward push of the Silver Surfer (2007), and Unbelievable 4 (2015) are all streaming on Disney+.

10. The Sandman, Season 2: Vol. 2

With allegations of sexual attack towards Neil Gaiman looming massive, Netflix’s adaptation of Gaiman’s The Sandman closes out its 2nd and ultimate season.

The final quantity of The Sandman Season 2 sees the results of Dream (Tom Sturridge) spilling circle of relatives blood on the finish of Quantity 1. Now hounded by way of the Furies, Dream should muster all his power and allies — and even former enemies, just like the Corinthian (Boyd Holbrook) — if he’s to avoid wasting the Dreaming. — Belen Edwards, Leisure Reporter

Starring: Tom Sturridge, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Mason Alexander Park, Donna Preston, Esmé Creed-Miles, Adrian Lester, Barry Sloane, Patton Oswalt, Vivienne Acheampong, Gwendoline Christie, Jenna Coleman, Stephen Fry, Asim Chaudhry, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Razane Jammal, Ruairi O’Connor, Freddie Fox, Clive Russell, Laurence O’Fuarain, Ann Skelly, Douglas Sales space, Jack Gleeson, Indya Moore, Steve Coogan, and Boyd Holbrook

How one can watch: The Sandman, Season 2: Vol. 2 is now streaming on Netflix.

9. Shark Week 2025

You’ll be able to’t have summer time TV programming with out Shark Week, and fortuitously for all you shark fanatics available in the market, you’ll be able to movement the Discovery Channel’s programming on HBO Max. Choices this 12 months come with How one can Live on a Shark Assault, Jaws vs. Mega Croc, and Frankenshark. However the award for many outlandish Shark Week 2025 display is going to Dancing with the Sharks, an underwater dance festival hosted by way of former Dancing with the Stars host Tom Bergeron. — B.E.

How one can watch: Shark Week 2025 is now streaming on HBO Max.

8. The Looking Other halves

Searching for a trashy, soapy summer time watch? Then banquet your eyes on The Looking Other halves, a sequence bursting with intercourse, homicide, and essentially the most exaggerated Southern accents since Parker Posey yelled, “Piper, no!” in The White Lotus Season 3.

The Looking Other halves introduces Bostonian Sophie (Brittany Snow), who is relocated to East Texas to fortify her husband Graham’s (Evan Jonigkeit) new task. There, she will get entangled with Margo (Malin Akerman), the queen bee of a bunch of ladies who love to seek in combination. Sparks fly between Sophie and Margo, however a brutal homicide throws their steamy dating — and their complete buddy staff! — into chaos. Natural, dumb a laugh, The Looking Other halves commits wholly to its lusty model of camp and not seems to be again. — B.E.

Starring: Brittany Snow, Malin Akerman, Jaime Ray Newman, Evan Jonigkeit, George Ferrier, Katie Lowes, Chrissy Metz, Dermot Mulroney, Selected Jacobs, and Branton Field

How one can watch: The Looking Other halves is now streaming on Netflix.

7. Acapulco, Season 4

Get in a position for one final shuttle to the Las Colinas lodge, as a result of this week marks the premiere of the fourth and ultimate season of Apple TV+’s comedy Acapulco. The stakes are prime for Las Colinas worker Máximo in each the existing (Eugenio Derbez) and the previous (Enrique Arrizon). Within the provide, he should make sure that the lodge is in tip-top form for its grand reopening. And prior to now, he’s going to need to scope out a rival resort that stole Las Colinas’ standard number-one spot in Acapulco’s “Highest Inns” score. — B.E.

Starring: Eugenio Derbez, Enrique Arrizon, Fernando Carsa, Rafael Cebrián, Vanessa Bauche, Camila Perez, Carlos Corona, Chord Overstreet, Regina Reynoso, Jessica Collins, Regina Orozco, Damián Alcázar, Jaime Camil, Cristo Fernández, Carolina Moreno, Keyla Monterroso Mejia, and Omar Chaparro

How one can watch: Acapulco Season 4 is now streaming on Apple TV+.

6. Dying of a Unicorn

Need one thing wacky, bizarre, and splashed with legendary violence? Then you’ll be able to treasure A24’s Dying of a Unicorn.

The directorial debut of publisher/helmer Alex Scharfman, this fantasy-action-comedy stars Paul Rudd as a meek dad seeking to stability the whims of his difficult shoppers — a circle of relatives of Large Pharma billionaires — whilst additionally rebuilding the strained dating along with his college-focused daughter (Jenna Ortega). But if this fractured circle of relatives by accident kills a child unicorn, what must were a weekend getaway with an aspect of commercial turns into a life-or-death combat towards homicidal, horn-headed horses. A bit of wonky, however general, Dying of a Unicorn is a wild time.* — Kristy Puchko, Leisure Editor

Starring: Paul Rudd, Jenna Ortega, Will Poulter, Téa Leoni, Richard E. Grant, Anthony Carrigan, Sunita Mani, Stephen Park, and Jessica Hynes

How one can watch: Dying of a Unicorn hits HBO Max July 25.

5. Washington Black

Sterling Okay. Brown stars in and government produces Washington Black, a mini-series adaptation of the radical by way of Esi Edugyan. Like the radical, the sequence follows sensible inventor George Washington “Wash” Black (performed at other lifestyles levels by way of Ernest Kingsley Jr. and Eddie Karanja) from his formative years as a slave in Barbados to his voyages to the Arctic, Morocco, and extra.

Even though the display’s flashback-heavy construction and plenty of facet characters threaten to weigh it down, Washington Black is a worthy summer time journey general, one who balances heavy subject matters with exciting escapades. As I wrote in my assessment, “[Wash’s] voyage, with its fanciful steampunk plane and emphasis at the flora and fauna, carries touches of Jules Verne. But it is also deeply entangled in Wash’s seek for freedom, making it now not only a globe-trotting romp, however a rousing quest of self-discovery.” — B.E.

Starring: Ernest Kingsley Jr., Sterling Okay. Brown, Eddie Karanja, Iola Evans, Eddie Karanja, Edward Bluemel, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Rupert Graves, Shaunette Renée Wilson, Tom Ellis, and Charles Dance

How one can watch: Washington Black is now streaming on Hulu.

4. Satisfied Gilmore 2

We are in a position to move devour some hay, lay by way of the bay, and make issues out of clay, with the sequel to Satisfied Gilmore touchdown virtually 30 years after the unique. Adam Sandler is again in his iconic function, the golfer with a penchant for dropping his shit and bringing a little bit rock and/or roll to the game of golfing. However Sandler is not the one big name returning for Satisfied Gilmore 2, with Julie Bowen, Christopher McDonald, and Ben Stiller reprising their roles; they will remember to harness the nice power, block out the dangerous. — S.C.

Starring: Adam Sandler, Julie Bowen, Christopher McDonald, Ben Stiller, Dangerous Bunny, Travis Kelce, Eminem, John Daly, Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy, and Bryson DeChambeau

How one can watch: Satisfied Gilmore 2 hits Netflix July 25.

3. Sunday Highest

Overdue documentarian Sacha Jenkins (Wu-Tang Extended family: Of Mics and Males, Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues) grew to become his lens on mythical TV host Ed Sullivan in his ultimate movie, Sunday Highest. Now not only a easy documentary, Jenkins specializes in how Sullivan championed Black musical artists like Harry Belafonte, James Brown, and Stevie Surprise.

In his assessment for Mashable, Robert Daniels touched on how Jenkins’ focal point is intriguing, if oversimplified, writing, “The place Sunday Highest struggles as a sociopolitical documentary, it stays memorable due the interesting means it puts Sullivan at the timeline of Black development — despite the fact that that placement is sort of too simplistically conceived.” — B.E.

How one can watch: Sunday Highest is now streaming on Netflix.

2. Materialists

Previous Lives writer-director Celine Track delivered one of the crucial 12 months’s buzziest (and maximum divisive) movies along with her sophomore function, Materialists. Led by way of the trio of Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, and Pedro Pascal, Materialists gifts any other Track love triangle, this time between matchmaker Lucy (Johnson); rich, good-looking hedge fund supervisor Harry (Pascal); and Lucy’s suffering actor ex John (Evans), who is nonetheless pining for her.

Do not be fooled by way of Materialists‘ rom-com premise (and advertising). The movie gifts a much more cynical view of contemporary courting — no less than, till an finishing that left many audience scratching their heads. Improper however interesting, it is nonetheless value an eye, despite the fact that it left some critics, like Mashable’s Kristy Puchko, chilly. In her assessment, she known as out Johnson, Evans, and Pascal’s miscasting, writing, “[Materialists is] a large swing, with large stars, who could be, regardless of their improbable allure and honest performances, its largest flaw. For as grounded and actual as Materialists goals to be, it is arduous to fail to remember its large, shining stars to look that gritty authenticity.” — B.E.

Starring: Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, Pedro Pascal, Zoë Winters, and Marin Eire

How one can watch: Materialists is now to be had to hire or purchase on Top Video, Apple TV+, and different virtual platforms.

1. The Phoenician Scheme

Wes Anderson returns with a brand new journey, stocked with visible splendor and a star-studded forged.

Co-written by way of Anderson and Roman Coppola, The Phoenician Scheme stars Benicio del Toro as a scheming businessman who’s bringing his novitiate daughter Liesl (Mia Threapleton) into the circle of relatives trade. As he exposes her to his sophisticated Phoenician Scheme, this confounding father-daughter duo will pass paths with eccentric titans of business, sloppy assassins, a mild-mannered tutor, and a large number of hand grenades. Principally, for those who ever puzzled what a Wes Anderson espionage film looks as if, you are nearer than you might have ever been ahead of! And in my assessment for Mashable, I cheered, “The Phoenician Scheme turns into a charmingly hopeful story about how even with our flaws we would possibly to find love, circle of relatives, and salvation.”* — Okay.P.

Starring: Benicio del Toro, Mia Threapleton, Michael Cera, Riz Ahmed, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Mathieu Amalric, Richard Ayoade, Jeffrey Wright, Scarlett Johansson, Imad Mardnli, and Benedict Cumberbatch

How one can watch: The Phoenician Scheme hits Peacock July 25.

(*) denotes a blurb comes from a prior checklist.