Best new movies and TV series on Amazon Prime Video NZ: February 2023

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

Top picks

The Estate (February 3)

Seemingly not done with trying to wring old family members out of their money after Knives Out, Toni Collette is back with another startling comedy ensemble for this cringe-inducing comedy. She and sister Anna Faris see an opportunity to get rich quick off their nasty aunt’s inheritance with a little last-minute fawning, but the old biddy (legendary Kathleen Turner!) won’t be farewelled so easily. And other pesky relatives, David Duchovny and Ron Livingston, want a slice too. Where there’s a will, there’s a squad of greedy relatives, after all.

Somebody I Used To Know (February 10)

Dave Franco and Alison Brie are one of those adorable Hollywood couples you kinda forget are together, but here they team up to tell a story of loss—lost love, and lost self-identity. Brie stars as a workaholic who retreats to her hometown after a professional disaster, and Franco directs her through the drama and mess of what happens next. Her rekindled romance with first love Jay Ellis is thrown into question when she learns he’s engaged to a bright young woman who reminds her of “somebody she used to know”: her younger self. We hope that the thoughtful rom-com wraps up with Brie falling back in love with herself, rather than stealing away someone else’s man.

The Consultant: Season 1 (February 24)

Christoph Waltz gets back into slick creep mode, “offering a very simple service” at the new business he’s been hired to improve, for this office-set thriller series. Co-starring Nat Wolff, it’s based on a 2015 novel about the complex transaction that goes on between bosses and their underlings, but what goes on at this gaming company should be a bit more exciting than open-office plans and casual-dress Fridays. The employees will wind up fighting for their lives in the name of progress, so we can’t wait to see what Waltz has planned for them.