Top 5 Films To Watch This Month
Here’s our pick of the top 5 films to watch this month, from the comfort of your home or immersed on the big screen. We’ve narrowed it down so you can spend less time scrolling and more time watching.
The Life of Chuck - Available in Cinemas
Mike Flanagan (Doctor Sleep, The Haunting of Hill House) adapts Stephen King’s novella into a moving, surreal meditation on life and memory. The Life of Chuck unfolds in reverse, telling the story of an ordinary man (played by Tom Hiddleston) across extraordinary moments, from his final days to the quiet beauty of his childhood. With Flanagan’s signature blend of emotion and the uncanny, it is a hauntingly tender film that proves sometimes King’s scariest stories are not about monsters, but mortality.
1h 51m | Sci-fi/Fantasy | 15
Available in Cinemas
Eddington - Available in Cinemas
Ari Aster shifts from pure horror to a pandemic-era satire set in a tense New Mexico town. Joaquin Phoenix plays a frazzled sheriff pulled into a civic powder keg as local politics, conspiracy thinking, and online noise collide. The film mixes Western atmosphere with dark comedy, finding uneasy laughs in 2020’s fractures while pushing its characters toward chaos. Big swings, sharp performances, and a mood that lingers.
1h 55m | Action/Sci-fi | 12A
Available in Cinemas
We Live In Time - Stream on Netflix
This tender, time-hopping romance from John Crowley (Brooklyn) is a slow-burning heartbreaker. Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield deliver quietly devastating performances as lovers whose relationship unfolds in fragments - across dinners, decades and near-misses. With restrained direction and a screenplay that trusts its silences, We Live In Time gently explores love, loss and the bittersweet ache of memory. Bring tissues.
1h 48m | Romance/Drama | 15
Short Term 12 - Stream on Prime Video
Before Shang-Chi and Marvel fame, Destin Daniel Cretton directed Short Term 12, a quietly devastating indie that remains one of the most affecting films of the last decade. Brie Larson gives a career-defining performance as a supervisor at a foster care facility, balancing her dedication to the kids with her own unresolved trauma. Raw, empathetic and filled with understated power, this is a film that lingers long after the credits.
1h 36m | Drama/Indie | 15
Thunderbolts - Stream on Disney +
Marvel’s Thunderbolts assembles a team of anti-heroes, misfits and reformed villains in what feels like the studio’s sharpest riff on the ensemble formula. Directed by Jake Schreier (Paper Towns, Beef), the film is darkly funny and action-packed, while digging into the moral ambiguity of its central characters. It is less about saving the world and more about broken people searching for purpose: a welcome shift of tone in the MCU that breathes new life into the franchise.
2h 6m | Action/Sci-fi | 12A
