Peacock Black Friday’s awesome $0.99 per month deal is one of the best tickets to unlock a vast library of great movies to watch over the weekend. While Peacock has earned its place on our list of the best streaming services list for a whole list of reasons, it sure has many movies to recommend.
So, once you subscribe to Peacock $0.99 per month (Opens in a new tab) ($4 a month savings) You can either test your luck by scrolling through an endless list of listings – or use our curated list of some of the best movies on the service.
And you don’t count on our experience either. While I spend most of the year watching movies, looking for what to recommend and what to turn people away from, I know that one man’s opinion is hardly enough for a serious set of choices. So, I made sure all of the recommendations had high scores on Rotten Tomatoes, the site that collects and curates both positive and negative reviews. The lowest score on our main list has an 82%, which is still very good.
Here are the seven movies I was watching first after signing up for Peacock’s Black Friday deal.
no
Jordan Peele’s latest masterpiece, Nope, recently arrived at Peacock, and it’s one of the best reasons to sign up for their $0.99 per month Black Friday deal. Having seen it three times now (I own it on 4K Blu-ray), I know I have to spoil as little as possible in the intro, because the surprises of this mystery are well worth the wait.
Co-stars Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer are siblings who run a ranch where stunt horses are trained for their big moments on the big screen. But things start to get weird at a nearby amusement park owned by a former children’s star (played by Stephen Yeun), and that’s the last thing I’ll say, except for this: Keep your eyes on the sky. You’ll bump into your remote as the drama ramps up, and you start to wonder what’s going on.
Species: Mystery, excitement
evaluation: s
year: 2022
running time: 2 hours 15 minutes.
Rotten Tomatoes score: 82%
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Boxmart
One of those underrated yet underrated comedies, Booksmart is often promoted as “Superbad, but with girls.” In a way, that feels right, because it’s about close friends who manage the feelings that come with the end of high school. Amy (Kaitlin Dever) and Molly (Benny Feldstein) have spent the past four formative years as a pair concerned only with accomplishments that matter to colleges, rather than anything their peers care about.
Now, on the eve of graduation, Amy feels crushed that Molly has finally managed to get her to continue, while Molly deals with anxiety over the way she spent high school. Hilarious – and one of those films you’d be surprised to find under the radar – Booksmart was Olivia Wilde’s directorial debut, and gave many confidence in a solid career to come.
Type: comedy
evaluation: s
year: 2019
running time: 1 hour 42 minutes
Rotten Tomatoes score: 96%
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Classics earns this title for a reason, and Peacock is proud to have been working all the time with ET the Extra-Terrestrial. Its story is simple, as the titular alien descends from outer space to befriend Elliot (Henry Thomas) and Gertie (a young Drew Barrymore) and influence years of cinema to come. Once the existence of ET becomes less of a secret and more of a concern to the government, our heroes do everything they can to protect a visitor who falls ill.
An absolute delight of a movie, a fairy tale that’s neither backwards nor binary, ET is a winner because of director Steven Spielberg’s restraint. Not only did he understand the audience at the time, but the film proves that he always understood what makes for an emotionally engaging adventure that no family member can turn down.
Species: Sci-fi, family
evaluation: PG
year: 1982
running time: 1 hour 55 minutes
Rotten Tomatoes score: 99%
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injury
Whiplash is one of the many great movies about people who are really good at doing something — in this case, playing music. Miles Teller (Top Gun: Maverick) stars as Andrew, an aspiring young jazz musician desperate for a seat under the tutelage of famed trainer Terrence Fletcher (JK Simmons). But as you might expect based on every character Simmons has ever played, Fletcher is a demanding (some would say terrifying) teacher. As Andrew pushes to improve as a drummer, the student questions the teacher’s tactics and methods. Director Damien Chazelle earns a well-deserved applause for directing a film that dances on a tightrope.
Type: drama
evaluation: s
year: 2014
running time: 1 hour 46 minutes
Rotten Tomatoes score: 94%
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Winter Bones
Jennifer Lawrence was already a star before she played any of The Hunger Games, thanks to her amazing role in Winter Bone. Here, she played Rey Dolly, a teen who asked too much. Forced to run her family’s household – parenting her two younger brothers while her mother isn’t quite around and her father a missing-in-the-business criminal – Lawrence has paraded the brilliance we’ve seen on screen for years. Winter’s Bone’s real drama, though, begins when she needs to find her father because he’s put the family home up for bond.
Type: drama
evaluation: s
year: 2010
running time: 1 hour 39 minutes.
Rotten Tomatoes score: 94%
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Paper cutter
Writers take on odd jobs, and Jack (Clive Owen) goes into drama with his latest job as a casino clerk — a casino employee dealing with gamblers on the land. A taut and tense movie, a movie that’s more creative than you’d expect about the world of gambling, Croupier was one of Owen’s breakthrough roles. Handling the cards and managing clients who tell him to bend the rules, Jack’s odds of survival are worse than a craps player.
Species: Drama mystery
year: 1998
evaluation: s
running time: 1 hour 31 minutes
Rotten Tomatoes score: 95%
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black phone
The Grabber (Ethan Hawke) is a child kidnapper who stalks a small town in suburban Denver, and the only way to stop him will revolve around a supernatural phenomenon you won’t see coming. Especially when it comes to a landline phone. But it all makes sense, when you know it’s based on the work of Joe Hill, Stephen King’s son who goes by the pseudonym. Aside from that not set in the Northeast, in a town in Maine, this movie has Stephen King’s best archetypes.
Set in massive tension, The Black Phone puts us in the shoes of siblings Vinnie (Mason Thames) and Gwen (Madeleine McGraw), and after the former is kidnapped, the latter summons a family power to try and find him. All the while, they’re dealing with Daddy’s shell. One of our favorite movies of 2022, The Black Phone is a chaser in its own right, simmering to a climax that makes you raise your fist in the air.
Species: Supernatural horror
year: 2022
evaluation: s
running time: 1 hour 42 minutes
Rotten Tomatoes score: 83%
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Other highly rated movies on Peacock
- Glengarry Glen Ross (98% RT)
- Chicken Run (97% RT)
- Love Witch (95% RT)
- Bridesmaids (89% RT)
- Half Nelson (91% RT)
- National Lampoon’s Animal House (91% RT)
- Uncut Gems (91% RT)
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