The Best Movies on Hulu Right Now (November 2026)

Last updated: November 1, 2026

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Too much to scroll through and not enough time to watch it all. These are the best movies streaming on Hulu right now, pulled straight from my reviews and updated every month as titles come and go. Every pick is something I’ve seen and stand behind, with a link to the full review if you want the long version.

KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS (2016)

🍅97%Critics🍿86%Audience⭐7.7IMDb

Kubo and the Two Strings is animation perfected; voiced with great nuance, divinely animated and rippled with decadent thematic elements far exceeding its PG-rating, this is the kind of emotionally rich cinematic achievement that only great animated film seem able to deliver.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review · Every LAIKA Movie, Ranked

ANORA (2024)

🍅93%Critics🍿84%Audience⭐7.4IMDb

Mikey Madison rules the screen as a Brooklyn stripper who falls for the wealthy son of a Russian oligarch and the fallout their entanglement entails in the truly alive Anora. As their story unfolds, writer-director Sean Baker puts the romantic-comedy through a fun house mirror, where the promises of love and wealth distort into vapor and illusions, unraveling as the well-drawn characters confront the tricks they’ve played on themselves.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

FREE SOLO (2018)

🍅97%Critics🍿93%Audience⭐8.1IMDb

A powerful, white-knuckle documentary about fear, passion, and humanity, Free Solo is a thrilling ascent into mountaineering mania fastened by a complicated figure in free-climbing fanatic Alex Honnold. Prepare thyself for the sweatiest palms of 2018.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

EX MACHINA (2015)

🍅92%Critics🍿86%Audience⭐7.7IMDb

Living in a time when tech and humanity cycle increasingly closer to one another in the Rolodex of life, Ex Machina, from each and every angle, pummels you with the idea of what is to come. Alex Garland’s directorial debut is a chilly chamber piece, and Alicia Vikander’s Ava is one of the great screen AIs.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

HUSTLERS (2019)

🍅88%Critics🍿65%Audience⭐6.3IMDb

Stripper dramas are on fire as ’Hustlers proves to be an electrifying, racy and sharp take on imperiled feminism and American (moral) bankruptcy. J Lo is a wonder to behold, for more reasons than one. Jennifer Lopez is magnetic as a stripper who turns the tables on her Wall Street clients, and Lorene Scafaria directs with real style.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

GHOSTLIGHT (2024)

🍅99%Critics🍿97%Audience⭐7.5IMDb

Keith Kupferer gives one of the great unsung performances of recent years as a gruff Chicago construction worker who stumbles into a community theater production of Romeo and Juliet while his family quietly comes apart, opposite his real-life wife Tara Mallen and daughter Katherine Mallen Kupferer. Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson’s blue-collar drama has a rare economy to it, rich in character and lived-in detail, and its slow-burn reckoning with grief lands like a gut punch.▶︎ Watch on Hulu

THE SUBSTANCE (2024)

🍅89%Critics🍿76%Audience⭐7.2IMDb

Coralie Fargeat returns to the horror genre to deliver one of 2024’s best films, The Substance. With a remarkable return-to-form performance from Demi Moore, a chilling turn by Margaret Qualley, and enough visceral body horror to satisfy even the most bloodthirsty fans, The Substance is a substantive exercise in genre filmmaking that’ll cling to you long after the blood has dried.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

LITTLE WOMEN (2019)

🍅95%Critics🍿92%Audience⭐7.7IMDb

As excellent a PG-rated familial holiday film as anyone could dream up, Greta Gerwig’s rendition of Little Women is a supremely well-acted and sumptuously realized modernization that manages a powerful rebranding of the novel’s message while remaining deeply satisfying as a slice of domestic drama. Impossible to dislike.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES (2017)

🍅94%Critics🍿84%Audience⭐7.4IMDb

A masterclass in blockbuster filmmaking, War for the Planet of the Apes is that improbably rare summer movie that forces you to think, feel and interact with it on the same level as the medium’s best dramas. Thoughtful, contemplative and deeply felt, Matt Reeve’s threequel marries peerless technological feats with sumptuous storytelling while Andy Serkis is sublime as king of kongs Caesar. A perfectly rendered capstone, War closes out the Apes prequel series in extraordinary fashion, qualifying it as the best trilogy of the 21st century.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

NO OTHER CHOICE (2025)

🍅97%Critics🍿93%Audience⭐7.5IMDb

No Other Choice is an expertly constructed social satire from Park Chan-wook that harkens to its South Korean compatriot Parasite. Come for the bloody thrills, stay for the pertinent message about humanity and their employment crisis circa 2025.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

THE CHRISTOPHERS (2026)

🍅95%Critics🍿87%Audience⭐6.8IMDb

Ian McKellen is phenomenal in The Christophers, and Michaela Coel more than holds her own, a film that manages to be both thematically rich and genuinely crowd-pleasing. What begins as a professional collision in the art world gradually turns into something more personal, more complicated. It’s one of Steven Soderbergh’s more restrained, human-scale efforts, and it’s all the better for it.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

SUMMER OF SOUL (2021)

🍅99%Critics⭐8.0IMDb

Questlove creates a toe-tapping and revolutionary documentary that’ll have audiences foaming at the mouth for more. The lineup of talent is simply insane, the performances eye-popping, the talking-head commentary on Black culture and music’s place within it is poignant and relevant today without stopping the contagious upbeat energy. An absolute must-see.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

POOR THINGS (2023)

🍅92%Critics🍿80%Audience⭐7.7IMDb

With Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos continues to prove that he is Hollyweird’s maddest scientist and its most refreshingly singular voice. Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, and Mark Ruffalo offer a trifecta of the best performances of 2023 in this deeply funny, wickedly smart, and entirely brilliant reimagining of Frankenstein as a feminist declaration and character study. Yes, it’s alive, but it’s also pretty much perfect.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

LONGLEGS (2024)

🍅85%Critics🍿61%Audience⭐6.5IMDb

Oz Perkins delivers another sinister vision of the occult in taut, skin-crawling Longlegs. Maika Monroe is excellent as a nervy, kinda-clairvoyant FBI agent, while Nicolas Cage creeps as the eponymous killer but is not always an additive force. While never outright terrifying, this deliberately-paced supernatural horror film is dripping with atmosphere and tension.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

ALIEN: ROMULUS (2024)

🍅80%Critics🍿85%Audience⭐7.1IMDb

A legacy sequel that thrives when it taps into what made the original Alien such a tense outer space outing, Alien: Romulus proves there’s still plenty of life in the Xenomorphs, and that life is best served with a hefty dose of death. Cailee Spaeny emerges as a strong final girl in Fede Alvarez’s nail-biting space horror venture, delivering a Ripley worthy performance that anchors the film’s tension and terror.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review · Every Alien Movie, Ranked

BARBARIAN (2022)

🍅92%Critics🍿70%Audience⭐7.0IMDb

A case of an accidental double booking goes full nightmare in Zach Cregger’s simmering horror feast Barbarian. Part suspense-driven horror thriller, part gonzo camp-fest, the tonally turbulent but ferociously fun Barbarian gives horror fans a heaping serving from multiple sides of the genre’s spectrum.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

PREDATOR: BADLANDS (2025)

🍅86%Critics🍿94%Audience⭐7.2IMDb

The kind of effortlessly enjoyable franchise movie that we don’t see enough of at the theater these days, Predator: Badlands continues Dan Trachtenberg’s absolute god-tier revival of this franchise, this time telling a story through the lens of the titular alien to badass effect.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN (2022)

🍅96%Critics🍿75%Audience⭐7.6IMDb

The Banshees of Inisherin is a striking dark comedy brimming with thematic depth, boasting a strong cast and sizable ideas but unlikely to click with mainstream audiences. McDonagh’s strange little creation is quite unlike anything else – for better and for worse. Mostly better.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review · Every Martin McDonagh Movie, Ranked

THE LIFE OF CHUCK (2025)

🍅80%Critics🍿88%Audience⭐7.3IMDb

Mike Flanagan adapts a not-so-scary Stephen King story to tremendous effect with The Life of Chuck, crafting an ethereal, poetic drama that juxtaposes the vastness of time and the universe against the quiet importance of a single human life. The cast is outstanding, the story is profound, the direction is assured, and the result pulses with the beauty, messiness, and meaning of being alive.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review · Mike Flanagan Movies and Shows, Ranked

THE GREEN KNIGHT (2021)

🍅88%Critics🍿50%Audience⭐6.5IMDb

An adult-oriented challenge to conventional fantasy thrills, David Lowery’s complex, puzzling, and visually triumphant The Green Knight leans into onscreen natural horrors and sexual proclivities to tell the story of a knight of faltering courage.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

SEND HELP (2026)

🍅92%Critics🍿86%Audience⭐6.7IMDb

Come get some. Sam Raimi is (mostly) back in the horror business with Send Help, a campy desert island survival movie about a survivalist employee and her prick boss who get stranded together after a plane crash. Dylan O’Brien is a convincingly smug douche, while Rachel McAdams is electrifying as the dangerously capable femme fatale.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

SOUL (2020)

🍅95%Critics🍿88%Audience⭐8.0IMDb

A remarkable achievement that lifts up and celebrates the human spirit, Soul ranks amongst Pixar’s best works and charters a life-affirming mission to the great beyond that’s sure to leave audiences peering deep within themselves.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

IS THIS THING ON? (2025)

🍅87%Critics🍿82%Audience⭐6.7IMDb

Will Arnett erupts onto the screen as a real dramatic actor in Bradley Cooper’s thoughtfully funny Is This Thing On?, a midlife crisis story that tackles themes of commitment and purpose with striking clarity. Laura Dern, unsurprisingly, remains a standout.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON’T DIE (2026)

🍅82%Critics🍿84%Audience⭐7.0IMDb

Gore Verbinski’s Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is an over-the-top action-comedy with an impressive ensemble that taps into modern anxieties about screen time and A.I., delivering sharp satire and genuine laughs, even if its action beats struggle to match the film’s comic bite.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

HEREDITARY (2018)

🍅90%Critics🍿72%Audience⭐7.3IMDb

Ranking up their with the great contemporary horror movies of our time, Hereditary delivers the scares of The Conjuring with the atmospherics of The Shining all matched to a jaw-droppingly stunning performance from Toni Collette. Now go scare the shit out of yourself with it.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

YOUNG ONES (2014)

🤢49%Critics🍿36%Audience⭐5.8IMDb

In a drought-ravaged future, a father (Michael Shannon) fights to protect his family and his land from a scheming young suitor (Nicholas Hoult). Jake Paltrow’s moody sci-fi western is a slow burn, but it looks incredible and the performances are strong.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

WOLF MAN (2025)

🤢47%Critics🍿54%Audience⭐5.6IMDb

Leigh Whannell proves he is the modern maestro of Universal Monster Movies with Wolf Man, a slow-burn creature feature about the horrors of losing oneself while surrounded by those you love – and then trying to slaughter them. Reinforced my deep-seated desire to never get rabies.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

CREED (2015)

🍅95%Critics🍿89%Audience⭐7.6IMDb

Creed is vibrant, emotional and exciting as all hell. Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan reunite to deliver a spin-off unlike most; a film that’s both crowd-pleasing and objectively excellent. Ryan Coogler revives the Rocky saga with Michael B. Jordan as Apollo Creed’s son, and Sylvester Stallone gives one of the best performances of his career.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

THE BOXTROLLS (2014)

🍅78%Critics🍿63%Audience⭐6.8IMDb

The Boxtrolls, Laika Studios‘ third outing, sees more of the fledgling studio’s highly-demanding, signature stop motion animation come to life onscreen, flush with smart, though not game changing, camerawork and charming characters aplenty.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review · Every LAIKA Movie, Ranked

LAST BREATH (2025)

🍅78%Critics🍿91%Audience⭐6.6IMDb

Last Breath delivers an incredible true story with taut suspense and no-nonsense filmmaking, but beyond its built-in tension, there’s not a ton that will linger. A sturdy, well-executed thriller that’s gripping in the moment but ultimately a one-time watch.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

TOGETHER (2025)

🍅89%Critics🍿75%Audience⭐6.7IMDb

Together is a twisted, tactile meditation on love, compromise, and the bodily cost of staying too close for too long, brought to life by Michael Shanks’ sharp direction and a pair of knockout performances from Alison Brie and Dave Franco, both delivering some of their best onscreen work to date. Together, they make the film’s grotesque intimacy feel oddly, disturbingly relatable.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

A COMPLETE UNKNOWN (2024)

🍅81%Critics🍿95%Audience⭐7.3IMDb

A Complete Unknown refuses to mythologize Dylan, instead embracing the contradictions that define him. With Timothée Chalamet’s layered performance and James Mangold’s sharp direction, the film captures an artist in perpetual rebellion, refusing to be known yet demanding to be understood.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

DANGEROUS ANIMALS (2025)

🍅87%Critics🍿74%Audience⭐6.4IMDb

Sean Bryne is back in the horror trenches with Dangerous Animals, a genre mash-up that pins its victims between hungry sharks and a psychotic serial killer played with manic madness by a never-better Jai Courtney. It may lack the bite that made Bryne’s best movies so transcendent, but it’s a fun little genre venture nonetheless.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

THE MENU (2022)

🍅88%Critics🍿76%Audience⭐7.1IMDb

The Menu is a riotous dark satire that uses the upper-echelon of the food world to satirize class warfare. As if run through a Paco Jet, Ralph Fiennes delivers an icy tour-de-force as a mesmerizing, disturbed chef at the end of his rope. Full of twists and full-bellied laughs, consider The Menu a dish that should be consumed immediately.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (2014)

🍅91%Critics🍿88%Audience⭐7.6IMDb

With Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, a truly magical work that had me giddy, mouth agape in sheer wonder (like a big-mouth bass caught hook, line and sinker) I will happily cloak myself in that tired sentiment. Andy Serkis’ Caesar anchors a war movie of real moral weight, and Matt Reeves directs the action with patience and scale.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

MISSING (2023)

🍅88%Critics🍿89%Audience⭐7.1IMDb

‘Missing’ is a technically sharp, twisty mystery anchored by strong performances. The in-screen gimmick (used before in Searching) may get varying mileage from viewers but credit to directors Nicholas D. Johnson and Will Merrick for finding ways to switch things up more this go around. A satisfying movie maze with a modern tilt.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

PEARL (2022)

🍅93%Critics🍿83%Audience⭐7.0IMDb

An electrifying improvement over X, Ti West’s Technicolor slasher is a darkly funny thirst trap; a gory origin story that sees Mia Goth give an absolute scene-stealing performance as the titular Pearl. Mia Goth co-wrote the film with Ti West, and her unbroken monologue and that end-credits smile are the stuff of horror legend.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

THE CREATOR (2023)

🍅67%Critics🍿75%Audience⭐6.7IMDb

The Creator stands as a testament to technical production mastery, featuring exceptional performances from its entire cast, with John David Washington and young Madeleine Yuna Voyles shining especially bright. Gareth Edwards’ visionary direction breathes life into this emotionally resonant narrative, offering a thought-provoking exploration of humanity within a cruel, captivating, and creatively crafted robo-future.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

RYE LANE (2023)

🍅98%Critics🍿85%Audience⭐7.2IMDb

Rye Lane is a playful romantic comedy that celebrates the ups and downs of starting and ending relationships. Jonsson and Oparah’s natural chemistry and performances are the highlight of the film.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

DUMB MONEY (2023)

🍅84%Critics🍿85%Audience⭐6.8IMDb

Dumb Money has a lot going for it, including one of the more compelling ensemble casts of 2023, and Gillespie finds broad mainstream appeal in his approach, but it’s hard to say if his humorous stylings is the appropriate avenue for such an inflammatory subject.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

FRESH (2022)

🍅82%Critics🍿80%Audience⭐6.7IMDb

Mimi Cave takes a stab at the minefield of modern dating with Fresh, a schlocky cannibal romance send-up cemented by strong turns from Sebastian Stan and Daisy Edgar-Jones.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

THE LAST DUEL (2021)

🍅85%Critics🍿81%Audience⭐7.3IMDb

Ridley Scott’s latest medieval combat drama is relatively light on the swordplay and heavy on the politics and melodrama, cleverly telling the story of a noblewoman’s assault through three perspectives to try to arrive at some kind of objective truth. Challenging if at times a bit lumbering, The Last Duel boasts strong performances and writing, proving a welcome return to the Middle Ages for the aging auteur.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review · Every Ridley Scott Movie, Ranked

NIGHTMARE ALLEY (2021)

🍅80%Critics🍿68%Audience⭐7.0IMDb

A B-movie carny noir shot with the handsome care of a prestige picture, Nightmare Alley is a gloomy product firmly in Del Toro’s wheelhouse, and the Oscar-winning director knows just how to handle such illicit, gloomy drama. Winding and palpably chilly, the film leads to an undeniable knock-out ending that’s sure to leave one shaken.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review · Guillermo del Toro Movies, Ranked

FLOWER (2017)

🤢48%Critics🍿41%Audience⭐6.1IMDb

Max Winkler’s dirty-minded Flowers is rude and sweet and offputting and bitterly funny – while featuring an absolutely star-making turn from Zoey Deutch – though it’s got enough narrative quirk to keep you from craving sloppy seconds.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

NOSFERATU (2024)

🍅85%Critics🍿73%Audience⭐7.1IMDb

With Nosferatu, Robert Eggers conjures a gothic horror that feels both timeless and daringly fresh. A masterful blend of craft, performance, and atmosphere, it’s a haunting reimagining that lingers like a shadow you can’t escape, an instant horror classic.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review · Every Robert Eggers Movie, Ranked

Critics and Audience scores from Rotten Tomatoes; ratings from IMDb. Scores as of November 2026.

Frequently asked questions

What are the best movies on Hulu right now?

This month’s top picks include Kubo and the Two Strings, Anora, Free Solo, Ex Machina, and Hustlers.

How often is this list updated?

Every month. Films that leave Hulu are removed, and newly added movies we’ve reviewed are added. Last updated November 1, 2026.

What are the best horror movies on Hulu?

See our separate guide to the best modern horror movies on Hulu: the best horror movies on Hulu

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