Now Streaming: 'Mission: Impossible' series keeps getting better

Here’s what’s new for home viewing on video on demand, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu and other streaming services.

TOP STREAMS FOR THE WEEK0

• Tom Cruise reunites the team (including Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson and Alec Baldwin) for a personal mission in “Mission: Impossible — Fallout” (2018, PG-13), the highly entertaining sixth film in the globetrotting spy franchise. This is arguably the best installment to date in the most inventive series of action movies in the U.S. It’s now streaming on Amazon Prime Video and Hulu, along with two additional recent features.

• Anna Kendrick stars as an overachieving single mom turned detective when her chic new best friend (Blake Lively) disappears in the witty murder mystery “A Simple Favor” (2018, R) (Prime Video and Hulu), and Emily Mortimer fights small town opposition to open “The Bookshop” (2018, PG) in the light British drama costarring Bill Nighy and Patricia Clarkson (Prime Video and Hulu).

• Lucy Liu, Ginnifer Goodwin and Kirby Howell-Baptiste star in “Why Women Kill,” a new anthology series created by Marc Cherry (“Desperate Housewives”) for CBS All Access. Two episodes now available, new episodes each Thursday.

• The Sundance award-winning documentary “American Factory” (2019, not rated) from Oscar-nominated filmmakers Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert looks at the culture clash when a Chinese billionaire reopens a shuttered GM auto plant in Ohio with American workers. On Netflix.

• Criterion Channel presents the newly restored versions of Jackie Chan’s “Police Story” (Hong Kong, 1985) and “Police Story 2” (Hong Kong, 1988), a pair of comic action classics featuring Chan as a maverick cop who transformed Asian action cinema and helped propel Chan to international stardom. With original Cantonese and English-dubbed soundtracks (with subtitles) plus bonus interviews and featurettes. Not rated.

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• Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson are con artists on the French Riviera in the comedy “The Hustle” (2019, PG-13) and the documentary “The Biggest Little Farm” (2019, PG) follows a couple who leave the city to start a sustainable farm.

NETFLIX

• “13 Reasons Why: Season 3” continues the quest to uncover the truth of a high school student’s suicide in the young adult drama. Also debuting are two gearhead shows: “Hyperdrive” and “Rust Valley Restorers.”

AMAZON PRIME VIDEO

• It’s a stand-up comedy festival: eight brand new comedy specials debut this week, including “#IMomSoHard Live” featuring comedians Kristin Hensley and Jen Smedley, and “Alonzo Bodden: Heavy Lightweight.”

HULU

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• The humorous documentary “Hail, Satan?” (2019, R) explores the often misunderstood Satanic Temple.

OTHER STREAMS

• The hourlong comedy “The Righteous Gemstones” (TV-MA) with Danny McBride and John Goodman satirizes the world of televangelism. New episodes on all HBO platforms each Sunday night.

• Free streams: Andrew Garfield and Riley Keough star in the surreal thriller “Under the Silver Lake” (2018, R) from “It Follows” director David Robert Mitchell. New on Kanopy, available through public library systems.

NEW ON DISC/REDBOX

• “The Hustle,” “A Dog’s Journey,” “The Sun Is Also a Star,” “Brightburn,” “The Biggest Little Farm.”

• Sean Axmaker is a Seattle film critic and writer. His reviews of streaming movies and TV can be found at streamondemandathome.com.