Best new films streaming this week – quick links
Babes – 16 February (Paramount+)
Film (2024). Babes follows Eden (Broad City‘s Ilana Glazer), whose life is turned upside down when she becomes pregnant after a one-night stand. Unsure and overwhelmed, she leans on her confident, experienced best friend Dawn (Michelle Buteau), who guides her through the highs, lows and unexpected realities of pregnancy and early motherhood.
Honest, funny and heartfelt, the film explores modern friendship, growing up, and what it really means to show up for the people you love.
Four Letters of Love – 17 February (Prime Video)
Film (2024). Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham-Carter, and Gabriel Byrne star in this romantic drama adapted by Irish writer Niall Williams from his novel of the same name and directed by Polly Steele (The Mountain Within Me).
Nicholas and Isabel seem to be made for each other, but outside forces seem to be working against them. As ghosts, fate, and the sheer power of true love pull them together, so too does life threaten to tear them apart.
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning – 19 February (Stan & Paramount+)
Film (2025). Set two months after the events of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, the latest instalment of the iconic action spy series finds Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and the Impossible Mission Force continuing their search for the Entity, a terroristic AI that has infiltrated intelligence networks across the globe. Pressure mounts as Hunt and his team are pursued by governments, and ghosts from his past emerge.
Starring Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, Holt McCallany, Janet McTeer, Nick Offerman and Hannah Waddingham.
(Further reading: How hard are the stunts Tom Cruise does in the Mission: Impossible films?)
Roofman – 18 February (Prime Video)
Film (2025). This dark comedy directed by Derek Cianfrance (Blue Valentine, The Place Beyond the Pines) and starring Channing Tatum (Blink Twice, the Magic Mike franchise) is based on the unbelievable true story behind a modern American urban legend.
Jeffrey Manchester (Tatum) is a former Army Ranger and struggling father who turns to robbing McDonald’s restaurants by cutting holes in their roofs, earning him the nickname ‘Roofman’.
After escaping prison, he secretly lives inside a Toys ‘R’ Us for six months, surviving undetected while planning his next move. But when he falls for Leigh (Kirsten Dunst), a divorced mum drawn to his undeniable charm, his double life begins to unravel, setting off a compelling and suspenseful game of cat and mouse as his past closes in. Watch the trailer.
Checkpoint Zoo – 22 February (Stan)
Documentary (2024). The latest critically acclaimed feature documentary from director Joshua Zeman (Cropsey, The Killing Season, Murder Mountain) follows a high-stakes mission to save thousands of animals from an active war zone.
Filmed during the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, a group of Ukrainian zookeepers and volunteers risk their lives to rescue the animals trapped inside Feldman Ecopark after it was repeatedly shelled by Russian artillery. The team navigate bombed roads, scarce supplies and constant danger to evacuate lions, tigers, primates and domestic animals, forging extraordinary bonds with the creatures in their care.
Blending tense, on-the-ground footage with intimate personal stories, the film is both a gripping wartime chronicle and a moving portrait of compassion, resilience and the human instinct to protect the vulnerable.
