Bullet Train on Netflix, new Christmas films, and every new movie to watch from home this weekend

Happy December, Polygon readers.

This week sees a slate of new films arriving on streaming platforms and VOD. There’s the Brad Pitt motion movie set on a prepare, Bullet Train, from director David Leitch (John Wick, Atomic Blonde, Deadpool 2), coming to Netflix this Saturday. There’s comic Billy Eichner’s homosexual rom-com Bros, making its streaming debut on Peacock.

There’s a lot extra, too — Norwegian monster movie Troll, the wonderful little horror movie A Wounded Fawn on Shudder, and the standard group of new Christmas films that come every week this time of 12 months.

So huddle up, get underneath a heat blanket, and prepare to watch some films this weekend.

Netflix

Bullet Train

Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix Dec. 3

Photo: Scott Garfield/Sony Pictures

Genre: Action/comedy
Run time: 2h 7m
Director: David Leitch
Cast: Brad Pitt, Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson

David Leitch is one half of the celebrity directing duo that introduced us the massively influential John Wick, and his newest motion movie boasts a celebrity solid led by Brad Pitt, Brian Tyree Henry, Joey King, and Bad Bunny. A very good solid means a very good blooper reel.

From our evaluation:

Fights in Bullet Train are temporary and filled with character, with blows within the place of (or alongside) quips and Jackie Chan-esque prop work. Inspired staging, like a seated scuffle between Ladybug and Lemon within the prepare’s quiet automotive (a centerpiece of the movie’s trailers), is a number of the better of what Bullet Train has to supply, with John Wick-style choreographic precision employed within the service of comedy. The worst of the movie is when it abandons that precision for bombast, like in its wildly harmful finale, which is sort of anticipated, however nonetheless disappointing.

Scrooge: A Christmas Carol

Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix

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Genre: Musical/comedy
Run time: 1h 36m
Director: Stephen Donnelly
Cast: Jessie Buckley, Luke Evans, Olivia Colman

A “time-traveling, musical” adaptation of Charles Dickens’ traditional story, this animated journey stars Luke Evans as Ebenezer Scrooge, Jonathan Pryce as Jacob Marley, and Olivia Colman because the Ghost of Christmas Past.

Troll

Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix

Image: Netflix

Genre: Fantasy/motion
Run time: 1h 41m
Director: Roar Uthaug
Cast: Ine Marie Wilmann, Kim Falck, Mads Sjøgård Pettersen

Roar Uthaug, the director of the 2018 Tomb Raider reboot starring Alicia Vikander, returns with a new action-adventure movie that would principally be summed up as Norwegian model of Kong: Skull Island and a religious companion to André Øvredal’s 2010 movie Trollhunter. When an enormous explosion within the Norwegian mountains awakens a centuries-old large from its slumber, a paleontologist and their workforce should work collectively to pacify the beast and avert a worldwide disaster.

Sr.

Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix

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Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 30m
Director: Chris Smith
Cast: Robert Downey Sr., Robert Downey Jr.

Filmed through the ultimate 12 months of his life, this irreverent documentary explores the life and work of Robert Downey Sr., the acclaimed anarchic director identified for the 1969 satire Putney Swope, and his relationship along with his son.

My Name Is Vendetta

Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix

Image: Emanuela Scarp/Netflix

Genre: Crime/drama
Run time: 1h 30m
Director: Cosimo Gomez
Cast: Alessandro Gassmann, Ginevra Francesconi

Alessandro Gassmann (The Transporter 2) stars in this John Wick-style motion thriller as a reformed legal who, alongside along with his teenage daughter (Ginevra Francesconi), should come out of hiding when his former associates monitor him down with the intent to kill them. Training his daughter how to change into a killer herself, the pair embarks on a vendetta (ay, that’s the title!) to monitor down their pursuers and actual vengeance on them.

A Man of Action

Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix

Photo: Quim Vives/Netflix

Genre: Biographical drama
Run time: 1h 51m
Director: Javier Ruiz Caldera
Cast: Juan José Ballesta, Liah O’Prey, Luis Callejo

This biographical motion drama facilities on the story of Lucio Urtubia, a Spanish anarchist in contrast to Robin Hood in his heyday, who carried out a sequence of elaborate, high-profile financial institution robberies and forgeries all through the Sixties and ’70s. Spanning 5 a long time, this fast-paced movie follows Lucio’s life from his humble beginnings as a bricklayer to his rise to notoriety and infamy for robbing one of many greatest banks on the planet.

Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix

Image: Parisa Taghizadeh/Netflix

Genre: Romance/drama
Run time: 2h 6m
Director: Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
Cast: Emma Corrin, Jack O’Connell, Matthew Duckett

Based on D.H. Lawrence’s 1928 erotic romance novel, this movie stars Emma Corrin (My Policeman) as Constance Chatterley, the newlywed spouse of the rich Sir Clifford Chatterley. After Sir Chatterley returns home from combating in World War I with out the flexibility to stroll, Constance should have a tendency to his wants, and their romance slowly begins to wane.

Stifled by the expectations of society, she pursues a secret love affair with Oliver (Jack O’Connell), the gamekeeper of the Chatterley household property. As their tryst develops, rumors start to unfold surrounding the pair, forcing Constance to make one of the defining choices of her life.

Warriors of Future

Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix

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Genre: Sci-fi/motion
Run time: 1h 52m
Director: Yuen Fai Ng
Cast: Louis Koo, Ching Wan Lau, Carina Lau

Do you want Skylines? What about Moonfall, or The Wandering Earth? You know what, I’m simply going cease proper there and lower to the chase: This movie is up your alley. When a meteor strikes the planet, infecting the world with a harmful plant virus that mutates and spreads throughout the globe, a suicide squad clad in experimental fight exo-suits should race in opposition to time to save Earth and avert the apocalypse. See what I imply? If you want Michael Bay’s Transformers movies, you’ll most likely dig this too.

Hulu

Darby and the Dead

Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu

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Genre: Comedy/drama
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Silas Howard
Cast: Riele Downs, Auli’i Cravalho, Chosen Jacobs

Darby, a younger lady who can see ghosts, is a little bit of a loner and largely hangs out along with her otherworldly buddies, giving them recommendation on how to absolutely depart the mortal aircraft. When the preferred lady in school dies and turns into Darby’s newest apparition acquaintance, Darby has to confront her greatest concern of all: socializing.

Gone within the Night

Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu

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Genre: Thriller
Run time: 1h 30m
Director: Eli Horowitz
Cast: Winona Ryder, Dermot Mulroney, John Gallagher Jr.

Homecoming co-creator Eli Horowitz teamed up with Winona Ryder for this thriller set in a cabin within the woods. Kath (Ryder) and her boyfriend are stunned to discover one other couple within the cabin they’ve rented, and Kath is much more stunned when her boyfriend leaves with certainly one of them the subsequent day. Spooky!

Prime Video

Your Christmas or Mine?

Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video

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Genre: Romantic comedy
Run time: 1h 35m
Director: Jim O’Hanlon
Cast: Asa Butterfield, Cora Kirk

Two younger folks in a new relationship determine to shock one another for Christmas, ending up caught with one another’s households as an alternative.

Peacock

Bros

Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock

Image: Universal Pictures

Genre: Romantic comedy
Run time: 1h 55m
Director: Nicholas Stoller
Cast: Billy Eichner, Luke Macfarlane

Marketed as the primary homosexual romantic comedy from a serious studio (it isn’t), Bros is about two males with dedication points who attempt and make love work in fashionable Manhattan.

Shudder

A Wounded Fawn

Where to watch: Available to stream on Shudder

Photo: Peter Mamontoff/Shudder

Genre: Horror
Run time: 1h 31m
Director: Travis Stevens
Cast: Josh Ruben, Sarah Lind, Malin Barr

Comedian Josh Ruben stars as a serial killer who invitations a museum curator for a romantic weekend in his creepy cabin within the woods. Anchored by sturdy performances and an eerie vibe aided by the tangible texture from taking pictures on 16mm movie, it’s a memorable addition to a memorable 12 months in horror.

VOD

Hunt

Where to watch: Available to lease for $6.99 on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Image: Artist Studio

Genre: Drama/thriller
Run time: 2h 11m
Director: Lee Jung-jae
Cast: Lee Jung-jae, Jung Woo-sung, Jeon Hye-jin

Squid Game star Lee Jung-jae wrote, directed, and starred in this period-piece spy thriller. A fancy thriller with loads of drama, you may want to contemplate touching up on Nineteen Eighties Korean politics first so as to observe the difficult narrative.

Emily the Criminal

Where to watch: Available to lease for $3.99 on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Image: Vertical Entertainment

Genre: Crime thriller
Run time: 1h 37m
Director: John Patton Ford
Cast: Aubrey Plaza, Theo Rossi, Megalyn Echikunwoke

A university scholar coping with debt issues takes a not-exactly-legal job as part of a bank card rip-off.

From our evaluation:

Ford’s colour palette for this movie — an industrial composite of gunmetal grays and navy blues that recall glass-paneled skyscrapers on a cloudy day — is paying homage to Michael Mann’s crime traditional Heat. And the amoral Emily would match proper in with Mann’s roster of hardened professionals. Like James Caan in Thief, she’s good at what she does. But in contrast to with Caan’s disillusioned safecracker, her legal profession is simply starting, and the frenzy of realizing she does have what it takes is each thrilling and validating for a personality who beforehand felt life had nothing to supply her however drudgery and debt. The distinction right here is, Michael Mann has by no means written such a juicy position for a lady.