6 Unmissable New Releases to Stream This Weekend on Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus and More (Dec. 5–7)

December is here, the lights are up, and yes, the streamers are leaning hard into holiday mode. But even if you are allergic to tinsel, there is still plenty worth your time this weekend. From Michelle Pfeiffer ditching her family on Prime Video to George Clooney road-tripping through Europe on Netflix, here are six new and newly-added picks I would actually watch.

• The Last Frontier - Season 1 finale (Apple TV Plus)

  Available: Worldwide. Drops December 5.

  If you have been keeping up weekly, consider this your heads-up: the first season wraps this week. It is a tight, throwback thriller with a big snowbound pulse. Co-creator Jon Bokenkamp frames it as a mash-up you can feel in your bones: think Con Air colliding with The Fugitive, set in an isolated Alaskan town.

  Jason Clarke leads as retired US Marshal Frank Remnick, with Dominic Cooper and Haley Bennett co-starring. When a federal prisoner transport crashes a couple miles outside town, dozens of violent inmates scatter into the wilderness and Remnick has to round them up before the place turns into chaos. It is lean, snowy, and very 90s in the best way.

• Jay Kelly (Netflix)

  Available: Worldwide. Streams December 5.

  Noah Baumbach (Marriage Story, and yes, Barbie co-writer) returns to Netflix with a glossy dramedy and a stacked cast: George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Laura Dern, Billy Crudup, Riley Keough, Jim Broadbent, Patrick Wilson, Greta Gerwig, and more. Clooney stars as Jay Kelly, a famous movie star rethinking his life while traveling across Europe with his manager Ron (Sandler). Yes, Clooney and Sandler together. I know.

  "An unexpectedly profound journey through Europe. Along the way, both men are forced to confront the choices they have made, the relationships with their loved ones, and the legacies they will leave behind."

  If you like Baumbach when he leans bittersweet and actor-y, this is squarely in his lane.

• Oh. What. Fun. (Prime Video)

  Available: Worldwide. Streams December 3.

  Michelle Pfeiffer anchors a holiday comedy from director Michael Showalter about a mom who holds Christmas together every single year with gourmet cooking, perfect gifts, and militant planning... until her grown kids and tuned-out husband get so wrapped up in their own drama they literally forget her. Their mistake, her moment.

  Pfeiffer plays Claire Clauster, who decides to have a festive adventure that involves zero cooking, zero cleaning, and absolutely no coordinating anyone else. While her family scrambles to find her (and save Christmas), she rediscovers what the season feels like when you put yourself first. Consider it a cozy watch with a gentle lesson about not taking the family MVP for granted.

• Zootopia (Disney Plus)

  Available: Worldwide. Streaming now.

  With Zootopia 2 tearing up the box office out of the gate and pulling raves, this is a good time to run back the original. Nearly a decade on, Zootopia is still one of Disney’s sharpest, funniest movies of the last twenty years: bright, fast, and earnestly inclusive without being syrupy.

  The setup: Judy Hopps (voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin) leaves her small town to become the first rabbit police officer in the sprawling city of Zootopia. To crack her first big case, she teams with hustler fox Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman), whose moral compass is, let’s say, flexible. Still a blast, still timely.

• Home Alone franchise (Hulu)

  Available: US. Added December 1.

  Hulu just dropped the whole kit and kaboodle: Home Alone, Home Alone 2, Home Alone 3, Home Alone 4, Home Alone: The Holiday Heist, and Home Sweet Home Alone. If you want to mainline booby-trapped holiday chaos from now through Christmas, this is the easiest way to do it.

  Start where it all began in 1990: 8-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) is accidentally left behind while his family flies to Paris. He is thrilled… until two burglars (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern) target the house and Kevin goes full defense contractor with improvised home security. Peak comfort viewing.

• Shin Godzilla (HBO Max)

  Available: US. Streaming December 1.

  Before Godzilla Minus One had critics buzzing, 2016’s Shin Godzilla rebooted the franchise with razor-edged political satire, unnerving creature evolution, and some wicked visual effects. It starts with a mysterious thing stirring in Tokyo Bay. The Prime Minister urges calm, the monster makes landfall, and then it evolves, forcing the government to assemble a scrappy task force while an American envoy arrives with classified files stamped with one very clear word: GODZILLA.

  It is smarter and stranger than your average monster bash, and all the better for it.

And if you are still catching up on the year’s heavy hitters, put these on the list too: Andor season 2, Netflix’s Adolescence, and KPop Demon Hunters. Plenty to keep you busy while you avoid wrapping presents.