With Chris Pratt’s critically panned sci-fi flick Mercy invading theaters this weekend, your best bet for quality entertainment is to stay at home and access your Hulu subscription.
The Disney-owned streamer has plenty of hit movies, and it just added a few new films that are guaranteed to keep you entertained.
You don’t need to be a Boss fan to enjoy the rousing biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, while action fans can do no wrong by checking out Safe House.
Finally, Jessie Buckley was recently Oscar-nominated for the powerful drama Hamnet, but she shows off her comedic chops in the social satire Wicked Little Letters.
‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’ (2025)
How well do you know Bruce Springsteen? Beyond “Born in the U.S.A.” and the rock legend’s iconic status, you may not know that in the early 1980s, he was struggling with what to do next in his then-burgeoning career. After watching the 1973 crime drama Badlands starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek, Springsteen (Jeremy Allen White) decides his next album, Nebraska, will depart from his usual traditional rock style and focus on the dark side of the American dream. That makes everyone around him nervous, particularly his longtime manager, Jon Landau (Jeremy Strong), but Springsteen is adamant to realize his vision. Will Nebraska make or break his career?
Chances are, you know the answer. But what makes Deliver Me From Nowhere so fascinating is to see how Springsteen puts together what will eventually be considered by rock critics as his best album ever. As Bruce, Allen White gets every visual and aural detail right — he is the Boss, from head to toe to every vocal growl. Strong is equally good as Springsteen’s manager, who pushes aside his own skepticism to help his client and friend make his dream come true.
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is streaming on Hulu.
‘Safe House’ (2025)
After a bomb goes off in downtown Los Angeles, five armed government agents scramble to a local safe house overseen by Anderson (Emily in Paris star Lucien Laviscount) for shelter. Once there, it’s discovered that the signal from the bomb’s detonator came from someone in the safe house. None of them can leave until the culprit is revealed, but how’s that possible when everyone, including Anderson, is a prime suspect?
That’s the mouthwatering setup for Safe House, a new action-thriller that was released quietly last year and is now streaming on Hulu. Costarring Thunderbolts actress Hannah John-Kamen and Mortal Kombat’s Lewis Tan, this claustrophobic movie generates plenty of suspense simply by letting its six characters figure out which one of them is a killer. Because they’ve all killed before due to their line of work, it’s not so easy for any of them — and the audience — to guess who is the bomber. Despite all their rage, they are all six rats in a cage, and it’s entertaining to see which ones — if any — will make it out alive.
Safe House is streaming on Hulu.
‘Wicked Little Letters’ (2024)
Edith Swan (Olivia Colman) is a devout Christian who is generally well-liked in her small English village. That’s why it’s so shocking when she receives some foul letters filled with borderline-obscene language in 1920. Everyone suspects her neighbor, the newly arrived Irish immigrant Rose (Jessie Buckley), but she insists she’s innocent. As Rose goes on trial, an enterprising young officer, Gladys (Anjana Vasan), suspects someone else is guilty of terrorizing Edith. Can she gather enough evidence in time to save Rose from doing time for a crime she didn’t commit?
Wicked Little Letters continues a time-honored tradition of English cinema — the cozy throwaway mystery. Unlike most films in this subgenre, there are no murders to solve; instead, the stakes are kept extremely low and largely played for laughs. Those laughs come due to the crack comic timing of past Oscar winner Colman and Buckley, who is the frontrunner to win Best Actress this year for her fine work in Hamnet. She’s not as serious here, and viewers who know her from her dramatic work are in for a treat watching her play an outcast woman who doesn’t mind using a lot of expletives to prove her point.
Wicked Little Letters is streaming on Hulu.
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