New movies drop on the Peacock every month, one reason the NBCUniversal streaming service has reason to be hopeful. Its impressive library is stocked with titles from a wide range of brands, most notably Universal Pictures. Peacock’s selection of movies makes it one of the best streaming services out there (and why we keep paying for Peacock).
Each month Peacock welcomes a range of new films to join the catalogue. With so many options, though, finding something to watch can mean quite a bit of scrolling. That’s why we’re here to help by highlighting the best new Peacock movies with great Rotten Tomatoes scores. The review aggregator issues ratings for movies and TV shows based on reviews from critics and audience members.
If you’re looking for quality movies, you can look for ones that are certified “fresh,” meaning at least 60 percent of the reviews are positive. For an even more fun choice, you can watch a movie with a 90 percent score or higher—essentially an A grade. Here are some new Peacock movies to stream right now.
Apollo 13
Heroes can be super with no special powers other than bravery, determination, and quick thinking. The actual events of the 1970 Apollo 13 moon mission are adapted into a pulse-pounding space thriller. Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Fred Hayes (Bill Paxton) and Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon) are ready to land on the moon when things go horribly wrong.
After an oxygen tank explodes, the landing is aborted. Even worse, the lives of the crew themselves are in danger. Meanwhile, at mission headquarters, engineers are racing against time to find a way to return the astronauts safely home to Earth.
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 96%
genre: Historical drama
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Back to the Future
Before time travel essentially became its own movie genre (including multiverse sagas), 1985’s Back to the Future helped pave the way. The imaginative, clever story follows small-town teenager Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) who is accidentally sent back in time in a DeLorean by eccentric scientist Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd).
Marty finds himself in 1955, where he encounters younger versions of his own parents, father George (Crispin Glover) and mother Lorraine (Lea Thompson). He has to make sure they fall in love or he won’t exist! Ah, the paradoxes of time travel.
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 97%
genre: Sci-fi adventure/comedy
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Dallas Buyers Club
The McConaissance peaked when Matthew McConaughey won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his poignant portrayal of a man with AIDS in the 1980s. After his diagnosis, Texas electrician Ron Woodruff was ostracized, fired, and kicked out of his home.
When a trial of the drug AZT worsened his health, he sought alternative therapies that were not approved by the FDA. Finding that they helped, he smuggled the drugs out of Mexico and began selling them to HIV-positive patients in Dallas.
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 92%
genre: Biographical drama
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Frost/Nixon
One of the most scandalous figures in American history is at the center of this docudrama: disgraced former president Richard Nixon (Frank Langella). The other character in this mostly two-hander is British broadcaster David Frost (Michael Sheen), who conducts an exclusive interview with Nixon three years after the Watergate scandal.
Both men go into this with their own goals – Nixon hoping to repair his image, Frost looking for a moment where you have to face off. Their conversations are strikingly candid. The result is a fascinating reenactment of how political hubris can so easily crumble and bring down even the President of the United States.
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 93%
genre: Historical drama
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Jurassic Park
Steven Spielberg is a film legend for creating some of the biggest and best blockbusters of all time. In fact, he invented them with Jaws. But not one to rest on his laurels, Spielberg went even bigger with Jurassic Park, which mixed a scientist’s fever dream with huge action sequences and revolutionary (at the time) special effects.
We all feel the same awe as scientists Sam Neill and Laura Dern when we see real live dinosaurs recreated from DNA found in a preserved mosquito. The scene of velociraptors stalking people in a kitchen is one of the most iconic moments in film history.
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 91%
genre: Action adventure
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Minority Report
Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise’s sci-fi thriller is as prophetic and relevant today as it was in 2002 (not to mention 1956, when Philip K. Dick published his novella). In 2054, the police have created a special pre-crime unit that catches criminals using foreknowledge provided by three psychics called “premonitions”.
Crime boss John Anderton (Cruise) is shocked when predictions show he will commit a murder in 36 years. He’s on the run from his own deputies, determined to find out why he’s supposed to kill a man he’s never met. While investigating, Anderton discovers the dark side of the divination system.
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 90%
genre: A sci-fi thriller
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Shaun of the Dead
Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright’s witty take on a zombie movie has monsters and thrills while being thoroughly funny, sarcastic and wild. Thirtysomething Sean (Peg) is a salesman going nowhere who has just been dumped.
He drowns his sorrows in the local pub with slacker best friend Ed (Nick Frost), but when they wake up in the morning, the zombie apocalypse has hit London. Sean must dig deep within himself to deal with the situation and protect his ex Liz (Kate Ashfield) and his mother (Penelope Wilton).
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 92%
genre: Zombie comedy
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