Amazon Prime Video is adding The Amateur and Ride or Die to its lineup for the week of July 13 to July 19, 2026, with The Amateur set to arrive on July 15. The streaming debut gives Rami Malek’s action thriller a new audience after its theatrical run.
For viewers searching for what is new this week, the timing is the draw: The Amateur lands squarely in Prime Video’s July release slate, making it available to subscribers on July 15. The film is directed by James Hawes and is based on Robert Littell’s 1981 novel of the same name, with Malek joined by Laurence Fishburne, Rachel Brosnahan, Caitríona Balfe and Michael Stuhlbarg.
The film’s arrival is also notable because its reception was uneven. The Amateur opened to mixed reviews from critics and carries a 6.5/10 rating on IMDb and a 61% score on Rotten Tomatoes, a softer landing than the kind of streaming push that usually follows a breakout crowd-pleaser. Still, the platform is putting it front and center in a week that also brings in Ride or Die, another title aimed at keeping subscribers inside the service.
The Amateur follows a CIA decoder named Heller after his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack, a premise that gives the film its chase-driven hook. By contrast, Ride or Die is an action-adventure comedy series built around best friends Debbie Claybourne and Judith Burton, with Judith later revealed to be an assassin and a mysterious enemy in the mix. Octavia Spencer said the pitch left her “spellbound, on the edge of your seat,” adding that she had heard hundreds of pitches over her career and none like it, while Hannah Waddingham called the role opposite Spencer “a dream role.”
That leaves Prime Video with two very different arrivals in the same week, but only one exact date has been set: The Amateur is due July 15. Ride or Die is coming during the July 13 to July 19 window, and the remaining question for subscribers is how the platform will stagger the rest of its July releases around that midweek launch.
