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Summer is firmly<\/span> here and the temperatures are feeling borderline apocalyptic in much of the northern hemisphere. Why not avoid the angry sun and stay inside where it\u2019s (hopefully) cooler and distract yourself with some of the best movies on streaming right now?<\/p>\n Your choices are notably rich too. The spring hit sci-fi movie Project Hail Mary<\/em><\/a>, about the global freeze threatening Earth as a result of the sun mysteriously going out, is now on Prime Video, after winning theater audiences over with the help of an adorable pile of pebbles. If, however, you want to embrace the flames, you\u2019ll find some like minds in Avatar: Fire and Ash<\/em> on Disney+, where a violent new tribe of Na\u2019vi just want to see the world (well, a semi-sentient living moon) burn.<\/p>\n If you instead find the heat hellish, then a double bill of Satanic panic might be more fitting. Both Ready or Not 2<\/em>, also on Disney+, and They Will Kill You<\/em> on Hulu tap into a previously unexplored yet surprisingly rich subgenre of \u201cestranged sisters with melee weaponry killing murderous cultists\u201d\u2014insert the \u201cweird it happened twice<\/a>\u201d meme here, but just go with it. Or if you prefer not<\/em> to switch your brain entirely off for entertainment, there\u2019s also the far more cerebral Archive<\/em> or the dark dystopia of The Long Walk<\/em> to take your mind off the unbearable heat.<\/p>\n Here are WIRED\u2019s picks of the best movies to watch right now.<\/p>\n Waking up aboard a spaceship to find himself the only crew member still alive, amnesiac middle school science teacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) makes for an unlikely astronaut. Even worse, he\u2019s Earth\u2019s last hope for survival, sent out into space in search of a way to stop a strange phenomenon devouring the sun itself\u2014and almost every other star in the sky. It\u2019d be an impossible task solo, but luckily Ryland has back-up in the form of Rocky (James Ortiz), the first alien humanity has ever met, a five-legged stone creature who communicates in song.<\/p>\n Adapted from the book of the same name by Andy Weir (author of The Martian<\/em>), Project Hail Mary<\/em> is a fantastic slice of survival drama and hard science fiction, but the real heart of the movie is Ryland\u2019s and Rocky\u2019s growing friendship. Prepare to fall in love with an excitable rock spider-thing\u2014fist my bump, friends.<\/p>\n Picking up from 2022\u2019s The Way of Water<\/em>, human-soldier-in-a-Na\u2019vi-body Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and his family are in mourning following the death of their eldest son Neteyam, leading wife Neytiri (Zoe Salda\u00f1a) down a dark path. As the family struggles to stay together, the colonialist human forces led by Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang) forge a deadly alliance with a warmongering tribe of fire-worshipping Na\u2019vi ruled by the nihilistic Varang (Oona Chaplin)\u2014who aims for destruction to spite the Na\u2019vi\u2019s god, Eywa. James Cameron\u2019s almost inconceivably ambitious saga returns with a visually spectacular outing taking viewers through striking new regions of the lush jungle moon Pandora. Fire and Ash<\/em> is no jumping on point, but thankfully you can binge the entire trilogy (for now; Avatar<\/em> 4 and 5 are planned) on Disney+.<\/p>\nProject Hail Mary<\/em><\/h2>\n
Avatar: Fire and Ash<\/em><\/h2>\n
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come<\/em><\/h2>\n