11 best new movies to check out on Hulu this August
The Craft, Enys Men, How To Blow Up A Pipeline, and Malignant lead Hulu's August 2023 titles
Film Lists David Szifron
It’s the last full month of summer and Hulu is here to help you escape the heat with some refreshing new titles and genre favorites. The cult following for The Craft has only grown since the movie—starring Fairuza Balk and Neve Campbell—was released in 1996, so see if it casts a spell on you on Hulu. The streaming service is also adding a bunch of smaller, more recent films to its library, including the acclaimed environmentalist action-thriller How To Blow Up A Pipeline, the folk-horror movie Enys Men, the David O. Russell-directed mystery-comedy-thriller Amsterdam starring Barbie herself, Margot Robbie, the 2021 horror hit Malignant, and much more. The 11 titles streaming on Hulu that caught our eye could be just what you need to make it through the dog days of summer.
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I rented How to Blow Up a Pipeline last night and it’s great. It’s really tense the whole way through and just so very on the nose with its frustration about climate inaction. So much to mentally unpack after the credits roll.
Have to disagree with Amsterdam on this list. I was really looking forward to it. It is pretty blah. It tries SO SO HARD to be a Wes Anderson film, and just falls flat most of the time. If anything it is a case study in just how hard it is to do what Wes Anderson does, even with an EXCELLENT cast and settings.
I agree with you on two points… It IS hard to copy Anderson, and Amsterdam was an indulgent, seemingly endless and confusing mess of a star-laden plot, but I wouldn’t consider it “blah”. However, David O Russell, with a decades-long film career, is his own thang (for good or for bad)—and has no interest in being an Anderson wannabe. Sometimes his methods work (Flirting With Disaster, Silver Linings Playbook, The Fighter, American Hustle) and sometimes he misses the mark completely. He is not a copycat.
Malignant is good if you want a “oh man they thought they nailed this” level of bad movie.