3 Underrated HBO Max Movies to Watch This Weekend (June 27-29)

HBO Max is celebrating the start of summer in the only way it knows how — by streaming blockbuster bangers day and night.

But if you’ve already watched A Minecraft Movie or are still waiting on Sinners to debut, fret not — Watch With Us has whipped up a list of three underrated HBO Max movies for you to watch this weekend.

The gangster thriller No Sudden Move, the documentary Being Mary Tyler Moore and the romantic spy comedy Duplicity are all vastly different from one another, but they are all guaranteed to entertain you as you escape the heat this weekend.

‘No Sudden Move’ (2021)

If you’re looking for a period usual with a dynamite cast, look no further than No Sudden Move. The 2021 film stars Don Cheadle and Benicio del Toro as Curt and Ronald, small-time gangsters in 1950s Detroit who are hired to intimidate a General Motors executive so he can give them a mysterious document. After some hiccups and one unexpected death, the two men are successful. Unfortunately, they quickly realize the document they now possess is far more valuable — and dangerous — than they could’ve imagined. Now on the run from the cops as well as their fellow gangsters, they must try to find a way out of the mess they’re in without losing their lives.

No Sudden Move is perhaps the only thriller whose plot hinges on a car part. That’s the movie’s MacGuffin, but whether it’s a catalytic converter or a 24-karat diamond, it’s merely the excuse for these characters to run around shooting at each other.

It’s a hypnotic movie that immediately grabs your attention and holds it for its two-hour runtime, and that’s due to Steven Soderbergh’s stylish direction and the effective performances by Cheadle, del Toro and Jon Hamm. No Sudden Move is a throwback thriller Hollywood doesn’t really make anymore, so now’s the time to watch and appreciate it.

No Sudden Move is streaming on HBO Max.

‘Being Mary Tyler Moore’ (2023)

Everyone knows Mary Tyler Moore — she’s the actress who rose to fame on The Dick Van Dyke Show, dominated the 1970s with the hit sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show and received an Oscar nomination for her revelatory performance in Robert Redford’s Ordinary People.

But as Being Mary Tyler Moore brilliantly shows, the actress’ public persona was just another role she played throughout her life, one that hid a private pain that resulted from one family tragedy after another. Using archival clips featuring Moore talking about her life, from the highs (winning multiple Emmys for her TV shows, establishing the production company MTM Enterprises that produced hit shows like St. Elsewhere and Newhart), to the lows (the accidental death of her son Richard, her divorce from second husband Grant Tinker), the documentary does a fantastic job of recounting a fascinating life that was just as dramatic off camera as it was on the screen.

Being Mary Tyler Moore is streaming on HBO Max.

‘Duplicity’ (2009)

Julia Roberts is best known as the queen of rom-coms, but she makes other kinds of movies too. One of the better ones is Duplicity, a 2009 comedic thriller that’s a good old-fashioned love story between two rival spies.

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Roberts is Claire Stenwick, a CIA officer who has grown tired of working at her thankless government job. She finds a kindred spirit in MI6 agent Ray Koval (Clive Owen), and together, they hatch a scheme to steal the formula of a new, top-secret hygiene product from Howard Tully (Tom Wilkinson), a CEO of a major cosmetics company. But Howard may know more than they realize, and Claire and Roy’s slow-burning romance may fizzle out completely if they are caught red-handed and thrown in jail.

The movie has a twisty plot that’s sometimes too clever for its own good, but it gives Roberts and Owen plenty of moments to shine as competitors who can’t help falling for each other. Both actors have great chemistry whenever they are on screen, and it makes you wish they starred in more movies.

Duplicity is streaming on HBO Max.