Now that the 2026 Super Bowl is over, it’s time to pay attention to what’s really important in life — watching good films.
There’s plenty of quality movies out there, including a few that were criminally ignored last year.
Watch With Us is here to right that wrong. I’ve selected three overlooked 2025 movies that are worth your time to watch in February.
From the critically maligned Ella McCay starring Jamie Lee Curtis on Disney+ to the afterlife rom-com Eternity with Elizabeth Olsen on Apple TV, these pictures deserve a second life on streaming.
‘Ella McCay’ (2025) — Disney+
Recently, the December bomb Ella McCay was released in France to ecstatic reviews, with one critic hailing the maligned comedy-drama as a masterpiece. I wouldn’t go quite that far, but it’s nice to see Ella McCay appreciated for the charming — if flawed — movie that it is.
Ella McCay (Emma Mackey) suddenly finds herself the governor of a state in desperate need of help. Ella’s personal life could use some fixing up, too, especially when her estranged father, Eddie McCay (Woody Harrelson), crashes back into her life. With a looming political scandal and a crumbling marriage, Ella’s life is more chaotic than ever. Can she be the leader everyone needs her to be?
There’s a lot going on in Ella McCay, and not all of it works, but it has enough good qualities that make it better than its bad reputation here in the States. Anyone who has seen Sex Education knows Mackey is a talented actress, and she finally has a lead role in a big-budget movie that shows her flair for comedy and drama. Written and directed by James L. Brooks, the film echoes his earlier classics like Terms of Endearment and Broadcast News in depicting messy family and professional relationships that aren’t easy to categorize or deal with.
‘Eternity’ (2025) — Apple TV+
Finding true love is rare, but Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) is lucky — she found it twice, with Luke (Callum Turner) when she was very young and with Larry (Miles Teller), whom she’s been married to for 65 years. Now Joan is faced with an impossible decision — which one should she spend the rest of eternity with?
Eternity isn’t your usual rom-com fare. For starters, everyone in the movie is dead — the movie takes place in an afterlife where you get to decide who you want to spend forever with in a customized eternal existence. The only catch is that once you choose an eternity, that decision is final — any attempts to go back will lead you to be cast away into The Void, which is as bleak as it sounds.
Eternity isn’t bleak; instead, it’s a surprisingly optimistic portrait about what could possibly happen after you shuffle off this mortal coil. The movie is clever in that it doesn’t make Joan’s decision obvious — both men truly love her, even if their love for her means different things. Taking a break from playing the MCU’s wicked witch and real-life murderers on streaming, Olsen finally snags a role that lets her showcase her rom-com bonafides. You couldn’t ask for a more charming actress to spend Eternity with.
Eternity will stream on Apple TV on February 13.
‘The Running Man’ (2025) — Paramount+
One of the few truly bankable genres left at the box office is sci-fi, so it’s even more perplexing that The Running Man wasn’t a hit at the box office last November. It has everything going for it: a charismatic lead star, Glen Powell, who shows off his action-movie prowess; assured direction from Edgar Wright, who clearly loves the Stephen King story he’s adapting; and a killer-reality-show concept that, in our age of Beast Wars and real-life Squid Games, is more relevant than ever.
Powell plays Ben Richards, a blue-collar everyman who is trying to get by in a bleak future dystopia. When his daughter gets sick, he needs a lot of money to get the treatment she needs to survive. The only way for someone like him to do that is to take part in The Running Man, a reality TV competition show that awards the winner $1 billion. Sounds awesome, right? Well, the downside is that there can be only one winner, and all the losers have to pay a very high price — their lives.
