American Fiction, The Marvels, and every new movie to watch at home

Greetings, Polygon readers! Each week, we spherical up essentially the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the largest and greatest new motion pictures for you to watch at home.

This week, American Fiction, the Oscar-nominated comedy drama starring Westworld’s Jeffrey Wright, is obtainable to buy on VOD. That’s not all, as Jeymes Samuel’s The Book of Clarence starring LaKeith Stanfield and the ecological drama The End We Start From starring Jodie Comer (The Last Duel) additionally arrive on VOD this week, together with a couple of different thrilling releases. There’s loads of streaming premieres as nicely, with Nia DaCosta’s The Marvels lastly arriving on Disney Plus following its VOD launch final month. Down Low, a new comedy starring Zachary Quinto and Lukas Gage, is now streaming on Netflix, whereas the supernatural “Dracula on a boat” horror thriller The Last Voyage of the Demeter lastly docks on Paramount Plus.

New on Netflix

Down Low

Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix

Image: FilmNation Entertainment

Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 30m
Director: Rightor Doyle
Cast: Zachary Quinto, Lukas Gage, Judith Light

In this darkish comedy, Zachary Quinto (Star Trek) stars as Gary, a lately divorced and deeply closeted father who kinds an unlikely friendship with younger masseur (Lukas Gage). Determined to assist him come out of his shell and embrace his sexuality brazenly, the masseur units Gary up with a date on a hookup app, however issues rapidly take a flip when the 2 should work collectively to keep away from going to jail for homicide.

New on Disney Plus

The Marvels

Where to watch: Available to stream on Disney Plus

Photo: Laura Radford/Marvel Studios

Genre: Superhero motion
Run time: 1h 45m
Director: Nia DaCosta
Cast: Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris, Iman Vellani

The thirty third movie within the Marvel Cinematic Universe sees the return of Carol Danvers (Brie Larson), often known as Captain Marvel. This time round, she’s teaming up with the superpowered Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani) and Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) to save the universe from the specter of a vengeful Kree chief bent on restoring her home world.

From our evaluation:

In its greatest moments, The Marvels simply throws great concepts at the display screen. There’s a planet of people that solely sing, an area station filled with cats that blithely devour furnishings and people alike, an animated depiction of Kamala’s inner monologue — the movie can really feel like a temper board assembled by an overcaffeinated Star Trek fan, with a way of creativeness appropriate for reminding the viewers that comedian books could be cool within the second that you simply’re studying them, as opposed to for what they promise sooner or later.

New on Hulu

Cat Person

Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu

Image: Sundance Institute

Genre: Psychological thriller
Run time: 1h 58m
Director: Susanna Fogel
Cast: Emilia Jones, Nicholas Braun, Geraldine Viswanathan

Based on Kristen Roupenian’s viral 2017 brief story for The New Yorker, Cat Person follows the story of Margot, a school sophomore who enters into a short relationship with an older man named Robert (Nicholas Braun). Things appear okay at first, till Margot begins to query whether or not or not Robert is telling the entire reality about his life.

From our evaluation,

Cat Person will get it unsuitable so constantly, makes its factors so inelegantly, and pads out the brief story in such an ill-conceived method that it finally ends up invalidating the identical issues on which it’s constructed. When a cop tells the protagonist that she ought to cease watching homicide exhibits, it’s not institutional indifference towards violence in opposition to girls. It’s a voice of motive, because the protagonist’s personal actions later show. This is a movie that features each a therapist who seems to state the subtext as textual content, then vanishes, and a one-dimensional greatest pal of colour who exists solely to drop feminist buzzwords from 5 years in the past (Geraldine Viswanathan, who deserves higher). It’s assured in its cluelessness, and not in a method that underlines that very same high quality in its 20-year-old heroine.

Suncoast

Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu

Genre: Coming-of-age drama
Run time: 1h 49m
Director: Laura Chinn
Cast: Laura Linney, Nico Parker, Woody Harrelson

This semi-autobiographical drama follows Doris (Nico Parker), a self-conscious teenager who strikes up an unlikely friendship with an older activist (Woody Harrelson) whereas caring for her dying brother and navigating the pitfalls of highschool.

New on Prime Video

Upgraded

Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video

Genre: Romantic comedy
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Carlson Young
Cast: Camila Mendes, Archie Renaux, Lena Olin

I do know what you’re pondering and no, this isn’t the sequel to Leigh Whannell’s cyberpunk motion thriller starring Logan Marshall-Green. This is a romantic comedy starring Camila Mendes (Riverdale) and Archie Renaux (Shadow and Bone) as Ana and Will; two strangers who meet throughout a firstclass flight to London who strike up a romance after Will errors Ana for his new boss. I feel these wacky youngsters are gonna make it!

New on Paramount Plus

The Last Voyage of the Demeter

Where to watch: Available to stream on Paramount Plus w/ Showtime

Image: Universal Pictures

Genre: Period horror
Run time: 1h 58m
Director: André Øvredal
Cast: Corey Hawkins, Aisling Franciosi, David Dastmalchian

Dracula’s on a ship, and guess what? He’s PISSED. This supernatural horror thriller adapts a chapter from Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel and facilities on the unlucky crew of a transatlantic service provider ship who uncover an unearthly menace amongst their cargo. As time dwindles away, and with it their possibilities of survival, the crew should make a last-ditch effort to kill the creature earlier than they attain England.

From our evaluation,

The Last Voyage of the Demeter makes little or no of most of its potential property. It’s a movie with no imaginative and prescient, a puzzling adaptation that’s so easy, viewers may consider every beat comes from Stoker’s novel and not a screenplay imagining what occurred between the pages. Maybe the 20 years the movie spent in improvement, being rewritten and recast, are to blame; every colourful alternative appears to have been wrung out of the script. At every second, there’s potential for Demeter to change into one thing distinct and fascinating, however the screenplay and Øvredal’s route select in any other case, embracing easy competence over any fashion or aptitude. It’s dry historic fiction, Horatio Hornblower’s Dracula.

New to lease

American Fiction

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

Image: MGM/Amazon Studios

Genre: Comedy-drama
Run time: 1h 57m
Director: Cord Jefferson
Cast: Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, Sterling Ok. Brown

The Oscar-nominated debut from Cord Jefferson stars Jeffrey Wright (The Batman) as Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, a annoyed novelist dwelling in Los Angeles who writes a scathing satire of stereotypical “Black” books, just for it to be sky-rocketed to the distinguished heights of literary acclaim. Feels like a shoe-in for followers of such motion pictures as Putney Swope and Bamboozled.

The Book of Clarence

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

Image: Legendary Entertainment/Moris Puccio

Genre: Historical comedy
Run time: 2h 9m
Director: Jeymes Samuel
Cast: LaKeith Stanfield, Omar Sy, RJ Cyler, Anna Diop

Jeymes Samuel (The Harder They Fall) returns with a new movie, this time a biblical comedy drama starring LaKeith Stanfield. The Book of Clarence follows the story of a down-on-his-luck man dwelling in A.D. 33 Jerusalem who aspires to free himself from debt. His plan? Take a web page out of the e-book of a neighborhood preacher claiming to be the son of God and proclaim himself because the Messiah, performing “miracles” in a bid for fame and glory. When Clarence’s schemes run afoul of the Romans, he’ll be confronted with not solely the results of his deception, however a alternative that can form his life and the course of historical past.

The End We Start From

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

Image: Sunny/March Hera Pictures

Genre: Post-apocalyptic thriller
Run time: 1h 42m
Director: Mahalia Belo
Cast: Ramanique Ahluwalia, Elena Bielova, Shiona Brown

Jodie Comer (The Last Duel) stars on this new thriller as a girl trying to defend her toddler baby after London is submerged by flood waters. With nowhere else to flip, she could have to embark on a seek for a method to increase her baby and construct a new home.

Cobweb

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

Image: Anthology Studios/Samuel Goldwyn Films

Genre: Black comedy drama
Run time: 2h 15m
Director: Kim Jee-woon
Cast: Song Kang-ho, Im Soo-jung, Oh Jung-se

Song Kang-ho (Parasite) stars on this interval black comedy as Kim Ki-yeol, an obsessive director within the Seventies on the verge of finishing his newest movie, Cobweb. There’s only one downside: Kim’s immediately has a change of coronary heart and desires to fully reshoot the ending of his movie in two days. He’ll have to get his confused and uncooperative forged and crew to cooperate, in addition to escape the ire of Seoul’s censorship authorities.

I.S.S.

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

Image: LD Entertainment

Genre: Sci-fi thriller
Run time: 1h 35m
Director: Gabriela Cowperthwaite
Cast: Ariana DeBose, Chris Messina, John Gallagher Jr.

Imagine in the event you have been an astronaut aboard the International Space Station throughout an apocalyptic occasion the place the world is consumed in nuclear hellfire — what would you do? That’s what the characters on this bracing sci-fi thriller have to work out, as a crew of American and Russian astronauts should determine whether or not to cooperate within the face of extinction or give up to their nationalistic anxieties and resentment.