3 Underrated Netflix Movies to Watch This Weekend (May 30- June 1)

Content overload is the norm these days. With so many movies and TV shows available to stream, it’s impossible to watch everything great.

Luckily for you, Watch With Us is always keeping an eye on the great movies and shows that slip through the cracks and don’t get the adulation that they deserve. This weekend, we’re recommending Netflix users check out three fantastic movies that didn’t get enough love.

All of them are available on the platform, and all of them are awesome.

We’ve got an indie comedy from Bottoms duo Emma Seligman and Rachel Sennott, an Adam Sandler drama of all things, and a mockumentary from a legendary SNL trio.

‘Shiva Baby’ (2020)

This indie dramedy is the first film from Bottoms writer-director Emma Seligman, and it’s a much more grounded, personal story. Danielle (Rachel Sennott) is a college senior who’s involved in a “sugar baby” relationship with an older man named Max (Danny Deferrari). When she attends a shiva observance with her parents, she’s shocked to find that not only is her ex-girlfriend Maya (Molly Gordon, The Bear) in attendance, but so is Max, his wife (Dianna Agron) and their baby.

Sennott’s performance is nuanced as she portrays this flawed character, making Danielle both relatable and cringeworthy. It’s an excellent portrayal of the anxiety and insecurity of young adulthood as you leave college for the real world. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Shiva Baby didn’t get its big planned premiere at South By Southwest and had only a very small theatrical run. You may have missed it the first time around — but don’t miss it now!

‘Spanglish’ (2004)

A surprisingly moving family drama starring, of all people, Adam Sandler, Spanglish is the story of Cristina and Flor Moreno, a Mexican daughter and mother whose lives become entangled with that of a wealthy white family when Flor (Paz Vega) becomes the housekeeper for the wealthy John and Deborah Clasky (Sandler and Téa Leoni). 

Flor grows close with John and teenage daughter Bernice Clasky (Sarah Steele), while Cristina (Shelbie Bruce) bonds with Deborah and becomes increasingly Americanized. A complicated movie about relationships and family, Spanglish covers emotional affairs, cultural identity and privilege in a beautiful mother-daughter story.

Spanglish did poorly at the box office, perhaps because people didn’t know what to expect from a more serious Adam Sandler movie (at least, that’s our theory). But it holds up well through a 2025 lens, especially given the way our cultural conversation around some of its themes has evolved.

‘Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping’ (2016)

Life is full of mysteries, but one of the ones we’ll never be able to decipher is why Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping didn’t do better in theaters. The mockumentary musical comedy, which stars Saturday Night Live comedy team The Lonely Island (Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer), is a brilliant parody of the music industry, with memorable songs and dozens of cameos from music and comedy all-stars. (Eric André, Emma Stone, P!nk, Akon and Miley Cyrus all show up, and that’s not even a quarter of them.)

Samberg plays Conner4Real, a pop star who went solo after getting his start in a rap group called The Style Boyz at a young age with his best friends Owen (Taccone) and Lawrence (Schaffer). When his career experiences a setback, Conner has to do some soul-searching and reunite with his former bandmates. There’s a decent amount of heart alongside the laughs in this one — check it out!