Here Are the Top 10 Most-Watched Movies on HBO Max This Week, Including ‘Final Destination’

Max’s trending row is having a moment, mixing pulse-spiking horror, glossy comedy, and a few curveballs that get people talking. It’s a lineup built for couch marathons and quick-hit weeknights alike, with franchise favorites sitting comfortably beside shiny new obsessions.

What follows is a snapshot of the ten titles viewers can’t stop pressing play on. Expect elaborate scares, tongue-in-cheek spectacle, a therapy trip gone sideways, and one stand-up set that turns anxiety into applause. Pick a lane—or hop between genres—and you’ll land on something binge-worthy fast.

10. ‘A Minecraft Movie’ (2025)

‘A Minecraft Movie’ transforms the game’s blocky charm into a brisk, hero-forward quest where crafting and collaboration become the ultimate survival tools. The Overworld’s hazards morph into clever set-pieces, while the human stakes keep the adventure grounded.

It’s breezy and exuberant, sprinkling in winks to familiar mechanics without getting lost in fan service. Families get a bright, good-humored crowd-pleaser; fans get the satisfying click of plans coming together one constructed step at a time.

9. ‘Final Destination 2’ (2003)

‘Final Destination 2’ revs the engine on the franchise’s invention, opening with a highway catastrophe that still lives rent-free in horror memory. From there, the narrative lays out devilish cause-and-effect puzzles that tighten like a snare.

Lean and remorseless, it specializes in tension that blooms from the mundane. Every workaround feels temporary, every close call a setup—until the next domino tumbles exactly where you feared it would.

8. ‘Opus’ (2025)

Part mystery box, part industry nightmare, ‘Opus’ peers through the glass darkly at fame and the stories built to sustain it. A reclusive figure, a ravenous media orbit, and an audience eager to believe collide in a hall of mirrors.

The mood is woozy and magnetic, letting confession and performance bleed together until neither feels trustworthy. It’s the kind of thriller that ends and leaves you replaying earlier scenes, hunting for the seams you missed.

7. ‘Couples Retreat’ (2009)

‘Couples Retreat’ drops four pairs into paradise for a little sun, a lot of “work on yourselves,” and escalating hijinks. Tan lines and group exercises share the frame with touchy subjects the characters can’t dodge forever.

Smoothly packaged and lightly mischievous, it scores its biggest laughs when the jokes brush up against uncomfortable truths. The takeaway: booking the vacation is easy; showing up for each other is the real heavy lift.

6. ‘Final Destination’ (2000)

The first ‘Final Destination’ remains a model of elegant menace: slip fate once and watch the world rearrange itself to collect the debt. It turns everyday spaces—kitchens, classrooms, airports—into nerve tests.

The film’s enduring trick is dread by suggestion; you’ll start seeing threats in reflections and routine motions. Simple premise, wicked follow-through, and a legacy of set-pieces that still make viewers flinch.

5. ‘Marc Maron: Panicked’ (2025)

With ‘Marc Maron: Panicked’, the comic alchemizes worry into sharp, lived-in punchlines. He roams through aging, culture, intimacy, and the background hum of dread, turning oversharing into an art form.

The set feels like a midnight debrief with a friend who’s brutally honest and weirdly comforting. You wince, you nod, you laugh—and you leave with a handful of lines you’re dying to quote.

4. ‘Sinners’ (2025)

‘Sinners’ weaves a Southern Gothic spell where secrets, power, and nocturnal predators entwine. A community’s buried history resurfaces, and the supernatural slips in through cracks already there.

What sticks is the character work: revelations land like bites because the emotional stakes are sharp. When the sun finally rises, the questions it raises about inheritance and guilt still linger.

3. ‘Alien: Covenant’ (2017)

In ‘Alien: Covenant’, the promise of a new Eden curdles into surgical horror as curiosity meets its cruel match. The film fuses stately sci-fi grandeur with intimate terror, prodding at creation and control.

It’s a measured descent that detonates into operatic violence when the trap springs shut. Curiosity becomes exposure, exploration turns to autopsy, and the chill hangs long after the credits.

2. ‘Death of a Unicorn’ (2025)

‘Death of a Unicorn’ marries deadpan fantasy to corporate satire, following a father and daughter who stumble into a miracle—and the billionaire determined to monetize it. Wonder and opportunism share uneasy space.

Tonally nimble and sly, it keeps the whimsy intact while sharpening its moral questions. You come for the oddball premise, you stay for the way it turns magic into a test of what people value.

1. ‘Final Destination Bloodlines’ (2025)

‘Final Destination Bloodlines’ drags the series’ mythology into a ruthless new round, threading past echoes into grisly modern ingenuity. The franchise’s signature chain-reaction terror remains, now with fresh angles on who gets spared—and why it never lasts.

It’s a crowd-chiller built on timing and misdirection, making harmless objects feel loaded with menace. Don’t get comfortable; the exhale you take is the beat the movie uses to catch you off guard.

Tell us which of this week’s Max chart-toppers you watched—and drop your rankings and hot takes in the comments.