The Best Movies on Disney+ Right Now

Disney+ is more than a babysitter. Between Pixar, Marvel and the occasional surprise, there’s a real collection of great movies buried under all the franchise noise. These are the best movies streaming on Disney+ right now, pulled straight from my reviews and updated as titles come and go, with a link to the full review if you want the long version.

Last updated: October 16, 2026

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HOPPERS (2026)

Hoppers is a delightful return to form for Pixar. This story of animals and humans coming together for the common good delivers laughs, awe, and genuine thematic heft, making it one of the studio’s finer entries of the decade.▶ Watch on Disney+ · Read the full review

ENCANTO (2021)

Vibrant Afro-Latinx culture, eye-popping visuals, and toe-tapping songs from Lin Manuel-Miranda intersect with one of the House of Mouse’s most original and meaningful stories in quite some time with Encanto, a dazzling showstopper that proves that Disney is still capable of magic.▶ Watch on Disney+ · Read the full review

LOGAN (2017)

Adult-oriented Logan mixes some rather heavy thematic elements in with its gory violence and hard language to create a uniquely introspective, genuinely mature but welcomely visceral superhero experience. Extremely dark and as gritty as the sandy roads it takes place on, Hugh Jackman’s last stand as the manbeast once known as Wolverine proves an admirably sobering end for a complex character.▶ Watch on Disney+ · Read the full review

SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE (2023)

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is a mesmerizing animated spectacle that treads new ground, challenging the conventional tenets of power and featuring an introspective exploration of the ideals of heroism through a visually stunning multiverse. Opening new windows for where the larger story can go while remaining an engaging entry in itself, this is bar none the most exciting thing happening in the multiverse of super-movies.▶ Watch on Disney+ · Read the full review

STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (2015)

J.J. Abrams’ employment of nostalgia, character camaraderie and practical effects in Star Wars: The Force Awakens helps right the ship wronged by the George Lucas’ prequels, though it’s still not entirely fulfilling as a standalone story. Falling somewhere in the middle ground between the two trilogies, Star Wars 7 is a kessel run’s distance from amazing but could prove a necessary building block upon which the incoming sequels can add depth of character and story.▶ Watch on Disney+ · Read the full review

INSIDE OUT (2015)

As much as Inside Out is a technical triumph, it crumbles to mush without the wildly inventive, carefully constructed blueprint at its center.▶ Watch on Disney+ · Read the full review

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (2014)

Guardians of the Galaxy may be poorly acted (Chris Pratt aside) but I’ll be damned if it’s not the closest thing we’ve ever got to that 1977 original masterwork. It’s wonky, weird, wild, completely cartoonish and fun as f*ck.▶ Watch on Disney+ · Read the full review

BLACK PANTHER (2018)

Black Panther is a historic landmark of representation and inclusion on the big screen and has many elements to celebrate, most notably its kick-ass cast and many production marvels. The story and action spectacle however languish; the former, familiar; the latter, busy and uninspired. Black Panther does, however, boast one of the MCU’s most fully-developed villains in addition to one of its all-around best ensembles.▶ Watch on Disney+ · Read the full review

TOY STORY 5 (2026)

Toy Story 5‘ is a funny, heartbreaking, and insightful meditation on childhood in the digital age, asking what gets lost when screens begin replacing imagination. The gang is all here but it’s newly-minted Sheriff Jessie, in her journey to help her kid Bonnie make a real friend, that this story belongs to.▶ Watch on Disney+ · Read the full review

ANT-MAN (2015)

Ant-Man is hilarious (the funniest Marvel film yet), and one of the funnier films this year.▶ Watch on Disney+ · Read the full review

X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (2014)

Days of Future Past takes its place in the crossroads between bold ideas and blockbuster pageantry and though maybe it’s not the most outright fun X-Men film to date (that honor goes to First Class), it might be the most important.▶ Watch on Disney+ · Read the full review

ZOOTOPIA 2 (2025)

Funny, heartwarming, and thematically potent, Zootopia 2′ is one of the better animated movies of the decade, but more importantly, it marked a pivotal moviegoing experience for this critic: my daughter’s first time at the altar of the cinema.▶ Watch on Disney+ · Read the full review

FROZEN (2013)

Adapting to a new generation of tech-savvy, open-minded youngsters, the House of Mouse also gives some much-needed wiggle room for Frozen to step away from Disney’s legacy of antiquated sexual identities, chartering a new and exciting course for post-feminist Disney princesses.▶ Watch on Disney+ · Read the full review

CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (2016)

Captain America: Civil War is the Marveliest Marvel movie yet. And in this context, that’s a good thing. With a battalion of supers at their disposal, Anthony and Joe Russo create a sublime visual feast tucked delightfully within an intriguing and ideologically satisfying narrative. The addition of Spider-Man and Black Panther only helps make the affair that much sweeter.▶ Watch on Disney+ · Read the full review

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 (2017)

As watchable as a Baby Groot dancing GIF, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 merrily continues the saga of its lovable band of space rascals. Upping the emotional ante and providing truly stunning intergalactic set pieces while leaning heavily on a pitch perfect playlist, James Gunn creates a sequel that, while very much in the same vein of its forebearer, is an effortlessly enjoyable summer blockbuster sure to please most inhabitants in this galaxy.▶ Watch on Disney+ · Read the full review

BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER (2022)

Chadwick Boseman’s unexpected passing informs the heart and soul of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, a richly-textured, thematically-layered follow-up to one of Marvel’s biggest and best. The production elements shine and the writer-director Ryan Coogler finds a way to move the story forward while paying genuine tribute to his friend and collaborator. The best of Phase 4.▶ Watch on Disney+ · Read the full review

THE INCREDIBLES 2 (2018)

‘Incredibles 2’ offers so much to love, a charming voice cast, dazzling and inventive set pieces, a keen sense of wit, and charitable cultural commentary, that it’s relative familiarity is essentially a non-issue. After a long stay on the sidelines, Pixar has returned to form.▶ Watch on Disney+ · Read the full review

TOY STORY 4 (2019)

Toy Story 4 succeeds as a fleet-footed and charming animated spectacle but its underlying deconstruction (and denouncement) of the moral imperatives of blind love and loyalty that have always driven the franchise make it worth dwelling upon long after closing time. Another deep endeavor from Pixar.▶ Watch on Disney+ · Read the full review

SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME (2021)

A legacy sequel that overdelivers on its promise to wrangle the three generations of Spider-Man together, Spider-Man: No Way Home is essentially a live-action Spider-Verse film that, while juggling a ton of balls, manages to be the best superhero movie in some time.▶ Watch on Disney+ · Read the full review

Frequently asked questions

What are the best movies on Disney+ right now?

This month’s top picks include Hoppers, Encanto, Logan, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Star Wars: the Force Awakens. The full list of 19 films is drawn from Silver Screen Riot reviews and updated monthly.

How often is this list updated?

Every month. Films that leave Disney+ are removed, and newly added movies we’ve reviewed are added. Last updated October 16, 2026.