What to Watch in February: 20 Notable TV Shows & Streaming Movies

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – January 28, 2022

The month ahead will bring a Kanye West documentary, the final seasons of Killing Eve and Better Things, the return of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, a miniseries about Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee, a dramatic reimagining of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, a new Jack Reacher series, and more. In the gallery on this page, our editors have selected the most intriguing TV and movie titles debuting at home in the next month, listed in order by premiere date.

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BONUS: Top older titles coming to the streaming services in February

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▣ Nightmare Alley (2021) - HBO, HBO Max, and Hulu, 2/1
Making a quick jump to streaming in these pandemic-shuffled times, Guillermo del Toro's just-released follow-up to Oscar-winner The Shape of Water is a film noir thriller adapted from the novel by William Lindsay Gresham (also previously made into a 1947 feature film). A great cast is led by Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Rooney Mara, and Willem Dafoe.

also available:

3:10 to Yuma (2007) - HBO and HBO Max, 2/1

12 Years a Slave (2013) - HBO and HBO Max, 2/1

(500) Days Of Summer (2009) - Prime Video, 2/1

Airplane! (1980) - Hulu and Paramount+, 2/1

Almost Famous (2000) - Hulu, 2/1

Borat (2006) - Prime Video, 2/1

The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) - Netflix, 2/1

Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) - Paramount+, 2/1

Bridesmaids (2011) - Peacock, 2/1

Casualties of War (1989) - Hulu and Paramount+, 2/1

Chinatown (1974) - HBO and HBO Max, 2/1

The Dark Knight (2008) - Netflix, 2/1

Do the Right Thing (1989) - Peacock, 2/1

Donnie Brasco (1997) - Netflix, 2/1

El Dorado (1967) - Hulu and Paramount+, 2/1

The Exorcist (1973) - Netflix, 2/1

The Fly (1986) - Prime Video, 2/1

Forrest Gump (1994) - Prime Video, 2/1

The French Connection (1971) - Hulu and Paramount+, 2/1

Glory (1990) - Hulu and Paramount+, 2/1

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1967) - Prime Video, 2/1

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) - Hulu and Paramount+, 2/1

Lincoln (2012) - Prime Video, 2/1

Little Miss Sunshine (2006) - Prime Video, 2/1

Love & Mercy (2015) - HBO and HBO Max, 2/1

Love Story (1970) - Paramount+, 2/1

Lucky (2017) - Hulu, 2/1

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence (1962) - Hulu and Paramount+, 2/1

Midnight Run (1988) - Peacock, 2/1

Miss Bala (2011) - Hulu, 2/1

Murderball (2005) - Peacock, 2/16

Network (1976) - HBO Max, 2/1

No End in Sight (2007) - HBO and HBO Max, 2/1

Platoon (1987) - Prime Video, 2/1

Presenting Princess Shaw (2016) - HBO and HBO Max, 2/1

Rabbit Hole (2010) - HBO and HBO Max, 2/1

Rango (2011) - HBO and HBO Max, 2/1

Rick and Morty (Season 5) - HBO Max and Hulu, 2/5

Rosemary's Baby (1968) - Hulu and Paramount+, 2/1

The Searchers (1956) - HBO Max, 2/1

The Shape of Water (2017) - Hulu, 2/15

The Shawshank Redemption (1994) - Peacock, 2/1

Sugar (2009) - HBO and HBO Max, 2/1

Superbad (2007) - Peacock, 2/1

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) - HBO and HBO Max, 2/1

Terms of Endearment (1983) - Hulu and Paramount+, 2/1

There Will Be Blood (2007) - Paramount+, 2/1

Three Identical Strangers (2018) - Hulu, 2/27

The Tree of Life (2011) - Hulu, 2/1

West Side Story (1961) - HBO and HBO Max, 2/1

What's Love Got to Do With It (1993) - Peacock, 2/1

Whiplash (2014) - Hulu, 2/1

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