The best movies new to streaming on Netflix, HBO Max, Prime Video, and Hulu (March 2023)

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Happy March, Polygon readers. The weather is warming up, and so are the streaming services, with plenty of exciting new options for you to watch at home.

We’ve picked out 13 terrific options (including one collection of incredible movies) for you to consider for your movie options this month, including Emma Stone’s high school comedy Easy A on Netflix, an all-time underrated Denzel Washington performance now on Prime, one of the greatest comedies ever made (also on Prime), and a stack of banger action movies starring Michelle Yeoh now on the Criterion Channel.

It’s a good month for movies new to streaming services. Let’s get into it.

Year: 2010Genre: ComedyRun time: 1h 32mDirector: Will GluckCast: Emma Stone, Amanda Bynes, Penn Badgley

Easy A belongs in the pantheon of the great high school movies, alongside Mean Girls and The Breakfast Club; it really is that good. Riffing on The Scarlet Letter — the literary classic of which it’s a kind of inverted remake — it’s a sophisticated comedy of manners about bored, precocious teen Olive (Emma Stone), who agrees to pretend-bang her gay best friend to ward off the bullies. When others on the fringes of high school society find out and request the same service, she becomes a kind of imaginary prostitute, trading her new, falsely slutty reputation in for favors. The film walks the line of its illusory quandaries with a light, easy stride, and as a high school sex comedy in which no sex actually happens, it gets to be simultaneously scandalous and wholesome. Stone is a knockout in her first lead role, the script is a firecracker, and there’s a hilarious Greek chorus of dissolute grownups who comment wryly on the action without really having a moral leg to stand on, including Lisa