It can be hard to find good movies on streaming services nowadays. There’s too much content, and a lot of it is derivative slop.
That’s why Watch With Us consults with Rotten Tomatoes to check whether a new movie has a good critics’ score.
Hulu has some new must-watch movies in June that have great Rotten Tomatoes scores.
From a riveting biopic starring Daniel Day-Lewis to a ‘90s sports classic, these films are essential summertime viewing for everyone in your household.
Ben Gottlieb (Jason Schwartzman) isn’t having a great time lately. His wife, Ruth, just died, and the resulting spiritual crisis has left him unable to sing. That’s a big problem if you’re a cantor who needs to lead his spiritual flock through song, so Ben seeks the help of his old music teacher, Carla (Carol Kane), to help find his inner Barbra Streisand. As their music lessons progress, the two develop feelings for each other that go beyond the usual teacher/student dynamic. Is Ben ready to jump into another relationship? And is Carla the right woman for him?
Between the Temples is a bittersweet comedy that examines how hard it is to recover from tragedy – and how necessary it is to move on. Schwartman has made a career out of playing sad sacks, but his Ben is different: lost and defeated, he once was a believer – in love, God and himself – who has stopped believing, maybe for good. Carla never has, and it’s her eagerness to embrace life, with all of its highs and lows, that could be the thing that saves him. She’s a Manic Pixie Golden Girl who is still inspiring schlubs like Ben to get off their tuckus and do something with their lives.
There’s some truth in advertising, and new kid Scotty Smalls (Tom Guiry) is indeed small. And while the neighborhood boys who play baseball in the sandlot down the street tease him at first about his small stature, they quickly welcome him into the tight-knit group – and their surprisingly competitive baseball games. Their leader, Benny Rodriguez (Mike Vitar), takes the game seriously, so when one of their balls lands in the backyard where a beast-like dog lives, he’s determined to get it back. But they all fear the creature that has gobbled up countless baseballs – and allegedly children – in the past, and they’ll have to work up enough courage to get the ball back without sacrificing their dignity – or lives.
The Sandlot paints an idyllic portrait of a small-town America that probably never existed. Set in the early 1960s, there’s no mention of foreign wars or racial conflicts – there’s just baseball, fireworks, a hot girl at the local swimming pool and … the Beast. But the movie is so sweet, so free of cynicism and sarcasm, you don’t care if it’s not real – you want it to be. Whereas the 1989 Kevin Costner film Field of Dreams made grown men cry over baseball, The Sandlot gave plenty of millennials the warm fuzzies as they watched it on cable growing up, and it still has the power to tap into your inner child.
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What better way to celebrate our nation’s upcoming 250th birthday than by watching a biopic of arguably our greatest president ever? Lincoln stars Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln, America’s 16th president of the United States and a leader at a time when the young country was almost coming apart. The Civil War has raged on for years by 1865, and Lincoln thinks he can end it by passing the Thirteenth Amendment, which will make slavery illegal. He needs help to do that, and he has to convince an unwilling opposing party to pass it.
Rather than a cradle-to-grave approach, director Steven Spielberg focuses on a key moment in Lincoln’s presidency and life: the end of the Civil War, and in the middle of a full-blown political and spiritual crisis. Lincoln isn’t all about politics – there’s a heartbreaking subplot involving his wife, Mary (Sally Field) and his son, Robert (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), that’s riveting and showcases a side of a well-known figure audiences have never seen before. Most importantly, Lincoln doesn’t feel like a stale historical picture; instead, it seems like it’s happening in the present, and you’d be surprised at how much suspense the Disclosure Day helmer can wring from a congressional session.
Day-Lewis won his third Oscar for his performance, and it’s one for the ages. Exhausted by life and weary of a war he never wanted, his Lincoln is like a living ghost, as if he knows he doesn’t have enough time left to make the country he loves so much stay intact before he’s gone.
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