11 movies to check out on Prime Video in February

Amazon’s Prime Video kicks off February with a summer blockbuster, a new “narrative-driven cinematic odyssey” from Jennifer Lopez, and a bunch of indie offerings that are worth a peek. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem serves as a reboot of the franchise and features heavily stylized animation that is anything but run-of-the-mill. The Amazon original This Is Me… Now: A Love Story coincides with J.Lo’s new album. The dark comedy-drama Red Rocket features a career-best performance by Simon Rex. Other new arrivals in the Prime Video film library this February include Strays, Get Out, Life, The Elephant Man, Bottoms, Surrounded, Upgraded, and Dark Harvest.

Get Out (2017, available February 1)

Jordan Peele’s directorial debut , starring Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Lil Rel Howery, LaKeith Stanfield, Bradley Whitford, Caleb Landry Jones, Stephen Root, and Catherine Keener, moves to Prime Video for Black History Month. The horror movie about a Black man who soon regrets visiting his white girlfriend’s family is a genre gem. The A.V. Club’s , “There’s a nefarious conspiracy here for audiences to unpack, and it’s all part of the way Peele uses a genre framework to explore how racism survives and mutates in an All Lives Matter culture, taking different insidious shapes.”