Greetings, Polygon readers! Each week, we spherical up essentially the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the largest and finest new films for you to watch at residence.
This week, Oppenheimer, the Oscar-nominated biopic from director Christopher Nolan starring Cillian Murphy, lastly comes to Peacock after making its debut on VOD final November. That’s not all this week has to provide, as a complete slew of new and thrilling releases has arrived on streaming and VOD.
The Iron Claw, Sean Durkin’s wrestling biopic in regards to the Von Erich brothers, lastly comes to VOD this weekend alongside the French homicide farce The Crime Is Mine, the Southern Gothic drama Miller’s Girl, and Pedro Almodóvar’s queer Western brief movie Strange Way of Life starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal. There’s extra: Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving is now streaming on Netflix, whereas Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is now obtainable to stream on Prime Video.
Here’s all the pieces new to watch this weekend!
New on Netflix
Thanksgiving
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Photo: Pief Weyman/Sony Pictures
Genre: Slasher horror
Run time: 1h 46m
Director: Eli Roth
Cast: Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, Gina Gershon
Eli Roth is again with a new holiday-themed slasher. After a tragic Black Friday riot, the quiet city of Plymouth, Massachusetts, is terrorized by a Thanksgiving-inspired killer carrying a ghoulish John Carver masks.
From our assessment:
Comedic slashers the place each halves complement one another are uncommon, even among the many style’s most entertaining choices. Movies like Totally Killer or Happy Death Day are too humorous and lighthearted to ever actually earn a real scare, whereas a movie like House of 1000 Corpses is so darkish and gross that the humor isn’t possible to land on a primary viewing. Few films have ever struck that stability fairly in addition to Craven’s 4 Scream films. Thanksgiving doesn’t fairly attain that collection’ meteoric heights, however it comes far nearer than the rest lately — together with the Scream franchise itself.
Players
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Photo: Ok.C. Bailey/Netflix
Genre: Romantic comedy
Run time: 1h 45m
Director: Trish Sie
Cast: Gina Rodriguez, Damon Wayans Jr., Tom Ellis
Gina Rodriguez stars on this new rom-com as a sports activities author in New York City who helps her finest buddy, Adam (Damon Wayans Jr.), pull off varied hookup schemes. After crossing paths with Nick (Tom Ellis), a good-looking and single colleague, she’ll have to make the onerous choice of whether or not to quiet down or preserve hooking up.
New on Hulu
The Pod Generation
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
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Image: Quad Productions/Roadside Attractions
Genre: Sci-fi romance
Run time: 1h 49m
Director: Sophie Barthes
Cast: Emilia Clarke, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rosalie Craig
What if Gattaca wasn’t a dystopian retrofuturistic drama starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, however as an alternative a unusual sci-fi romance drama starring Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor? That’s basically what director Sophie Barthes’ newest movie is in a nutshell: A pair is obtainable the chance to conceive a toddler by means of a man-made womb (or pod), solely to uncover that parenthood and life are extra unpredictable than they imagined.
Next Goal Wins
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
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Image: Searchlight Pictures
Genre: Sports comedy-drama
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Taika Waititi
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Oscar Kightley, Kaimana
Michael Fassbender (The Killer) stars in Taika Waititi’s sports activities movie primarily based on the real-life American Samoa nationwide soccer group and their qualification try for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Fassbender portrays Thomas Rongen, the Dutch American coach who agrees to assist form the as soon as notoriously dangerous group right into a aggressive qualifier.
From our assessment:
Next Goal Wins fails to correctly seize what made the story of the American Samoa nationwide soccer group so compelling, by making an attempt to make a movie so common that it discards the game itself as unimportant. Which it is perhaps when it comes to letting the viewers relate to the group as people. But it’s such a cookie-cutter underdog story that it hardly ever strikes previous essentially the most superficial “Care because this movie says you need to care” stage.
New on Max
The Color Purple
Where to watch: Available to stream on Max
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Image: Warner Bros Pictures
Genre: Coming-of-age musical
Run time: 2h 21m
Director: Blitz Bazawule
Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo
Based on Alice Walker’s 1982 novel, this musical adaptation follows the story of Celie (Fantasia Barrino), a lady in an abusive marriage torn from her sister and youngsters, who finds power by means of her friendship with Shug Avery (Taraji P. Henson), a singer with an indomitable spirit.
New on Prime Video
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: Paramount
Genre: Animated superhero motion comedy
Run time: 1h 39m
Director: Jeff Rowe
Cast: Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu, Brady Noon
This Seth Rogen-produced animated reboot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reimagines the origin story of Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Leonardo, 4 turtles mutated by a mysterious ooze who develop up beneath the tutelage of their adoptive father Splinter (Jackie Chan). When the turtle brothers cross paths with April O’Neil (Ayo Edebiri), an aspiring highschool journalist, the turtles resolve to assist her in uncovering a shadowy crime syndicate led by a mysterious crime boss who goes by the title “Superfly.”
Dark Harvest
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: MGM/United Artist Releasing
Genre: Fantasy horror
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: David Slade
Cast: Casey Likes, E’myri Crutchfield, Dustin Ceithamer
Director David Slade (30 Days of Night) returns with an all-new fantasy horror movie primarily based on Norman Partridge’s 2006 novel. In a sleepy unnamed Midwestern hamlet, the teenage boys collect for a yearly ritual every October: to search out “Sawtooth Jack,” a vicious creature with a pumpkin for a head, and kill him earlier than midnight to be certain that the city might be free from misfortune. Will they find a way to succeed this yr, and what different darkish secrets and techniques lurk behind this weird custom?
This Is Me…Now: A Love Story
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: Amazon Prime Video
Genre: Musical movie
Run time: 1h 5m
Director: Dave Meyers
Cast: Sofia Vergara, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez
This feature-length companion music video to Jennifer Lopez’s first album in over a decade stars the actress-songwriter in a fairy-tale saga about star-crossed lovers from opposing tribes who’re reincarnated right into a pink flower and a blue hummingbird. Also, Ben Affleck is right here!
New on Peacock
Oppenheimer
Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock
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Photo: Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures
Genre: Historical biopic
Run time: 3h
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon
Cillian Murphy stars as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb,” in Christopher Nolan’s biopic chronicling the scientist’s tenure at a clandestine analysis facility in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and his embattled popularity and public shame within the years following World War II.
From our assessment:
In its closing stretch, Oppenheimer makes use of the political marketing campaign to discredit the physicist and unpick his legacy as a manner to get beneath the pores and skin of a person whose stance on his terrible creation remained contradictory and enigmatic. After the overwhelming bomb sequences, that’s a surprisingly delicate and advanced tack for Nolan to take, however it works as a result of the story is pushed by the historic report and the characters, relatively than by dogma, with the appalling ethical penalties rising naturally from the small print. Nolan is just not one to let any member of the viewers miss his level, and the movie’s closing scene does ram it residence. But first, he builds out the online of ambition, compromise, goals, politics, jealousy, and inspiration — in a phrase, humanity — that unleashed the forces he stands in awe of. In Oppenheimer, man is essentially the most dreadful machine of all.
New to hire
The Iron Claw
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Photo: Brian Roedel/A24
Genre: Biographical sports activities drama
Run time: 2h 12m
Director: Sean Durkin
Cast: Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson
Zac Efron (Hairspray), Jeremy Allen White (The Bear), and Harris Dickinson (Triangle of Sadness) star on this thrilling dramatization of the lives of the Von Erich brothers, a trio {of professional} wrestlers whose larger-than-life careers and success throughout the Eighties have been marred by tragedy and wrestle.
From our assessment:
The biopicification of such a horrendous, private collection of tragedies will sound crass to some. But Durkin doesn’t dilute the Von Erich story into direct-to-cable fluff. He’s performing a balancing act, conscious {that a} unhappy story is barely helpful if folks have the will (and fortitude) to keep till the credit.
Miller’s Girl
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: Lions Gate Films
Genre: Black comedy drama
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: Jade Halley Bartlett
Cast: Martin Freeman, Jenna Ortega, Dagmara Domińczyk
Martin Freeman (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey) and Jenna Ortega (Wednesday) star on this thriller a few highschool writing trainer who’s seduced by a wealthy, bored, and manipulative younger scholar. Things clearly go very, very badly.
The Crime Is Mine
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: Music Box Films
Genre: Crime comedy
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: François Ozon
Cast: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Rebecca Marder, Isabelle Huppert
Director François Ozon’s newest movie follows the story of Madeleine Verdier (Nadia Tereszkiewicz), an actress who’s imprisoned for murdering a lecherous producer solely to be acquitted for self-defense. With the assistance of her lawyer buddy Pauline (Rebecca Marder), Madeleine places on the efficiency of a lifetime and good points notoriety and infamy like nothing she’s skilled earlier than.
Strange Way of Life
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: El Deseo/Saint Laurent Productions
Genre: Western drama
Run time: 31m
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Pedro Pascal
This Western brief movie from director Pedro Almodóvar (Talk to Her) follows the story of two gunslingers (and former lovers) who reunite after 25 years aside.
Greetings, Polygon readers! Each week, we spherical up essentially the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the largest and finest new films for you to watch at residence.
This week, Oppenheimer, the Oscar-nominated biopic from director Christopher Nolan starring Cillian Murphy, lastly comes to Peacock after making its debut on VOD final November. That’s not all this week has to provide, as a complete slew of new and thrilling releases has arrived on streaming and VOD.
The Iron Claw, Sean Durkin’s wrestling biopic in regards to the Von Erich brothers, lastly comes to VOD this weekend alongside the French homicide farce The Crime Is Mine, the Southern Gothic drama Miller’s Girl, and Pedro Almodóvar’s queer Western brief movie Strange Way of Life starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal. There’s extra: Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving is now streaming on Netflix, whereas Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is now obtainable to stream on Prime Video.
Here’s all the pieces new to watch this weekend!
New on Netflix
Thanksgiving
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Photo: Pief Weyman/Sony Pictures
Genre: Slasher horror
Run time: 1h 46m
Director: Eli Roth
Cast: Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, Gina Gershon
Eli Roth is again with a new holiday-themed slasher. After a tragic Black Friday riot, the quiet city of Plymouth, Massachusetts, is terrorized by a Thanksgiving-inspired killer carrying a ghoulish John Carver masks.
From our assessment:
Comedic slashers the place each halves complement one another are uncommon, even among the many style’s most entertaining choices. Movies like Totally Killer or Happy Death Day are too humorous and lighthearted to ever actually earn a real scare, whereas a movie like House of 1000 Corpses is so darkish and gross that the humor isn’t possible to land on a primary viewing. Few films have ever struck that stability fairly in addition to Craven’s 4 Scream films. Thanksgiving doesn’t fairly attain that collection’ meteoric heights, however it comes far nearer than the rest lately — together with the Scream franchise itself.
Players
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Photo: Ok.C. Bailey/Netflix
Genre: Romantic comedy
Run time: 1h 45m
Director: Trish Sie
Cast: Gina Rodriguez, Damon Wayans Jr., Tom Ellis
Gina Rodriguez stars on this new rom-com as a sports activities author in New York City who helps her finest buddy, Adam (Damon Wayans Jr.), pull off varied hookup schemes. After crossing paths with Nick (Tom Ellis), a good-looking and single colleague, she’ll have to make the onerous choice of whether or not to quiet down or preserve hooking up.
New on Hulu
The Pod Generation
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
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Image: Quad Productions/Roadside Attractions
Genre: Sci-fi romance
Run time: 1h 49m
Director: Sophie Barthes
Cast: Emilia Clarke, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rosalie Craig
What if Gattaca wasn’t a dystopian retrofuturistic drama starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, however as an alternative a unusual sci-fi romance drama starring Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor? That’s basically what director Sophie Barthes’ newest movie is in a nutshell: A pair is obtainable the chance to conceive a toddler by means of a man-made womb (or pod), solely to uncover that parenthood and life are extra unpredictable than they imagined.
Next Goal Wins
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
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Image: Searchlight Pictures
Genre: Sports comedy-drama
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Taika Waititi
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Oscar Kightley, Kaimana
Michael Fassbender (The Killer) stars in Taika Waititi’s sports activities movie primarily based on the real-life American Samoa nationwide soccer group and their qualification try for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Fassbender portrays Thomas Rongen, the Dutch American coach who agrees to assist form the as soon as notoriously dangerous group right into a aggressive qualifier.
From our assessment:
Next Goal Wins fails to correctly seize what made the story of the American Samoa nationwide soccer group so compelling, by making an attempt to make a movie so common that it discards the game itself as unimportant. Which it is perhaps when it comes to letting the viewers relate to the group as people. But it’s such a cookie-cutter underdog story that it hardly ever strikes previous essentially the most superficial “Care because this movie says you need to care” stage.
New on Max
The Color Purple
Where to watch: Available to stream on Max
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Image: Warner Bros Pictures
Genre: Coming-of-age musical
Run time: 2h 21m
Director: Blitz Bazawule
Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo
Based on Alice Walker’s 1982 novel, this musical adaptation follows the story of Celie (Fantasia Barrino), a lady in an abusive marriage torn from her sister and youngsters, who finds power by means of her friendship with Shug Avery (Taraji P. Henson), a singer with an indomitable spirit.
New on Prime Video
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: Paramount
Genre: Animated superhero motion comedy
Run time: 1h 39m
Director: Jeff Rowe
Cast: Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu, Brady Noon
This Seth Rogen-produced animated reboot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reimagines the origin story of Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Leonardo, 4 turtles mutated by a mysterious ooze who develop up beneath the tutelage of their adoptive father Splinter (Jackie Chan). When the turtle brothers cross paths with April O’Neil (Ayo Edebiri), an aspiring highschool journalist, the turtles resolve to assist her in uncovering a shadowy crime syndicate led by a mysterious crime boss who goes by the title “Superfly.”
Dark Harvest
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: MGM/United Artist Releasing
Genre: Fantasy horror
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: David Slade
Cast: Casey Likes, E’myri Crutchfield, Dustin Ceithamer
Director David Slade (30 Days of Night) returns with an all-new fantasy horror movie primarily based on Norman Partridge’s 2006 novel. In a sleepy unnamed Midwestern hamlet, the teenage boys collect for a yearly ritual every October: to search out “Sawtooth Jack,” a vicious creature with a pumpkin for a head, and kill him earlier than midnight to be certain that the city might be free from misfortune. Will they find a way to succeed this yr, and what different darkish secrets and techniques lurk behind this weird custom?
This Is Me…Now: A Love Story
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: Amazon Prime Video
Genre: Musical movie
Run time: 1h 5m
Director: Dave Meyers
Cast: Sofia Vergara, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez
This feature-length companion music video to Jennifer Lopez’s first album in over a decade stars the actress-songwriter in a fairy-tale saga about star-crossed lovers from opposing tribes who’re reincarnated right into a pink flower and a blue hummingbird. Also, Ben Affleck is right here!
New on Peacock
Oppenheimer
Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock
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Photo: Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures
Genre: Historical biopic
Run time: 3h
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon
Cillian Murphy stars as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb,” in Christopher Nolan’s biopic chronicling the scientist’s tenure at a clandestine analysis facility in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and his embattled popularity and public shame within the years following World War II.
From our assessment:
In its closing stretch, Oppenheimer makes use of the political marketing campaign to discredit the physicist and unpick his legacy as a manner to get beneath the pores and skin of a person whose stance on his terrible creation remained contradictory and enigmatic. After the overwhelming bomb sequences, that’s a surprisingly delicate and advanced tack for Nolan to take, however it works as a result of the story is pushed by the historic report and the characters, relatively than by dogma, with the appalling ethical penalties rising naturally from the small print. Nolan is just not one to let any member of the viewers miss his level, and the movie’s closing scene does ram it residence. But first, he builds out the online of ambition, compromise, goals, politics, jealousy, and inspiration — in a phrase, humanity — that unleashed the forces he stands in awe of. In Oppenheimer, man is essentially the most dreadful machine of all.
New to hire
The Iron Claw
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Photo: Brian Roedel/A24
Genre: Biographical sports activities drama
Run time: 2h 12m
Director: Sean Durkin
Cast: Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson
Zac Efron (Hairspray), Jeremy Allen White (The Bear), and Harris Dickinson (Triangle of Sadness) star on this thrilling dramatization of the lives of the Von Erich brothers, a trio {of professional} wrestlers whose larger-than-life careers and success throughout the Eighties have been marred by tragedy and wrestle.
From our assessment:
The biopicification of such a horrendous, private collection of tragedies will sound crass to some. But Durkin doesn’t dilute the Von Erich story into direct-to-cable fluff. He’s performing a balancing act, conscious {that a} unhappy story is barely helpful if folks have the will (and fortitude) to keep till the credit.
Miller’s Girl
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: Lions Gate Films
Genre: Black comedy drama
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: Jade Halley Bartlett
Cast: Martin Freeman, Jenna Ortega, Dagmara Domińczyk
Martin Freeman (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey) and Jenna Ortega (Wednesday) star on this thriller a few highschool writing trainer who’s seduced by a wealthy, bored, and manipulative younger scholar. Things clearly go very, very badly.
The Crime Is Mine
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: Music Box Films
Genre: Crime comedy
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: François Ozon
Cast: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Rebecca Marder, Isabelle Huppert
Director François Ozon’s newest movie follows the story of Madeleine Verdier (Nadia Tereszkiewicz), an actress who’s imprisoned for murdering a lecherous producer solely to be acquitted for self-defense. With the assistance of her lawyer buddy Pauline (Rebecca Marder), Madeleine places on the efficiency of a lifetime and good points notoriety and infamy like nothing she’s skilled earlier than.
Strange Way of Life
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: El Deseo/Saint Laurent Productions
Genre: Western drama
Run time: 31m
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Pedro Pascal
This Western brief movie from director Pedro Almodóvar (Talk to Her) follows the story of two gunslingers (and former lovers) who reunite after 25 years aside.
Greetings, Polygon readers! Each week, we spherical up essentially the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the largest and finest new films for you to watch at residence.
This week, Oppenheimer, the Oscar-nominated biopic from director Christopher Nolan starring Cillian Murphy, lastly comes to Peacock after making its debut on VOD final November. That’s not all this week has to provide, as a complete slew of new and thrilling releases has arrived on streaming and VOD.
The Iron Claw, Sean Durkin’s wrestling biopic in regards to the Von Erich brothers, lastly comes to VOD this weekend alongside the French homicide farce The Crime Is Mine, the Southern Gothic drama Miller’s Girl, and Pedro Almodóvar’s queer Western brief movie Strange Way of Life starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal. There’s extra: Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving is now streaming on Netflix, whereas Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is now obtainable to stream on Prime Video.
Here’s all the pieces new to watch this weekend!
New on Netflix
Thanksgiving
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Photo: Pief Weyman/Sony Pictures
Genre: Slasher horror
Run time: 1h 46m
Director: Eli Roth
Cast: Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, Gina Gershon
Eli Roth is again with a new holiday-themed slasher. After a tragic Black Friday riot, the quiet city of Plymouth, Massachusetts, is terrorized by a Thanksgiving-inspired killer carrying a ghoulish John Carver masks.
From our assessment:
Comedic slashers the place each halves complement one another are uncommon, even among the many style’s most entertaining choices. Movies like Totally Killer or Happy Death Day are too humorous and lighthearted to ever actually earn a real scare, whereas a movie like House of 1000 Corpses is so darkish and gross that the humor isn’t possible to land on a primary viewing. Few films have ever struck that stability fairly in addition to Craven’s 4 Scream films. Thanksgiving doesn’t fairly attain that collection’ meteoric heights, however it comes far nearer than the rest lately — together with the Scream franchise itself.
Players
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Photo: Ok.C. Bailey/Netflix
Genre: Romantic comedy
Run time: 1h 45m
Director: Trish Sie
Cast: Gina Rodriguez, Damon Wayans Jr., Tom Ellis
Gina Rodriguez stars on this new rom-com as a sports activities author in New York City who helps her finest buddy, Adam (Damon Wayans Jr.), pull off varied hookup schemes. After crossing paths with Nick (Tom Ellis), a good-looking and single colleague, she’ll have to make the onerous choice of whether or not to quiet down or preserve hooking up.
New on Hulu
The Pod Generation
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
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Image: Quad Productions/Roadside Attractions
Genre: Sci-fi romance
Run time: 1h 49m
Director: Sophie Barthes
Cast: Emilia Clarke, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rosalie Craig
What if Gattaca wasn’t a dystopian retrofuturistic drama starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, however as an alternative a unusual sci-fi romance drama starring Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor? That’s basically what director Sophie Barthes’ newest movie is in a nutshell: A pair is obtainable the chance to conceive a toddler by means of a man-made womb (or pod), solely to uncover that parenthood and life are extra unpredictable than they imagined.
Next Goal Wins
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
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Image: Searchlight Pictures
Genre: Sports comedy-drama
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Taika Waititi
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Oscar Kightley, Kaimana
Michael Fassbender (The Killer) stars in Taika Waititi’s sports activities movie primarily based on the real-life American Samoa nationwide soccer group and their qualification try for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Fassbender portrays Thomas Rongen, the Dutch American coach who agrees to assist form the as soon as notoriously dangerous group right into a aggressive qualifier.
From our assessment:
Next Goal Wins fails to correctly seize what made the story of the American Samoa nationwide soccer group so compelling, by making an attempt to make a movie so common that it discards the game itself as unimportant. Which it is perhaps when it comes to letting the viewers relate to the group as people. But it’s such a cookie-cutter underdog story that it hardly ever strikes previous essentially the most superficial “Care because this movie says you need to care” stage.
New on Max
The Color Purple
Where to watch: Available to stream on Max
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Image: Warner Bros Pictures
Genre: Coming-of-age musical
Run time: 2h 21m
Director: Blitz Bazawule
Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo
Based on Alice Walker’s 1982 novel, this musical adaptation follows the story of Celie (Fantasia Barrino), a lady in an abusive marriage torn from her sister and youngsters, who finds power by means of her friendship with Shug Avery (Taraji P. Henson), a singer with an indomitable spirit.
New on Prime Video
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: Paramount
Genre: Animated superhero motion comedy
Run time: 1h 39m
Director: Jeff Rowe
Cast: Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu, Brady Noon
This Seth Rogen-produced animated reboot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reimagines the origin story of Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Leonardo, 4 turtles mutated by a mysterious ooze who develop up beneath the tutelage of their adoptive father Splinter (Jackie Chan). When the turtle brothers cross paths with April O’Neil (Ayo Edebiri), an aspiring highschool journalist, the turtles resolve to assist her in uncovering a shadowy crime syndicate led by a mysterious crime boss who goes by the title “Superfly.”
Dark Harvest
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: MGM/United Artist Releasing
Genre: Fantasy horror
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: David Slade
Cast: Casey Likes, E’myri Crutchfield, Dustin Ceithamer
Director David Slade (30 Days of Night) returns with an all-new fantasy horror movie primarily based on Norman Partridge’s 2006 novel. In a sleepy unnamed Midwestern hamlet, the teenage boys collect for a yearly ritual every October: to search out “Sawtooth Jack,” a vicious creature with a pumpkin for a head, and kill him earlier than midnight to be certain that the city might be free from misfortune. Will they find a way to succeed this yr, and what different darkish secrets and techniques lurk behind this weird custom?
This Is Me…Now: A Love Story
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: Amazon Prime Video
Genre: Musical movie
Run time: 1h 5m
Director: Dave Meyers
Cast: Sofia Vergara, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez
This feature-length companion music video to Jennifer Lopez’s first album in over a decade stars the actress-songwriter in a fairy-tale saga about star-crossed lovers from opposing tribes who’re reincarnated right into a pink flower and a blue hummingbird. Also, Ben Affleck is right here!
New on Peacock
Oppenheimer
Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock
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Photo: Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures
Genre: Historical biopic
Run time: 3h
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon
Cillian Murphy stars as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb,” in Christopher Nolan’s biopic chronicling the scientist’s tenure at a clandestine analysis facility in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and his embattled popularity and public shame within the years following World War II.
From our assessment:
In its closing stretch, Oppenheimer makes use of the political marketing campaign to discredit the physicist and unpick his legacy as a manner to get beneath the pores and skin of a person whose stance on his terrible creation remained contradictory and enigmatic. After the overwhelming bomb sequences, that’s a surprisingly delicate and advanced tack for Nolan to take, however it works as a result of the story is pushed by the historic report and the characters, relatively than by dogma, with the appalling ethical penalties rising naturally from the small print. Nolan is just not one to let any member of the viewers miss his level, and the movie’s closing scene does ram it residence. But first, he builds out the online of ambition, compromise, goals, politics, jealousy, and inspiration — in a phrase, humanity — that unleashed the forces he stands in awe of. In Oppenheimer, man is essentially the most dreadful machine of all.
New to hire
The Iron Claw
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Photo: Brian Roedel/A24
Genre: Biographical sports activities drama
Run time: 2h 12m
Director: Sean Durkin
Cast: Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson
Zac Efron (Hairspray), Jeremy Allen White (The Bear), and Harris Dickinson (Triangle of Sadness) star on this thrilling dramatization of the lives of the Von Erich brothers, a trio {of professional} wrestlers whose larger-than-life careers and success throughout the Eighties have been marred by tragedy and wrestle.
From our assessment:
The biopicification of such a horrendous, private collection of tragedies will sound crass to some. But Durkin doesn’t dilute the Von Erich story into direct-to-cable fluff. He’s performing a balancing act, conscious {that a} unhappy story is barely helpful if folks have the will (and fortitude) to keep till the credit.
Miller’s Girl
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: Lions Gate Films
Genre: Black comedy drama
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: Jade Halley Bartlett
Cast: Martin Freeman, Jenna Ortega, Dagmara Domińczyk
Martin Freeman (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey) and Jenna Ortega (Wednesday) star on this thriller a few highschool writing trainer who’s seduced by a wealthy, bored, and manipulative younger scholar. Things clearly go very, very badly.
The Crime Is Mine
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: Music Box Films
Genre: Crime comedy
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: François Ozon
Cast: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Rebecca Marder, Isabelle Huppert
Director François Ozon’s newest movie follows the story of Madeleine Verdier (Nadia Tereszkiewicz), an actress who’s imprisoned for murdering a lecherous producer solely to be acquitted for self-defense. With the assistance of her lawyer buddy Pauline (Rebecca Marder), Madeleine places on the efficiency of a lifetime and good points notoriety and infamy like nothing she’s skilled earlier than.
Strange Way of Life
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: El Deseo/Saint Laurent Productions
Genre: Western drama
Run time: 31m
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Pedro Pascal
This Western brief movie from director Pedro Almodóvar (Talk to Her) follows the story of two gunslingers (and former lovers) who reunite after 25 years aside.
Greetings, Polygon readers! Each week, we spherical up essentially the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the largest and finest new films for you to watch at residence.
This week, Oppenheimer, the Oscar-nominated biopic from director Christopher Nolan starring Cillian Murphy, lastly comes to Peacock after making its debut on VOD final November. That’s not all this week has to provide, as a complete slew of new and thrilling releases has arrived on streaming and VOD.
The Iron Claw, Sean Durkin’s wrestling biopic in regards to the Von Erich brothers, lastly comes to VOD this weekend alongside the French homicide farce The Crime Is Mine, the Southern Gothic drama Miller’s Girl, and Pedro Almodóvar’s queer Western brief movie Strange Way of Life starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal. There’s extra: Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving is now streaming on Netflix, whereas Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is now obtainable to stream on Prime Video.
Here’s all the pieces new to watch this weekend!
New on Netflix
Thanksgiving
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Photo: Pief Weyman/Sony Pictures
Genre: Slasher horror
Run time: 1h 46m
Director: Eli Roth
Cast: Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, Gina Gershon
Eli Roth is again with a new holiday-themed slasher. After a tragic Black Friday riot, the quiet city of Plymouth, Massachusetts, is terrorized by a Thanksgiving-inspired killer carrying a ghoulish John Carver masks.
From our assessment:
Comedic slashers the place each halves complement one another are uncommon, even among the many style’s most entertaining choices. Movies like Totally Killer or Happy Death Day are too humorous and lighthearted to ever actually earn a real scare, whereas a movie like House of 1000 Corpses is so darkish and gross that the humor isn’t possible to land on a primary viewing. Few films have ever struck that stability fairly in addition to Craven’s 4 Scream films. Thanksgiving doesn’t fairly attain that collection’ meteoric heights, however it comes far nearer than the rest lately — together with the Scream franchise itself.
Players
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Photo: Ok.C. Bailey/Netflix
Genre: Romantic comedy
Run time: 1h 45m
Director: Trish Sie
Cast: Gina Rodriguez, Damon Wayans Jr., Tom Ellis
Gina Rodriguez stars on this new rom-com as a sports activities author in New York City who helps her finest buddy, Adam (Damon Wayans Jr.), pull off varied hookup schemes. After crossing paths with Nick (Tom Ellis), a good-looking and single colleague, she’ll have to make the onerous choice of whether or not to quiet down or preserve hooking up.
New on Hulu
The Pod Generation
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
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Image: Quad Productions/Roadside Attractions
Genre: Sci-fi romance
Run time: 1h 49m
Director: Sophie Barthes
Cast: Emilia Clarke, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rosalie Craig
What if Gattaca wasn’t a dystopian retrofuturistic drama starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, however as an alternative a unusual sci-fi romance drama starring Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor? That’s basically what director Sophie Barthes’ newest movie is in a nutshell: A pair is obtainable the chance to conceive a toddler by means of a man-made womb (or pod), solely to uncover that parenthood and life are extra unpredictable than they imagined.
Next Goal Wins
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
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Image: Searchlight Pictures
Genre: Sports comedy-drama
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Taika Waititi
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Oscar Kightley, Kaimana
Michael Fassbender (The Killer) stars in Taika Waititi’s sports activities movie primarily based on the real-life American Samoa nationwide soccer group and their qualification try for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Fassbender portrays Thomas Rongen, the Dutch American coach who agrees to assist form the as soon as notoriously dangerous group right into a aggressive qualifier.
From our assessment:
Next Goal Wins fails to correctly seize what made the story of the American Samoa nationwide soccer group so compelling, by making an attempt to make a movie so common that it discards the game itself as unimportant. Which it is perhaps when it comes to letting the viewers relate to the group as people. But it’s such a cookie-cutter underdog story that it hardly ever strikes previous essentially the most superficial “Care because this movie says you need to care” stage.
New on Max
The Color Purple
Where to watch: Available to stream on Max
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Image: Warner Bros Pictures
Genre: Coming-of-age musical
Run time: 2h 21m
Director: Blitz Bazawule
Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo
Based on Alice Walker’s 1982 novel, this musical adaptation follows the story of Celie (Fantasia Barrino), a lady in an abusive marriage torn from her sister and youngsters, who finds power by means of her friendship with Shug Avery (Taraji P. Henson), a singer with an indomitable spirit.
New on Prime Video
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: Paramount
Genre: Animated superhero motion comedy
Run time: 1h 39m
Director: Jeff Rowe
Cast: Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu, Brady Noon
This Seth Rogen-produced animated reboot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reimagines the origin story of Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Leonardo, 4 turtles mutated by a mysterious ooze who develop up beneath the tutelage of their adoptive father Splinter (Jackie Chan). When the turtle brothers cross paths with April O’Neil (Ayo Edebiri), an aspiring highschool journalist, the turtles resolve to assist her in uncovering a shadowy crime syndicate led by a mysterious crime boss who goes by the title “Superfly.”
Dark Harvest
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: MGM/United Artist Releasing
Genre: Fantasy horror
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: David Slade
Cast: Casey Likes, E’myri Crutchfield, Dustin Ceithamer
Director David Slade (30 Days of Night) returns with an all-new fantasy horror movie primarily based on Norman Partridge’s 2006 novel. In a sleepy unnamed Midwestern hamlet, the teenage boys collect for a yearly ritual every October: to search out “Sawtooth Jack,” a vicious creature with a pumpkin for a head, and kill him earlier than midnight to be certain that the city might be free from misfortune. Will they find a way to succeed this yr, and what different darkish secrets and techniques lurk behind this weird custom?
This Is Me…Now: A Love Story
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: Amazon Prime Video
Genre: Musical movie
Run time: 1h 5m
Director: Dave Meyers
Cast: Sofia Vergara, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez
This feature-length companion music video to Jennifer Lopez’s first album in over a decade stars the actress-songwriter in a fairy-tale saga about star-crossed lovers from opposing tribes who’re reincarnated right into a pink flower and a blue hummingbird. Also, Ben Affleck is right here!
New on Peacock
Oppenheimer
Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock
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Photo: Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures
Genre: Historical biopic
Run time: 3h
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon
Cillian Murphy stars as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb,” in Christopher Nolan’s biopic chronicling the scientist’s tenure at a clandestine analysis facility in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and his embattled popularity and public shame within the years following World War II.
From our assessment:
In its closing stretch, Oppenheimer makes use of the political marketing campaign to discredit the physicist and unpick his legacy as a manner to get beneath the pores and skin of a person whose stance on his terrible creation remained contradictory and enigmatic. After the overwhelming bomb sequences, that’s a surprisingly delicate and advanced tack for Nolan to take, however it works as a result of the story is pushed by the historic report and the characters, relatively than by dogma, with the appalling ethical penalties rising naturally from the small print. Nolan is just not one to let any member of the viewers miss his level, and the movie’s closing scene does ram it residence. But first, he builds out the online of ambition, compromise, goals, politics, jealousy, and inspiration — in a phrase, humanity — that unleashed the forces he stands in awe of. In Oppenheimer, man is essentially the most dreadful machine of all.
New to hire
The Iron Claw
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Photo: Brian Roedel/A24
Genre: Biographical sports activities drama
Run time: 2h 12m
Director: Sean Durkin
Cast: Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson
Zac Efron (Hairspray), Jeremy Allen White (The Bear), and Harris Dickinson (Triangle of Sadness) star on this thrilling dramatization of the lives of the Von Erich brothers, a trio {of professional} wrestlers whose larger-than-life careers and success throughout the Eighties have been marred by tragedy and wrestle.
From our assessment:
The biopicification of such a horrendous, private collection of tragedies will sound crass to some. But Durkin doesn’t dilute the Von Erich story into direct-to-cable fluff. He’s performing a balancing act, conscious {that a} unhappy story is barely helpful if folks have the will (and fortitude) to keep till the credit.
Miller’s Girl
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: Lions Gate Films
Genre: Black comedy drama
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: Jade Halley Bartlett
Cast: Martin Freeman, Jenna Ortega, Dagmara Domińczyk
Martin Freeman (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey) and Jenna Ortega (Wednesday) star on this thriller a few highschool writing trainer who’s seduced by a wealthy, bored, and manipulative younger scholar. Things clearly go very, very badly.
The Crime Is Mine
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: Music Box Films
Genre: Crime comedy
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: François Ozon
Cast: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Rebecca Marder, Isabelle Huppert
Director François Ozon’s newest movie follows the story of Madeleine Verdier (Nadia Tereszkiewicz), an actress who’s imprisoned for murdering a lecherous producer solely to be acquitted for self-defense. With the assistance of her lawyer buddy Pauline (Rebecca Marder), Madeleine places on the efficiency of a lifetime and good points notoriety and infamy like nothing she’s skilled earlier than.
Strange Way of Life
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: El Deseo/Saint Laurent Productions
Genre: Western drama
Run time: 31m
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Pedro Pascal
This Western brief movie from director Pedro Almodóvar (Talk to Her) follows the story of two gunslingers (and former lovers) who reunite after 25 years aside.
Greetings, Polygon readers! Each week, we spherical up essentially the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the largest and finest new films for you to watch at residence.
This week, Oppenheimer, the Oscar-nominated biopic from director Christopher Nolan starring Cillian Murphy, lastly comes to Peacock after making its debut on VOD final November. That’s not all this week has to provide, as a complete slew of new and thrilling releases has arrived on streaming and VOD.
The Iron Claw, Sean Durkin’s wrestling biopic in regards to the Von Erich brothers, lastly comes to VOD this weekend alongside the French homicide farce The Crime Is Mine, the Southern Gothic drama Miller’s Girl, and Pedro Almodóvar’s queer Western brief movie Strange Way of Life starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal. There’s extra: Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving is now streaming on Netflix, whereas Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is now obtainable to stream on Prime Video.
Here’s all the pieces new to watch this weekend!
New on Netflix
Thanksgiving
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Photo: Pief Weyman/Sony Pictures
Genre: Slasher horror
Run time: 1h 46m
Director: Eli Roth
Cast: Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, Gina Gershon
Eli Roth is again with a new holiday-themed slasher. After a tragic Black Friday riot, the quiet city of Plymouth, Massachusetts, is terrorized by a Thanksgiving-inspired killer carrying a ghoulish John Carver masks.
From our assessment:
Comedic slashers the place each halves complement one another are uncommon, even among the many style’s most entertaining choices. Movies like Totally Killer or Happy Death Day are too humorous and lighthearted to ever actually earn a real scare, whereas a movie like House of 1000 Corpses is so darkish and gross that the humor isn’t possible to land on a primary viewing. Few films have ever struck that stability fairly in addition to Craven’s 4 Scream films. Thanksgiving doesn’t fairly attain that collection’ meteoric heights, however it comes far nearer than the rest lately — together with the Scream franchise itself.
Players
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Photo: Ok.C. Bailey/Netflix
Genre: Romantic comedy
Run time: 1h 45m
Director: Trish Sie
Cast: Gina Rodriguez, Damon Wayans Jr., Tom Ellis
Gina Rodriguez stars on this new rom-com as a sports activities author in New York City who helps her finest buddy, Adam (Damon Wayans Jr.), pull off varied hookup schemes. After crossing paths with Nick (Tom Ellis), a good-looking and single colleague, she’ll have to make the onerous choice of whether or not to quiet down or preserve hooking up.
New on Hulu
The Pod Generation
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
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Image: Quad Productions/Roadside Attractions
Genre: Sci-fi romance
Run time: 1h 49m
Director: Sophie Barthes
Cast: Emilia Clarke, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rosalie Craig
What if Gattaca wasn’t a dystopian retrofuturistic drama starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, however as an alternative a unusual sci-fi romance drama starring Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor? That’s basically what director Sophie Barthes’ newest movie is in a nutshell: A pair is obtainable the chance to conceive a toddler by means of a man-made womb (or pod), solely to uncover that parenthood and life are extra unpredictable than they imagined.
Next Goal Wins
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
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Image: Searchlight Pictures
Genre: Sports comedy-drama
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Taika Waititi
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Oscar Kightley, Kaimana
Michael Fassbender (The Killer) stars in Taika Waititi’s sports activities movie primarily based on the real-life American Samoa nationwide soccer group and their qualification try for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Fassbender portrays Thomas Rongen, the Dutch American coach who agrees to assist form the as soon as notoriously dangerous group right into a aggressive qualifier.
From our assessment:
Next Goal Wins fails to correctly seize what made the story of the American Samoa nationwide soccer group so compelling, by making an attempt to make a movie so common that it discards the game itself as unimportant. Which it is perhaps when it comes to letting the viewers relate to the group as people. But it’s such a cookie-cutter underdog story that it hardly ever strikes previous essentially the most superficial “Care because this movie says you need to care” stage.
New on Max
The Color Purple
Where to watch: Available to stream on Max
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Image: Warner Bros Pictures
Genre: Coming-of-age musical
Run time: 2h 21m
Director: Blitz Bazawule
Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo
Based on Alice Walker’s 1982 novel, this musical adaptation follows the story of Celie (Fantasia Barrino), a lady in an abusive marriage torn from her sister and youngsters, who finds power by means of her friendship with Shug Avery (Taraji P. Henson), a singer with an indomitable spirit.
New on Prime Video
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: Paramount
Genre: Animated superhero motion comedy
Run time: 1h 39m
Director: Jeff Rowe
Cast: Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu, Brady Noon
This Seth Rogen-produced animated reboot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reimagines the origin story of Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Leonardo, 4 turtles mutated by a mysterious ooze who develop up beneath the tutelage of their adoptive father Splinter (Jackie Chan). When the turtle brothers cross paths with April O’Neil (Ayo Edebiri), an aspiring highschool journalist, the turtles resolve to assist her in uncovering a shadowy crime syndicate led by a mysterious crime boss who goes by the title “Superfly.”
Dark Harvest
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: MGM/United Artist Releasing
Genre: Fantasy horror
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: David Slade
Cast: Casey Likes, E’myri Crutchfield, Dustin Ceithamer
Director David Slade (30 Days of Night) returns with an all-new fantasy horror movie primarily based on Norman Partridge’s 2006 novel. In a sleepy unnamed Midwestern hamlet, the teenage boys collect for a yearly ritual every October: to search out “Sawtooth Jack,” a vicious creature with a pumpkin for a head, and kill him earlier than midnight to be certain that the city might be free from misfortune. Will they find a way to succeed this yr, and what different darkish secrets and techniques lurk behind this weird custom?
This Is Me…Now: A Love Story
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: Amazon Prime Video
Genre: Musical movie
Run time: 1h 5m
Director: Dave Meyers
Cast: Sofia Vergara, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez
This feature-length companion music video to Jennifer Lopez’s first album in over a decade stars the actress-songwriter in a fairy-tale saga about star-crossed lovers from opposing tribes who’re reincarnated right into a pink flower and a blue hummingbird. Also, Ben Affleck is right here!
New on Peacock
Oppenheimer
Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock
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Photo: Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures
Genre: Historical biopic
Run time: 3h
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon
Cillian Murphy stars as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb,” in Christopher Nolan’s biopic chronicling the scientist’s tenure at a clandestine analysis facility in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and his embattled popularity and public shame within the years following World War II.
From our assessment:
In its closing stretch, Oppenheimer makes use of the political marketing campaign to discredit the physicist and unpick his legacy as a manner to get beneath the pores and skin of a person whose stance on his terrible creation remained contradictory and enigmatic. After the overwhelming bomb sequences, that’s a surprisingly delicate and advanced tack for Nolan to take, however it works as a result of the story is pushed by the historic report and the characters, relatively than by dogma, with the appalling ethical penalties rising naturally from the small print. Nolan is just not one to let any member of the viewers miss his level, and the movie’s closing scene does ram it residence. But first, he builds out the online of ambition, compromise, goals, politics, jealousy, and inspiration — in a phrase, humanity — that unleashed the forces he stands in awe of. In Oppenheimer, man is essentially the most dreadful machine of all.
New to hire
The Iron Claw
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Photo: Brian Roedel/A24
Genre: Biographical sports activities drama
Run time: 2h 12m
Director: Sean Durkin
Cast: Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson
Zac Efron (Hairspray), Jeremy Allen White (The Bear), and Harris Dickinson (Triangle of Sadness) star on this thrilling dramatization of the lives of the Von Erich brothers, a trio {of professional} wrestlers whose larger-than-life careers and success throughout the Eighties have been marred by tragedy and wrestle.
From our assessment:
The biopicification of such a horrendous, private collection of tragedies will sound crass to some. But Durkin doesn’t dilute the Von Erich story into direct-to-cable fluff. He’s performing a balancing act, conscious {that a} unhappy story is barely helpful if folks have the will (and fortitude) to keep till the credit.
Miller’s Girl
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: Lions Gate Films
Genre: Black comedy drama
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: Jade Halley Bartlett
Cast: Martin Freeman, Jenna Ortega, Dagmara Domińczyk
Martin Freeman (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey) and Jenna Ortega (Wednesday) star on this thriller a few highschool writing trainer who’s seduced by a wealthy, bored, and manipulative younger scholar. Things clearly go very, very badly.
The Crime Is Mine
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: Music Box Films
Genre: Crime comedy
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: François Ozon
Cast: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Rebecca Marder, Isabelle Huppert
Director François Ozon’s newest movie follows the story of Madeleine Verdier (Nadia Tereszkiewicz), an actress who’s imprisoned for murdering a lecherous producer solely to be acquitted for self-defense. With the assistance of her lawyer buddy Pauline (Rebecca Marder), Madeleine places on the efficiency of a lifetime and good points notoriety and infamy like nothing she’s skilled earlier than.
Strange Way of Life
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: El Deseo/Saint Laurent Productions
Genre: Western drama
Run time: 31m
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Pedro Pascal
This Western brief movie from director Pedro Almodóvar (Talk to Her) follows the story of two gunslingers (and former lovers) who reunite after 25 years aside.
Greetings, Polygon readers! Each week, we spherical up essentially the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the largest and finest new films for you to watch at residence.
This week, Oppenheimer, the Oscar-nominated biopic from director Christopher Nolan starring Cillian Murphy, lastly comes to Peacock after making its debut on VOD final November. That’s not all this week has to provide, as a complete slew of new and thrilling releases has arrived on streaming and VOD.
The Iron Claw, Sean Durkin’s wrestling biopic in regards to the Von Erich brothers, lastly comes to VOD this weekend alongside the French homicide farce The Crime Is Mine, the Southern Gothic drama Miller’s Girl, and Pedro Almodóvar’s queer Western brief movie Strange Way of Life starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal. There’s extra: Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving is now streaming on Netflix, whereas Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is now obtainable to stream on Prime Video.
Here’s all the pieces new to watch this weekend!
New on Netflix
Thanksgiving
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Photo: Pief Weyman/Sony Pictures
Genre: Slasher horror
Run time: 1h 46m
Director: Eli Roth
Cast: Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, Gina Gershon
Eli Roth is again with a new holiday-themed slasher. After a tragic Black Friday riot, the quiet city of Plymouth, Massachusetts, is terrorized by a Thanksgiving-inspired killer carrying a ghoulish John Carver masks.
From our assessment:
Comedic slashers the place each halves complement one another are uncommon, even among the many style’s most entertaining choices. Movies like Totally Killer or Happy Death Day are too humorous and lighthearted to ever actually earn a real scare, whereas a movie like House of 1000 Corpses is so darkish and gross that the humor isn’t possible to land on a primary viewing. Few films have ever struck that stability fairly in addition to Craven’s 4 Scream films. Thanksgiving doesn’t fairly attain that collection’ meteoric heights, however it comes far nearer than the rest lately — together with the Scream franchise itself.
Players
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Photo: Ok.C. Bailey/Netflix
Genre: Romantic comedy
Run time: 1h 45m
Director: Trish Sie
Cast: Gina Rodriguez, Damon Wayans Jr., Tom Ellis
Gina Rodriguez stars on this new rom-com as a sports activities author in New York City who helps her finest buddy, Adam (Damon Wayans Jr.), pull off varied hookup schemes. After crossing paths with Nick (Tom Ellis), a good-looking and single colleague, she’ll have to make the onerous choice of whether or not to quiet down or preserve hooking up.
New on Hulu
The Pod Generation
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
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Image: Quad Productions/Roadside Attractions
Genre: Sci-fi romance
Run time: 1h 49m
Director: Sophie Barthes
Cast: Emilia Clarke, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rosalie Craig
What if Gattaca wasn’t a dystopian retrofuturistic drama starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, however as an alternative a unusual sci-fi romance drama starring Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor? That’s basically what director Sophie Barthes’ newest movie is in a nutshell: A pair is obtainable the chance to conceive a toddler by means of a man-made womb (or pod), solely to uncover that parenthood and life are extra unpredictable than they imagined.
Next Goal Wins
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
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Image: Searchlight Pictures
Genre: Sports comedy-drama
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Taika Waititi
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Oscar Kightley, Kaimana
Michael Fassbender (The Killer) stars in Taika Waititi’s sports activities movie primarily based on the real-life American Samoa nationwide soccer group and their qualification try for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Fassbender portrays Thomas Rongen, the Dutch American coach who agrees to assist form the as soon as notoriously dangerous group right into a aggressive qualifier.
From our assessment:
Next Goal Wins fails to correctly seize what made the story of the American Samoa nationwide soccer group so compelling, by making an attempt to make a movie so common that it discards the game itself as unimportant. Which it is perhaps when it comes to letting the viewers relate to the group as people. But it’s such a cookie-cutter underdog story that it hardly ever strikes previous essentially the most superficial “Care because this movie says you need to care” stage.
New on Max
The Color Purple
Where to watch: Available to stream on Max
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Image: Warner Bros Pictures
Genre: Coming-of-age musical
Run time: 2h 21m
Director: Blitz Bazawule
Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo
Based on Alice Walker’s 1982 novel, this musical adaptation follows the story of Celie (Fantasia Barrino), a lady in an abusive marriage torn from her sister and youngsters, who finds power by means of her friendship with Shug Avery (Taraji P. Henson), a singer with an indomitable spirit.
New on Prime Video
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: Paramount
Genre: Animated superhero motion comedy
Run time: 1h 39m
Director: Jeff Rowe
Cast: Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu, Brady Noon
This Seth Rogen-produced animated reboot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reimagines the origin story of Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Leonardo, 4 turtles mutated by a mysterious ooze who develop up beneath the tutelage of their adoptive father Splinter (Jackie Chan). When the turtle brothers cross paths with April O’Neil (Ayo Edebiri), an aspiring highschool journalist, the turtles resolve to assist her in uncovering a shadowy crime syndicate led by a mysterious crime boss who goes by the title “Superfly.”
Dark Harvest
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: MGM/United Artist Releasing
Genre: Fantasy horror
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: David Slade
Cast: Casey Likes, E’myri Crutchfield, Dustin Ceithamer
Director David Slade (30 Days of Night) returns with an all-new fantasy horror movie primarily based on Norman Partridge’s 2006 novel. In a sleepy unnamed Midwestern hamlet, the teenage boys collect for a yearly ritual every October: to search out “Sawtooth Jack,” a vicious creature with a pumpkin for a head, and kill him earlier than midnight to be certain that the city might be free from misfortune. Will they find a way to succeed this yr, and what different darkish secrets and techniques lurk behind this weird custom?
This Is Me…Now: A Love Story
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: Amazon Prime Video
Genre: Musical movie
Run time: 1h 5m
Director: Dave Meyers
Cast: Sofia Vergara, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez
This feature-length companion music video to Jennifer Lopez’s first album in over a decade stars the actress-songwriter in a fairy-tale saga about star-crossed lovers from opposing tribes who’re reincarnated right into a pink flower and a blue hummingbird. Also, Ben Affleck is right here!
New on Peacock
Oppenheimer
Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock
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Photo: Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures
Genre: Historical biopic
Run time: 3h
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon
Cillian Murphy stars as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb,” in Christopher Nolan’s biopic chronicling the scientist’s tenure at a clandestine analysis facility in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and his embattled popularity and public shame within the years following World War II.
From our assessment:
In its closing stretch, Oppenheimer makes use of the political marketing campaign to discredit the physicist and unpick his legacy as a manner to get beneath the pores and skin of a person whose stance on his terrible creation remained contradictory and enigmatic. After the overwhelming bomb sequences, that’s a surprisingly delicate and advanced tack for Nolan to take, however it works as a result of the story is pushed by the historic report and the characters, relatively than by dogma, with the appalling ethical penalties rising naturally from the small print. Nolan is just not one to let any member of the viewers miss his level, and the movie’s closing scene does ram it residence. But first, he builds out the online of ambition, compromise, goals, politics, jealousy, and inspiration — in a phrase, humanity — that unleashed the forces he stands in awe of. In Oppenheimer, man is essentially the most dreadful machine of all.
New to hire
The Iron Claw
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Photo: Brian Roedel/A24
Genre: Biographical sports activities drama
Run time: 2h 12m
Director: Sean Durkin
Cast: Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson
Zac Efron (Hairspray), Jeremy Allen White (The Bear), and Harris Dickinson (Triangle of Sadness) star on this thrilling dramatization of the lives of the Von Erich brothers, a trio {of professional} wrestlers whose larger-than-life careers and success throughout the Eighties have been marred by tragedy and wrestle.
From our assessment:
The biopicification of such a horrendous, private collection of tragedies will sound crass to some. But Durkin doesn’t dilute the Von Erich story into direct-to-cable fluff. He’s performing a balancing act, conscious {that a} unhappy story is barely helpful if folks have the will (and fortitude) to keep till the credit.
Miller’s Girl
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: Lions Gate Films
Genre: Black comedy drama
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: Jade Halley Bartlett
Cast: Martin Freeman, Jenna Ortega, Dagmara Domińczyk
Martin Freeman (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey) and Jenna Ortega (Wednesday) star on this thriller a few highschool writing trainer who’s seduced by a wealthy, bored, and manipulative younger scholar. Things clearly go very, very badly.
The Crime Is Mine
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: Music Box Films
Genre: Crime comedy
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: François Ozon
Cast: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Rebecca Marder, Isabelle Huppert
Director François Ozon’s newest movie follows the story of Madeleine Verdier (Nadia Tereszkiewicz), an actress who’s imprisoned for murdering a lecherous producer solely to be acquitted for self-defense. With the assistance of her lawyer buddy Pauline (Rebecca Marder), Madeleine places on the efficiency of a lifetime and good points notoriety and infamy like nothing she’s skilled earlier than.
Strange Way of Life
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: El Deseo/Saint Laurent Productions
Genre: Western drama
Run time: 31m
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Pedro Pascal
This Western brief movie from director Pedro Almodóvar (Talk to Her) follows the story of two gunslingers (and former lovers) who reunite after 25 years aside.
Greetings, Polygon readers! Each week, we spherical up essentially the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the largest and finest new films for you to watch at residence.
This week, Oppenheimer, the Oscar-nominated biopic from director Christopher Nolan starring Cillian Murphy, lastly comes to Peacock after making its debut on VOD final November. That’s not all this week has to provide, as a complete slew of new and thrilling releases has arrived on streaming and VOD.
The Iron Claw, Sean Durkin’s wrestling biopic in regards to the Von Erich brothers, lastly comes to VOD this weekend alongside the French homicide farce The Crime Is Mine, the Southern Gothic drama Miller’s Girl, and Pedro Almodóvar’s queer Western brief movie Strange Way of Life starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal. There’s extra: Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving is now streaming on Netflix, whereas Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is now obtainable to stream on Prime Video.
Here’s all the pieces new to watch this weekend!
New on Netflix
Thanksgiving
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Photo: Pief Weyman/Sony Pictures
Genre: Slasher horror
Run time: 1h 46m
Director: Eli Roth
Cast: Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, Gina Gershon
Eli Roth is again with a new holiday-themed slasher. After a tragic Black Friday riot, the quiet city of Plymouth, Massachusetts, is terrorized by a Thanksgiving-inspired killer carrying a ghoulish John Carver masks.
From our assessment:
Comedic slashers the place each halves complement one another are uncommon, even among the many style’s most entertaining choices. Movies like Totally Killer or Happy Death Day are too humorous and lighthearted to ever actually earn a real scare, whereas a movie like House of 1000 Corpses is so darkish and gross that the humor isn’t possible to land on a primary viewing. Few films have ever struck that stability fairly in addition to Craven’s 4 Scream films. Thanksgiving doesn’t fairly attain that collection’ meteoric heights, however it comes far nearer than the rest lately — together with the Scream franchise itself.
Players
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Photo: Ok.C. Bailey/Netflix
Genre: Romantic comedy
Run time: 1h 45m
Director: Trish Sie
Cast: Gina Rodriguez, Damon Wayans Jr., Tom Ellis
Gina Rodriguez stars on this new rom-com as a sports activities author in New York City who helps her finest buddy, Adam (Damon Wayans Jr.), pull off varied hookup schemes. After crossing paths with Nick (Tom Ellis), a good-looking and single colleague, she’ll have to make the onerous choice of whether or not to quiet down or preserve hooking up.
New on Hulu
The Pod Generation
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
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Image: Quad Productions/Roadside Attractions
Genre: Sci-fi romance
Run time: 1h 49m
Director: Sophie Barthes
Cast: Emilia Clarke, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rosalie Craig
What if Gattaca wasn’t a dystopian retrofuturistic drama starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, however as an alternative a unusual sci-fi romance drama starring Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor? That’s basically what director Sophie Barthes’ newest movie is in a nutshell: A pair is obtainable the chance to conceive a toddler by means of a man-made womb (or pod), solely to uncover that parenthood and life are extra unpredictable than they imagined.
Next Goal Wins
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
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Image: Searchlight Pictures
Genre: Sports comedy-drama
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Taika Waititi
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Oscar Kightley, Kaimana
Michael Fassbender (The Killer) stars in Taika Waititi’s sports activities movie primarily based on the real-life American Samoa nationwide soccer group and their qualification try for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Fassbender portrays Thomas Rongen, the Dutch American coach who agrees to assist form the as soon as notoriously dangerous group right into a aggressive qualifier.
From our assessment:
Next Goal Wins fails to correctly seize what made the story of the American Samoa nationwide soccer group so compelling, by making an attempt to make a movie so common that it discards the game itself as unimportant. Which it is perhaps when it comes to letting the viewers relate to the group as people. But it’s such a cookie-cutter underdog story that it hardly ever strikes previous essentially the most superficial “Care because this movie says you need to care” stage.
New on Max
The Color Purple
Where to watch: Available to stream on Max
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Image: Warner Bros Pictures
Genre: Coming-of-age musical
Run time: 2h 21m
Director: Blitz Bazawule
Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo
Based on Alice Walker’s 1982 novel, this musical adaptation follows the story of Celie (Fantasia Barrino), a lady in an abusive marriage torn from her sister and youngsters, who finds power by means of her friendship with Shug Avery (Taraji P. Henson), a singer with an indomitable spirit.
New on Prime Video
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: Paramount
Genre: Animated superhero motion comedy
Run time: 1h 39m
Director: Jeff Rowe
Cast: Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu, Brady Noon
This Seth Rogen-produced animated reboot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reimagines the origin story of Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Leonardo, 4 turtles mutated by a mysterious ooze who develop up beneath the tutelage of their adoptive father Splinter (Jackie Chan). When the turtle brothers cross paths with April O’Neil (Ayo Edebiri), an aspiring highschool journalist, the turtles resolve to assist her in uncovering a shadowy crime syndicate led by a mysterious crime boss who goes by the title “Superfly.”
Dark Harvest
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: MGM/United Artist Releasing
Genre: Fantasy horror
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: David Slade
Cast: Casey Likes, E’myri Crutchfield, Dustin Ceithamer
Director David Slade (30 Days of Night) returns with an all-new fantasy horror movie primarily based on Norman Partridge’s 2006 novel. In a sleepy unnamed Midwestern hamlet, the teenage boys collect for a yearly ritual every October: to search out “Sawtooth Jack,” a vicious creature with a pumpkin for a head, and kill him earlier than midnight to be certain that the city might be free from misfortune. Will they find a way to succeed this yr, and what different darkish secrets and techniques lurk behind this weird custom?
This Is Me…Now: A Love Story
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: Amazon Prime Video
Genre: Musical movie
Run time: 1h 5m
Director: Dave Meyers
Cast: Sofia Vergara, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez
This feature-length companion music video to Jennifer Lopez’s first album in over a decade stars the actress-songwriter in a fairy-tale saga about star-crossed lovers from opposing tribes who’re reincarnated right into a pink flower and a blue hummingbird. Also, Ben Affleck is right here!
New on Peacock
Oppenheimer
Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock
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Photo: Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures
Genre: Historical biopic
Run time: 3h
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon
Cillian Murphy stars as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb,” in Christopher Nolan’s biopic chronicling the scientist’s tenure at a clandestine analysis facility in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and his embattled popularity and public shame within the years following World War II.
From our assessment:
In its closing stretch, Oppenheimer makes use of the political marketing campaign to discredit the physicist and unpick his legacy as a manner to get beneath the pores and skin of a person whose stance on his terrible creation remained contradictory and enigmatic. After the overwhelming bomb sequences, that’s a surprisingly delicate and advanced tack for Nolan to take, however it works as a result of the story is pushed by the historic report and the characters, relatively than by dogma, with the appalling ethical penalties rising naturally from the small print. Nolan is just not one to let any member of the viewers miss his level, and the movie’s closing scene does ram it residence. But first, he builds out the online of ambition, compromise, goals, politics, jealousy, and inspiration — in a phrase, humanity — that unleashed the forces he stands in awe of. In Oppenheimer, man is essentially the most dreadful machine of all.
New to hire
The Iron Claw
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Photo: Brian Roedel/A24
Genre: Biographical sports activities drama
Run time: 2h 12m
Director: Sean Durkin
Cast: Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson
Zac Efron (Hairspray), Jeremy Allen White (The Bear), and Harris Dickinson (Triangle of Sadness) star on this thrilling dramatization of the lives of the Von Erich brothers, a trio {of professional} wrestlers whose larger-than-life careers and success throughout the Eighties have been marred by tragedy and wrestle.
From our assessment:
The biopicification of such a horrendous, private collection of tragedies will sound crass to some. But Durkin doesn’t dilute the Von Erich story into direct-to-cable fluff. He’s performing a balancing act, conscious {that a} unhappy story is barely helpful if folks have the will (and fortitude) to keep till the credit.
Miller’s Girl
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: Lions Gate Films
Genre: Black comedy drama
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: Jade Halley Bartlett
Cast: Martin Freeman, Jenna Ortega, Dagmara Domińczyk
Martin Freeman (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey) and Jenna Ortega (Wednesday) star on this thriller a few highschool writing trainer who’s seduced by a wealthy, bored, and manipulative younger scholar. Things clearly go very, very badly.
The Crime Is Mine
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: Music Box Films
Genre: Crime comedy
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: François Ozon
Cast: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Rebecca Marder, Isabelle Huppert
Director François Ozon’s newest movie follows the story of Madeleine Verdier (Nadia Tereszkiewicz), an actress who’s imprisoned for murdering a lecherous producer solely to be acquitted for self-defense. With the assistance of her lawyer buddy Pauline (Rebecca Marder), Madeleine places on the efficiency of a lifetime and good points notoriety and infamy like nothing she’s skilled earlier than.
Strange Way of Life
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: El Deseo/Saint Laurent Productions
Genre: Western drama
Run time: 31m
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Pedro Pascal
This Western brief movie from director Pedro Almodóvar (Talk to Her) follows the story of two gunslingers (and former lovers) who reunite after 25 years aside.
Greetings, Polygon readers! Each week, we spherical up essentially the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the largest and finest new films for you to watch at residence.
This week, Oppenheimer, the Oscar-nominated biopic from director Christopher Nolan starring Cillian Murphy, lastly comes to Peacock after making its debut on VOD final November. That’s not all this week has to provide, as a complete slew of new and thrilling releases has arrived on streaming and VOD.
The Iron Claw, Sean Durkin’s wrestling biopic in regards to the Von Erich brothers, lastly comes to VOD this weekend alongside the French homicide farce The Crime Is Mine, the Southern Gothic drama Miller’s Girl, and Pedro Almodóvar’s queer Western brief movie Strange Way of Life starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal. There’s extra: Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving is now streaming on Netflix, whereas Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is now obtainable to stream on Prime Video.
Here’s all the pieces new to watch this weekend!
New on Netflix
Thanksgiving
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Photo: Pief Weyman/Sony Pictures
Genre: Slasher horror
Run time: 1h 46m
Director: Eli Roth
Cast: Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, Gina Gershon
Eli Roth is again with a new holiday-themed slasher. After a tragic Black Friday riot, the quiet city of Plymouth, Massachusetts, is terrorized by a Thanksgiving-inspired killer carrying a ghoulish John Carver masks.
From our assessment:
Comedic slashers the place each halves complement one another are uncommon, even among the many style’s most entertaining choices. Movies like Totally Killer or Happy Death Day are too humorous and lighthearted to ever actually earn a real scare, whereas a movie like House of 1000 Corpses is so darkish and gross that the humor isn’t possible to land on a primary viewing. Few films have ever struck that stability fairly in addition to Craven’s 4 Scream films. Thanksgiving doesn’t fairly attain that collection’ meteoric heights, however it comes far nearer than the rest lately — together with the Scream franchise itself.
Players
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Photo: Ok.C. Bailey/Netflix
Genre: Romantic comedy
Run time: 1h 45m
Director: Trish Sie
Cast: Gina Rodriguez, Damon Wayans Jr., Tom Ellis
Gina Rodriguez stars on this new rom-com as a sports activities author in New York City who helps her finest buddy, Adam (Damon Wayans Jr.), pull off varied hookup schemes. After crossing paths with Nick (Tom Ellis), a good-looking and single colleague, she’ll have to make the onerous choice of whether or not to quiet down or preserve hooking up.
New on Hulu
The Pod Generation
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
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Image: Quad Productions/Roadside Attractions
Genre: Sci-fi romance
Run time: 1h 49m
Director: Sophie Barthes
Cast: Emilia Clarke, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rosalie Craig
What if Gattaca wasn’t a dystopian retrofuturistic drama starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, however as an alternative a unusual sci-fi romance drama starring Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor? That’s basically what director Sophie Barthes’ newest movie is in a nutshell: A pair is obtainable the chance to conceive a toddler by means of a man-made womb (or pod), solely to uncover that parenthood and life are extra unpredictable than they imagined.
Next Goal Wins
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
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Image: Searchlight Pictures
Genre: Sports comedy-drama
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Taika Waititi
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Oscar Kightley, Kaimana
Michael Fassbender (The Killer) stars in Taika Waititi’s sports activities movie primarily based on the real-life American Samoa nationwide soccer group and their qualification try for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Fassbender portrays Thomas Rongen, the Dutch American coach who agrees to assist form the as soon as notoriously dangerous group right into a aggressive qualifier.
From our assessment:
Next Goal Wins fails to correctly seize what made the story of the American Samoa nationwide soccer group so compelling, by making an attempt to make a movie so common that it discards the game itself as unimportant. Which it is perhaps when it comes to letting the viewers relate to the group as people. But it’s such a cookie-cutter underdog story that it hardly ever strikes previous essentially the most superficial “Care because this movie says you need to care” stage.
New on Max
The Color Purple
Where to watch: Available to stream on Max
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Image: Warner Bros Pictures
Genre: Coming-of-age musical
Run time: 2h 21m
Director: Blitz Bazawule
Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo
Based on Alice Walker’s 1982 novel, this musical adaptation follows the story of Celie (Fantasia Barrino), a lady in an abusive marriage torn from her sister and youngsters, who finds power by means of her friendship with Shug Avery (Taraji P. Henson), a singer with an indomitable spirit.
New on Prime Video
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: Paramount
Genre: Animated superhero motion comedy
Run time: 1h 39m
Director: Jeff Rowe
Cast: Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu, Brady Noon
This Seth Rogen-produced animated reboot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reimagines the origin story of Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Leonardo, 4 turtles mutated by a mysterious ooze who develop up beneath the tutelage of their adoptive father Splinter (Jackie Chan). When the turtle brothers cross paths with April O’Neil (Ayo Edebiri), an aspiring highschool journalist, the turtles resolve to assist her in uncovering a shadowy crime syndicate led by a mysterious crime boss who goes by the title “Superfly.”
Dark Harvest
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: MGM/United Artist Releasing
Genre: Fantasy horror
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: David Slade
Cast: Casey Likes, E’myri Crutchfield, Dustin Ceithamer
Director David Slade (30 Days of Night) returns with an all-new fantasy horror movie primarily based on Norman Partridge’s 2006 novel. In a sleepy unnamed Midwestern hamlet, the teenage boys collect for a yearly ritual every October: to search out “Sawtooth Jack,” a vicious creature with a pumpkin for a head, and kill him earlier than midnight to be certain that the city might be free from misfortune. Will they find a way to succeed this yr, and what different darkish secrets and techniques lurk behind this weird custom?
This Is Me…Now: A Love Story
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: Amazon Prime Video
Genre: Musical movie
Run time: 1h 5m
Director: Dave Meyers
Cast: Sofia Vergara, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez
This feature-length companion music video to Jennifer Lopez’s first album in over a decade stars the actress-songwriter in a fairy-tale saga about star-crossed lovers from opposing tribes who’re reincarnated right into a pink flower and a blue hummingbird. Also, Ben Affleck is right here!
New on Peacock
Oppenheimer
Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock
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Photo: Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures
Genre: Historical biopic
Run time: 3h
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon
Cillian Murphy stars as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb,” in Christopher Nolan’s biopic chronicling the scientist’s tenure at a clandestine analysis facility in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and his embattled popularity and public shame within the years following World War II.
From our assessment:
In its closing stretch, Oppenheimer makes use of the political marketing campaign to discredit the physicist and unpick his legacy as a manner to get beneath the pores and skin of a person whose stance on his terrible creation remained contradictory and enigmatic. After the overwhelming bomb sequences, that’s a surprisingly delicate and advanced tack for Nolan to take, however it works as a result of the story is pushed by the historic report and the characters, relatively than by dogma, with the appalling ethical penalties rising naturally from the small print. Nolan is just not one to let any member of the viewers miss his level, and the movie’s closing scene does ram it residence. But first, he builds out the online of ambition, compromise, goals, politics, jealousy, and inspiration — in a phrase, humanity — that unleashed the forces he stands in awe of. In Oppenheimer, man is essentially the most dreadful machine of all.
New to hire
The Iron Claw
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Photo: Brian Roedel/A24
Genre: Biographical sports activities drama
Run time: 2h 12m
Director: Sean Durkin
Cast: Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson
Zac Efron (Hairspray), Jeremy Allen White (The Bear), and Harris Dickinson (Triangle of Sadness) star on this thrilling dramatization of the lives of the Von Erich brothers, a trio {of professional} wrestlers whose larger-than-life careers and success throughout the Eighties have been marred by tragedy and wrestle.
From our assessment:
The biopicification of such a horrendous, private collection of tragedies will sound crass to some. But Durkin doesn’t dilute the Von Erich story into direct-to-cable fluff. He’s performing a balancing act, conscious {that a} unhappy story is barely helpful if folks have the will (and fortitude) to keep till the credit.
Miller’s Girl
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: Lions Gate Films
Genre: Black comedy drama
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: Jade Halley Bartlett
Cast: Martin Freeman, Jenna Ortega, Dagmara Domińczyk
Martin Freeman (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey) and Jenna Ortega (Wednesday) star on this thriller a few highschool writing trainer who’s seduced by a wealthy, bored, and manipulative younger scholar. Things clearly go very, very badly.
The Crime Is Mine
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: Music Box Films
Genre: Crime comedy
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: François Ozon
Cast: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Rebecca Marder, Isabelle Huppert
Director François Ozon’s newest movie follows the story of Madeleine Verdier (Nadia Tereszkiewicz), an actress who’s imprisoned for murdering a lecherous producer solely to be acquitted for self-defense. With the assistance of her lawyer buddy Pauline (Rebecca Marder), Madeleine places on the efficiency of a lifetime and good points notoriety and infamy like nothing she’s skilled earlier than.
Strange Way of Life
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: El Deseo/Saint Laurent Productions
Genre: Western drama
Run time: 31m
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Pedro Pascal
This Western brief movie from director Pedro Almodóvar (Talk to Her) follows the story of two gunslingers (and former lovers) who reunite after 25 years aside.
Greetings, Polygon readers! Each week, we spherical up essentially the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the largest and finest new films for you to watch at residence.
This week, Oppenheimer, the Oscar-nominated biopic from director Christopher Nolan starring Cillian Murphy, lastly comes to Peacock after making its debut on VOD final November. That’s not all this week has to provide, as a complete slew of new and thrilling releases has arrived on streaming and VOD.
The Iron Claw, Sean Durkin’s wrestling biopic in regards to the Von Erich brothers, lastly comes to VOD this weekend alongside the French homicide farce The Crime Is Mine, the Southern Gothic drama Miller’s Girl, and Pedro Almodóvar’s queer Western brief movie Strange Way of Life starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal. There’s extra: Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving is now streaming on Netflix, whereas Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is now obtainable to stream on Prime Video.
Here’s all the pieces new to watch this weekend!
New on Netflix
Thanksgiving
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Photo: Pief Weyman/Sony Pictures
Genre: Slasher horror
Run time: 1h 46m
Director: Eli Roth
Cast: Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, Gina Gershon
Eli Roth is again with a new holiday-themed slasher. After a tragic Black Friday riot, the quiet city of Plymouth, Massachusetts, is terrorized by a Thanksgiving-inspired killer carrying a ghoulish John Carver masks.
From our assessment:
Comedic slashers the place each halves complement one another are uncommon, even among the many style’s most entertaining choices. Movies like Totally Killer or Happy Death Day are too humorous and lighthearted to ever actually earn a real scare, whereas a movie like House of 1000 Corpses is so darkish and gross that the humor isn’t possible to land on a primary viewing. Few films have ever struck that stability fairly in addition to Craven’s 4 Scream films. Thanksgiving doesn’t fairly attain that collection’ meteoric heights, however it comes far nearer than the rest lately — together with the Scream franchise itself.
Players
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Photo: Ok.C. Bailey/Netflix
Genre: Romantic comedy
Run time: 1h 45m
Director: Trish Sie
Cast: Gina Rodriguez, Damon Wayans Jr., Tom Ellis
Gina Rodriguez stars on this new rom-com as a sports activities author in New York City who helps her finest buddy, Adam (Damon Wayans Jr.), pull off varied hookup schemes. After crossing paths with Nick (Tom Ellis), a good-looking and single colleague, she’ll have to make the onerous choice of whether or not to quiet down or preserve hooking up.
New on Hulu
The Pod Generation
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
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Image: Quad Productions/Roadside Attractions
Genre: Sci-fi romance
Run time: 1h 49m
Director: Sophie Barthes
Cast: Emilia Clarke, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rosalie Craig
What if Gattaca wasn’t a dystopian retrofuturistic drama starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, however as an alternative a unusual sci-fi romance drama starring Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor? That’s basically what director Sophie Barthes’ newest movie is in a nutshell: A pair is obtainable the chance to conceive a toddler by means of a man-made womb (or pod), solely to uncover that parenthood and life are extra unpredictable than they imagined.
Next Goal Wins
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
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Image: Searchlight Pictures
Genre: Sports comedy-drama
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Taika Waititi
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Oscar Kightley, Kaimana
Michael Fassbender (The Killer) stars in Taika Waititi’s sports activities movie primarily based on the real-life American Samoa nationwide soccer group and their qualification try for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Fassbender portrays Thomas Rongen, the Dutch American coach who agrees to assist form the as soon as notoriously dangerous group right into a aggressive qualifier.
From our assessment:
Next Goal Wins fails to correctly seize what made the story of the American Samoa nationwide soccer group so compelling, by making an attempt to make a movie so common that it discards the game itself as unimportant. Which it is perhaps when it comes to letting the viewers relate to the group as people. But it’s such a cookie-cutter underdog story that it hardly ever strikes previous essentially the most superficial “Care because this movie says you need to care” stage.
New on Max
The Color Purple
Where to watch: Available to stream on Max
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Image: Warner Bros Pictures
Genre: Coming-of-age musical
Run time: 2h 21m
Director: Blitz Bazawule
Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo
Based on Alice Walker’s 1982 novel, this musical adaptation follows the story of Celie (Fantasia Barrino), a lady in an abusive marriage torn from her sister and youngsters, who finds power by means of her friendship with Shug Avery (Taraji P. Henson), a singer with an indomitable spirit.
New on Prime Video
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: Paramount
Genre: Animated superhero motion comedy
Run time: 1h 39m
Director: Jeff Rowe
Cast: Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu, Brady Noon
This Seth Rogen-produced animated reboot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reimagines the origin story of Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Leonardo, 4 turtles mutated by a mysterious ooze who develop up beneath the tutelage of their adoptive father Splinter (Jackie Chan). When the turtle brothers cross paths with April O’Neil (Ayo Edebiri), an aspiring highschool journalist, the turtles resolve to assist her in uncovering a shadowy crime syndicate led by a mysterious crime boss who goes by the title “Superfly.”
Dark Harvest
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: MGM/United Artist Releasing
Genre: Fantasy horror
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: David Slade
Cast: Casey Likes, E’myri Crutchfield, Dustin Ceithamer
Director David Slade (30 Days of Night) returns with an all-new fantasy horror movie primarily based on Norman Partridge’s 2006 novel. In a sleepy unnamed Midwestern hamlet, the teenage boys collect for a yearly ritual every October: to search out “Sawtooth Jack,” a vicious creature with a pumpkin for a head, and kill him earlier than midnight to be certain that the city might be free from misfortune. Will they find a way to succeed this yr, and what different darkish secrets and techniques lurk behind this weird custom?
This Is Me…Now: A Love Story
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: Amazon Prime Video
Genre: Musical movie
Run time: 1h 5m
Director: Dave Meyers
Cast: Sofia Vergara, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez
This feature-length companion music video to Jennifer Lopez’s first album in over a decade stars the actress-songwriter in a fairy-tale saga about star-crossed lovers from opposing tribes who’re reincarnated right into a pink flower and a blue hummingbird. Also, Ben Affleck is right here!
New on Peacock
Oppenheimer
Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock
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Photo: Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures
Genre: Historical biopic
Run time: 3h
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon
Cillian Murphy stars as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb,” in Christopher Nolan’s biopic chronicling the scientist’s tenure at a clandestine analysis facility in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and his embattled popularity and public shame within the years following World War II.
From our assessment:
In its closing stretch, Oppenheimer makes use of the political marketing campaign to discredit the physicist and unpick his legacy as a manner to get beneath the pores and skin of a person whose stance on his terrible creation remained contradictory and enigmatic. After the overwhelming bomb sequences, that’s a surprisingly delicate and advanced tack for Nolan to take, however it works as a result of the story is pushed by the historic report and the characters, relatively than by dogma, with the appalling ethical penalties rising naturally from the small print. Nolan is just not one to let any member of the viewers miss his level, and the movie’s closing scene does ram it residence. But first, he builds out the online of ambition, compromise, goals, politics, jealousy, and inspiration — in a phrase, humanity — that unleashed the forces he stands in awe of. In Oppenheimer, man is essentially the most dreadful machine of all.
New to hire
The Iron Claw
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Photo: Brian Roedel/A24
Genre: Biographical sports activities drama
Run time: 2h 12m
Director: Sean Durkin
Cast: Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson
Zac Efron (Hairspray), Jeremy Allen White (The Bear), and Harris Dickinson (Triangle of Sadness) star on this thrilling dramatization of the lives of the Von Erich brothers, a trio {of professional} wrestlers whose larger-than-life careers and success throughout the Eighties have been marred by tragedy and wrestle.
From our assessment:
The biopicification of such a horrendous, private collection of tragedies will sound crass to some. But Durkin doesn’t dilute the Von Erich story into direct-to-cable fluff. He’s performing a balancing act, conscious {that a} unhappy story is barely helpful if folks have the will (and fortitude) to keep till the credit.
Miller’s Girl
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: Lions Gate Films
Genre: Black comedy drama
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: Jade Halley Bartlett
Cast: Martin Freeman, Jenna Ortega, Dagmara Domińczyk
Martin Freeman (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey) and Jenna Ortega (Wednesday) star on this thriller a few highschool writing trainer who’s seduced by a wealthy, bored, and manipulative younger scholar. Things clearly go very, very badly.
The Crime Is Mine
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: Music Box Films
Genre: Crime comedy
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: François Ozon
Cast: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Rebecca Marder, Isabelle Huppert
Director François Ozon’s newest movie follows the story of Madeleine Verdier (Nadia Tereszkiewicz), an actress who’s imprisoned for murdering a lecherous producer solely to be acquitted for self-defense. With the assistance of her lawyer buddy Pauline (Rebecca Marder), Madeleine places on the efficiency of a lifetime and good points notoriety and infamy like nothing she’s skilled earlier than.
Strange Way of Life
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: El Deseo/Saint Laurent Productions
Genre: Western drama
Run time: 31m
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Pedro Pascal
This Western brief movie from director Pedro Almodóvar (Talk to Her) follows the story of two gunslingers (and former lovers) who reunite after 25 years aside.
Greetings, Polygon readers! Each week, we spherical up essentially the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the largest and finest new films for you to watch at residence.
This week, Oppenheimer, the Oscar-nominated biopic from director Christopher Nolan starring Cillian Murphy, lastly comes to Peacock after making its debut on VOD final November. That’s not all this week has to provide, as a complete slew of new and thrilling releases has arrived on streaming and VOD.
The Iron Claw, Sean Durkin’s wrestling biopic in regards to the Von Erich brothers, lastly comes to VOD this weekend alongside the French homicide farce The Crime Is Mine, the Southern Gothic drama Miller’s Girl, and Pedro Almodóvar’s queer Western brief movie Strange Way of Life starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal. There’s extra: Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving is now streaming on Netflix, whereas Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is now obtainable to stream on Prime Video.
Here’s all the pieces new to watch this weekend!
New on Netflix
Thanksgiving
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Photo: Pief Weyman/Sony Pictures
Genre: Slasher horror
Run time: 1h 46m
Director: Eli Roth
Cast: Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, Gina Gershon
Eli Roth is again with a new holiday-themed slasher. After a tragic Black Friday riot, the quiet city of Plymouth, Massachusetts, is terrorized by a Thanksgiving-inspired killer carrying a ghoulish John Carver masks.
From our assessment:
Comedic slashers the place each halves complement one another are uncommon, even among the many style’s most entertaining choices. Movies like Totally Killer or Happy Death Day are too humorous and lighthearted to ever actually earn a real scare, whereas a movie like House of 1000 Corpses is so darkish and gross that the humor isn’t possible to land on a primary viewing. Few films have ever struck that stability fairly in addition to Craven’s 4 Scream films. Thanksgiving doesn’t fairly attain that collection’ meteoric heights, however it comes far nearer than the rest lately — together with the Scream franchise itself.
Players
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Photo: Ok.C. Bailey/Netflix
Genre: Romantic comedy
Run time: 1h 45m
Director: Trish Sie
Cast: Gina Rodriguez, Damon Wayans Jr., Tom Ellis
Gina Rodriguez stars on this new rom-com as a sports activities author in New York City who helps her finest buddy, Adam (Damon Wayans Jr.), pull off varied hookup schemes. After crossing paths with Nick (Tom Ellis), a good-looking and single colleague, she’ll have to make the onerous choice of whether or not to quiet down or preserve hooking up.
New on Hulu
The Pod Generation
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
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Image: Quad Productions/Roadside Attractions
Genre: Sci-fi romance
Run time: 1h 49m
Director: Sophie Barthes
Cast: Emilia Clarke, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rosalie Craig
What if Gattaca wasn’t a dystopian retrofuturistic drama starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, however as an alternative a unusual sci-fi romance drama starring Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor? That’s basically what director Sophie Barthes’ newest movie is in a nutshell: A pair is obtainable the chance to conceive a toddler by means of a man-made womb (or pod), solely to uncover that parenthood and life are extra unpredictable than they imagined.
Next Goal Wins
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
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Image: Searchlight Pictures
Genre: Sports comedy-drama
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Taika Waititi
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Oscar Kightley, Kaimana
Michael Fassbender (The Killer) stars in Taika Waititi’s sports activities movie primarily based on the real-life American Samoa nationwide soccer group and their qualification try for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Fassbender portrays Thomas Rongen, the Dutch American coach who agrees to assist form the as soon as notoriously dangerous group right into a aggressive qualifier.
From our assessment:
Next Goal Wins fails to correctly seize what made the story of the American Samoa nationwide soccer group so compelling, by making an attempt to make a movie so common that it discards the game itself as unimportant. Which it is perhaps when it comes to letting the viewers relate to the group as people. But it’s such a cookie-cutter underdog story that it hardly ever strikes previous essentially the most superficial “Care because this movie says you need to care” stage.
New on Max
The Color Purple
Where to watch: Available to stream on Max
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Image: Warner Bros Pictures
Genre: Coming-of-age musical
Run time: 2h 21m
Director: Blitz Bazawule
Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo
Based on Alice Walker’s 1982 novel, this musical adaptation follows the story of Celie (Fantasia Barrino), a lady in an abusive marriage torn from her sister and youngsters, who finds power by means of her friendship with Shug Avery (Taraji P. Henson), a singer with an indomitable spirit.
New on Prime Video
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: Paramount
Genre: Animated superhero motion comedy
Run time: 1h 39m
Director: Jeff Rowe
Cast: Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu, Brady Noon
This Seth Rogen-produced animated reboot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reimagines the origin story of Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Leonardo, 4 turtles mutated by a mysterious ooze who develop up beneath the tutelage of their adoptive father Splinter (Jackie Chan). When the turtle brothers cross paths with April O’Neil (Ayo Edebiri), an aspiring highschool journalist, the turtles resolve to assist her in uncovering a shadowy crime syndicate led by a mysterious crime boss who goes by the title “Superfly.”
Dark Harvest
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: MGM/United Artist Releasing
Genre: Fantasy horror
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: David Slade
Cast: Casey Likes, E’myri Crutchfield, Dustin Ceithamer
Director David Slade (30 Days of Night) returns with an all-new fantasy horror movie primarily based on Norman Partridge’s 2006 novel. In a sleepy unnamed Midwestern hamlet, the teenage boys collect for a yearly ritual every October: to search out “Sawtooth Jack,” a vicious creature with a pumpkin for a head, and kill him earlier than midnight to be certain that the city might be free from misfortune. Will they find a way to succeed this yr, and what different darkish secrets and techniques lurk behind this weird custom?
This Is Me…Now: A Love Story
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: Amazon Prime Video
Genre: Musical movie
Run time: 1h 5m
Director: Dave Meyers
Cast: Sofia Vergara, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez
This feature-length companion music video to Jennifer Lopez’s first album in over a decade stars the actress-songwriter in a fairy-tale saga about star-crossed lovers from opposing tribes who’re reincarnated right into a pink flower and a blue hummingbird. Also, Ben Affleck is right here!
New on Peacock
Oppenheimer
Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock
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Photo: Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures
Genre: Historical biopic
Run time: 3h
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon
Cillian Murphy stars as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb,” in Christopher Nolan’s biopic chronicling the scientist’s tenure at a clandestine analysis facility in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and his embattled popularity and public shame within the years following World War II.
From our assessment:
In its closing stretch, Oppenheimer makes use of the political marketing campaign to discredit the physicist and unpick his legacy as a manner to get beneath the pores and skin of a person whose stance on his terrible creation remained contradictory and enigmatic. After the overwhelming bomb sequences, that’s a surprisingly delicate and advanced tack for Nolan to take, however it works as a result of the story is pushed by the historic report and the characters, relatively than by dogma, with the appalling ethical penalties rising naturally from the small print. Nolan is just not one to let any member of the viewers miss his level, and the movie’s closing scene does ram it residence. But first, he builds out the online of ambition, compromise, goals, politics, jealousy, and inspiration — in a phrase, humanity — that unleashed the forces he stands in awe of. In Oppenheimer, man is essentially the most dreadful machine of all.
New to hire
The Iron Claw
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Photo: Brian Roedel/A24
Genre: Biographical sports activities drama
Run time: 2h 12m
Director: Sean Durkin
Cast: Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson
Zac Efron (Hairspray), Jeremy Allen White (The Bear), and Harris Dickinson (Triangle of Sadness) star on this thrilling dramatization of the lives of the Von Erich brothers, a trio {of professional} wrestlers whose larger-than-life careers and success throughout the Eighties have been marred by tragedy and wrestle.
From our assessment:
The biopicification of such a horrendous, private collection of tragedies will sound crass to some. But Durkin doesn’t dilute the Von Erich story into direct-to-cable fluff. He’s performing a balancing act, conscious {that a} unhappy story is barely helpful if folks have the will (and fortitude) to keep till the credit.
Miller’s Girl
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: Lions Gate Films
Genre: Black comedy drama
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: Jade Halley Bartlett
Cast: Martin Freeman, Jenna Ortega, Dagmara Domińczyk
Martin Freeman (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey) and Jenna Ortega (Wednesday) star on this thriller a few highschool writing trainer who’s seduced by a wealthy, bored, and manipulative younger scholar. Things clearly go very, very badly.
The Crime Is Mine
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: Music Box Films
Genre: Crime comedy
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: François Ozon
Cast: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Rebecca Marder, Isabelle Huppert
Director François Ozon’s newest movie follows the story of Madeleine Verdier (Nadia Tereszkiewicz), an actress who’s imprisoned for murdering a lecherous producer solely to be acquitted for self-defense. With the assistance of her lawyer buddy Pauline (Rebecca Marder), Madeleine places on the efficiency of a lifetime and good points notoriety and infamy like nothing she’s skilled earlier than.
Strange Way of Life
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: El Deseo/Saint Laurent Productions
Genre: Western drama
Run time: 31m
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Pedro Pascal
This Western brief movie from director Pedro Almodóvar (Talk to Her) follows the story of two gunslingers (and former lovers) who reunite after 25 years aside.
Greetings, Polygon readers! Each week, we spherical up essentially the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the largest and finest new films for you to watch at residence.
This week, Oppenheimer, the Oscar-nominated biopic from director Christopher Nolan starring Cillian Murphy, lastly comes to Peacock after making its debut on VOD final November. That’s not all this week has to provide, as a complete slew of new and thrilling releases has arrived on streaming and VOD.
The Iron Claw, Sean Durkin’s wrestling biopic in regards to the Von Erich brothers, lastly comes to VOD this weekend alongside the French homicide farce The Crime Is Mine, the Southern Gothic drama Miller’s Girl, and Pedro Almodóvar’s queer Western brief movie Strange Way of Life starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal. There’s extra: Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving is now streaming on Netflix, whereas Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is now obtainable to stream on Prime Video.
Here’s all the pieces new to watch this weekend!
New on Netflix
Thanksgiving
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Photo: Pief Weyman/Sony Pictures
Genre: Slasher horror
Run time: 1h 46m
Director: Eli Roth
Cast: Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, Gina Gershon
Eli Roth is again with a new holiday-themed slasher. After a tragic Black Friday riot, the quiet city of Plymouth, Massachusetts, is terrorized by a Thanksgiving-inspired killer carrying a ghoulish John Carver masks.
From our assessment:
Comedic slashers the place each halves complement one another are uncommon, even among the many style’s most entertaining choices. Movies like Totally Killer or Happy Death Day are too humorous and lighthearted to ever actually earn a real scare, whereas a movie like House of 1000 Corpses is so darkish and gross that the humor isn’t possible to land on a primary viewing. Few films have ever struck that stability fairly in addition to Craven’s 4 Scream films. Thanksgiving doesn’t fairly attain that collection’ meteoric heights, however it comes far nearer than the rest lately — together with the Scream franchise itself.
Players
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Photo: Ok.C. Bailey/Netflix
Genre: Romantic comedy
Run time: 1h 45m
Director: Trish Sie
Cast: Gina Rodriguez, Damon Wayans Jr., Tom Ellis
Gina Rodriguez stars on this new rom-com as a sports activities author in New York City who helps her finest buddy, Adam (Damon Wayans Jr.), pull off varied hookup schemes. After crossing paths with Nick (Tom Ellis), a good-looking and single colleague, she’ll have to make the onerous choice of whether or not to quiet down or preserve hooking up.
New on Hulu
The Pod Generation
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
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Image: Quad Productions/Roadside Attractions
Genre: Sci-fi romance
Run time: 1h 49m
Director: Sophie Barthes
Cast: Emilia Clarke, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rosalie Craig
What if Gattaca wasn’t a dystopian retrofuturistic drama starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, however as an alternative a unusual sci-fi romance drama starring Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor? That’s basically what director Sophie Barthes’ newest movie is in a nutshell: A pair is obtainable the chance to conceive a toddler by means of a man-made womb (or pod), solely to uncover that parenthood and life are extra unpredictable than they imagined.
Next Goal Wins
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
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Image: Searchlight Pictures
Genre: Sports comedy-drama
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Taika Waititi
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Oscar Kightley, Kaimana
Michael Fassbender (The Killer) stars in Taika Waititi’s sports activities movie primarily based on the real-life American Samoa nationwide soccer group and their qualification try for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Fassbender portrays Thomas Rongen, the Dutch American coach who agrees to assist form the as soon as notoriously dangerous group right into a aggressive qualifier.
From our assessment:
Next Goal Wins fails to correctly seize what made the story of the American Samoa nationwide soccer group so compelling, by making an attempt to make a movie so common that it discards the game itself as unimportant. Which it is perhaps when it comes to letting the viewers relate to the group as people. But it’s such a cookie-cutter underdog story that it hardly ever strikes previous essentially the most superficial “Care because this movie says you need to care” stage.
New on Max
The Color Purple
Where to watch: Available to stream on Max
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Image: Warner Bros Pictures
Genre: Coming-of-age musical
Run time: 2h 21m
Director: Blitz Bazawule
Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo
Based on Alice Walker’s 1982 novel, this musical adaptation follows the story of Celie (Fantasia Barrino), a lady in an abusive marriage torn from her sister and youngsters, who finds power by means of her friendship with Shug Avery (Taraji P. Henson), a singer with an indomitable spirit.
New on Prime Video
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: Paramount
Genre: Animated superhero motion comedy
Run time: 1h 39m
Director: Jeff Rowe
Cast: Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu, Brady Noon
This Seth Rogen-produced animated reboot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reimagines the origin story of Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Leonardo, 4 turtles mutated by a mysterious ooze who develop up beneath the tutelage of their adoptive father Splinter (Jackie Chan). When the turtle brothers cross paths with April O’Neil (Ayo Edebiri), an aspiring highschool journalist, the turtles resolve to assist her in uncovering a shadowy crime syndicate led by a mysterious crime boss who goes by the title “Superfly.”
Dark Harvest
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: MGM/United Artist Releasing
Genre: Fantasy horror
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: David Slade
Cast: Casey Likes, E’myri Crutchfield, Dustin Ceithamer
Director David Slade (30 Days of Night) returns with an all-new fantasy horror movie primarily based on Norman Partridge’s 2006 novel. In a sleepy unnamed Midwestern hamlet, the teenage boys collect for a yearly ritual every October: to search out “Sawtooth Jack,” a vicious creature with a pumpkin for a head, and kill him earlier than midnight to be certain that the city might be free from misfortune. Will they find a way to succeed this yr, and what different darkish secrets and techniques lurk behind this weird custom?
This Is Me…Now: A Love Story
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: Amazon Prime Video
Genre: Musical movie
Run time: 1h 5m
Director: Dave Meyers
Cast: Sofia Vergara, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez
This feature-length companion music video to Jennifer Lopez’s first album in over a decade stars the actress-songwriter in a fairy-tale saga about star-crossed lovers from opposing tribes who’re reincarnated right into a pink flower and a blue hummingbird. Also, Ben Affleck is right here!
New on Peacock
Oppenheimer
Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock
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Photo: Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures
Genre: Historical biopic
Run time: 3h
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon
Cillian Murphy stars as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb,” in Christopher Nolan’s biopic chronicling the scientist’s tenure at a clandestine analysis facility in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and his embattled popularity and public shame within the years following World War II.
From our assessment:
In its closing stretch, Oppenheimer makes use of the political marketing campaign to discredit the physicist and unpick his legacy as a manner to get beneath the pores and skin of a person whose stance on his terrible creation remained contradictory and enigmatic. After the overwhelming bomb sequences, that’s a surprisingly delicate and advanced tack for Nolan to take, however it works as a result of the story is pushed by the historic report and the characters, relatively than by dogma, with the appalling ethical penalties rising naturally from the small print. Nolan is just not one to let any member of the viewers miss his level, and the movie’s closing scene does ram it residence. But first, he builds out the online of ambition, compromise, goals, politics, jealousy, and inspiration — in a phrase, humanity — that unleashed the forces he stands in awe of. In Oppenheimer, man is essentially the most dreadful machine of all.
New to hire
The Iron Claw
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Photo: Brian Roedel/A24
Genre: Biographical sports activities drama
Run time: 2h 12m
Director: Sean Durkin
Cast: Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson
Zac Efron (Hairspray), Jeremy Allen White (The Bear), and Harris Dickinson (Triangle of Sadness) star on this thrilling dramatization of the lives of the Von Erich brothers, a trio {of professional} wrestlers whose larger-than-life careers and success throughout the Eighties have been marred by tragedy and wrestle.
From our assessment:
The biopicification of such a horrendous, private collection of tragedies will sound crass to some. But Durkin doesn’t dilute the Von Erich story into direct-to-cable fluff. He’s performing a balancing act, conscious {that a} unhappy story is barely helpful if folks have the will (and fortitude) to keep till the credit.
Miller’s Girl
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: Lions Gate Films
Genre: Black comedy drama
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: Jade Halley Bartlett
Cast: Martin Freeman, Jenna Ortega, Dagmara Domińczyk
Martin Freeman (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey) and Jenna Ortega (Wednesday) star on this thriller a few highschool writing trainer who’s seduced by a wealthy, bored, and manipulative younger scholar. Things clearly go very, very badly.
The Crime Is Mine
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: Music Box Films
Genre: Crime comedy
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: François Ozon
Cast: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Rebecca Marder, Isabelle Huppert
Director François Ozon’s newest movie follows the story of Madeleine Verdier (Nadia Tereszkiewicz), an actress who’s imprisoned for murdering a lecherous producer solely to be acquitted for self-defense. With the assistance of her lawyer buddy Pauline (Rebecca Marder), Madeleine places on the efficiency of a lifetime and good points notoriety and infamy like nothing she’s skilled earlier than.
Strange Way of Life
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: El Deseo/Saint Laurent Productions
Genre: Western drama
Run time: 31m
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Pedro Pascal
This Western brief movie from director Pedro Almodóvar (Talk to Her) follows the story of two gunslingers (and former lovers) who reunite after 25 years aside.
Greetings, Polygon readers! Each week, we spherical up essentially the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the largest and finest new films for you to watch at residence.
This week, Oppenheimer, the Oscar-nominated biopic from director Christopher Nolan starring Cillian Murphy, lastly comes to Peacock after making its debut on VOD final November. That’s not all this week has to provide, as a complete slew of new and thrilling releases has arrived on streaming and VOD.
The Iron Claw, Sean Durkin’s wrestling biopic in regards to the Von Erich brothers, lastly comes to VOD this weekend alongside the French homicide farce The Crime Is Mine, the Southern Gothic drama Miller’s Girl, and Pedro Almodóvar’s queer Western brief movie Strange Way of Life starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal. There’s extra: Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving is now streaming on Netflix, whereas Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is now obtainable to stream on Prime Video.
Here’s all the pieces new to watch this weekend!
New on Netflix
Thanksgiving
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Photo: Pief Weyman/Sony Pictures
Genre: Slasher horror
Run time: 1h 46m
Director: Eli Roth
Cast: Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, Gina Gershon
Eli Roth is again with a new holiday-themed slasher. After a tragic Black Friday riot, the quiet city of Plymouth, Massachusetts, is terrorized by a Thanksgiving-inspired killer carrying a ghoulish John Carver masks.
From our assessment:
Comedic slashers the place each halves complement one another are uncommon, even among the many style’s most entertaining choices. Movies like Totally Killer or Happy Death Day are too humorous and lighthearted to ever actually earn a real scare, whereas a movie like House of 1000 Corpses is so darkish and gross that the humor isn’t possible to land on a primary viewing. Few films have ever struck that stability fairly in addition to Craven’s 4 Scream films. Thanksgiving doesn’t fairly attain that collection’ meteoric heights, however it comes far nearer than the rest lately — together with the Scream franchise itself.
Players
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Photo: Ok.C. Bailey/Netflix
Genre: Romantic comedy
Run time: 1h 45m
Director: Trish Sie
Cast: Gina Rodriguez, Damon Wayans Jr., Tom Ellis
Gina Rodriguez stars on this new rom-com as a sports activities author in New York City who helps her finest buddy, Adam (Damon Wayans Jr.), pull off varied hookup schemes. After crossing paths with Nick (Tom Ellis), a good-looking and single colleague, she’ll have to make the onerous choice of whether or not to quiet down or preserve hooking up.
New on Hulu
The Pod Generation
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
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Image: Quad Productions/Roadside Attractions
Genre: Sci-fi romance
Run time: 1h 49m
Director: Sophie Barthes
Cast: Emilia Clarke, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rosalie Craig
What if Gattaca wasn’t a dystopian retrofuturistic drama starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, however as an alternative a unusual sci-fi romance drama starring Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor? That’s basically what director Sophie Barthes’ newest movie is in a nutshell: A pair is obtainable the chance to conceive a toddler by means of a man-made womb (or pod), solely to uncover that parenthood and life are extra unpredictable than they imagined.
Next Goal Wins
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
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Image: Searchlight Pictures
Genre: Sports comedy-drama
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Taika Waititi
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Oscar Kightley, Kaimana
Michael Fassbender (The Killer) stars in Taika Waititi’s sports activities movie primarily based on the real-life American Samoa nationwide soccer group and their qualification try for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Fassbender portrays Thomas Rongen, the Dutch American coach who agrees to assist form the as soon as notoriously dangerous group right into a aggressive qualifier.
From our assessment:
Next Goal Wins fails to correctly seize what made the story of the American Samoa nationwide soccer group so compelling, by making an attempt to make a movie so common that it discards the game itself as unimportant. Which it is perhaps when it comes to letting the viewers relate to the group as people. But it’s such a cookie-cutter underdog story that it hardly ever strikes previous essentially the most superficial “Care because this movie says you need to care” stage.
New on Max
The Color Purple
Where to watch: Available to stream on Max
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Image: Warner Bros Pictures
Genre: Coming-of-age musical
Run time: 2h 21m
Director: Blitz Bazawule
Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo
Based on Alice Walker’s 1982 novel, this musical adaptation follows the story of Celie (Fantasia Barrino), a lady in an abusive marriage torn from her sister and youngsters, who finds power by means of her friendship with Shug Avery (Taraji P. Henson), a singer with an indomitable spirit.
New on Prime Video
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: Paramount
Genre: Animated superhero motion comedy
Run time: 1h 39m
Director: Jeff Rowe
Cast: Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu, Brady Noon
This Seth Rogen-produced animated reboot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reimagines the origin story of Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Leonardo, 4 turtles mutated by a mysterious ooze who develop up beneath the tutelage of their adoptive father Splinter (Jackie Chan). When the turtle brothers cross paths with April O’Neil (Ayo Edebiri), an aspiring highschool journalist, the turtles resolve to assist her in uncovering a shadowy crime syndicate led by a mysterious crime boss who goes by the title “Superfly.”
Dark Harvest
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: MGM/United Artist Releasing
Genre: Fantasy horror
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: David Slade
Cast: Casey Likes, E’myri Crutchfield, Dustin Ceithamer
Director David Slade (30 Days of Night) returns with an all-new fantasy horror movie primarily based on Norman Partridge’s 2006 novel. In a sleepy unnamed Midwestern hamlet, the teenage boys collect for a yearly ritual every October: to search out “Sawtooth Jack,” a vicious creature with a pumpkin for a head, and kill him earlier than midnight to be certain that the city might be free from misfortune. Will they find a way to succeed this yr, and what different darkish secrets and techniques lurk behind this weird custom?
This Is Me…Now: A Love Story
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: Amazon Prime Video
Genre: Musical movie
Run time: 1h 5m
Director: Dave Meyers
Cast: Sofia Vergara, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez
This feature-length companion music video to Jennifer Lopez’s first album in over a decade stars the actress-songwriter in a fairy-tale saga about star-crossed lovers from opposing tribes who’re reincarnated right into a pink flower and a blue hummingbird. Also, Ben Affleck is right here!
New on Peacock
Oppenheimer
Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock
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Photo: Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures
Genre: Historical biopic
Run time: 3h
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon
Cillian Murphy stars as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb,” in Christopher Nolan’s biopic chronicling the scientist’s tenure at a clandestine analysis facility in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and his embattled popularity and public shame within the years following World War II.
From our assessment:
In its closing stretch, Oppenheimer makes use of the political marketing campaign to discredit the physicist and unpick his legacy as a manner to get beneath the pores and skin of a person whose stance on his terrible creation remained contradictory and enigmatic. After the overwhelming bomb sequences, that’s a surprisingly delicate and advanced tack for Nolan to take, however it works as a result of the story is pushed by the historic report and the characters, relatively than by dogma, with the appalling ethical penalties rising naturally from the small print. Nolan is just not one to let any member of the viewers miss his level, and the movie’s closing scene does ram it residence. But first, he builds out the online of ambition, compromise, goals, politics, jealousy, and inspiration — in a phrase, humanity — that unleashed the forces he stands in awe of. In Oppenheimer, man is essentially the most dreadful machine of all.
New to hire
The Iron Claw
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Photo: Brian Roedel/A24
Genre: Biographical sports activities drama
Run time: 2h 12m
Director: Sean Durkin
Cast: Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson
Zac Efron (Hairspray), Jeremy Allen White (The Bear), and Harris Dickinson (Triangle of Sadness) star on this thrilling dramatization of the lives of the Von Erich brothers, a trio {of professional} wrestlers whose larger-than-life careers and success throughout the Eighties have been marred by tragedy and wrestle.
From our assessment:
The biopicification of such a horrendous, private collection of tragedies will sound crass to some. But Durkin doesn’t dilute the Von Erich story into direct-to-cable fluff. He’s performing a balancing act, conscious {that a} unhappy story is barely helpful if folks have the will (and fortitude) to keep till the credit.
Miller’s Girl
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: Lions Gate Films
Genre: Black comedy drama
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: Jade Halley Bartlett
Cast: Martin Freeman, Jenna Ortega, Dagmara Domińczyk
Martin Freeman (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey) and Jenna Ortega (Wednesday) star on this thriller a few highschool writing trainer who’s seduced by a wealthy, bored, and manipulative younger scholar. Things clearly go very, very badly.
The Crime Is Mine
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: Music Box Films
Genre: Crime comedy
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: François Ozon
Cast: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Rebecca Marder, Isabelle Huppert
Director François Ozon’s newest movie follows the story of Madeleine Verdier (Nadia Tereszkiewicz), an actress who’s imprisoned for murdering a lecherous producer solely to be acquitted for self-defense. With the assistance of her lawyer buddy Pauline (Rebecca Marder), Madeleine places on the efficiency of a lifetime and good points notoriety and infamy like nothing she’s skilled earlier than.
Strange Way of Life
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: El Deseo/Saint Laurent Productions
Genre: Western drama
Run time: 31m
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Pedro Pascal
This Western brief movie from director Pedro Almodóvar (Talk to Her) follows the story of two gunslingers (and former lovers) who reunite after 25 years aside.
Greetings, Polygon readers! Each week, we spherical up essentially the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the largest and finest new films for you to watch at residence.
This week, Oppenheimer, the Oscar-nominated biopic from director Christopher Nolan starring Cillian Murphy, lastly comes to Peacock after making its debut on VOD final November. That’s not all this week has to provide, as a complete slew of new and thrilling releases has arrived on streaming and VOD.
The Iron Claw, Sean Durkin’s wrestling biopic in regards to the Von Erich brothers, lastly comes to VOD this weekend alongside the French homicide farce The Crime Is Mine, the Southern Gothic drama Miller’s Girl, and Pedro Almodóvar’s queer Western brief movie Strange Way of Life starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal. There’s extra: Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving is now streaming on Netflix, whereas Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is now obtainable to stream on Prime Video.
Here’s all the pieces new to watch this weekend!
New on Netflix
Thanksgiving
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Photo: Pief Weyman/Sony Pictures
Genre: Slasher horror
Run time: 1h 46m
Director: Eli Roth
Cast: Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, Gina Gershon
Eli Roth is again with a new holiday-themed slasher. After a tragic Black Friday riot, the quiet city of Plymouth, Massachusetts, is terrorized by a Thanksgiving-inspired killer carrying a ghoulish John Carver masks.
From our assessment:
Comedic slashers the place each halves complement one another are uncommon, even among the many style’s most entertaining choices. Movies like Totally Killer or Happy Death Day are too humorous and lighthearted to ever actually earn a real scare, whereas a movie like House of 1000 Corpses is so darkish and gross that the humor isn’t possible to land on a primary viewing. Few films have ever struck that stability fairly in addition to Craven’s 4 Scream films. Thanksgiving doesn’t fairly attain that collection’ meteoric heights, however it comes far nearer than the rest lately — together with the Scream franchise itself.
Players
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Photo: Ok.C. Bailey/Netflix
Genre: Romantic comedy
Run time: 1h 45m
Director: Trish Sie
Cast: Gina Rodriguez, Damon Wayans Jr., Tom Ellis
Gina Rodriguez stars on this new rom-com as a sports activities author in New York City who helps her finest buddy, Adam (Damon Wayans Jr.), pull off varied hookup schemes. After crossing paths with Nick (Tom Ellis), a good-looking and single colleague, she’ll have to make the onerous choice of whether or not to quiet down or preserve hooking up.
New on Hulu
The Pod Generation
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
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Image: Quad Productions/Roadside Attractions
Genre: Sci-fi romance
Run time: 1h 49m
Director: Sophie Barthes
Cast: Emilia Clarke, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rosalie Craig
What if Gattaca wasn’t a dystopian retrofuturistic drama starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, however as an alternative a unusual sci-fi romance drama starring Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor? That’s basically what director Sophie Barthes’ newest movie is in a nutshell: A pair is obtainable the chance to conceive a toddler by means of a man-made womb (or pod), solely to uncover that parenthood and life are extra unpredictable than they imagined.
Next Goal Wins
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
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Image: Searchlight Pictures
Genre: Sports comedy-drama
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Taika Waititi
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Oscar Kightley, Kaimana
Michael Fassbender (The Killer) stars in Taika Waititi’s sports activities movie primarily based on the real-life American Samoa nationwide soccer group and their qualification try for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Fassbender portrays Thomas Rongen, the Dutch American coach who agrees to assist form the as soon as notoriously dangerous group right into a aggressive qualifier.
From our assessment:
Next Goal Wins fails to correctly seize what made the story of the American Samoa nationwide soccer group so compelling, by making an attempt to make a movie so common that it discards the game itself as unimportant. Which it is perhaps when it comes to letting the viewers relate to the group as people. But it’s such a cookie-cutter underdog story that it hardly ever strikes previous essentially the most superficial “Care because this movie says you need to care” stage.
New on Max
The Color Purple
Where to watch: Available to stream on Max
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Image: Warner Bros Pictures
Genre: Coming-of-age musical
Run time: 2h 21m
Director: Blitz Bazawule
Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo
Based on Alice Walker’s 1982 novel, this musical adaptation follows the story of Celie (Fantasia Barrino), a lady in an abusive marriage torn from her sister and youngsters, who finds power by means of her friendship with Shug Avery (Taraji P. Henson), a singer with an indomitable spirit.
New on Prime Video
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: Paramount
Genre: Animated superhero motion comedy
Run time: 1h 39m
Director: Jeff Rowe
Cast: Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu, Brady Noon
This Seth Rogen-produced animated reboot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reimagines the origin story of Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Leonardo, 4 turtles mutated by a mysterious ooze who develop up beneath the tutelage of their adoptive father Splinter (Jackie Chan). When the turtle brothers cross paths with April O’Neil (Ayo Edebiri), an aspiring highschool journalist, the turtles resolve to assist her in uncovering a shadowy crime syndicate led by a mysterious crime boss who goes by the title “Superfly.”
Dark Harvest
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: MGM/United Artist Releasing
Genre: Fantasy horror
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: David Slade
Cast: Casey Likes, E’myri Crutchfield, Dustin Ceithamer
Director David Slade (30 Days of Night) returns with an all-new fantasy horror movie primarily based on Norman Partridge’s 2006 novel. In a sleepy unnamed Midwestern hamlet, the teenage boys collect for a yearly ritual every October: to search out “Sawtooth Jack,” a vicious creature with a pumpkin for a head, and kill him earlier than midnight to be certain that the city might be free from misfortune. Will they find a way to succeed this yr, and what different darkish secrets and techniques lurk behind this weird custom?
This Is Me…Now: A Love Story
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: Amazon Prime Video
Genre: Musical movie
Run time: 1h 5m
Director: Dave Meyers
Cast: Sofia Vergara, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez
This feature-length companion music video to Jennifer Lopez’s first album in over a decade stars the actress-songwriter in a fairy-tale saga about star-crossed lovers from opposing tribes who’re reincarnated right into a pink flower and a blue hummingbird. Also, Ben Affleck is right here!
New on Peacock
Oppenheimer
Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock
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Photo: Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures
Genre: Historical biopic
Run time: 3h
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon
Cillian Murphy stars as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb,” in Christopher Nolan’s biopic chronicling the scientist’s tenure at a clandestine analysis facility in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and his embattled popularity and public shame within the years following World War II.
From our assessment:
In its closing stretch, Oppenheimer makes use of the political marketing campaign to discredit the physicist and unpick his legacy as a manner to get beneath the pores and skin of a person whose stance on his terrible creation remained contradictory and enigmatic. After the overwhelming bomb sequences, that’s a surprisingly delicate and advanced tack for Nolan to take, however it works as a result of the story is pushed by the historic report and the characters, relatively than by dogma, with the appalling ethical penalties rising naturally from the small print. Nolan is just not one to let any member of the viewers miss his level, and the movie’s closing scene does ram it residence. But first, he builds out the online of ambition, compromise, goals, politics, jealousy, and inspiration — in a phrase, humanity — that unleashed the forces he stands in awe of. In Oppenheimer, man is essentially the most dreadful machine of all.
New to hire
The Iron Claw
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Photo: Brian Roedel/A24
Genre: Biographical sports activities drama
Run time: 2h 12m
Director: Sean Durkin
Cast: Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson
Zac Efron (Hairspray), Jeremy Allen White (The Bear), and Harris Dickinson (Triangle of Sadness) star on this thrilling dramatization of the lives of the Von Erich brothers, a trio {of professional} wrestlers whose larger-than-life careers and success throughout the Eighties have been marred by tragedy and wrestle.
From our assessment:
The biopicification of such a horrendous, private collection of tragedies will sound crass to some. But Durkin doesn’t dilute the Von Erich story into direct-to-cable fluff. He’s performing a balancing act, conscious {that a} unhappy story is barely helpful if folks have the will (and fortitude) to keep till the credit.
Miller’s Girl
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: Lions Gate Films
Genre: Black comedy drama
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: Jade Halley Bartlett
Cast: Martin Freeman, Jenna Ortega, Dagmara Domińczyk
Martin Freeman (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey) and Jenna Ortega (Wednesday) star on this thriller a few highschool writing trainer who’s seduced by a wealthy, bored, and manipulative younger scholar. Things clearly go very, very badly.
The Crime Is Mine
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: Music Box Films
Genre: Crime comedy
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: François Ozon
Cast: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Rebecca Marder, Isabelle Huppert
Director François Ozon’s newest movie follows the story of Madeleine Verdier (Nadia Tereszkiewicz), an actress who’s imprisoned for murdering a lecherous producer solely to be acquitted for self-defense. With the assistance of her lawyer buddy Pauline (Rebecca Marder), Madeleine places on the efficiency of a lifetime and good points notoriety and infamy like nothing she’s skilled earlier than.
Strange Way of Life
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: El Deseo/Saint Laurent Productions
Genre: Western drama
Run time: 31m
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Pedro Pascal
This Western brief movie from director Pedro Almodóvar (Talk to Her) follows the story of two gunslingers (and former lovers) who reunite after 25 years aside.
Greetings, Polygon readers! Each week, we spherical up essentially the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the largest and finest new films for you to watch at residence.
This week, Oppenheimer, the Oscar-nominated biopic from director Christopher Nolan starring Cillian Murphy, lastly comes to Peacock after making its debut on VOD final November. That’s not all this week has to provide, as a complete slew of new and thrilling releases has arrived on streaming and VOD.
The Iron Claw, Sean Durkin’s wrestling biopic in regards to the Von Erich brothers, lastly comes to VOD this weekend alongside the French homicide farce The Crime Is Mine, the Southern Gothic drama Miller’s Girl, and Pedro Almodóvar’s queer Western brief movie Strange Way of Life starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal. There’s extra: Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving is now streaming on Netflix, whereas Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is now obtainable to stream on Prime Video.
Here’s all the pieces new to watch this weekend!
New on Netflix
Thanksgiving
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Photo: Pief Weyman/Sony Pictures
Genre: Slasher horror
Run time: 1h 46m
Director: Eli Roth
Cast: Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, Gina Gershon
Eli Roth is again with a new holiday-themed slasher. After a tragic Black Friday riot, the quiet city of Plymouth, Massachusetts, is terrorized by a Thanksgiving-inspired killer carrying a ghoulish John Carver masks.
From our assessment:
Comedic slashers the place each halves complement one another are uncommon, even among the many style’s most entertaining choices. Movies like Totally Killer or Happy Death Day are too humorous and lighthearted to ever actually earn a real scare, whereas a movie like House of 1000 Corpses is so darkish and gross that the humor isn’t possible to land on a primary viewing. Few films have ever struck that stability fairly in addition to Craven’s 4 Scream films. Thanksgiving doesn’t fairly attain that collection’ meteoric heights, however it comes far nearer than the rest lately — together with the Scream franchise itself.
Players
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Photo: Ok.C. Bailey/Netflix
Genre: Romantic comedy
Run time: 1h 45m
Director: Trish Sie
Cast: Gina Rodriguez, Damon Wayans Jr., Tom Ellis
Gina Rodriguez stars on this new rom-com as a sports activities author in New York City who helps her finest buddy, Adam (Damon Wayans Jr.), pull off varied hookup schemes. After crossing paths with Nick (Tom Ellis), a good-looking and single colleague, she’ll have to make the onerous choice of whether or not to quiet down or preserve hooking up.
New on Hulu
The Pod Generation
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
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Image: Quad Productions/Roadside Attractions
Genre: Sci-fi romance
Run time: 1h 49m
Director: Sophie Barthes
Cast: Emilia Clarke, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rosalie Craig
What if Gattaca wasn’t a dystopian retrofuturistic drama starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, however as an alternative a unusual sci-fi romance drama starring Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor? That’s basically what director Sophie Barthes’ newest movie is in a nutshell: A pair is obtainable the chance to conceive a toddler by means of a man-made womb (or pod), solely to uncover that parenthood and life are extra unpredictable than they imagined.
Next Goal Wins
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
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Image: Searchlight Pictures
Genre: Sports comedy-drama
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Taika Waititi
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Oscar Kightley, Kaimana
Michael Fassbender (The Killer) stars in Taika Waititi’s sports activities movie primarily based on the real-life American Samoa nationwide soccer group and their qualification try for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Fassbender portrays Thomas Rongen, the Dutch American coach who agrees to assist form the as soon as notoriously dangerous group right into a aggressive qualifier.
From our assessment:
Next Goal Wins fails to correctly seize what made the story of the American Samoa nationwide soccer group so compelling, by making an attempt to make a movie so common that it discards the game itself as unimportant. Which it is perhaps when it comes to letting the viewers relate to the group as people. But it’s such a cookie-cutter underdog story that it hardly ever strikes previous essentially the most superficial “Care because this movie says you need to care” stage.
New on Max
The Color Purple
Where to watch: Available to stream on Max
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Image: Warner Bros Pictures
Genre: Coming-of-age musical
Run time: 2h 21m
Director: Blitz Bazawule
Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo
Based on Alice Walker’s 1982 novel, this musical adaptation follows the story of Celie (Fantasia Barrino), a lady in an abusive marriage torn from her sister and youngsters, who finds power by means of her friendship with Shug Avery (Taraji P. Henson), a singer with an indomitable spirit.
New on Prime Video
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: Paramount
Genre: Animated superhero motion comedy
Run time: 1h 39m
Director: Jeff Rowe
Cast: Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu, Brady Noon
This Seth Rogen-produced animated reboot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reimagines the origin story of Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Leonardo, 4 turtles mutated by a mysterious ooze who develop up beneath the tutelage of their adoptive father Splinter (Jackie Chan). When the turtle brothers cross paths with April O’Neil (Ayo Edebiri), an aspiring highschool journalist, the turtles resolve to assist her in uncovering a shadowy crime syndicate led by a mysterious crime boss who goes by the title “Superfly.”
Dark Harvest
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: MGM/United Artist Releasing
Genre: Fantasy horror
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: David Slade
Cast: Casey Likes, E’myri Crutchfield, Dustin Ceithamer
Director David Slade (30 Days of Night) returns with an all-new fantasy horror movie primarily based on Norman Partridge’s 2006 novel. In a sleepy unnamed Midwestern hamlet, the teenage boys collect for a yearly ritual every October: to search out “Sawtooth Jack,” a vicious creature with a pumpkin for a head, and kill him earlier than midnight to be certain that the city might be free from misfortune. Will they find a way to succeed this yr, and what different darkish secrets and techniques lurk behind this weird custom?
This Is Me…Now: A Love Story
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: Amazon Prime Video
Genre: Musical movie
Run time: 1h 5m
Director: Dave Meyers
Cast: Sofia Vergara, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez
This feature-length companion music video to Jennifer Lopez’s first album in over a decade stars the actress-songwriter in a fairy-tale saga about star-crossed lovers from opposing tribes who’re reincarnated right into a pink flower and a blue hummingbird. Also, Ben Affleck is right here!
New on Peacock
Oppenheimer
Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock
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Photo: Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures
Genre: Historical biopic
Run time: 3h
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon
Cillian Murphy stars as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb,” in Christopher Nolan’s biopic chronicling the scientist’s tenure at a clandestine analysis facility in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and his embattled popularity and public shame within the years following World War II.
From our assessment:
In its closing stretch, Oppenheimer makes use of the political marketing campaign to discredit the physicist and unpick his legacy as a manner to get beneath the pores and skin of a person whose stance on his terrible creation remained contradictory and enigmatic. After the overwhelming bomb sequences, that’s a surprisingly delicate and advanced tack for Nolan to take, however it works as a result of the story is pushed by the historic report and the characters, relatively than by dogma, with the appalling ethical penalties rising naturally from the small print. Nolan is just not one to let any member of the viewers miss his level, and the movie’s closing scene does ram it residence. But first, he builds out the online of ambition, compromise, goals, politics, jealousy, and inspiration — in a phrase, humanity — that unleashed the forces he stands in awe of. In Oppenheimer, man is essentially the most dreadful machine of all.
New to hire
The Iron Claw
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Photo: Brian Roedel/A24
Genre: Biographical sports activities drama
Run time: 2h 12m
Director: Sean Durkin
Cast: Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson
Zac Efron (Hairspray), Jeremy Allen White (The Bear), and Harris Dickinson (Triangle of Sadness) star on this thrilling dramatization of the lives of the Von Erich brothers, a trio {of professional} wrestlers whose larger-than-life careers and success throughout the Eighties have been marred by tragedy and wrestle.
From our assessment:
The biopicification of such a horrendous, private collection of tragedies will sound crass to some. But Durkin doesn’t dilute the Von Erich story into direct-to-cable fluff. He’s performing a balancing act, conscious {that a} unhappy story is barely helpful if folks have the will (and fortitude) to keep till the credit.
Miller’s Girl
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: Lions Gate Films
Genre: Black comedy drama
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: Jade Halley Bartlett
Cast: Martin Freeman, Jenna Ortega, Dagmara Domińczyk
Martin Freeman (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey) and Jenna Ortega (Wednesday) star on this thriller a few highschool writing trainer who’s seduced by a wealthy, bored, and manipulative younger scholar. Things clearly go very, very badly.
The Crime Is Mine
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: Music Box Films
Genre: Crime comedy
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: François Ozon
Cast: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Rebecca Marder, Isabelle Huppert
Director François Ozon’s newest movie follows the story of Madeleine Verdier (Nadia Tereszkiewicz), an actress who’s imprisoned for murdering a lecherous producer solely to be acquitted for self-defense. With the assistance of her lawyer buddy Pauline (Rebecca Marder), Madeleine places on the efficiency of a lifetime and good points notoriety and infamy like nothing she’s skilled earlier than.
Strange Way of Life
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: El Deseo/Saint Laurent Productions
Genre: Western drama
Run time: 31m
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Pedro Pascal
This Western brief movie from director Pedro Almodóvar (Talk to Her) follows the story of two gunslingers (and former lovers) who reunite after 25 years aside.
Greetings, Polygon readers! Each week, we spherical up essentially the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the largest and finest new films for you to watch at residence.
This week, Oppenheimer, the Oscar-nominated biopic from director Christopher Nolan starring Cillian Murphy, lastly comes to Peacock after making its debut on VOD final November. That’s not all this week has to provide, as a complete slew of new and thrilling releases has arrived on streaming and VOD.
The Iron Claw, Sean Durkin’s wrestling biopic in regards to the Von Erich brothers, lastly comes to VOD this weekend alongside the French homicide farce The Crime Is Mine, the Southern Gothic drama Miller’s Girl, and Pedro Almodóvar’s queer Western brief movie Strange Way of Life starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal. There’s extra: Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving is now streaming on Netflix, whereas Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is now obtainable to stream on Prime Video.
Here’s all the pieces new to watch this weekend!
New on Netflix
Thanksgiving
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Photo: Pief Weyman/Sony Pictures
Genre: Slasher horror
Run time: 1h 46m
Director: Eli Roth
Cast: Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, Gina Gershon
Eli Roth is again with a new holiday-themed slasher. After a tragic Black Friday riot, the quiet city of Plymouth, Massachusetts, is terrorized by a Thanksgiving-inspired killer carrying a ghoulish John Carver masks.
From our assessment:
Comedic slashers the place each halves complement one another are uncommon, even among the many style’s most entertaining choices. Movies like Totally Killer or Happy Death Day are too humorous and lighthearted to ever actually earn a real scare, whereas a movie like House of 1000 Corpses is so darkish and gross that the humor isn’t possible to land on a primary viewing. Few films have ever struck that stability fairly in addition to Craven’s 4 Scream films. Thanksgiving doesn’t fairly attain that collection’ meteoric heights, however it comes far nearer than the rest lately — together with the Scream franchise itself.
Players
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Photo: Ok.C. Bailey/Netflix
Genre: Romantic comedy
Run time: 1h 45m
Director: Trish Sie
Cast: Gina Rodriguez, Damon Wayans Jr., Tom Ellis
Gina Rodriguez stars on this new rom-com as a sports activities author in New York City who helps her finest buddy, Adam (Damon Wayans Jr.), pull off varied hookup schemes. After crossing paths with Nick (Tom Ellis), a good-looking and single colleague, she’ll have to make the onerous choice of whether or not to quiet down or preserve hooking up.
New on Hulu
The Pod Generation
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
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Image: Quad Productions/Roadside Attractions
Genre: Sci-fi romance
Run time: 1h 49m
Director: Sophie Barthes
Cast: Emilia Clarke, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rosalie Craig
What if Gattaca wasn’t a dystopian retrofuturistic drama starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, however as an alternative a unusual sci-fi romance drama starring Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor? That’s basically what director Sophie Barthes’ newest movie is in a nutshell: A pair is obtainable the chance to conceive a toddler by means of a man-made womb (or pod), solely to uncover that parenthood and life are extra unpredictable than they imagined.
Next Goal Wins
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
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Image: Searchlight Pictures
Genre: Sports comedy-drama
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Taika Waititi
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Oscar Kightley, Kaimana
Michael Fassbender (The Killer) stars in Taika Waititi’s sports activities movie primarily based on the real-life American Samoa nationwide soccer group and their qualification try for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Fassbender portrays Thomas Rongen, the Dutch American coach who agrees to assist form the as soon as notoriously dangerous group right into a aggressive qualifier.
From our assessment:
Next Goal Wins fails to correctly seize what made the story of the American Samoa nationwide soccer group so compelling, by making an attempt to make a movie so common that it discards the game itself as unimportant. Which it is perhaps when it comes to letting the viewers relate to the group as people. But it’s such a cookie-cutter underdog story that it hardly ever strikes previous essentially the most superficial “Care because this movie says you need to care” stage.
New on Max
The Color Purple
Where to watch: Available to stream on Max
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Image: Warner Bros Pictures
Genre: Coming-of-age musical
Run time: 2h 21m
Director: Blitz Bazawule
Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo
Based on Alice Walker’s 1982 novel, this musical adaptation follows the story of Celie (Fantasia Barrino), a lady in an abusive marriage torn from her sister and youngsters, who finds power by means of her friendship with Shug Avery (Taraji P. Henson), a singer with an indomitable spirit.
New on Prime Video
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: Paramount
Genre: Animated superhero motion comedy
Run time: 1h 39m
Director: Jeff Rowe
Cast: Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu, Brady Noon
This Seth Rogen-produced animated reboot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reimagines the origin story of Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Leonardo, 4 turtles mutated by a mysterious ooze who develop up beneath the tutelage of their adoptive father Splinter (Jackie Chan). When the turtle brothers cross paths with April O’Neil (Ayo Edebiri), an aspiring highschool journalist, the turtles resolve to assist her in uncovering a shadowy crime syndicate led by a mysterious crime boss who goes by the title “Superfly.”
Dark Harvest
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: MGM/United Artist Releasing
Genre: Fantasy horror
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: David Slade
Cast: Casey Likes, E’myri Crutchfield, Dustin Ceithamer
Director David Slade (30 Days of Night) returns with an all-new fantasy horror movie primarily based on Norman Partridge’s 2006 novel. In a sleepy unnamed Midwestern hamlet, the teenage boys collect for a yearly ritual every October: to search out “Sawtooth Jack,” a vicious creature with a pumpkin for a head, and kill him earlier than midnight to be certain that the city might be free from misfortune. Will they find a way to succeed this yr, and what different darkish secrets and techniques lurk behind this weird custom?
This Is Me…Now: A Love Story
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: Amazon Prime Video
Genre: Musical movie
Run time: 1h 5m
Director: Dave Meyers
Cast: Sofia Vergara, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez
This feature-length companion music video to Jennifer Lopez’s first album in over a decade stars the actress-songwriter in a fairy-tale saga about star-crossed lovers from opposing tribes who’re reincarnated right into a pink flower and a blue hummingbird. Also, Ben Affleck is right here!
New on Peacock
Oppenheimer
Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock
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Photo: Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures
Genre: Historical biopic
Run time: 3h
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon
Cillian Murphy stars as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb,” in Christopher Nolan’s biopic chronicling the scientist’s tenure at a clandestine analysis facility in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and his embattled popularity and public shame within the years following World War II.
From our assessment:
In its closing stretch, Oppenheimer makes use of the political marketing campaign to discredit the physicist and unpick his legacy as a manner to get beneath the pores and skin of a person whose stance on his terrible creation remained contradictory and enigmatic. After the overwhelming bomb sequences, that’s a surprisingly delicate and advanced tack for Nolan to take, however it works as a result of the story is pushed by the historic report and the characters, relatively than by dogma, with the appalling ethical penalties rising naturally from the small print. Nolan is just not one to let any member of the viewers miss his level, and the movie’s closing scene does ram it residence. But first, he builds out the online of ambition, compromise, goals, politics, jealousy, and inspiration — in a phrase, humanity — that unleashed the forces he stands in awe of. In Oppenheimer, man is essentially the most dreadful machine of all.
New to hire
The Iron Claw
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Photo: Brian Roedel/A24
Genre: Biographical sports activities drama
Run time: 2h 12m
Director: Sean Durkin
Cast: Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson
Zac Efron (Hairspray), Jeremy Allen White (The Bear), and Harris Dickinson (Triangle of Sadness) star on this thrilling dramatization of the lives of the Von Erich brothers, a trio {of professional} wrestlers whose larger-than-life careers and success throughout the Eighties have been marred by tragedy and wrestle.
From our assessment:
The biopicification of such a horrendous, private collection of tragedies will sound crass to some. But Durkin doesn’t dilute the Von Erich story into direct-to-cable fluff. He’s performing a balancing act, conscious {that a} unhappy story is barely helpful if folks have the will (and fortitude) to keep till the credit.
Miller’s Girl
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: Lions Gate Films
Genre: Black comedy drama
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: Jade Halley Bartlett
Cast: Martin Freeman, Jenna Ortega, Dagmara Domińczyk
Martin Freeman (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey) and Jenna Ortega (Wednesday) star on this thriller a few highschool writing trainer who’s seduced by a wealthy, bored, and manipulative younger scholar. Things clearly go very, very badly.
The Crime Is Mine
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: Music Box Films
Genre: Crime comedy
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: François Ozon
Cast: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Rebecca Marder, Isabelle Huppert
Director François Ozon’s newest movie follows the story of Madeleine Verdier (Nadia Tereszkiewicz), an actress who’s imprisoned for murdering a lecherous producer solely to be acquitted for self-defense. With the assistance of her lawyer buddy Pauline (Rebecca Marder), Madeleine places on the efficiency of a lifetime and good points notoriety and infamy like nothing she’s skilled earlier than.
Strange Way of Life
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: El Deseo/Saint Laurent Productions
Genre: Western drama
Run time: 31m
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Pedro Pascal
This Western brief movie from director Pedro Almodóvar (Talk to Her) follows the story of two gunslingers (and former lovers) who reunite after 25 years aside.
Greetings, Polygon readers! Each week, we spherical up essentially the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the largest and finest new films for you to watch at residence.
This week, Oppenheimer, the Oscar-nominated biopic from director Christopher Nolan starring Cillian Murphy, lastly comes to Peacock after making its debut on VOD final November. That’s not all this week has to provide, as a complete slew of new and thrilling releases has arrived on streaming and VOD.
The Iron Claw, Sean Durkin’s wrestling biopic in regards to the Von Erich brothers, lastly comes to VOD this weekend alongside the French homicide farce The Crime Is Mine, the Southern Gothic drama Miller’s Girl, and Pedro Almodóvar’s queer Western brief movie Strange Way of Life starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal. There’s extra: Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving is now streaming on Netflix, whereas Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is now obtainable to stream on Prime Video.
Here’s all the pieces new to watch this weekend!
New on Netflix
Thanksgiving
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Photo: Pief Weyman/Sony Pictures
Genre: Slasher horror
Run time: 1h 46m
Director: Eli Roth
Cast: Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, Gina Gershon
Eli Roth is again with a new holiday-themed slasher. After a tragic Black Friday riot, the quiet city of Plymouth, Massachusetts, is terrorized by a Thanksgiving-inspired killer carrying a ghoulish John Carver masks.
From our assessment:
Comedic slashers the place each halves complement one another are uncommon, even among the many style’s most entertaining choices. Movies like Totally Killer or Happy Death Day are too humorous and lighthearted to ever actually earn a real scare, whereas a movie like House of 1000 Corpses is so darkish and gross that the humor isn’t possible to land on a primary viewing. Few films have ever struck that stability fairly in addition to Craven’s 4 Scream films. Thanksgiving doesn’t fairly attain that collection’ meteoric heights, however it comes far nearer than the rest lately — together with the Scream franchise itself.
Players
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Photo: Ok.C. Bailey/Netflix
Genre: Romantic comedy
Run time: 1h 45m
Director: Trish Sie
Cast: Gina Rodriguez, Damon Wayans Jr., Tom Ellis
Gina Rodriguez stars on this new rom-com as a sports activities author in New York City who helps her finest buddy, Adam (Damon Wayans Jr.), pull off varied hookup schemes. After crossing paths with Nick (Tom Ellis), a good-looking and single colleague, she’ll have to make the onerous choice of whether or not to quiet down or preserve hooking up.
New on Hulu
The Pod Generation
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
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Image: Quad Productions/Roadside Attractions
Genre: Sci-fi romance
Run time: 1h 49m
Director: Sophie Barthes
Cast: Emilia Clarke, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rosalie Craig
What if Gattaca wasn’t a dystopian retrofuturistic drama starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, however as an alternative a unusual sci-fi romance drama starring Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor? That’s basically what director Sophie Barthes’ newest movie is in a nutshell: A pair is obtainable the chance to conceive a toddler by means of a man-made womb (or pod), solely to uncover that parenthood and life are extra unpredictable than they imagined.
Next Goal Wins
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
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Image: Searchlight Pictures
Genre: Sports comedy-drama
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Taika Waititi
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Oscar Kightley, Kaimana
Michael Fassbender (The Killer) stars in Taika Waititi’s sports activities movie primarily based on the real-life American Samoa nationwide soccer group and their qualification try for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Fassbender portrays Thomas Rongen, the Dutch American coach who agrees to assist form the as soon as notoriously dangerous group right into a aggressive qualifier.
From our assessment:
Next Goal Wins fails to correctly seize what made the story of the American Samoa nationwide soccer group so compelling, by making an attempt to make a movie so common that it discards the game itself as unimportant. Which it is perhaps when it comes to letting the viewers relate to the group as people. But it’s such a cookie-cutter underdog story that it hardly ever strikes previous essentially the most superficial “Care because this movie says you need to care” stage.
New on Max
The Color Purple
Where to watch: Available to stream on Max
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Image: Warner Bros Pictures
Genre: Coming-of-age musical
Run time: 2h 21m
Director: Blitz Bazawule
Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo
Based on Alice Walker’s 1982 novel, this musical adaptation follows the story of Celie (Fantasia Barrino), a lady in an abusive marriage torn from her sister and youngsters, who finds power by means of her friendship with Shug Avery (Taraji P. Henson), a singer with an indomitable spirit.
New on Prime Video
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: Paramount
Genre: Animated superhero motion comedy
Run time: 1h 39m
Director: Jeff Rowe
Cast: Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu, Brady Noon
This Seth Rogen-produced animated reboot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reimagines the origin story of Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Leonardo, 4 turtles mutated by a mysterious ooze who develop up beneath the tutelage of their adoptive father Splinter (Jackie Chan). When the turtle brothers cross paths with April O’Neil (Ayo Edebiri), an aspiring highschool journalist, the turtles resolve to assist her in uncovering a shadowy crime syndicate led by a mysterious crime boss who goes by the title “Superfly.”
Dark Harvest
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: MGM/United Artist Releasing
Genre: Fantasy horror
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: David Slade
Cast: Casey Likes, E’myri Crutchfield, Dustin Ceithamer
Director David Slade (30 Days of Night) returns with an all-new fantasy horror movie primarily based on Norman Partridge’s 2006 novel. In a sleepy unnamed Midwestern hamlet, the teenage boys collect for a yearly ritual every October: to search out “Sawtooth Jack,” a vicious creature with a pumpkin for a head, and kill him earlier than midnight to be certain that the city might be free from misfortune. Will they find a way to succeed this yr, and what different darkish secrets and techniques lurk behind this weird custom?
This Is Me…Now: A Love Story
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: Amazon Prime Video
Genre: Musical movie
Run time: 1h 5m
Director: Dave Meyers
Cast: Sofia Vergara, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez
This feature-length companion music video to Jennifer Lopez’s first album in over a decade stars the actress-songwriter in a fairy-tale saga about star-crossed lovers from opposing tribes who’re reincarnated right into a pink flower and a blue hummingbird. Also, Ben Affleck is right here!
New on Peacock
Oppenheimer
Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock
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Photo: Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures
Genre: Historical biopic
Run time: 3h
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon
Cillian Murphy stars as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb,” in Christopher Nolan’s biopic chronicling the scientist’s tenure at a clandestine analysis facility in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and his embattled popularity and public shame within the years following World War II.
From our assessment:
In its closing stretch, Oppenheimer makes use of the political marketing campaign to discredit the physicist and unpick his legacy as a manner to get beneath the pores and skin of a person whose stance on his terrible creation remained contradictory and enigmatic. After the overwhelming bomb sequences, that’s a surprisingly delicate and advanced tack for Nolan to take, however it works as a result of the story is pushed by the historic report and the characters, relatively than by dogma, with the appalling ethical penalties rising naturally from the small print. Nolan is just not one to let any member of the viewers miss his level, and the movie’s closing scene does ram it residence. But first, he builds out the online of ambition, compromise, goals, politics, jealousy, and inspiration — in a phrase, humanity — that unleashed the forces he stands in awe of. In Oppenheimer, man is essentially the most dreadful machine of all.
New to hire
The Iron Claw
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Photo: Brian Roedel/A24
Genre: Biographical sports activities drama
Run time: 2h 12m
Director: Sean Durkin
Cast: Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson
Zac Efron (Hairspray), Jeremy Allen White (The Bear), and Harris Dickinson (Triangle of Sadness) star on this thrilling dramatization of the lives of the Von Erich brothers, a trio {of professional} wrestlers whose larger-than-life careers and success throughout the Eighties have been marred by tragedy and wrestle.
From our assessment:
The biopicification of such a horrendous, private collection of tragedies will sound crass to some. But Durkin doesn’t dilute the Von Erich story into direct-to-cable fluff. He’s performing a balancing act, conscious {that a} unhappy story is barely helpful if folks have the will (and fortitude) to keep till the credit.
Miller’s Girl
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: Lions Gate Films
Genre: Black comedy drama
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: Jade Halley Bartlett
Cast: Martin Freeman, Jenna Ortega, Dagmara Domińczyk
Martin Freeman (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey) and Jenna Ortega (Wednesday) star on this thriller a few highschool writing trainer who’s seduced by a wealthy, bored, and manipulative younger scholar. Things clearly go very, very badly.
The Crime Is Mine
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: Music Box Films
Genre: Crime comedy
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: François Ozon
Cast: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Rebecca Marder, Isabelle Huppert
Director François Ozon’s newest movie follows the story of Madeleine Verdier (Nadia Tereszkiewicz), an actress who’s imprisoned for murdering a lecherous producer solely to be acquitted for self-defense. With the assistance of her lawyer buddy Pauline (Rebecca Marder), Madeleine places on the efficiency of a lifetime and good points notoriety and infamy like nothing she’s skilled earlier than.
Strange Way of Life
Where to watch: Available to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: El Deseo/Saint Laurent Productions
Genre: Western drama
Run time: 31m
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Pedro Pascal
This Western brief movie from director Pedro Almodóvar (Talk to Her) follows the story of two gunslingers (and former lovers) who reunite after 25 years aside.
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