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This July, we are getting a ton of content from the much-anticipated conclusion of The Sandman and return of the beloved series Twisted Metal on streaming, to the release of some of the most anticipated movies of this year, such as James Gunn‘s Superman, and the much-awaited The Fantastic Four: First Steps. This upcoming month will see the release of many great movies, so we thought of compiling a list of all the best movies that are coming straight to streaming.

The Old Guard 2 (July 2) – Netflix Credit – Netflix

The Old Guard 2 is an upcoming superhero action fantasy film directed by Victoria Mahoney from a screenplay by Greg Rucka. Based on the comic book of the same name by Rucka and Leandro Fernández, the Netflix sequel film continues the story of Andy as she loses her...

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Hulu is ready with an entertainment-packed July this year. While we already know all the brilliant films that will be leaving Hulu in the upcoming month, we will also see the premiere of the highly anticipated upcoming season of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and the streaming release of Rami Malek‘s spy action thriller film The Amateur. Just like every month, Hulu is ready to overload you with great content. So, we’re here to tell you about the 12 new movies and TV shows coming to Hulu in July 2025.

Dan Da Dan Season 2 English Sub & Dub (July 3) Credit – Yukinobu Tatsu/Shueisha, Dandadan Production Committee

Dan Da Dan is a Japanese teen sci-fi fantasy anime series. Based on the Japanese manga series of the same name by Yukinobu Tatsu, the upcoming Season 2 of the anime series will continue...

Elizabeth Olsen will always be inseparable from her work as the Scarlet Witch in the MCU, but she recently starred in a twisty dystopian sci-fi thriller that just got an exciting new look. Collider is elated to partner with Magnolia Home Entertainment to showcase a new sneak peek at The Assessment, the sci-fi film in which Olsen stars alongside Alicia Vikander and Himesh Patel. The sneak peek, which can be found below, shows Vikander’s Virginia sharing the news with Olsen’s Mia and Patel’s Aaryan that they can have a child together, but only after undergoing a rigorous vetting process. The Assessment is now available to rent or purchase on VOD platforms like Prime Video, and the film will go up for sale on Blu-ray and DVD tomorrow.

The Assessment is set in the not-so-distant future when resources are scarce and strictly controlled. Even having a child is...

If you miss seeing Elizabeth Olsen (WandaVision) on screen or are just a big fan of thrillers, Prime Video has excellent news for you. The streamer announced today that The Assessment is going to debut on the platform, and you won't have to wait a lot for it: it pops up in the catalog on May 8. The story takes place in a dystopian future while society tries to rebuild itself. It also stars Alicia Vikander (Firebrand), Himesh Patel (The Franchise) and Indira Varma (Disclaimer). In order to celebrate the release, the streamer published the trailer on its official channel.

The trailer for The Assessment is both atmospheric and haunting. It starts off simple enough, with Virginia (Vikander) arriving at Mia (Olsen) and Aaryan's (Patel) house to evaluate if the couple is eligible to have a child. Their relationship quickly spirals out of control when Virginia tests them both in abstract and practical aspects,...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our TIFF 2024 coverage. The Assessment will be released in theaters on March 21 from Magnolia Pictures.

The “old world” is a wasteland. People still live there, but not for very long. Those in the “new world” live hundreds of years thanks to a drug that slows aging. It’s groundbreaking technology that comes at a price: the combination of scarce real estate on which to live safely and figurative immortality means less to go around for a populace that never decreases. The compromise was thus to take China’s now-defunct “one-child policy” to the nth degree and render the conception of all children illegal. Unless you’re granted a waiver by the government, but that permission is understandably not easily won. You must prove yourselves worthy as a couple via a seven-day evaluation.

This is the sci-fi backdrop to Fleur Fortune’s The Assessment.

Plot: In the near future where parenthood is strictly controlled, a couple’s seven-day assessment for the right to have a child unravels into a psychological nightmare, forcing them to question the very foundations of their society and what it truly means to be human.

Review: I love a good science fiction movie that does not rely on spaceships or robots to deliver a convincing and chilling portrait of a plausible near future. Some of the best episodes of Black Mirror have been the ones that are not too far from the technological reality we are already living in. The new film The Assessment takes the climate-ravaged future of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar and combines it with the technological dystopia of Ex Machina with a dollop of The Handmaid’s Tale mixed in for good measure. Led by fantastic performances from Elizabeth Olsen and Himesh Patel alongside a startingly original character played by Alicia Vikander,...

Fleur Fortuné’s near-future-set feature-length directorial debut, The Assessment, prods at current-day anxieties around having children amid a recrudescence of fascism and dress rehearsals for the climate apocalypse. Even as these two forces refuse to recognize each other’s authority, they skip into the future hand in hand.

Owing to their wealth and obedience, Mia (Elizabeth Olsen) and Aaryan (Himesh Patel) live in a coastal modernist villa, insulated from the largely off-screen ravages of a dystopian climate apocalypse by an atmosphere-controlled forcefield. Mia cultivates gourmet algae in a greenhouse of her own design, where she also keeps an orchid that’s all she has left of her mother, who was exiled to the “Old World” for political dissidence. Aaryan is a programmer who, in a nod to Philip K. Dick, designs artificial pets to replace those lost in the “pet cull.”

Mia and Aaryan decide that what’s missing in their life is a kid,...

Elizabeth Olsen doesn’t appreciate Alicia Vikander meddling in her plan to start a family in the trailer for the sci-fi feature The Assessment.

Director Fleur Fortuné’s movie hits theaters March 21 from Magnolia Pictures after premiering at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival. Rounding out the cast are Himesh Patel, Minnie Driver, Indira Varma, Charlotte Ritchie, Nicholas Pinnock, Leah Harvey and Anaya Thorley.

Set in the near future where parenthood is heavily controlled, The Assessment centers on a couple played by Olsen and Patel, whose relationship is examined over a seven-day period by an assessor (Vikander) ahead of their pregnancy plan.

“Over the next seven days, you’ll undergo close observation and formal testing to ascertain suitability for parenting,” Vikander tells the couple in the trailer. “I want to get to know the real you.”

Later, a frustrated Olsen exclaims to Patel, “I want a real child — not this.

Aaryan (Himesh Patel) spends much of “The Assessment” fiddling with skin, having developed a tactile virtual simulation of an animal to replace the creatures that were sacrificed in a near-extinction level event some time prior. The flesh is too tough sometimes, too synthetic at others, but he’s certainly onto something and it’s hard not to feel the same way about the sci-fi candy coating on Fleur Fortuné’s strong, darkly amusing feature is. In fact, the debut, which launched with a world premiere at the Toronto International Festival, is so idiosyncratic that it might’ve been even better if it had dropped its genre trappings entirely.

But removing that dystopian future could deprive Fortuné of such a convincing showcase for her as a clearly gifted visual stylist and the license for some knockout production design from Jan Houllevigue and a bold score from Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch, both of which...

In the near future, if a couple wants to have children, they can only do so after being given the green light following a successful seven-day assessment. In the world created by writers John Donelly and Mrs. and Mr. Thomas (Nell Garfath Fox and Dave Thomas), theres control of just about everything. This future society is also where people take pills to remain youthful and alive for far longer than typically possible. The Assessment, directed by Fleur Fortun, is conceptually sound and looks incredible, but while its psychologically involved and provoking, it doesnt go beyond the surface of its ideas.

The Assessment

Director Fleur FortuneWriters Nell Garfath Cox, John Donnelly, Dave ThomasCast Malaya Stern Takeda, Thiago Braga de Oliveira, Benny O. Arthur, Anaya Thorley, Charlotte Ritchie, Leah Harvey, Indira Varma, Elizabeth Olsen, Alicia Vikander, Nicholas Pinnock, Himesh Patel, Minnie DriverRuntime 114 MinutesGenres Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller

Mia (Elizabeth Olsen) and Aaryan (Himesh...

Filmmaker Fleur Fortuné says it was necessary to take Alicia Vikander and Elizabeth Olsen, the cast of her thrilling debut feature The Assessment, into “a danger zone” for them to fully comprehend the implications involved in making a movie set in a dystopian future where couples have to grovel for permission to have a child.

The film is an emotional minefield where people are harshly appraised by assessors to judge whether or not they would make suitable parents.

Fortuné says that she knew it was vital for her and the two actors to meet together before the shoot. “I wanted to put them at ease,” she says.

The Paris-based director had already conversed with Vikander. “When I met with Alicia, she was like, ‘This scares me a lot, but I really want to do it.’ That’s good, because I felt if she tells me that, it means that she...

Prime Video has acquired international rights excluding Germany to TIFF sci-fi drama The Assessment starring Alicia Vikander and Elizabeth Olsen.

The film marks the feature directorial debut of Paris-based commercials, shorts and music video director Fleur Fortuné and will receive its world premiere in Special Presentations on Sunday.

The Assessment follows a couple as their seven-day assessment for the right to have a child turns into a nightmare. Himesh Patel also stars, and John Donnelly and writing duo Nell Garfath Cox and David Thomas co-wrote the screenplay.

Number 9’s Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen developed and produced the film, and Germany’s Augenschein Filmproduktion,...

The UK-Germany co-production is set to shoot in Cologne this year.

Alicia VIkander and Elizabeth Olsen have signed to star in The Assessment, the debut feature from French filmmaker Fleur Fortuné, which is gearing up for a shoot in Cologne this summer at Mmc Studios.

The futuristic drama is a co-production between Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen’s UK-based Number 9 Films and Germany’s augenschein Filmproduktion, and has received €1m from Cologne regional film fund Filmstiftung Nrw. German distributor Capleight is already in place to release the film.

Fortuné has made a name for herself with a series of visually stunning shorts,...