The 7 Best Movies to Watch on Peacock Right Now (December 2025)

Peacock may not have as many movies as other streaming services, but the ones it does have are big. Recent additions to our list of the best movies to watch on Peacock right now include the latest Jurassic franchise reboot, Jurassic World Rebirth, with Scarlett Johansson and a bunch of genetically altered dinosaurs; the live-action remake of animated classic How to Train Your Dragon; and animated comedy sequel The Bad Guys 2. Peacock is the streaming home of Universal, which means it has blockbusters from the big studio as well as movies from sub-studios like Focus (indies), DreamWorks (family), and Blumhouse (horror). If you're looking for a worthwhile new release, there's a good chance you'll find it on Peacock.   

We've focused on movies released somewhat recently, as well as some Peacock exclusives that you can't stream anywhere else.

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Last updated Dec. 6, 2025; newer additions are at the top

The Bad Guys & The Bad Guys 2

This good-natured comedy is about a gang of anthropomorphic animals with bad reputations — a wolf, a shark, a snake, a tarantula, and a piranha — who decide to stop being bad and start being the opposite of bad. The voice cast includes Sam Rockwell, Marc Maron, and Awkwafina, and it has a really cool, Into the Spiderverse-influenced animation style. The sequel, which adds a trio of no-goodniks called the Bad Girls — Danielle Brooks as a snow leopard, Natasha Lyonne as a raven, and Maria Bakalova as a wild boar — is also streaming. -Liam Mathews [Trailer]

Jurassic World Rebirth

In the latest reboot of the blockbuster dinosaur movie franchise, Scarlett Johansson plays a covert ops mercenary who gets hired to sneak into a dino-infested island alongside a paleontologist (Jonathan Bailey) and the team leader (Mahershala Ali) and extract DNA from mutant thunder lizards in order to develop a lifesaving medicine. Things quickly go sideways, as they always do, and the team has to try to survive all kinds of crazy "colossus" dinosaurs and (almost) equally dangerous humans. You know what you're getting at this point with these movies, and this one does the job. -Liam Mathews [Trailer]

How to Train Your Dragon

If you liked the DreamWorks animated movie How to Train Your Dragon, chances are you'll like this one, too, because it's the same movie, just with live-action people instead. It even has some of the same human cast, with Gerard Butler playing Viking king Stoick the Vast in both versions. Toothless the dragon looks pretty much the same. It's DreamWorks' version of the Disney animated remake, and you know what? It works. -Liam Mathews [Trailer]

Monkey Man

Dev Patel writes, directs, and stars in this well-reviewed action film about a young man who works at an Indian underground fight club, where he bides his time looking for the right moment to get revenge on the local police chief who killed his mother. It's a dark film loaded with extended bone-crunching fight scenes, but if you wipe away the blood, you'll find an engaging revenge thriller about class and corruption. -Tim Surette [Trailer]

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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

Renee Zellweger returns to her iconic romantic comedy role for the fourth time, and first time since 2016, in this straight-to-Peacock original. This time, Bridget is widowed. She's still grieving the death of her husband four years earlier, but she's starting to get back out there. But Bridget doesn't do anything the easy way, and she starts dating a much younger man, Roxster (Leo Woodall), which is exciting but stressful. It's a rom-com, but there's a lot of sadness in it, so be prepared to have your tears jerked. -Liam Mathews [Trailer]

The Killer

Game of Thrones veteran Nathalie Emmanuel gets her action star on in this surprisingly good straight-to-streaming thriller. The special thing about the film is that it's directed by John Woo, one of the greatest action filmmakers of all time, and is in fact a remake of his 1989 Hong Kong film, which starred Chow Yun-fat in the title role. Emmanuel plays a professional assassin in Paris who gets caught up in a job that turns personal. Omar Sy and Sam Worthington co-star. -Liam Mathews [Trailer]