18 months have passed since Max (which will soon be renamed HBO Max) became the exclusive transmission house for A24 films, well, in nations where one of the best transmission services in the world has been launched anyway. Since this several year agreement was signed in December 2023, more than 100 films developed by A24 have joined the Max Back catalog.
You can also add more to that growing list next month. July 2025 marks the official broadcast debut by three newest films of the acclaimed independent study, including two that only reached theaters earlier this year.
However, according to his critical scores by Rotten Tomatoes (RT), there is only one that will deserve a place in our best list of Max movies. To help you decide which movies (s) are worth your time, I have classified the next trio from the worst to better. In this way, you will have a better idea of ​​determining whether some of the new Max in July movies should be added to your observation list.
3. Opus
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HBO MAX release date: July 11
Execution time: 1 hour 44 minutes
Age rating: Kidney
Main cast: Ayo Edebiri, John Malkovich, Juliette Lewis, Murray Bartlett, Melissa Chambers, Tony Hale, Young Mazino and Amber Midtunder
Director: Mark Anthony Green
RT Critics Score: 40%
With a starry cast that includes the always excellent John Malkovich, The bear‘S Ayo edebiri, The last of us‘Young Mazino, and PreyIt is amber in the middle of time, you may have expected Opus be a must.
However, assembling a cast of talented actors will only take it so far, and Opus It shows it. A cult based on the cult that is no different from another movie A24 in Half, Opus It struggles to coincide with the psychological intensity, the narrative mystery and the horror ties than that of its 2016 gender cousin. Malkovich chews the landscape with a deliciously deranged performance but, on one side, on one side, Opus It is a largely forgettable movie.
2. Death of a unicorn
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HBO MAX release date: July 25
Execution time: 1 hour 44 minutes
Age rating: Kidney
Main cast: Jenna Ortega, Paul Rudd, Will Poulter, Anthony Carrigan, Tea Leoni and Richard E Grant
Director: Alex Scharfman
RT Critics Score: 54%
Another A24 offer fed by terror that, based on its own cast on list A, should have been better received than it was.
As OpusHowever, the disorderly nature of the plot of this satirical creature drags it down. Marvel actor Paul Rudd and never aging and Wednesday The superstar Jenny Ortega Ground Proceedings with her convincing Dynamic, while Poulter and Grant bring a classic British touch to their villain roles. Those most prominent aspects to the one side, Death of a unicorn It is a tonal failure that skewing disappointing its potentially great narrative and theme ideas.
1. By becoming a Guinea chicken
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HBO MAX release date: July 4
Execution time: 1 hour 35 minutes
Age rating: PG-13
Main cast: Susan Chardy, Elisbath Chisela, Henry Bj Phiri, Roy Chisha, Bhamjee Blessings, Chunju Bwalya and Maggie Mulubwa
Director: Rungan Nyoni
RT Critics Score: 100%
Of the three new A24 films that will join the Max films library in July, I suspect that this hidden jewel was the one that most readers would not have expected to go out at the top.
With his critical qualification of perfect RT, however, By becoming a Guinea chicken It is an innumerable dark comedy drama that is not only Nyoni’s first characteristic in eight years, but also consolidates Zambian-Welsh’s filmmaker as one of the most talented in his generation. An universally attractive awkward film, beautifully filmed, ingenious time, whose exploration of death, self -deception and communal doubts is incredibly shocking.
