Apple TV+ offers a wide variety of TV shows, movies, and documentaries. While the service has a strong track record for making quality TV (here are the best shows), the film library is more hit or miss. There’s still a lot to enjoy, though, especially if you know what you’re looking for. And you can look no further: here are the best reviewed movies on Apple TV+.
Best of the best: 90-100% Rotten Tomatoes score
Wolfwalkers (99%)
- Genre: Animation
- Release: 2020
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In a time of superstition and magic, a young apprentice hunter, Robyn Goodfellowe, journeys to Ireland with her father to wipe out the last wolf pack in Wolfwalkers. While exploring the forbidden lands outside the city walls, Robyn befriends a free-spirited girl, Mebh, a member of a mysterious tribe rumored to have the ability to transform into wolves by night. As they search for Mebh’s missing mother, Robyn uncovers a secret that draws her further into the enchanted world of the Wolfwalkers and risks becoming the very thing her father is tasked to destroy.
Come From Away (98%)
- Genre: Musical
- Release: 2021
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Come From Away is the filmed version of the award-winning Broadway musical. It tells the story of 7,000 people stranded in the small town of Gander, Newfoundland after all flights into the US are grounded on September 11, 2001. The people of Newfoundland graciously welcome the “come from aways” into their community in the aftermath. All the while, passengers and locals alike process what’s happened while finding love, laughter and new hope in the unlikely bonds that they forge.
Fancy Dance (96%)
Fancy Dance tells the story of Jax (Lily Gladstone), who has cared for her niece Roki (Isabel Deroy-Olson) since her sister’s disappearance. The two scrape by on the Seneca-Cayuga reservation in Oklahoma. Every spare minute goes into finding Jax’s missing sister while also helping Roki prepare for an upcoming powwow. At the risk of Jax losing custody to Roki’s grandfather, Frank (Shea Whigham), the pair hit the road and scour the backcountry to track down Roki’s mother in time for the powwow. What begins as a search gradually turns into a far deeper investigation into the complexities and contradictions of Indigenous women moving through a colonized world while at the mercy of a failed justice system.
CODA (94%)
In CODA, seventeen-year-old Ruby (Emilia Jones) is the sole hearing member of a deaf family – a child of deaf adults (CODA). Her life revolves around acting as interpreter for her parents (Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur). Her mornings are spent working on the family’s struggling fishing boat before school with her father and older brother (Daniel Durant). But when Ruby joins the high school’s choir club, she discovers a gift for singing and soon finds herself drawn to her duet partner Miles (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo). Encouraged by her enthusiastic, tough-love choirmaster (Eugenio Derbez) to apply to a prestigious music school, Ruby finds herself torn between the obligations she feels to her family and the pursuit of her own dreams.
Flora and Son (93%)
- Genre: Comedy
- Release: 2023
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In Flora and Son, single mom Flora (Eve Hewson) is at a loss about what to do with her rebellious teenage son, Max (Orén Kinlan). Encouraged by the police to find Max a hobby, Flora tries to occupy him with a beat-up acoustic guitar. With the help of a washed-up LA musician (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), Flora and Max discover the transformative power of music. From the musical mind of John Carney, “Flora and Son” explores the bond between mother and son who journey toward new harmony.
Killers of the Flower Moon (93%)
- Genre: Crime Drama
- Release: 2023
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Killers of the Flower Moon is an epic western crime saga, where real love crosses paths with unspeakable betrayal. Based on a true story and told through the improbable romance of Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Mollie Kyle (Lily Gladstone), it tracks the suspicious murders of members of the Osage Nation, who became some of the richest people in the world overnight after oil was discovered underneath their land.
The Tragedy of MacBeth (92%)
The Tragedy of MacBeth is a tale of murder, madness, ambition and wrathful cunning. Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand star in Joel Coen’s bold and fierce adaptation.
Nearly top-tier: 80-89% score
On the Rocks (87%)
- Genre: Comedy
- Release: 2020
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On the Rocks features a young New York mother, faced with sudden doubts about her marriage, who teams up with her larger-than-life playboy father to tail her husband. What follows is a sparkling comic adventure across the city – drawing father and daughter closer together despite one detour after another. Acclaimed filmmaker Sofia Coppola brings a light touch to this blend of an exuberant love letter to New York, a generation-clash comedy about how we see relationships differently from our parents, and a funny celebration of the complications that bind modern families even as they tie us in crazy knots.
Hala (86%)
Seventeen-year-old Pakistani American teenager Hala (Geraldine Viswanathan) struggles to balance desire with her familial, cultural and religious obligations. As she comes into her own, she grapples with a secret that threatens to unravel her family.
Causeway (85%)
Causeway is an intimate portrait of a soldier (Jennifer Lawrence) struggling to adjust to her life after returning home to New Orleans.
Cha Cha Real Smooth (85%)
- Genre: Comedy
- Release: 2022
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Fresh out of college and without a clear life path going forward, 22-year-old Andrew is stuck back at home with his family in Cha Cha Real Smooth. But if there’s one thing that belongs on his nonexistent résumé, it’s how to get a party started, which lands him the perfect job of motivational dancing at the bar and bat mitzvahs for his younger brother’s classmates. When Andrew befriends a local mom, Domino, and her daughter, Lola, he finally discovers a future he wants – even if it might not be his own.
Tetris (82%)
- Genre: Thriller
- Release: 2023
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Tetris tells the unbelievable story of how one of the world’s most popular video games found its way to avid players around the globe. Henk Rogers (Taron Egerton) discovers TETRIS in 1988, and then risks everything by traveling to the Soviet Union. There, he joins forces with inventor Alexey Pajitnov (Nikita Efremov) to bring the game to the masses. Based on a true story, “Tetris” is a Cold War–era thriller on steroids, with double-crossing villains, unlikely heroes and a nail-biting race to the finish.
Solid viewing options: 70-79% score
The Banker (79%)
Inspired by true events, The Banker centers on revolutionary businessmen Bernard Garrett (Anthony Mackie) and Joe Morris (Samuel L. Jackson). Together, they devise an audacious and risky plan to take on the racist establishment of the 1960s by helping other African Americans pursue the American dream. Along with Garrett’s wife Eunice (Nia Long), they train a working class white man, Matt Steiner (Nicholas Hoult), to pose as the rich and privileged face of their burgeoning real estate and banking empire – while Garrett and Morris pose as a janitor and a chauffeur. Their success ultimately draws the attention of the federal government, which threatens everything the four have built.
Swan Song (79%)
Set in the near future, Swan Song is a powerful, emotional journey told through the eyes of Cameron (Mahershala Ali), a loving husband and father who is expecting his second child with his wife Poppy (Naomie Harris). When Cameron is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he is presented with an alternative solution by his doctor (Glenn Close) to shield his family from grief. As Cameron grapples with whether or not to alter his family’s fate, he learns more about life and love than he ever imagined.
Greyhound (78%)
- Genre: Action
- Release: 2020
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In Greyhound, Tom Hanks stars as a longtime Navy veteran tasked with protecting a convoy of 37 ships carrying thousands of soldiers and much-needed supplies across the treacherous waters of the Atlantic during World War II. For five days with no air cover, the captain and his small force of three escort ships must make their way through an area of the ocean known as “the Black Pit,” battling Nazi U-boats while protecting their invaluable ships and soldiers. “Greyhound” is inspired by events during the Battle of the Atlantic, which took place in the earliest months of America’s alliance with Great Britain and the Allied Forces.
Finch (74%)
- Genre: Adventure
- Release: 2021
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In Finch, a man, a robot and a dog form an unlikely family. It’s the story of one man’s quest to ensure that his beloved canine companion will be cared for after he’s gone. Tom Hanks stars as Finch, a robotics engineer and one of the few survivors of a cataclysmic solar event that has left the world a wasteland. But Finch, who has been living underground for a decade, has built a world of his own that he shares with his dog, Goodyear. He creates a robot, played by Caleb Landry Jones, to watch over Goodyear when he no longer can. As the trio embarks on a perilous journey into a desolate American West, Finch strives to show his creation, who names himself Jeff, the joy and wonder of what it means to be alive.
Wolfs (73%)
- Genre: Action Comedy
- Release: 2024
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Global superstars George Clooney and Brad Pitt team up for the action comedy Wolfs. Clooney plays a professional fixer hired to cover up a high-profile crime. But when a second fixer (Pitt) shows up, the two “lone wolves” are forced to work together. They quickly find their night spiraling out of control in ways that neither one of them expected.
Palmer (72%)
Palmer tells the story of former high school football star Eddie Palmer (Justin Timberlake), who went from hometown hero to convicted felon. Following 12 years in a state penitentiary, he returns home to Louisiana, where he moves back in with Vivian (June Squibb), the grandmother who raised him. While trying to keep his head down and rebuild a quiet life for himself, Palmer is haunted by memories of his glory days and suspicious small town eyes. Things become more complicated when Vivian’s hard-living neighbor Shelly (Juno Temple) disappears on a prolonged bender, leaving her precocious and unique 7-year-old son Sam (Ryder Allen), often the target of bullying, in Palmer’s reluctant care.
Spirited (70%)
- Genre: Musical Comedy
- Release: 2022
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Each Christmas Eve in Spirited, the Ghost of Christmas Present (Will Ferrell) selects one dark soul to be reformed by a visit from three spirits. But this season, he picked the wrong Scrooge. Clint Briggs (Ryan Reynolds) turns the tables on his ghostly host until Present finds himself reexamining his own past, present and future. For the first time, “A Christmas Carol” is told from the perspective of the ghosts in this hilarious musical twist on the classic Dickens tale.
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