If you’re a student, time is running out to enjoy all the freedom the summer season usually brings.
A great way to pass the time is by watching some great movies, and streamers like Netflix, Hulu and more just dropped some must-watch films this weekend.
At the top of Watch With Us’ list is Normal, a John Wick-style action flick starring Bob Odenkirk as a new sheriff who has to fight for his life.
Also worth watching is the Netflix dramedy Don’t Say Good Luck, Peacock’s sweet coming-of-age romance Girls Like Girls and Disney+’s rockin’ sequel, Camp Rock 3.
Last but not least, Hulu is streaming the director’s cut of The X-Files: I Want to Believe, which reunites Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny’s legendary FBI duo to investigate a mysterious serial killer.
‘Don’t Say Good Luck’ (2026) — Netflix
High school student Sophie Birenbaum (Sunny Sandler) is over the moon — she just snagged the lead in her school’s production of Waitress! Sophie always wanted to be an actress, and she gets along well with her cute male costar, Jack (Jack Champion). But her priorities suddenly change when she learns her mother, Elizabeth (Melanie Lynskey), has terminal cancer. Sophie now has to take care of her mom, perform in a play that takes up most of her concentration and still find time to be a regular teenager.
Don’t Say Good Luck isn’t afraid to pull your heartstrings, but it does in a way that doesn’t make you roll your eyes. It tells a delicate, touching story about a daughter having to prepare to say goodbye to her mother and a parent whose impending death doesn’t want to spoil her kid’s youth. Sandler has appeared in some of her father Adam’s films like Spaceman and Happy Gilmore 2, but she comes into her own here as a teenager who is forced to grow up very fast. Her scenes with Lynskey are the film’s best and will probably cause you to shed a tear or two.
‘Normal’ (2026) — HBO Max
Ulysses (Bob Odenkirk) is the new sheriff of Normal, Minnesota, and he doesn’t much like it. For starters, the previous sheriff fled under mysterious circumstances, and he’s not sure he can trust his new fellow cops. Those suspicions turn out to be accurate when he’s nearly killed by friendly fire during a bank robbery gone horribly wrong. It seems Normal’s cops are hiding a deadly secret, and they’ll kill Ulysses to keep it.
Normal hails from the creator of John Wick and Nobody, and it has those franchises’ same mix of outrageous action and black humor. But Normal looks and feels entirely its own, with a twisty script that will keep you guessing as to who Ulysses’ true friends or secret foes are until the end. The snowy locale gives director Ben Wheatley ample opportunity to stage some pretty striking action sequences, and Odenkirk once again proves the unlikely heir to Liam Neeson’s grumpy-old-man action throne.
‘Camp Rock 3’ (2026) — Disney+
Mega-successful pop band Connect 3’s (the Jonas Brothers) opening act just dropped out of their ongoing world tour, and they need to find a replacement fast. To find one on such short notice, they travel back to a summer camp filled with talented teen musicians who are looking for their next big break — Camp Rock. Connect 3 was there years ago, and they quickly realize some things never change. Rivalries still burn brightly, and students like resident bad boy Fletch (Malachi Barton) still fall in love with other campers, like Sage (Liamani Segura). But the big question remains – who will Connect 3 pick to be their next opening act?
Camp Rock 3 is a lot like Camp Rock 1 and 2, so expect a lot of hormone-driven melodrama, questionable fashion choices and sudden outbreaks of song-and-dance musical numbers. The movie knows its audience and tells a light and fun story that pretty much matches the first two films’ plot beats for beat. There’s something for older millennials, too, with the Jonas Brothers still showing their Gen Alpha competitors what a real boy band looks and sounds like, and Demi Lovato returning for a brief cameo as the original film’s heroine, Mitchie Torres.
‘Girls Like Girls’ (2026) — Peacock
In the summer of 2006, an unlikely friendship blossoms between new girl Coley (Maya de Costa) and townie Sonya (Myra Molloy). Coley is still processing her mother’s recent death, and her friendship with Sonya provides a much-needed escape. When their close bond transforms into romance, the two girls must navigate their own complicated feelings as well as the fear that someone will discover the growing love for one another.
Based on director Hayley Kiyoko’s song and book of the same name, Girls Kiss Girls is a quiet drama that tells a relatively realistic love story between two people who never expected to find love with each other. The film largely avoids coming-out cliches and instead depicts a relationship that has normal peaks and valleys. Coley and Sonya’s romance doesn’t fit easy categorization; it simply just is, and Kiyoko wisely lets it develop naturally.
‘The X-Files: I Want To Believe — Vrach Frankenshteyn Director’s Cut’ (2008/2026) — Hulu and Disney+
One of 2026’s must-watch streaming titles is a movie that came out 18 years ago. Wait, how does that work? The X-Files: I Want To Believe was originally released in 2008, and the PG-13-rated film was met with indifference from fans and critics alike. Nearly two decades later, director Chris Carter has released a director’s cut, subtitled Vrach Frankenshteyn in homage to Mary Shelley’s classic horror story, that cuts a few minutes of content but adds enough blood and gore to merit an R rating.
Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) are no longer FBI agents, but they’re called back to duty to investigate a bizarre series of murders in the snowy Virginia wilderness. Someone’s been cutting up women and leaving their body parts around the countryside, and the dynamic duo has to figure out who is doing it and why before someone else dies.
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