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3 new to Prime Video movies you should watch this weekend (February 21–22)

Featuring historical action, a Spielberg classic, and a heist movie

Total Film · Feb 20

3 new to Prime Video movies you should stream this weekend (Feb. 13-15)

Need something fresh to watch? Check out these recently added Prime Video movies this weekend.

Tom’s Guide · Feb 13

5 movies to watch after 'The 355'

After flopping in theaters, "The 355" has finally found its audience on streaming. Here are five more action-packed movies with mostly women casts to watch next.

Tom’s Guide · Aug 24, 2025

‘The Woman King’ could not overcome the truth of the Agojie’s brutality, depravity, inhumanity

I applaud any portrayal of Black female power. But misinformation and the glorification of an unquestionable evil that romanticizes the Agojie as superheroes is unforgivable.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 21, 2022

‘I can change the way Black women are seen’: Viola Davis on stereotypes, success and playing a warrior

Raised in poverty, the actor has conquered Hollywood, winning an Oscar, an Emmy and two Tony awards. Now she has brought her passion project to the screen – The Woman King’s epic tale of an elite female fighting force

The Guardian - UK · Oct 10, 2022

The Woman King review: ferocious warrior tale is a vibrant celebration of Black womanhood in all its glory

Viola Davis plays the (fictionalised) leader of the (real-life) Agojie, an elite unit of all-female warriors active in the historical kingdom of Dahomey

The Independent UK · Oct 5, 2022

The Woman King Rewrites History for a Feminist Twist on the Slave Trade

Hollywood often takes liberties. But there's a distinction to be made between poetic license and historical revisionism.

Reason · Sep 30, 2022

Opinion: 'The Woman King' speaks loud and clear to this Nigerian feminist

The film about female warriors in 1800s West Africa is all too relevant, in 2022, writes Oyeronke Oyebanji: "The inequalities faced by the women in the movie reflect the struggles of women today."

WEKU · Sep 25, 2022

The historic conundrum of "Woman King"

Can the cinematic potential of what these exceptional warriors symbolize overcome the dark reality of history?

Salon · Sep 24, 2022

Review: Viola Davis adds another jewel to her crown in a rousing 'Woman King'

With her rousing new action-drama, "The Woman King," director Gina Prince-Bythewood suggests that, in at least one crucial respect, the West African kingdom of Dahomey was more ahead of its time than that starry imperialist empire called Hollywood. An early 19th-century epic awash in militaristic might and colonial oppression, the…

Los Angeles Times · Sep 16, 2022