This August, HBO Max is bringing you a lot of entertainment, from the highly anticipated streaming releases of Final Destination: Bloodlines to the release of the next season of James Gunn‘s Peacemaker. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to HBO Max next month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the 5 best films coming to HBO Max in August 2025 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.
It’s Always Fair Weather (August 1) RT Score: 91%
It’s Always Fair Weather is a musical romantic comedy film co-directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen from a screenplay co-written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. The 1955 film revolves around three soldiers in New York who decide to part ways and meet ten years later but when they meet again they discover that they have little in common now but will they be able to put aside their differences for a chance to be on a TV show. It’s Always Fair Weather stars Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Dolores Gray, and Michael Kidd.
You Hurt My Feelings (August 1) RT Score: 94%
You Hurt My Feelings is a comedy-drama film written and directed by Nicole Holofcener. The 2023 film follows Beth, a popular memoirist whose whole world comes crashing down after she learns about her husband’s true thoughts on her writing. You Hurt My Feelings stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tobias Menzies, Michaela Watkins, Arian Moayed, Owen Teague, and Jeannie Berlin.
The Peanut Butter Falcon (August 1) RT Score: 95%
The Peanut Butter Falcon is a comedy-drama film written and directed by Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz. The 2019 film revolves around a young man with Down syndrome who runs away from the assisted living facility he has been living at and soon befriends a fisherman, and together they go on the run with a social worker working hard to track them down. The Peanut Butter Falcon stars Shia LaBeouf, Dakota Johnson, John Hawkes, Zack Gottsagen, and Thomas Haden Church.
Pride and Prejudice (August 1) RT Score: 100%
Pride and Prejudice is a romantic drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard from a screenplay co-written by Aldoux Huxley and Jane Murfin. Based on the 1813 novel of the same name by Jane Austen, the 1940 film follows the Bennet sisters as their mothers constantly hounds them about finding rich husbands and settling down and when Mr. Darcy, a rich bachelor moves in near them things get even more complicated. Pride and Prejudice stars Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Mary Boland, Edna May Oliver, Maureen O’Sullivan, Ann Rutherford, and Frieda Inescort.
The Woman King (August 13) RT Score: 94%
The Woman King is a historical action-adventure film directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood from a screenplay by Dana Stevens. The 2022 film is set in the 1820s, and it chronicles the never-ending fighting of Agojie, the all-female warrior regiment, who laid down their lives to protect the West African Kingdom of Dahomey. The Woman King stars Viola Davis, Thuso Mbedu, Lashana Lynch, Sheila Atim, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, and John Boyega.