Netflix is determined to make you spend your summer vacation indoors and firmly planted in front of the television.
Rather than resist the temptation to couch-rot your way through the sunniest days of the year, why not give in to the urge and watch some of the coolest new movies the streamer manages to continuously add throughout June?
There’s something for everyone before the 4th of July, like charming 2026 rom-com Voicemails for Isabelle, a cross between Sleepless in Seattle and P.S. I Love You.
Watch With Us also recommends a more serious comedy, Drinking Buddies, starring Olivia Wilde and Anna Kendrick.
And for fans of totally f***ed up stories, take a look at Flowers in the Attic – you’ll never look at a doughnut or a pair of blond siblings the same way ever again.
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‘Voicemails for Isabelle’ (2026)
We’ll never get a Sleepless in Seattle 2, so you’ll just have to settle for Voicemails for Isabelle, a rom-com with a similar premise about two strangers who fall in love. Jill (Zoey Deutch) is a San Francisco pastry chef who still leaves voicemails for her deceased younger sister, Isabelle (Ciara Bravo). Jill isn’t aware that her sister’s phone number has been reassigned to Wes (Nick Robinson), who can’t help but be charmed by her comedic quest for the perfect taco or her serious confessions about feeling lonely in a big city. Wes soon realizes he’s in love with Jill, but how can he convey his feelings for someone he’s never even met?
Voicemails for Isabelle has a silly premise, and it walks a fine line between cutesy rom-com and cheaply exploitative melodrama. Isabelle is, after all, dead, and Jill’s grief for her is real. But the film avoids giving you the ick because its two leads make it work. Even though they rarely share the screen, they manage to have convincing chemistry with each other, and you root for them to be together. If that’s not a sign of a successful rom-com, then I don’t know what is.
‘Flowers in the Attic’ (2014)
After their father dies in a car crash, Cathy (Kiernan Shipka), Chris (Mason Dye) and their two younger siblings are sent to live with their grandmother, Olivia (Ellen Burstyn), whom they’ve never met. Life seems nice at first; Olivia is loaded and lives in a grand mansion, Foxworth Hall, that’s isolated from the rest of the community. But soon their new home becomes a prison as they are forbidden to venture outside or contact anyone. As the days turn into years and everyone grows paler and weaker, Cathy and Chris realize they may never leave Foxworth Hall alive.
Adapted from the hit V.C. Andrews book, this TV remake of Flowers in the Attic (a feature film version was made in 1987) is largely faithful to the source material. That means a full-on embrace of all the weird and crazy things Andrews conjured, like an incestuous relationship between Chris and Cathy and some tasty-looking powdered doughnuts that turn out to be more lethal than a bear claw from Dunkin’. The movie is pretty cheap and salacious, which is exactly how a V.C. Andrews adaptation should be.
‘Drinking Buddies’ (2013)
Kate (Olivia Wilde) and Luke (Jake Johnson) have known each other for a long time – they joke, drink and share each other’s romantic highs and lows. When they go on a hiking trip with their respective partners, Kate and Luke grow closer – a little too close. Complicating matters even more is that Luke’s girlfriend, Jill (Anna Kendrick), kissed Kate’s boyfriend, Chris (Ron Livingston), while they were away. Will Kate and Luke finally act on their growing attraction to each other? Will Jill confess her near-infidelity to Luke and blow up their relationship?
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Drinking Buddies is a romantic comedy that’s more serious – and realistic – than it first appears. While director Joe Swanberg mines most of the comedic opportunities his complicated romantic triangle square brings, he’s more interested in how these characters react to the possibility of cheating – and being cheated on. Turns out, it’s not so fun either way, and the film argues the best relationship is the one you have with a drinking buddy who you can confide in without sleeping with them. What a concept!
