The Best Movies Streaming In June (Including Prime Video, Netflix, Hulu And Max)

Topline

These are the best films, including Oscar winners and decades-old classics, set to join a streaming service next month, ranked by combined Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic scores.

The Spider-Man trilogy starring Tobey Maguire will debut on Netflix in June. Photo by Kevin … [+] Winter/ImageDirect

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Key Facts

The two best-rated films coming to Amazon Prime Video won the Academy Award for Best Picture more than five decades apart—1960’s The Apartment and 2013’s 12 Years a Slave.

Netflix will add Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy, as well as two films whose leading actors were nominated for Oscars earlier this year: Living (2022), which garnered a nomination for Bill Nighy, and To Leslie (2022), which landed a surprising, and controversial, nomination for Andrea Riseborough.

The top-rated film coming to Hulu next month with a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, Man on Wire (2008), is a documentary following Philippe Petit’s walk on a tightrope between the Twin Towers in 1974.

HBO’s newly rebranded streaming service, Max, will add three versions of A Star is Born: The 1954 edition starring Judy Garland and James Mason, the 1976 version starring Barbara Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, and the 2018 remake starring Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper.

Prime Video

1. 12 Years a Slave (2013), June 1 (95% Rotten Tomatoes, 96% Metacritic)

2. The Apartment (1960), June 1 (93% Rotten Tomatoes, 94% Metacritic)

3. (Tie) Dog Day Afternoon (1975), June 1 (96% Rotten Tomatoes, 86% Metacritic)

3. (Tie) TÁR (2022), June 6 (90% Rotten Tomatoes, 92% Metacritic)

5. Henry V (1989), June 1 (98% Rotten Tomatoes, 83% Metacritic)

6. Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (2019), June 1 (97% Rotten Tomatoes, 82% Metacritic)

7. Selma (2015), June 20 (99% Rotten Tomatoes, 79% Metacritic)

7. The Kids Are All Right (2010), June 1 (92% Rotten Tomatoes, 86% Metacritic)

9. Creed (2015), June 1 (95% Rotten Tomatoes, 82% Metacritic)

10. (Tie) Arrival (2016), June 1 (94% Rotten Tomatoes, 81% Metacritic)

10. (Tie) Brokeback Mountain (2004), June 1 (88% Rotten Tomatoes, 87% Metacritic)

Netflix

1. Dunkirk (2017), June 12 (92% Rotten Tomatoes, 94% Metacritic)

2. (Tie) Living (2022), June 5 (96% Rotten Tomatoes, 81% Metacritic)

2. (Tie) To Leslie (2022), June 1 (93% Rotten Tomatoes, 84% Metacritic)

4. Spider-Man 2 (2004), June 1 (93% Rotten Tomatoes, 80% Metacritic)

5. (Tie) Groundhog Day (1993), June 1 (94% Rotten Tomatoes, 72% Metacritic)

5. (Tie) Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), June 1 (91% Rotten Tomatoes, 75% Metacritic)

7. Spider-Man (2002), June 1 (90% Rotten Tomatoes, 73% Metacritic)

8. The Imitation Game (2014), June 26 (90% Rotten Tomatoes, 71% Metacritic)

9. The Breakfast Club (1985), June 1 (89% Rotten Tomatoes, 66% Metacritic)

10. (Tie) Mean Girls (2004), June 1 (84% Rotten Tomatoes, 66% Metacritic)

10. (Tie) Magic Mike (2012), June 1 (78% Rotten Tomatoes, 72% Metacritic)

Hulu

1. Man On Wire (2008), June 1 (100% Rotten Tomatoes, 89% Metacritic)

2. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), June 30 (92% Rotten Tomatoes, 88% Metacritic)

3. Borat (2006), June 1 (90% Rotten Tomatoes, 89% Metacritic)

4. Three Identical Strangers (2018), June 1 (96% Rotten Tomatoes, 81% Metacritic)

5. Barbarian (2022), June 25 (93% Rotten Tomatoes, 78% Metacritic)

6. Win Win (2010), June 1 (94% Rotten Tomatoes, 75% Metacritic)

7. (Tie) Attack The Block (2011), June 1 (90% Rotten Tomatoes, 75% Metacritic)

7. (Tie) 3:10 to Yuma (2007), June 1 (89% Rotten Tomatoes, 76% Metacritic)

7. (Tie) Tim’s Vermeer (2014), June 1 (89% Rotten Tomatoes, 76% Metacritic)

10. The Wolfpack (2015), June 1 (87% Rotten Tomatoes, 75% Metacritic)

Max

1. Moonlight (2016), June 1 (98% Rotten Tomatoes, 99% Metacritic)

2. The Hurt Locker (2009), June 1 (97% Rotten Tomatoes, 95% Metacritic)

3. A Star Is Born (1954), June 1 (98% Rotten Tomatoes, 89% Metacritic)

4. Dog Day Afternoon (1975), June 1 (96% Rotten Tomatoes, 86% Metacritic)

5. Moneyball (2011), June 1 (94% Rotten Tomatoes, 87% Metacritic)

6. A Star Is Born (2018), June 8 (90% Rotten Tomatoes, 88% Metacritic)

7. The Painter and the Thief (2020), June 1 (97% Rotten Tomatoes, 79% Metacritic)

8. Hairspray (2007), June 1 (92% Rotten Tomatoes, 81% Metacritic)

9. Eastern Promises (2007), June 1 (89% Rotten Tomatoes, 83% Metacritic)

Key Background

The Rotten Tomatoes critics score, known as the Tomatometer, is the percentage of critics who have given the film a positive review. A movie with at least 60% positive reviews is given a fresh tomato, while those with a score of less than 60% are given a splat. Metacritic calculates a weighted average of critics’ reviews, assigning different weights to each critic and publication, depending on importance or quality. Scores are displayed in green, yellow or red—indicating favorable, mixed or unfavorable reviews—and films with a score of at least 81% are designated as “must-see.” Both Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic track user ratings and allow users to write reviews, though these are displayed separately from critics’ scores.