3 New Netflix Movies You Need to Stream This Weekend (April 25–26), Including Bohemian Rhapsody

Netflix clearly wants your couch time this weekend. While Antoine Fuqua's Michael is rolling into theaters with plenty of controversy and some rough reviews, the streamer just stacked its queue with three very different, very watchable movies: an Oscar- anointed rock biopic, a courtroom slugfest about truth itself, and a white-knuckle climb that turns into a fight for survival.

Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

If you would rather watch the rise of a Queen than brave the multiplex, here you go. The movie tracks how Farrokh Bulsara went from working at an airport in 1970 to becoming Freddie Mercury, the powerhouse frontman with a reported four-octave range who helped turn Queen into a global stadium-rock machine.

Rami Malek won an Oscar for this, and you can see why. Between the prosthetic teeth, the parade of wigs, and the physicality, he nails the presence. It is more a meticulous re-creation than a deep psychological excavation, but as a performance, it lands. The film lovingly rebuilds marquee moments: Queen doing Killer Queen on Top of the Pops, and that full-tilt 1985 Live Aid set at Wembley, recreated shot-for-shot enough to make fans grin. No wonder it hauled in nearly a billion dollars worldwide.

Is it catnip for boomers and anyone who still instinctively air-guitars to a big chorus? Absolutely. And yes, it streams on Netflix.

Denial (2016)

On paper, this sounds like homework. In practice, it is a sharp, gripping courtroom drama with real stakes. Rachel Weisz plays Deborah Lipstadt, an American academic and Holocaust scholar who gets sued in the UK by British writer David Irving (Timothy Spall) after she calls out his Holocaust denial. Here is the twist that matters: under British libel law, the burden falls on the defendant. So Lipstadt and her team have to prove, in court, that what she said was true.

That setup turns the trial into something bigger than a reputation fight; it is about defending historical fact against denialism. Timely is an overused word, but this one earns it in an era where disinformation and antisemitism flare up far too easily. Weisz is excellent as someone who understands the weight of the moment, and Tom Wilkinson, as her lawyer, makes a compelling case for winning by staying icy and methodical instead of emotional.

I promise, it is more propulsive than the synopsis suggests. Also streaming on Netflix.

Everest (2015)

Based on a true disaster that remains infamous in mountaineering circles, Everest follows two commercial expeditions — Adventure Consultants and Mountain Madness — pushing for the summit despite grim weather windows. Getting up is not the problem. Getting down is. A brutal blizzard hits, climbers are stranded on the descent, oxygen is vanishing, supplies are thin, and there is no cavalry coming. What follows is a series of rescue attempts where every choice is a bad one: risk your life to help, or leave someone to almost certain death.

It is shot with enough realism that you may feel a little dizzy and oddly cold from your couch. The cast is stacked — Jake Gyllenhaal, Keira Knightley, Josh Brolin, and more — but the most unforgettable presence is the mountain itself: gorgeous, indifferent, and absolutely unforgiving.

Also on Netflix, if you want the thrill without the frostbite.