Queue These Now: 3 New Hulu Movies to Stream May 16–17, From Bride Wars to Panic Room

Hulu just tossed a few solid weekend watches into the mix. If you want a tense home-invasion nail-biter, a fizzy frenemy wedding brawl, or a dad-and-son gut punch that lands extra hard with Father’s Day creeping up, you’re covered.

Panic Room (2002)

Newly divorced Meg (Jodie Foster) and her 11-year-old daughter Sarah (a young Kristen Stewart) move into a fancy New York brownstone and discover a built-in safe room left by the previous owner. Good timing, bad luck: three intruders break in that same night, led by the late owner’s grandson, Junior (Jared Leto ), who’s hunting for something hidden in the house. Here’s the kicker — what they want is inside the very room Meg and Sarah are hiding in.

The setup is dead simple: one side wants a thing, the other side won’t hand it over for very understandable reasons. In lesser hands, that’s thin ice. With David Fincher directing and Jodie Foster anchoring, it’s a machine — precision visuals, slick camera moves, a propulsive score, and Foster going full steel-spined survivor. Short, sharp, mean in the right ways. Always bet on Foster.

Streaming on Hulu.

Bride Wars (2009)

Emma (Anne Hathaway ) and Liv (Kate Hudson) have been best friends forever with the same hyper-specific dream: a Plaza Hotel wedding in NYC. A scheduling mix-up leaves only one prime date available, and they both claim it. Cue the meltdown. These two go from ride-or-die to sabotage-and-throw-hands, scheming and scrapping for the privilege of dropping a small fortune to walk down an aisle in the hotel Kevin McCallister once called home.

Let’s be honest: this is not a good movie. It’s loud, telegraphed from space, and its take on women as wedding-obsessed chaos engines hovers near offensive. And yet... it goes down like cold lemonade in August. Glossy as hell, set in a fantasy Manhattan where everyone magically lives in gorgeous, probably rent-controlled apartments. Hathaway and Hudson crank up their charm, even when their characters are basically gremlins, and Candice Bergen swings by to land some expert zingers. Guilty pleasure? Yep. Emphasis on both words.

Streaming on Hulu.

Nothing in Common (1986)

With Father’s Day around the corner, this one’s prime pre-visit homework. David Basner (Tom Hanks ) is a hotshot Chicago ad exec with a steady girlfriend and a career on the rise. Then his father, Max (Jackie Gleason), loses his job after 35 years and gets kicked out by his wife, Lorraine (Eva Marie Saint), and ends up moving in. David and Max were never close, but the clock is ticking, and they have to figure out if there’s still a relationship to salvage.

Context helps: in 1986, Hanks wasn’t the two-time Oscar guy yet — he was still the Bosom Buddies/Bachelor Party dude. This was his first straight-ahead dramatic lead, and you can already see the seeds of the actor who would later crush it in Philadelphia, Saving Private Ryan, and Captain Phillips. Gleason is even better here, all bluff and bluster on the surface, quietly fraying underneath. If you’ve ever had a complicated thing with your parents (so, basically everyone), this lands.

Streaming on Hulu.