5 best movies newly added to Netflix, BBC and more including Matt Smith's "excellent" thriller

A heatwave has never stopped a film lover from getting their movie fix. While the UK is facing scorching temperatures this weekend, there's no place like your living room with a fan pointed directly at you.

If this sounds like you, we've put together a list of the best, newly added streaming offerings on the most popular platforms so you don't have to endlessly scroll looking for the right title.

From Ari Aster's terrifying first feature Hereditary, starring an extraordinary Toni Collette, to Official Secrets, an "excellent" government thriller based on real events with Keira Knightley and Matt Smith, you'll find our suggestions below.

Fast & Furious 7: Also known as Furious 7, James Wan's 2015 film is one of the most emotional in the starry racing car franchise as it marks the final film role of late star Paul Walker, who died in 2013.

Written by Chris Morgan, Furious 7 sees Vin Diesel's Dominic Toretto, Brian O'Conner (Walker) and the rest of their crew being recruited by covert ops leader Mr Nobody (Kurt Russell) to stop terrorist Mose Jakande (Hounsou) before he gets his hands on a potentially devastating tracking programme.

As if going after a dangerous criminal wasn't enough, the gang is also hunted down by Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham), who seeks to avenge his brother after the events of Fast & Furious 6.

Fast & Furious 7 is Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Vanity Fair describing it as "respectful, even solemn, when it needs to be" but still "plenty of crazy fun".

Also new to Netflix this week: Fast Five, Cleanskin, Transformers One

Hereditary: Ari Aster's deeply disturbing take on the haunted house trope stars Toni Collette as grief-stricken miniature artist Annie Graham, who unearths sinister secrets about her recently deceased mother. Meanwhile, her family deal with supernatural occurrences in their home.

The 2018 horror holds a Certified Fresh badge on Rotten Tomatoes with a critic rating of 90% from 385 reviews. Collette's "soul-shattering" performance received critical acclaim (via Pajiba), while Metro praised the film as eliciting the kind of terror "you can't quite put your finger on".

"Which means you will never, ever shake it off," the review also reads.

Also new to Prime this week: Midsommar, The Suicide Squad, Top Gun, Spontaneous, Contact

Official Secrets: Keira Knightley stars as whistleblower Katharine Gun, a UK government analyst who exposed an illegal joint spying operation from the UK and the US governments aimed to blackmail UN voters into support the Iraq invasion in 2003.

Matt Smith plays Martin Bright, the Observer journalist who obtains the memo uncovered by Gun and breaks the story. The cast is rounded out by Dept Q star Matthew Goode, Game of Thrones' Indira Varma, Conleth Hill, Ralph Fiennes, Rhys Ifans and Adam Bakri.

Released in 2019, Official Secrets is Certified Fresh with a critic rating of 82% from 167 reviews, while viewers on IMDb called it "excellent" and "understated but edge-of-your-seat stuff".

Also new on BBC iPlayer this week: Blade Runner, Jane Eyre (1943), Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Anyone But You

The World's End: The third and final instalment in Edgar Wright's Cornetto trilogy after Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, The World's End follows five longtime friends reuniting to attempt to finish a pub crawl from two decades prior.

Pint after pint, the quintet played by Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman, and Eddie Marsan realise that androids, which they dub 'Blanks', have taken over their town.

Also starring Rosamund Pike, the film might be the lowest-rated in the trilogy, but it's still Certified Fresh with an impressive 89% on Rotten Tomatoes. Fans on IMDb seemed equally sold on Wright's third Cornetto chapter as they praised it as "outrageously good fun" and "a fantastic conclusion" to the trilogy.

Also new on ITVX this week: You Only Live Twice, The Golden Spurtle, Rio

Red Rooms: 2023 Canadian thriller written and directed by Pascal Plante follows fashion model Kelly-Anne (Juliette Gariépy) as she becomes fascinated with a high-profile court case against Ludovic Chevalier (Maxwell McCabe-Lokos), a man accused of broadcasting his murders of three teenage girls.

Kelly-Anne befriends one of the man's supporters, Clémentine (Laurie Babin), and invites her to live with her for the duration of the trial.

The film has a near-perfect score of 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, with RogerEbert.com teasing "one of the most jaw-dropping" reveals of the year and The Guardian praising "a lead performance of pure sociopathic intensity".

Also new on Channel 4 this week: Chopper, Titanic, The Lady Eve, Entrapment, Once Upon a Time in the Midlands

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Stefania Sarrubba

Reporter, Digital Spy

Stefania is a freelance writer specialising in TV and movies. After graduating from City University, London, she covered LGBTQ+ news and pursued a career in entertainment journalism, with her work appearing in outlets including Little White Lies, The Skinny, Radio Times and Digital Spy. 

Her beats are horror films and period dramas, especially if fronted by queer women. She can argue why Scream is the best slasher in four languages (and a half).