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Best new movies and TV series on Max: July 2025

Here are our top highlights, for what’s dropping on the Warner Bros streaming service this month.

Each month, new films and TV shows are added to Max’s library. Eliza Janssen presents her picks for titles worth watching. For the full list of everything arriving on the platform, scroll down.

Top Picks: TV

Bookish: Season 1 (July 16)

Like a dog-eared, moth-bitten whodunnit you’d find in an op shop or your nanna’s shelf, this likeable new mystery series offers familiar comforts and also illuminates a complex past. Mark Gatiss, who also created the series, stars as Gabriel Book: post-war bookseller and part-time crime solver, combining his passions to put problems right with everything he’s learned from the literary world.

Trouble is, Book is also a closeted gay man in a period when homosexuality is illegal, despite being happily married to his bestie/beard. When love seems to be on the cards, the character’s sleuth work and delicate facade are both called into question. Compelling stuff, and we’re getting it at the same time as the UK, too.

Billy Joel: And So It Goes (July 19)

The timing couldn’t be better for this episodic doco portrait of the ‘Piano Man’: songwriter Joel has recently had to cancel an audacious world tour due to a tragic neurological diagnosis. For fans, watching this intimate and catchy docuseries could be their best bet to experience a Joel performance in the near future.

The HBO original promises unprecedented access to the “love, loss and personal struggles” that fuelled Joel’s all-American brand of pop rock, including never-before-seen performance footage and extensive talking head interviews with those closest to the guy.

Top Picks: Movies + Specials

Sinners (July 4)

How will this barnstorming, genre-mashing, blues-fuelled blockbuster fare on your small screen instead of IMAX? I was blown away by director Ryan Coogler’s vision and Michael B Jordan’s suave double-barrelled performances, and I’m fairly sure it’ll have a similiar effect rewatched in my living room.

Jordan plays bootlegging brothers Smoke and Stack in the Prohibition-era South, but on the very night that they’re launching a raucous juke joint, who should come a-knocking but Irish vampires? The action and supernatural storytelling is fabulously entertaining, but what’s most memorable about Sinners is its use of music—the score stings, song is an overarching theme, and one standout scene collides the entire history of African American melody into one blazing inferno.

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (July 12)

Rumours of the 2010s YA trend’s death were greatly exaggerated: with yet another prequel to The Hunger Games preparing to reach our big screens, now’s a good time to check out this early dystopian chapter, depicting the early days of the franchise’s big bad President Snow and the game of death he’ll go on to perpetrate.

Luke Buckmaster took a particular shine to the movie’s fierce heroine, played by Rachel Zegler, writing: “Rachel Zegler’s transfixing performance brings colour and shade, while retaining a thick air of mystery and outsiderism: the feeling that Lucy Gray is dancing to her own beat, operating on the fringes of society, maybe the fringes of morality.”


All titles arriving on Max in July

July 1

Alabama Snake
Expedition X: Season 8
The Murder Tapes: Seasons 7-9
People Magazine Investigates: Season 8
Before They Kill Again
Celebrity IOU: Season 4

July 2

Salvage Hunters: Classic Cars: Season 7
All Girls Garage: Season 9
Last Chance Garage
Texas Metal: Season 7
Building Off The Grid: Season 12

July 3

Dear Ms.: A Revolution in Print
Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League
Polyfamily
Super Mega Cakes

July 4

Sinners

July 5

Charlie & The Chocolate Factory (2005)
The Lego Movie (2014)
The Hunger Games (2014)
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2016)
The Hunger Games: Mocking Jay – Part 1 (2017)
The Hunger Games: Mocking Jay – Part 2 (2018)
Barnwood Builders: Seasons 10, 13 & 14

July 6

Reframed: Next Gen Narratives

July 7

C.B. Strike: The Cuckoo’s Calling
Crimes Gone Viral: Seasons 2-3

July 8

Wellington Paranormal: Seasons 1-4
Lost Monster Files
Cabin in the Woods

July 9

Road Rage
Girl Meets Farm: Season 6

July 10

Back to the Frontier

July 12

I Am Legend
Joker
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023)
Street Outlaws: Locals Only: Season 1
Barnwood Builders: Seasons 15-16

July 14

C.B. Strike: The Silkworm
Crimes Gone Viral: Seasons 4-5

July 15

Under the Grapefruit Tree: The CC Sabathia Story
I Love A Mama’s Boy: Season 4
Celebrity IOU: Season 1

July 16

Bookish
Street Outlaws, Season 15

July 19

Billy Joel: And So It Goes
American Sniper
Father of the Bride
Barnwood Builders: Seasons 18-19

July 21

C.B. Strike: Career of Evil
A Killer Among Friends
Evil Lives Here: The Killer Speaks: Season 2

July 22

Angel City
Celebrity IOU: Season 2

July 24

Faster with Newbern and Cotten

July 26

The Hitman’s Bodyguard (2017)
The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard (2021)
Kindig Customs: Season 10

July 27

Toxic

July 28

Vgly: Season 1
The Thaw: Seasons 1-2
Chespirito: Not Really on Purpose
Tiger
Black Widows: Wh*res and Hustlers

July 29

Late Night Lockup: Season 2
Celebrity IOU: Season 3

July 31

Faster with Newbern and Cotten: Season 2


See also
* Best new movies and TV series on Netflix
* Best new movies and TV series on Stan
* All new streaming movies & series