Chris Pratt's Sci-Fi Sleeper Hit Is an Unexpected Streaming Success

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Published Jan 25, 2026, 2:20 PM EST

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Following the disappointment of his 2025 effort, The Electric State, Chris Pratt will be hoping to get back in the good books of theatergoers with his next release: The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. A sequel to the billion-dollar smash hit The Super Mario Bros. Movie, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is scheduled to be released in theaters on April 3, 2026, and will feature newcomer Brie Larson as Rosalina alongside many famous returning voices. Ahead of this next Pratt project, one of his more forgotten recent ventures has found its way back onto the streaming charts.

At the time of writing, the 2021 throwback to '90s sci-fi movies, The Tomorrow War, is one of the ten most-streamed movies on Peacock in the U.S., a list currently topped by director Yorgos Lanthimos' 2025 science fiction satire Bugonia. Directed by Chris McKay, The Tomorrow War features Pratt alongside a star-studded supporting cast, including Yvonne Strahovski, Betty Gilpin, J.K. Simmons, and Sam Richardson. The movie was released straight to streaming in the U.S. following Amazon Studios' acquisition of the rights from Paramount, due to interruption from the COVID-19 pandemic. A synopsis for the movie reads:

"In The Tomorrow War, the world is stunned when a group of time travelers arrive from the year 2051 to deliver an urgent message: Thirty years in the future mankind is losing a global war against a deadly alien species. The only hope for survival is for soldiers and civilians from the present to be transported to the future and join the fight. Among those recruited is high school teacher and family man Dan Forester (Chris Pratt). Determined to save the world for his young daughter, Dan teams up with a brilliant scientist (Yvonne Strahovski) and his estranged father (J.K. Simmons) in a desperate quest to rewrite the fate of the planet."

'The Tomorrow War' Split Critics and Audiences

Earning a middling 51% from critics on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, general audiences proved much more receptive to The Tomorrow War, awarding a comparatively strong 76% on the site. In Collider's review of the film by Matt Goldberg, a disappointing "C-" grade was awarded, with Goldberg saying, "I don’t mind that The Tomorrow War never fully grasps the paradoxes its time travel creates or even that it’s yet another action movie that doesn’t know how to utilize Pratt. I mind that it assumes its priorities should be in the set pieces even if those set pieces don’t entertain or illuminate character. Those are the blockbusters that fall flat every time."

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