What’s new in streaming this week? (January 24, 2025)

On January 27, 2025By Littum

Looking for something good to watch at home? Streaming subscribers are spoiled for choice between Hulu, Netflix, Max, Disney+, Apple TV+, Prime Video, Shudder, Paramount+, Peacock and more. And that’s before you even look at the huge libraries of movies and TV shows within each one!

Don’t get overwhelmed or waste an hour scrolling through your services to decide what to watch. We’ve got your back, whatever your mood. Mashable offers Watch Guides for all of the above, broken down by genre: comedy, thriller, horror, documentary, animation, and more.

But if you’re looking for something banging new (or new to streaming), we’ve got you covered there, too.

9. The night agent Season 2

The consistently vigilant Sutherland (Gabriel Basso) is now a proper night agent in Shawn Ryan’s Netflix series – You Can’t Hide the President in Season 1 and will no longer be a proper night agent in Shawn Ryan’s Netflix series – You Can’t Hide the President in Season 1 and remains behind one) is a proper night agent in Shawn Ryan’s Netflix series – you don’t hide from the FBI basement desk. Season 2 sends Peter and Super-Coder Rose (Luciane Buchanan) back into Don’t-Trust-Anyone mode, this time in New York City. After a surveillance OP tracking Intel leaks goes awry in Bangkok, Peters is on the run trying to track down the people involved in the ambush. While the hand-to-hand combat is as furious as season 1, the second series doesn’t feel as fun or unique, bringing nothing new to the genre and little reason to cheer for these trope-damaged characters. – Shannon Connellan, UK Editor

Starring: Gabriel Basso, Luciane Buchanan, Amanda Warren, Arienne Mandi, Louis Herthum, Berto Colon, Michael Malarkey, Keon Alexander, Brittany Snow, Teddy Sears, Navid Negahban and Rob Heaps

How to watch: The night agent Season 2 is now streaming on Netflix.

8. What drives you

John Cena has conquered the world of professional wrestling, movie stardom and game host. So why not take a crack at talk show hosting next? What drives you is Cena’s spin on Comedians in cars getting coffee, where he rolls up to the celebrities’ homes (or studios), inspects their car collections and – as they go for a ride in their preferred transport – talks life, adversity and ambition. See, What drives you is a title both literal and metaphorical.

7. Star Trek: Episode 31

An action film starring Academy Award winner Michelle Yeoh should be an easy must-see. But unfortunately this Star Trek: Discovery Spinoff is a mess of a movie.

Yeoh, reprising the role of pansexual chaos Gremlin Philippa Georgiou, transcends a film that delves into the former Terran emperor’s tragic origins. But the main thrust of the story is that Star Fleet’s secretive Chapter 31 team wants to recruit her for a mission that could save her new home universe from the conquering old one. Now, while there are a batch of fun characters in this story, the film overall feels rushed. We suspect it’s because Section 31 was originally intended as a series and was potentially retrofitted for a limiting feature length runtime. So even though a lot of big reveals are happening, there’s little time to land. The result is one Star Trek Movies that are wildly unwieldy, sometimes funny, but often frustrating. But it goes without saying that Yeoh slays in it – literally and figuratively. —KP

Starring: Michelle Yeoh, Omari Hardwick, Kacey Rohl, Sam Richardson, Sven Ruygrok, Robert Kazinsky, Humberly Gonzalez and James Hiroyuki Liao

How to watch: Star Trek: Episode 31 now streaming on Paramount+.

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6. Prime target

One day‘s Leo Woodhall trades romance for thriller in Prime targeta new thriller from Sherlock Author Steve Thompson. The series follows a mathematics student and Good on purpose-style genius who discovers a new pattern involving prime numbers -only to realize a shadowy group is trying to sabotage him at all costs. This one starts slowly, but from the trailerit looks like it’s quickly turning into a full blown Bond movie. – Sam Haysom, Deputy UK Editor

Starring: Leo Woodall, Quintessa Swindell, Stephen Rea, David Morrissey, Martha Plimpton, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Jason Flemyng, Harry Lloyd, Ali Suliman, FRA fee, Joseph Mydell

How to watch: Prime target Stream now on Apple TV+.

5. Grafted

Body Horror is turned up to 11 in Sasha Rainbow’s New Zealand-Set College Slasher with a sci-fi twist. Wei (Joyena Sun), a Chinese student and daughter of a scientist at the breakthrough of a new skin transplant treatment, travels to New Zealand to stay with her popular cousin Angela (3 body problem‘s Jess Hong) while attending the local university. But Wei soon discovers that even though she’s a little socially awkward, her path to friendship and her dead father’s research can go hand in hand. This one never quite gets to the heart of the deeper issues it suggests, but it’s still a fun watch with plenty of really icky moments. — Sh

Starring: Joyena Sun, Jess Hong, Jared Turner and Eden Hart.

How to watch: Grafted now streaming on horror.

4. Sonic the Hedgehog 3

TEETHGATE aside, the latest batch of Sonic the Hedgehog movies are perfectly fine movies with absolutely and shockingly killer cast performances. Jim Carrey’s Dr. Robotnik is one of his most gloriously ridiculous and underrated roles to date. The second film saw Idris Elba crush it like knuckles. And for the third, Keanu Reeves joins the cast as Shadow hedgehog.

Directed by Jeff Fowler and written by Pat Casey, Josh Miller and John Whittington, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Sees Ben Schwartz back as Sonic, Colleen O’Shaughnessey Voicing Tails again, and Carrey makes a triumphant return this time playing both Dr. Ivo “Eggman” Robotnik and his grandfather Gerald, Shadow’s creator. That’s a lot of badass firepower.* – SC

Starring: Ben Schwartz, Jim Carrey, Idris Elba, Keanu Reeves, Colleen O’Shaughnessey, James Marsden, Tika Sumpter

How to watch: Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is now available to rent/purchase on Prime Video.

3. Sleep

“Someone’s in.” Two words begin writer/director Jason Yu’s feature debut Sleeputtered by a slumbering Hyun-su (Lee Sun-Kyun) sitting at the end of her bed. This frightens his wife Soo-jin (Jung Yu-mi) and is the beginning of a long series of erratic, disturbing behavior. Is it a sleep disorder or something more sinister? A subtle horror about the anxiety of marriage and new parenthood, Sleep deprives its protagonists of vital rest, instead sending them into a waking nightmare of somnambulism and menace—mainly to the couple’s extremely cute Pomeranian, Pepper, but also, you know, the baby.

Sleep Doesn’t complete the reel as a slow-burn, possibly supernatural horror, instead leaning on well-erased markers of the genre—the increasingly shocking events, the roll-in of a medium, the race to discover the truth. However, Lee and Jung give intense performances that make the film feel fresh. At the same time, cinematographer Tae-soo Kim and editor Meeyeon Han find unique ways to capture the inside of a small apartment for maximum excitement. Both Soo-jin and Hyun-Su fear what the other is capable of, with the film pivoting from one parent’s unconscious fears to the other’s over the course of a crisp 90 minutes.* – sc

How to watch: Sleep now streaming on Hulu.

2. Night call

Do you ever have one of those days where nothing goes your way? Well, Brussels Twentysomething Mady Bala (Jonathan Feltre) would trade your worst day for his. As a locksmith who works the night shift, his job is pretty straightforward most of the time. But when an emergency call from a beautiful brunette leads him into a skinhead’s apartment, things go from bad to bad in the blink of an eye – or the poke of a screwdriver.

It turns out that a femme fatale unwittingly lured him into a heist and crossed paths with a nefarious kingpin (Romain Duris). To survive the night, Mady must find the girl and the money. And this grounded thriller from Michiel Blanchart will drag him through the underbelly of the city – from nightclubs to brothels and beyond – in search of salvation. In my Mashable review, I exulted, “Blanchart’s first film is as electrifying as it is surprising. An action flick that’s bold, dark and distinctly wild, Night call not to be missed. ” –Cp

Starring: Jonathan Feltre, Natacha Krief, Jonas Bloquet and Romain Duris

How to watch: Night call is now available on VOD.

1. The wild robot

One of the most buzzed animated movies of 2024 is now on Peacock. From Chris Sanders, co-author/co-director of Lilo & Stitch And the voice of Stitch delivers a heartfelt adaptation of Peter Brown’s novel, named after the curious Android at its center.

Lupita Nyong’o voices Roz, a helper droid meant for domestic use but stranded on an island populated only by wild animals, like a sly fox (The last of us‘s Pedro Pascal), a sassy opossum (Beetlejuice Beetlejuice‘s Catherine O’Hara) and an orphaned gosling (Heartstopper‘s Kit Connor).

In her review out of the film’s stunning premiere, Belen Edwards praised the fish-out-of-water story and the visual splendor Sanders painted. She writes, “Unspoiled forests and tidal pools bloom to life on screen, their blue and green hues a stark contrast to Roz’s metallic gray plating and flashing lights. Flocks of geese take flight in a dazzling airborne montage. Roz’s bright light slants through a driving blizzard . The wild robot An unforgettable viewing experience and a perfect capstone to celebrate DreamWorks’ 30th anniversary. “