5 must-watch movies & TV shows streaming right now

Welcome to Boston.com’s weekly streaming guide. Each week, we recommend five must-watch movies and TV shows available on streaming platforms like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Disney+, HBO Max, Peacock, Paramount+, and more.

Many recommendations are for new shows, while others are for under-the-radar releases you might have missed or classics that are about to depart a streaming service at the end of the month.

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Movies

“The Greatest Hits”

Fellow critics whose work I enjoy have pointed out some of the bigger flaws of this time-travel romance. That being said, I found myself enjoying “The Greatest Hits” as an imperfect guilty pleasure. Harriet (Lucy Boynton) has the gift/curse of traveling back in time when she hears certain songs. Sometimes the results are fun, but mostly she’s forced to relive some of the distant memories of past love with her ex (David Corenswet). Boynton’s chemistry with her new love interest (Justin H. Min, “After Yang”) — who gamely tries to keep up with his time-hopping beau — is what makes “The Greatest Hits” worth watching. (Though it could have used a stronger soundtrack, given its subject matter.)

How to watch: “The Greatest Hits” is streaming on Hulu.

“Rise of the Planet of the Apes”

After a sizable gap in time, we will soon be seeing the fourth entry in the new “Planet of the Apes” film series in theaters next month with “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” (May 8). Before then, it’s worth revisiting the new trilogy, starting with 2011’s “Rise of the Planet of the Apes.” It’s actually the weakest of the three, with director Matt Reeves (“The Batman”) proving to be a sizable upgrade over Rupert Wyatt. But it’s worth watching for the birth of Andy Serkis’ Caesar, a triumph of motion-capture performance from a man who has made a career out of creature acting.

How to watch: “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” is streaming on Hulu.

TV

“Conan O’Brien Must Go”

Before firing up Conan O’Brien’s new travel show, “Conan O’Brien Must Go,” watch his masterclass in comedy on the web series “Hot Ones,” in which the Brookline native reduces host Sean Evans to tears with his spicy wing-addled antics. Now you’re ready for more of O’Brien’s trademark discomfiting humor, which he barely reigns in while meeting people all across the globe. Watch a Norwegian talk to Conan about the importance of personal space, and see what happens.

How to watch: “Conan O’Brien Must Go” is streaming on Max.

“Fallout”

After decades of studios unable to figure out how to properly adapt a video game as a movie or TV show, there have now been two incredibly successful post-apocalyptic video game adaptations in 12 months, with HBO’s “The Last of Us” and Amazon’s “Fallout.” Like “The Last of Us,” no prior knowledge is needed to appreciate “Fallout,” which introduces us to a destroyed America 219 years after nuclear annihilation. Creator Jonathan Nolan (“Westworld”) takes a lot of the best elements from “Lost,” pitting tribes of survivors against each other while also teasing a larger mystery as to who exactly is behind all of the devastation. The fact that the world’s cultural advancements ended in the 1950s in the Fallout universe means we get a rockin’ oldies soundtrack to boot.

How to watch: “Fallout” is streaming on Prime Video.

“Under the Bridge”

Hulu is banking on the star power of Lily Gladstone (“Killers of the Flower Moon”) and Riley Keough (“Daisy Jones & The Six”) in “Under the Bridge,” a new limited series based on the Rebecca Godfrey novel of the same name. Keough and Gladstone pay a writer and a cop, respectively, who work together to try to solve the case of a missing teenager in British Columbia. This is not your average whodunnit, though. In flashbacks, we see how teenage bullying — and how people treat each other at any age — played a slow but inexorable role in the tragedy, with showrunner Quinn Shephard unafraid to let “Under the Bridge” slowly creep toward its conclusion.

How to watch: “Under the Bridge” is streaming on Hulu.