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Best Movies on HBO Max – August 2026
The best movies on HBO Max right now, ranked by critic and audience scores. Updated for August 2026.
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1. Hell or High Water (2016)
A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas.
7.6
97%
Streaming on: HBO Max Amazon Channel, YouTube TV, HBO Max
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine, Ben Foster
Directed by: David Mackenzie
2. Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society, a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the Multiverse's very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must set out on his own to save those he loves most.
8.595%
Streaming on: Disney Plus, fuboTV, HBO Max Amazon Channel, FXNow, HBO Max
Starring: Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Brian Tyree Henry
Directed by: Kemp Powers
3. Barbarian (2022)
In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay the night anyway.
7.092%
Streaming on: fuboTV, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
Starring: Georgina Campbell, Justin Long, Bill Skarsgård
Directed by: Zach Cregger
4. Sicario (2015)
An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.
7.791%
Streaming on: Hulu, fuboTV, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
Starring: Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, Josh Brolin
Directed by: Denis Villeneuve
5. The Lighthouse (2019)
Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
7.490%
Streaming on: HBO Max Amazon Channel, YouTube TV, HBO Max
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Valeriia Karaman
Directed by: Robert Eggers
6. Hereditary (2018)
Following the death of the Leigh family matriarch, Annie and her children uncover disturbing secrets about their heritage. Their daily lives are not only impacted, but they also become entangled in a chilling fate from which they cannot escape, driving them to the brink of madness.
7.390%
Streaming on: HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
Starring: Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Gabriel Byrne
Directed by: Ari Aster
7. Stand by Me (1986)
After learning that a boy their age has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four boys decide to go see the body. Gordie, Vern, Chris, and Teddy encounter a mean junk man and a marsh full of leeches, but they also learn more about one another and their very different home lives. Just a lark at first, the boys' adventure evolves into a defining event in their lives.
8.189%
Streaming on: fuboTV, HBO Max Amazon Channel, Philo, MGM Plus Roku Premium Channel, YouTube TV, AMC, MGM Plus, HBO Max
Starring: Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman
Directed by: Rob Reiner
8. The Long Walk (2025)
In a dystopian 1970s America, fifty teenage boys take part in a deadly annual walking contest, forced to maintain a minimum pace or be executed, until only one survivor remains.
6.788%
Streaming on: HBO Max Amazon Channel, Starz Apple TV Channel, YouTube TV, HBO Max
Starring: Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Ben Wang
Directed by: Francis Lawrence
9. It Comes At Night (2017)
Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.
6.188%
Streaming on: HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
Starring: Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbott, Carmen Ejogo
Directed by: Trey Edward Shults
10. The Usual Suspects (1995)
Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord's almost supernatural prowess.
8.587%
Streaming on: Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max Amazon Channel, YouTube TV, Cinemax Amazon Channel, HBO Max, Cinemax Apple TV Channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
Starring: Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio del Toro
Directed by: Bryan Singer
11. Dumb Money (2023)
Vlogger Keith Gill sinks his life savings into GameStop stock and posts about it. When social media starts blowing up, so do his life and the lives of everyone following him. As a stock tip becomes a movement, everyone gets rich—until the billionaires fight back, and both sides find their worlds turned upside down.
6.884%
Streaming on: Hulu, fuboTV, HBO Max Amazon Channel, YouTube TV, HBO Max
Starring: Paul Dano, Shailene Woodley, America Ferrera
Directed by: Craig Gillespie
12. Blockers (2018)
When three parents discover that each of their daughters have a pact to lose their virginity at prom, they launch a covert one-night operation to stop the teens from sealing the deal.
6.284%
Streaming on: HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
Starring: Leslie Mann, John Cena, Ike Barinholtz
Directed by: Kay Cannon
13. Dune (2021)
Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence - a commodity capable of unlocking humanity's greatest potential - only those who can conquer their fear will survive.
8.083%
Streaming on: HBO Max Amazon Channel, YouTube TV, HBO Max
Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac
Directed by: Denis Villeneuve
14. Deadpool 2 (2018)
Wisecracking mercenary Deadpool battles the evil and powerful Cable and other bad guys to save a boy's life.
7.683%
Streaming on: Disney Plus, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Morena Baccarin
Directed by: David Leitch
15. Midsommar (2019)
Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.
7.183%
Streaming on: HBO Max Amazon Channel, YouTube TV, HBO Max
Starring: Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper
Directed by: Ari Aster
16. Miss Sloane (2016)
An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.
7.576%
Streaming on: HBO Max Amazon Channel, Cinemax Amazon Channel, HBO Max, Cinemax Apple TV Channel
Starring: Jessica Chastain, Mark Strong, Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Directed by: John Madden
17. The Equalizer 3 (2023)
Robert McCall finds himself at home in Southern Italy but he discovers his friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends' protector by taking on the mafia.
6.876%
Streaming on: Hulu, fuboTV, HBO Max Amazon Channel, YouTube TV, FXNow, HBO Max
Starring: Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Eugenio Mastrandrea
Directed by: Antoine Fuqua
18. Legally Blonde (2001)
Fashionable sorority queen Elle Woods has it all, but, she wants nothing more than to be Mrs. Warner Huntington III. But he dumps her before heading to Harvard Law School. Elle rallies all of her resources and gets into Harvard, determined to win him back. While there, she figures out that there is more to herself than just good looks.
6.575%
Streaming on: Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max Amazon Channel, YouTube TV, HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Selma Blair
Directed by: Robert Luketic
19. Ocean's Eight (2018)
Debbie Ocean, a criminal mastermind, gathers a crew of female thieves to pull off the heist of the century at New York's annual Met Gala.
6.369%
Streaming on: HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway
Directed by: Gary Ross
20. Army of Darkness (1992)
Ash, a handsome, shotgun-toting, chainsaw-armed department store clerk, is time warped backwards into England's Dark Ages, where he romances a beauty and faces legions of the undead.
7.468%
Streaming on: HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
Starring: Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert
Directed by: Sam Raimi
21. Epic (2013)
A teenager finds herself transported to a deep forest setting where a battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil is taking place. She bands together with a rag-tag group characters in order to save their world—and ours.
6.665%
Streaming on: HBO Max Amazon Channel, Cinemax Amazon Channel, HBO Max, Cinemax Apple TV Channel
Starring: Colin Farrell, Amanda Seyfried, Christoph Waltz
Directed by: Chris Wedge
22. Orphan (2009)
After losing their baby, a married couple adopt 9-year old Esther, who may not be as innocent as she seems.
7.060%
Streaming on: HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
Starring: Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Isabelle Fuhrman
Directed by: Jaume Collet-Serra
23. Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.
6.560%
Streaming on: HBO Max Amazon Channel, YouTube TV, Cinemax Amazon Channel, HBO Max, Cinemax Apple TV Channel
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Tom Bateman, Michelle Pfeiffer
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
24. Godzilla x Kong The New Empire (2024)
Following their explosive showdown, Godzilla and Kong must reunite against a colossal undiscovered threat hidden within our world, challenging their very existence – and our own.
6.054%
Streaming on: HBO Max Amazon Channel, YouTube TV, HBO Max
Starring: Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Dan Stevens
Directed by: Adam Wingard
25. Happy Feet Two (2011)
Mumble the penguin has a problem: his son Erik, who is reluctant to dance, encounters the Mighty Sven — a penguin who can fly! Things get worse for Mumble when the world is shaken by powerful forces, causing him to bring together the penguin nations and their allies to set things right.
5.845%
Streaming on: HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
Starring: Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, P!nk
Directed by: George Miller
26. Pacific Rim Uprising (2018)
It has been ten years since The Battle of the Breach and the oceans are still, but restless. Vindicated by the victory at the Breach, the Jaeger program has evolved into the most powerful global defense force in human history. The PPDC now calls upon the best and brightest to rise up and become the next generation of heroes when the Kaiju threat returns.
5.642%
Streaming on: HBO Max Amazon Channel, Cinemax Amazon Channel, HBO Max, Cinemax Apple TV Channel
Starring: John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Cailee Spaeny
Directed by: Steven S. DeKnight
27. Practical Magic (1998)
Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, dies unexpectedly, the Owens sisters give themselves a crash course in hard magic. With policeman Gary Hallet growing suspicious, the girls struggle to resurrect Angelov -- and unwittingly inject his corpse with an evil spirit that threatens to end their family line.
6.427%
Streaming on: HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Stockard Channing
Directed by: Griffin Dunne
28. The Mummy (2017)
Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension.
5.415%
Streaming on: Hulu, HBO Max Amazon Channel, YouTube TV, HBO Max
Starring: Tom Cruise, Annabelle Wallis, Sofia Boutella
Directed by: Alex Kurtzman
29. Gran Turismo (2023)
The ultimate wish-fulfillment tale of a teenage Gran Turismo player whose gaming skills won him a series of Nissan competitions to become an actual professional racecar driver.
7.1N/A
Streaming on: Hulu, fuboTV, HBO Max Amazon Channel, YouTube TV, HBO Max
Starring: Archie Madekwe, David Harbour, Orlando Bloom
Directed by: Neill Blomkamp
30. Spirited Away (2001)
A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.
N/AN/A
Streaming on: HBO Max Amazon Channel, YouTube TV, HBO Max
Starring: Rumi Hiiragi, Miyu Irino, Mari Natsuki
Directed by: Hayao Miyazaki
31. The Brutalist (2024)
When an innovative modern architect flees post-war Europe, he is given the opportunity to rebuild his legacy. Set during the dawn of the modern United States (in Pennsylvania), his wife joins him, and their lives are forever changed by a demanding, wealthy patron.
N/AN/A
Streaming on: HBO Max Amazon Channel, YouTube TV, HBO Max
Starring: Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce
Directed by: Brady Corbet