In the game known as the streaming wars, Disney+ came out swinging, bringing with it a massive library of movies and TV shows—with new ones being added all the time. Watched everything on Netflix? Disney+ has a seemingly endless selection of Marvel movies and plenty of Star Wars and Pixar fare too. Problem is, there’s so much stuff that it’s hard to know where to begin. WIRED is here to help. Below are our picks for the best films on Disney+ right now.
For more viewing ideas, try our guides to the best films on Netflix, the best films on Amazon Prime, and the best shows on Apple TV+.
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Tron: Ares
When the original Tron arrived in theaters in 1982, 8-bit video games still seemed futuristic. In this latest entry in the sci-fi series, the world is forced to come face to face with a sophisticated new form of AI, which happens to look a lot like Jared Leto. Ares (yes, Leto) is the embodiment of a game-changing AI program that has been sent into the real world under the guidance of creating a new kind of peace. In truth, Ares has been sent by a villainous tech CEO (played by Evan Peters) to steal the “Permanence Code” created by original Tron character Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), so that digital beings can infiltrate reality permanently. While it’s full of action and impressive CGI, it glances over a lot of the real concerns around AI’s infiltration into everyday life.
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour - The Final Show
Over the course of 21 months—with a tour featuring 149 shows in 51 cities across five continents—an estimated 10 million people got to witness Taylor Swift’s iconic Eras Tour in person. But on December 8, 2024, only 60,000 people got to see her very last performance at Vancouver’s BC Place stadium, where Swift pulled out all the stops and even added a whole new set from that year’s The Tortured Poets Department album. Now, Swifties around the world can witness it, too, with this nearly three-and-a-half-hour rockumentary that puts you in the center of it all.
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones is back! After the original four films in the swashbuckling movie series left the streamer in October when their license expired, all those boring legalities have been settled and fans can once again binge all of Harrison Ford’s archaeological adventures. We suggest kicking it off with the the movie that started it all (and for our money is still the best). Set in 1936, Raiders of the Lost Ark sees our whip-wielding hero (Ford) traveling the world and going to death-defying lengths to ensure that he recovers the storied Ark of the Covenant—a long-lost relic that has the power to make an army invincible—before fellow archaeologist René Belloq (Paul Freeman) does so on behalf of Nazi German forces.
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