What's Coming Out This Week In Theaters and On Streaming, VOD & TV (December 22 - December 28, 2025)
All the 🎥 films and 📺 shows hitting theaters and streaming this week!
Christmas is nearly upon us. That means family is coming over. And so, the big question becomes: what do we watch—something on the tube, or a trip to the local cinema that everyone can agree on? Well, here’s a quick rundown of what’s coming out this week, both in theaters and streaming on your TVs. So choose wisely—you’ll likely have to convince at least one stubborn relative that this is the one we’ve gotta see.
🎥 In Theaters This Week
🎥 The Plague
(Wed, Dec 24th — limited release)
Kids have always been cruel, but this psychological thriller suggests something far more disturbing is lurking just beneath the surface. Set at a summer water polo camp, the story follows a shy new arrival (Everett Blunck) pulled into a ritualized act of bullying that feels less like a prank and more like a threat. As fitting in turns into survival, peer pressure and fear spiral into genuine menace. Joel Edgerton co-stars as one of the camp’s coaches and serves as a producer on writer-director Charlie Polinger’s chilling feature debut.
🎥 Anaconda
(Thurs, Dec 25th — wide release)
Two lifelong friends (Jack Black and Paul Rudd) head into the Amazon to remake their favorite ’90s creature feature, armed with no money, no plan, and way too much confidence. Their dream project quickly turns into a full-blown nightmare, dragging a panicked crew (Steve Zahn, Thandiwe Newton, Selton Mello) into very real jungle danger. A meta comedy with a killer bite, it proves some childhood obsessions are better left un-remade… especially when the giant snake is ready for its close-up.
🎥 Marty Supreme
(Thurs, Dec 25th — wide release)
Timothée Chalamet plays a brash, overconfident 1950s New York ping pong hustler who decides the game of table tennis is his ticket to immortality, fueled by ego, ambition, and a gift for believing his own hype. As his meteoric rise turns sport into spectacle, obsession threatens to swallow him whole. Directed by Josh Safdie and co-starring Odessa A’zion, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Kevin “Mr. Wonderful” O’Leary, this hyper-charged period drama reframes the American Dream as a sweaty, chaotic hustle where winning might be the most dangerous move of all.
🎥 Song Sung Blue
(Thurs, Dec 25th — wide release)
Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson show off their pipes (and their love for Neil Diamond) as two down-on-their-luck performers who find unexpected purpose not by chasing stardom, but by putting on the best show they possibly can. Fueled by Diamond’s songbook, their unlikely partnership turns tribute into transformation as small gigs grow into something bigger and far more personal. This feel-good musical drama asks whether the stage can heal real-life wounds, or if the spotlight always comes with a cost.
🎥 The Testament of Ann Lee
(Thurs, Dec 25th — limited release)
Amanda Seyfried is generating serious awards buzz with a raw, unvarnished turn as Ann Lee, the defiant 18th-century visionary behind the Shaker movement. Part gritty period drama, part ecstatic musical, the film transforms devotion into sweat, song, and trembling bodies as belief in equality becomes both salvation and burden. Directed by Mona Fastvold, this historical drama reframes religious fervor as something less reverent history lesson and more full-bodied spiritual reckoning. Faith isn’t always quiet... sometimes it shakes the walls.
🎥 The Choral
(Thurs, Dec 25th — limited release)
A grieving Yorkshire town on the World War I home front finds unexpected hope when an enigmatic German chorus master (Ralph Fiennes) arrives to revive its struggling choral society. As the war drains the village of its men and spirit, music becomes an unlikely lifeline, uniting civilians and wounded soldiers in harmony amid loss and uncertainty. In times of utter devastation, community and song become quiet acts of healing and defiance.
🎥 Sheepdog
(Fri, Dec 26th — limited release)
From writer-director Steven Grayhm, who also stars, this intimate indie drama follows a decorated Army veteran teetering on the edge of recovery as therapy with a compassionate VA counselor (Virginia Madsen) offers fragile hope. When his estranged father-in-law (Vondie Curtis Hall), a Vietnam vet newly out of prison and carrying scars of his own, reenters his life, old wounds resurface fast. A quiet, character-driven story about trauma, forgiveness, and the hard truth that healing often means facing the past head-on.
🎦 Streaming This Week
🎦 Elway
(Mon, Dec 22nd — premiering on Netflix)
This gridiron documentary traces the rise of John Elway, the cool-headed Broncos legend who turned early heartbreak into Hall of Fame glory, revisiting every bruising setback and mile-high triumph along the way. Produced by Peyton Manning, it’s a nostalgia-fueled portrait that proves some legacies aren’t just earned... they’re etched into NFL history.
🎦 Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires
(Mon, Dec 22nd — streaming on HBO MAX)
DC reimagines the Dark Knight in this animated adventure set in 16th-century Mesoamerica. After his father is slain by Spanish conquistadors, young Yohualli Coatl trains under the bat god Tzinacan to become a warrior of vengeance. With mystical weapons and allies like Jaguar Woman and Forest Ivy, he rises to defend his people in a clash of gods, empires, and destiny.
🎦 Die My Love
(Tues, Dec 23rd — streaming on MUBI)
Jennifer Lawrence burns through the screen as Grace, a writer-turned-housewife unraveling in the isolating quiet of rural Montana with a husband she can barely recognize. With Lynne Ramsay directing, Martin Scorsese producing, and Robert Pattinson co-starring, this adaptation of Ariana Harwicz’s novel becomes a chilling descent into love curdled, sanity slipping, and vows on the verge of breaking.
🎦 Eden
(Tues, Dec 23rd — streaming on Netflix)
Paradise proves fragile when a group of settlers (led by Jude Law) arrives on a remote island chasing freedom and reinvention, only to find their so-called utopia rotting from the inside. Directed by Ron Howard and co-starring Daniel Brühl, Sydney Sweeney, Ana de Armas, and Vanessa Kirby, this true-story thriller turns the Galápagos islands into a pressure cooker where ambition, seduction, and survival collide—with deadly consequences.
🎦 Regretting You
(Tues, Dec 23rd — streaming on Paramount+)
A mother and daughter (Allison Williams and Mckenna Grace) are forced to confront devastating secrets when a tragic accident shatters their family and rewrites everything they thought they knew about love. Directed by The Fault in Our Stars helmer Josh Boone, this Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us) adaptation leans into raw emotion and messy healing, proving some wounds don’t fade quietly.
🎦 Strange Harvest
(Tues, Dec 23rd — streaming on Hulu/Disney+)
A string of brutal murders pulls investigators into a found-footage nightmare where the trail leads not to a killer, but to something far more ancient and malevolent. From Grave Encounters director Stuart Ortiz, this cosmic-tinged indie horror plunges headfirst into dread, proving some evils don’t just stalk you... they wait to be unearthed.
🎦 Goodbye June
(Wed, Dec 24th — premiering on Netflix)
This bittersweet heartfelt Christmas drama follows a fractured family facing unfinished business as Helen Mirren’s unfiltered matriarch prepares her own final days in the hospital. Directed by Kate Winslet from a script by her son Joe Anders, the film charts a landmine holiday of confession and catharsis, with Winslet, Toni Collette, Andrea Riseborough, and Johnny Flynn anchoring a tender, painfully human ensemble.
🎦 Cover-Up
(Fri, Dec 26th — premiering on Netflix)
This searing new documentary traces Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh’s career of shaking power to its core, from exposing the My Lai massacre to uncovering the abuses at Abu Ghraib. Built from firsthand notes, rare archives, and hard-won reporting, it’s a gripping reminder that truth only survives when someone refuses to stop digging.
🎦 Bugonia
(Fri, Dec 26th — streaming on Peacock)
Oscar-winner Emma Stone and filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos dive headfirst into the madness of modern paranoia with this darkly comic abduction thriller. Jesse Plemons stars as a delusional conspiracy nut who kidnaps Stone’s icy pharma CEO, convinced she’s an alien plotting Earth’s doom... and the truth might be even weirder than his theory.
🎦 The Life of Chuck
(Fri, Dec 26th — streaming on Hulu/Disney+)
Time runs backward for an ordinary man (Tom Hiddleston) as his life unspools from its final moments to the wonder of childhood, revealing the love, loss, and fleeting joys that shaped him along the way. Directed by Mike Flanagan, this Stephen King adaptation is a quietly profound reminder that even when the world feels apocalyptic, it’s the small moments that give life its true meaning.
✅ On VOD This Week
✅ Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
(Tues, Dec 23rd — on VOD/Digital)
The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White trades Chicago kitchens for Jersey shadows in this haunting portrait of Bruce Springsteen at his most vulnerable. Written and directed by Scott Cooper, this stripped-down biopic follows The Boss as he retreats from fame to wrestle with isolation, creativity, and the ghosts that haunt his bleakest, boldest album to date, 1982’s Nebraska.
✅ Sentimental Value
(Tues, Dec 23rd — on VOD/Digital)
Stellan Skarsgård, generating major awards buzz, stars as a once-revered filmmaker whose deeply personal comeback movie reopens old wounds with his estranged daughters (Renate Reinsve and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas), turning art into an emotional minefield where forgiveness is anything but guaranteed. Directed by Joachim Trier and co-starring Elle Fanning, this Cannes Grand Prix winner reshapes family baggage, creative ego, and the fallout of fame into intimate, quietly devastating cinematic poetry.
✅ Five Nights at Freddy’s 2
(Tues, Dec 23rd — on VOD/Digital)
The nightmare isn’t over as traumatized survivors (Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Lail, and Piper Rubio) are pulled back to the abandoned pizzeria for one more terrifying round. This hit Blumhouse sequel leans harder into Freddy Fazbear’s twisted mythology, turning unresolved trauma and unfinished business into the driving force behind a darker, deadlier return.
✅ Eternity
(Tues, Dec 23rd — on VOD/Digital)
Elizabeth Olsen stars in this darkly funny afterlife dramedy that turns the concept of soulmates into a cosmic dilemma with a ticking clock. Trapped in a celestial waiting room, she has just seven days to choose between her devoted husband (Miles Teller) and her long-dead first love (Callum Turner), turning eternity into the world’s most awkward (and revealing) relationship test.
✅ 100 Nights of Hero
(Tues, Dec 23rd — on VOD/Digital)
Maika Monroe stars as a young bride trapped in a loveless marriage, clinging to a forbidden romance with her devoted maid (Emma Corrin), until her husband’s cruel wager invites a dangerously charming outsider (Nicholas Galitzine) into their castle and threatens to expose everything. Adapted from Isabel Greenberg’s graphic novel, filmmaker Julia Jackman’s lush, queer-coded fable turns desire into a loaded weapon, where love, loyalty, and lust collide in a high-stakes game of seduction and betrayal.
✅ Nuremberg
(Tues, Dec 23rd — on VOD/Digital)
From writer-director James Vanderbilt comes an unflinching historical drama set in the wake of World War II, as U.S. Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson (Michael Shannon) leads the Nuremberg Trials to prove that justice—not vengeance—can define civilization. But when an Army psychiatrist (Rami Malek) begins studying the Nazi defendants and locks into a chilling psychological duel with Nazi commander Hermann Göring (Russell Crowe), the search for truth becomes a dangerous test of morality, power, and the limits of human understanding.
✅ Hazel’s Heart
(Tues, Dec 23rd — on VOD/Digital)
In this harrowing frontier survival drama, a sudden North Dakota blizzard strands young Hazel Miner (Madelyn Dundon) and her siblings in a frozen valley, turning a simple walk home from school into a desperate fight against cold, exhaustion, and the coming night. Inspired by a true story, this is a haunting portrait of resilience and sacrifice, where hope, family, and fierce love become the only shelter against a merciless winter.
✅ Fackham Hall
(Fri, Dec 26th — on VOD/Digital)
A petty pickpocket bluffs his way into high society and quickly finds himself tangled in romance, scandal, and a murder he definitely didn’t plan for. Mixing Downton Abbey–style aristocratic drama with Monty Python–level absurdity, this British farce unleashes nonstop misunderstandings and posh mayhem. With a cast led by Ben Radcliffe, Thomasin McKenzie, Katherine Waterston, Jimmy Carr, and Damian Lewis, this gleefully absurd spoof embraces posh attitude and pure comedic lunacy.
📺 On TV This Week
📺 The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball: Season 2
(Mon, December 22nd on Hulu/Disney+)
Reality is optional in this gloriously chaotic animated return from creator Ben Bocquelet, as The Amazing World of Gumball reunites Gumball and the Watterson clan for another round of anarchic satire and cartoon mayhem. From fake-death promposals and animal-fueled neighborhood chaos to a witchy student cult hosting a yearbook séance, it’s a nonstop spiral of absurdity that gleefully shreds logic, physics, and good sense.
📺 Made In Korea
(Wed, December 24th on Hulu/Disney+)
When a nation’s fate is on the line, this high-stakes South Korean political drama pits two titans against each other: Hyun Bin’s ambitious KCIA operative running a criminal empire versus Jung Woo-sung’s uncompromising prosecutor trying to clean house. It’s a battle of conflicting visions of justice, fueled by corruption and deep political conspiracies that could topple the government.
📺 Stranger Things 5: Volume 2
(Thurs, December 25th, Christmas Day, at 5 p.m. PT on Netflix)
Holiday cheer gets sidelined when the final stretch of Stranger Things drops on Christmas Day, throwing Hawkins back into full-blown nightmare mode. With Vecna tightening his grip and the Upside Down revealing it’s far more dangerous than anyone realized, the only way out is a full-team effort... because saving the world has never been a one-kid job!
📺 The Copenhagen Test
(Sat, December 27th on Peacock)
In a chilling near future where espionage turns inward, Simu Liu stars as an intelligence analyst turned living security breach after enemy hackers infiltrate his mind, forcing him to perform every moment under total surveillance. With Melissa Barrera’s undercover operative racing to expose the unseen invaders, this sleek sci-fi thriller weaponizes paranoia and asks what happens when the most dangerous hack is the one happening inside your own head.
