Happy Friday, Polygon readers! Each week, we spherical up the most notable releases to streaming and video rental, highlighting the greatest and finest new movies for you to watch at residence.
No Hard Feelings, the coming-of-age intercourse comedy starring Jennifer Lawrence, arrives on Netflix this week alongside Old Dads, the directorial debut of comic Bill Burr. The motion comedy-drama Polite Society comes to Prime together with the Chinese World War II thriller Hidden Blade starring Tony Leung, whereas the horor thriller Cobweb that includes Antony Starr (The Boys) lands on Hulu. There’s loads of new movies out there to lease as effectively this week, like Saw X; the newest installment in the long-running horror franchise starring Tobin Bell, and extra.
Here’s all the things new to watch this weekend!
New on Netflix
No Hard Feelings
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Photo: Macall Polay/Sony Pictures Entertainment
Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 43m
Director: Gene Stupnitsky
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Andrew Barth Feldman, Laura Benanti
Jennifer Lawrence stars on this raunchy and endearing comedy as Maddie, a younger girl struggling between her job as an Uber driver and a part-time bartender to repay the home she inherited from her late mom. After her automotive is towed, Maddie is introduced with the alternative of a lifetime: Seduce Percy (Andrew Barth Feldman), the college-bound son of a rich couple on their behalf, in trade for a model new set of wheels. Simple sufficient, proper? Yeah, that’s what Maddie thought too.
From our evaluate,
Like most humorous tales, No Hard Feelings looks like a nasty concept at first. It’s a film wherein Jennifer Lawrence, in her first lead function in a full-on comedy, spends roughly 103 minutes making an attempt to seduce a socially awkward 19-year-old for monetary achieve. It’s additionally wildly humorous, and an incredible reminder of how good J-Law is at lighting up a display.
Old Dads
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Photo: Michael Moriatis/Netflix
Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Bill Burr
Cast: Bill Burr, Bokeem Woodbine, Bobby Cannavale
Three outdated associates change into fathers later in life, solely to be confronted with the generational annoyances that include interacting with anybody born (or something created) after the Eighties. Old Dads is Bill Burr’s directorial function debut and shares a co-writing credit score with writer-producer Ben Tishler.
New on Hulu
Cobweb
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
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Image: Lionsgate
Genre: Horror thriller
Run time: 1h 28m
Director: Samuel Bodin
Cast: Lizzy Caplan, Woody Norman, Antony Starr
This horror-thriller from the creator of the scariest present on Netflix follows Peter (Woody Norman), a troubled younger boy who — after listening to mysterious knocking sounds coming from the partitions of his residence — makes an attempt to search assist in unearthing a horrible secret hidden from him by his dad and mom.
From our evaluate,
Bodin makes an attempt to invoke dread with lengthy photographs of the movie’s few distinctive set parts — the aforementioned pumpkin patch, or an outdated grandfather clock and icebox that every disguise a hidden passage — however he doesn’t do a lot to render these photos as one thing highly effective or sinister. It’s as if Cobweb is about in a haunted home the place nothing really occurred way back, even because it hides a woman’s voice in its partitions.
New on Prime Video
Polite Society
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Photo: Parisa Taghizadeh/Focus Features
Genre: Action comedy-drama
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Nida Manzoor
Cast: Priya Kansara, Ritu Arya
When a teenage lady on her path to being a stuntwoman learns that her sister is betrothed to a person, she suspects the man and his mom are up to no good. So she does the solely factor you possibly can in such a state of affairs: strive to sabotage the relationship and beat the shit out of the man in the course of.
Polite Society feels like an uproarious enjoyable time, and it’s one among the movies I’ve most appeared ahead to catching on streaming after a quick restricted U.S. run. After you see it, be certain that to learn this interview with the director about Polite Society’s assorted influences.
Hidden Blade
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25014708/hidden_blade_01.jpg?resize=1200%2C500&ssl=1)
Image: Well Go USA Entertainment
Genre: Period espionage thriller
Run time: 2h 8m
Director: Cheng Er
Cast: Tony Leung, Wang Yibo, Zhou Xun
This Chinese World War II thriller stars the unimaginable Tony Leung as the Director of Shanghai’s Political Security Department, who finds himself in the center of a time of nice upheaval. The Japanese occupation is in its dying embers, China’s Communist Party is on the rise, and Leung’s character finds himself caught in the center of all of it. It’s a tense, beautiful, sometimes opaque thriller with an incredible main efficiency by one among the best actors of his era.
Silver Dollar Road
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Raoul Peck
Cast: John C. Barnett, Classie Curley, Melvin Davis
I Am Not Your Negro director Raoul Peck turns his sight to story of the Reels household on this new documentary. Following the plight of the household’s battle to protect their declare to their waterfront property in North Carolina from predatorial builders, Silver Dollar Road attracts on archival footage and interviews with the household to inform their story.
Surrounded
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: MGM
Genre: Western
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Anthony Mandler
Cast: Letitia Wright, Jamie Bell, Michael Ok. Williams
Letitia Wright (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Small Axe) stars on this new Western as a freedwoman who impersonates a person in a plot to declare a gold mine. Her journey brings her face-to-face with the legendary outlaw Tommy Walsh (Jamie Bell), whom she holds captive after her stagecoach is ambushed by a gang of marauding thieves and killers. Surrounded additionally options the closing efficiency by the late Michael Ok. Williams, who accomplished filming prior to his dying in 2021.
New on Apple TV Plus
The Pigeon Tunnel
Where to watch: Available to stream on Apple TV
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Image: Apple TV Plus
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 32m
Director: Errol Morris
Cast: John le Carré
John le Carré is a private favourite creator for me. His spy novels are notable for his or her groundedness — as a former spy himself, he had loads to draw from — but additionally for his or her cynicism in direction of the heartlessness of that individual commerce. Esteemed documentarian Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line) turns his digicam in direction of the lifetime of the late, nice le Carré, one among the best and most essential authors of the twentieth century.
New on Peacock
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24793114/Ruby_Gillman_Teenage_Kraken_01.jpg?resize=1900%2C1000&ssl=1)
Image: Universal Pictures
Genre: Action-comedy
Run time: 1h 31m
Director: Kirk DeMicco
Cast: Lana Condor, Toni Collette, Annie Murphy
This animated comedy follows a clumsy excessive schooler who discovers that she’s descended from an extended line of warrior Kraken monsters. Destined to inherit her grandmother’s throne and defend the seas from tyrannical mermaids, Ruby should grasp her newfound powers and select her personal path as she prepares to embrace her future.
New to lease
Saw X
Where to watch: Available to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: Lionsgate
Genre: Horror
Run time: 1h 58m
Director: Kevin Greutert
Cast: Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Synnøve Macody Lund
Tobin Bell reprises his function as the machiavellian Jigsaw killer in the tenth installment of the lengthy working Saw horror franchise. A prequel set between the occasions of the authentic movie and 2005’s Saw II, Saw X follows John Kramer as he travels to Mexico to endure an experimental remedy so as to treatment his most cancers. When he realizes that the whole program is a complete rip-off, John enlists the assist of his apprentice Amanda Young (Shawnee Smith) to orchestrate a collection of elaborate “games” so as to actual his personal twisted model of justice.
Lynch/Oz
Where to watch: Available to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 48m
Director: Alexandre O. Philippe
Cast: Amy Nicholson, Rodney Ascher, John Waters
This documentary takes a magnifying glass to the profession of David Lynch, one among the most original and experimental storytellers of his era, and how his life-long love for the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz has impressed his work. Split into six chapters, the movie options narration by a number of notable administrators, together with Karyn Kusama, Rodney Ascher, and David Lowery.
Happy Friday, Polygon readers! Each week, we spherical up the most notable releases to streaming and video rental, highlighting the greatest and finest new movies for you to watch at residence.
No Hard Feelings, the coming-of-age intercourse comedy starring Jennifer Lawrence, arrives on Netflix this week alongside Old Dads, the directorial debut of comic Bill Burr. The motion comedy-drama Polite Society comes to Prime together with the Chinese World War II thriller Hidden Blade starring Tony Leung, whereas the horor thriller Cobweb that includes Antony Starr (The Boys) lands on Hulu. There’s loads of new movies out there to lease as effectively this week, like Saw X; the newest installment in the long-running horror franchise starring Tobin Bell, and extra.
Here’s all the things new to watch this weekend!
New on Netflix
No Hard Feelings
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24746367/No_Hard_Feelings_Jennifer_Lawrence.jpg?resize=8640%2C5760&ssl=1)
Photo: Macall Polay/Sony Pictures Entertainment
Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 43m
Director: Gene Stupnitsky
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Andrew Barth Feldman, Laura Benanti
Jennifer Lawrence stars on this raunchy and endearing comedy as Maddie, a younger girl struggling between her job as an Uber driver and a part-time bartender to repay the home she inherited from her late mom. After her automotive is towed, Maddie is introduced with the alternative of a lifetime: Seduce Percy (Andrew Barth Feldman), the college-bound son of a rich couple on their behalf, in trade for a model new set of wheels. Simple sufficient, proper? Yeah, that’s what Maddie thought too.
From our evaluate,
Like most humorous tales, No Hard Feelings looks like a nasty concept at first. It’s a film wherein Jennifer Lawrence, in her first lead function in a full-on comedy, spends roughly 103 minutes making an attempt to seduce a socially awkward 19-year-old for monetary achieve. It’s additionally wildly humorous, and an incredible reminder of how good J-Law is at lighting up a display.
Old Dads
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25014696/OD_11377_R.jpg?resize=6000%2C4000&ssl=1)
Photo: Michael Moriatis/Netflix
Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Bill Burr
Cast: Bill Burr, Bokeem Woodbine, Bobby Cannavale
Three outdated associates change into fathers later in life, solely to be confronted with the generational annoyances that include interacting with anybody born (or something created) after the Eighties. Old Dads is Bill Burr’s directorial function debut and shares a co-writing credit score with writer-producer Ben Tishler.
New on Hulu
Cobweb
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24840299/COBWEB_Still1.jpg?resize=6048%2C4024&ssl=1)
Image: Lionsgate
Genre: Horror thriller
Run time: 1h 28m
Director: Samuel Bodin
Cast: Lizzy Caplan, Woody Norman, Antony Starr
This horror-thriller from the creator of the scariest present on Netflix follows Peter (Woody Norman), a troubled younger boy who — after listening to mysterious knocking sounds coming from the partitions of his residence — makes an attempt to search assist in unearthing a horrible secret hidden from him by his dad and mom.
From our evaluate,
Bodin makes an attempt to invoke dread with lengthy photographs of the movie’s few distinctive set parts — the aforementioned pumpkin patch, or an outdated grandfather clock and icebox that every disguise a hidden passage — however he doesn’t do a lot to render these photos as one thing highly effective or sinister. It’s as if Cobweb is about in a haunted home the place nothing really occurred way back, even because it hides a woman’s voice in its partitions.
New on Prime Video
Polite Society
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24612777/polite_society_4167_D025_00028_R_rgb.jpg?resize=4500%2C3000&ssl=1)
Photo: Parisa Taghizadeh/Focus Features
Genre: Action comedy-drama
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Nida Manzoor
Cast: Priya Kansara, Ritu Arya
When a teenage lady on her path to being a stuntwoman learns that her sister is betrothed to a person, she suspects the man and his mom are up to no good. So she does the solely factor you possibly can in such a state of affairs: strive to sabotage the relationship and beat the shit out of the man in the course of.
Polite Society feels like an uproarious enjoyable time, and it’s one among the movies I’ve most appeared ahead to catching on streaming after a quick restricted U.S. run. After you see it, be certain that to learn this interview with the director about Polite Society’s assorted influences.
Hidden Blade
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25014708/hidden_blade_01.jpg?resize=1200%2C500&ssl=1)
Image: Well Go USA Entertainment
Genre: Period espionage thriller
Run time: 2h 8m
Director: Cheng Er
Cast: Tony Leung, Wang Yibo, Zhou Xun
This Chinese World War II thriller stars the unimaginable Tony Leung as the Director of Shanghai’s Political Security Department, who finds himself in the center of a time of nice upheaval. The Japanese occupation is in its dying embers, China’s Communist Party is on the rise, and Leung’s character finds himself caught in the center of all of it. It’s a tense, beautiful, sometimes opaque thriller with an incredible main efficiency by one among the best actors of his era.
Silver Dollar Road
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Raoul Peck
Cast: John C. Barnett, Classie Curley, Melvin Davis
I Am Not Your Negro director Raoul Peck turns his sight to story of the Reels household on this new documentary. Following the plight of the household’s battle to protect their declare to their waterfront property in North Carolina from predatorial builders, Silver Dollar Road attracts on archival footage and interviews with the household to inform their story.
Surrounded
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24745083/surrounded_interview_header.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&ssl=1)
Image: MGM
Genre: Western
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Anthony Mandler
Cast: Letitia Wright, Jamie Bell, Michael Ok. Williams
Letitia Wright (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Small Axe) stars on this new Western as a freedwoman who impersonates a person in a plot to declare a gold mine. Her journey brings her face-to-face with the legendary outlaw Tommy Walsh (Jamie Bell), whom she holds captive after her stagecoach is ambushed by a gang of marauding thieves and killers. Surrounded additionally options the closing efficiency by the late Michael Ok. Williams, who accomplished filming prior to his dying in 2021.
New on Apple TV Plus
The Pigeon Tunnel
Where to watch: Available to stream on Apple TV
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Image: Apple TV Plus
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 32m
Director: Errol Morris
Cast: John le Carré
John le Carré is a private favourite creator for me. His spy novels are notable for his or her groundedness — as a former spy himself, he had loads to draw from — but additionally for his or her cynicism in direction of the heartlessness of that individual commerce. Esteemed documentarian Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line) turns his digicam in direction of the lifetime of the late, nice le Carré, one among the best and most essential authors of the twentieth century.
New on Peacock
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24793114/Ruby_Gillman_Teenage_Kraken_01.jpg?resize=1900%2C1000&ssl=1)
Image: Universal Pictures
Genre: Action-comedy
Run time: 1h 31m
Director: Kirk DeMicco
Cast: Lana Condor, Toni Collette, Annie Murphy
This animated comedy follows a clumsy excessive schooler who discovers that she’s descended from an extended line of warrior Kraken monsters. Destined to inherit her grandmother’s throne and defend the seas from tyrannical mermaids, Ruby should grasp her newfound powers and select her personal path as she prepares to embrace her future.
New to lease
Saw X
Where to watch: Available to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25009026/Saw_X_01.jpg?resize=3600%2C1946&ssl=1)
Image: Lionsgate
Genre: Horror
Run time: 1h 58m
Director: Kevin Greutert
Cast: Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Synnøve Macody Lund
Tobin Bell reprises his function as the machiavellian Jigsaw killer in the tenth installment of the lengthy working Saw horror franchise. A prequel set between the occasions of the authentic movie and 2005’s Saw II, Saw X follows John Kramer as he travels to Mexico to endure an experimental remedy so as to treatment his most cancers. When he realizes that the whole program is a complete rip-off, John enlists the assist of his apprentice Amanda Young (Shawnee Smith) to orchestrate a collection of elaborate “games” so as to actual his personal twisted model of justice.
Lynch/Oz
Where to watch: Available to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 48m
Director: Alexandre O. Philippe
Cast: Amy Nicholson, Rodney Ascher, John Waters
This documentary takes a magnifying glass to the profession of David Lynch, one among the most original and experimental storytellers of his era, and how his life-long love for the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz has impressed his work. Split into six chapters, the movie options narration by a number of notable administrators, together with Karyn Kusama, Rodney Ascher, and David Lowery.
Happy Friday, Polygon readers! Each week, we spherical up the most notable releases to streaming and video rental, highlighting the greatest and finest new movies for you to watch at residence.
No Hard Feelings, the coming-of-age intercourse comedy starring Jennifer Lawrence, arrives on Netflix this week alongside Old Dads, the directorial debut of comic Bill Burr. The motion comedy-drama Polite Society comes to Prime together with the Chinese World War II thriller Hidden Blade starring Tony Leung, whereas the horor thriller Cobweb that includes Antony Starr (The Boys) lands on Hulu. There’s loads of new movies out there to lease as effectively this week, like Saw X; the newest installment in the long-running horror franchise starring Tobin Bell, and extra.
Here’s all the things new to watch this weekend!
New on Netflix
No Hard Feelings
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24746367/No_Hard_Feelings_Jennifer_Lawrence.jpg?resize=8640%2C5760&ssl=1)
Photo: Macall Polay/Sony Pictures Entertainment
Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 43m
Director: Gene Stupnitsky
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Andrew Barth Feldman, Laura Benanti
Jennifer Lawrence stars on this raunchy and endearing comedy as Maddie, a younger girl struggling between her job as an Uber driver and a part-time bartender to repay the home she inherited from her late mom. After her automotive is towed, Maddie is introduced with the alternative of a lifetime: Seduce Percy (Andrew Barth Feldman), the college-bound son of a rich couple on their behalf, in trade for a model new set of wheels. Simple sufficient, proper? Yeah, that’s what Maddie thought too.
From our evaluate,
Like most humorous tales, No Hard Feelings looks like a nasty concept at first. It’s a film wherein Jennifer Lawrence, in her first lead function in a full-on comedy, spends roughly 103 minutes making an attempt to seduce a socially awkward 19-year-old for monetary achieve. It’s additionally wildly humorous, and an incredible reminder of how good J-Law is at lighting up a display.
Old Dads
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25014696/OD_11377_R.jpg?resize=6000%2C4000&ssl=1)
Photo: Michael Moriatis/Netflix
Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Bill Burr
Cast: Bill Burr, Bokeem Woodbine, Bobby Cannavale
Three outdated associates change into fathers later in life, solely to be confronted with the generational annoyances that include interacting with anybody born (or something created) after the Eighties. Old Dads is Bill Burr’s directorial function debut and shares a co-writing credit score with writer-producer Ben Tishler.
New on Hulu
Cobweb
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24840299/COBWEB_Still1.jpg?resize=6048%2C4024&ssl=1)
Image: Lionsgate
Genre: Horror thriller
Run time: 1h 28m
Director: Samuel Bodin
Cast: Lizzy Caplan, Woody Norman, Antony Starr
This horror-thriller from the creator of the scariest present on Netflix follows Peter (Woody Norman), a troubled younger boy who — after listening to mysterious knocking sounds coming from the partitions of his residence — makes an attempt to search assist in unearthing a horrible secret hidden from him by his dad and mom.
From our evaluate,
Bodin makes an attempt to invoke dread with lengthy photographs of the movie’s few distinctive set parts — the aforementioned pumpkin patch, or an outdated grandfather clock and icebox that every disguise a hidden passage — however he doesn’t do a lot to render these photos as one thing highly effective or sinister. It’s as if Cobweb is about in a haunted home the place nothing really occurred way back, even because it hides a woman’s voice in its partitions.
New on Prime Video
Polite Society
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24612777/polite_society_4167_D025_00028_R_rgb.jpg?resize=4500%2C3000&ssl=1)
Photo: Parisa Taghizadeh/Focus Features
Genre: Action comedy-drama
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Nida Manzoor
Cast: Priya Kansara, Ritu Arya
When a teenage lady on her path to being a stuntwoman learns that her sister is betrothed to a person, she suspects the man and his mom are up to no good. So she does the solely factor you possibly can in such a state of affairs: strive to sabotage the relationship and beat the shit out of the man in the course of.
Polite Society feels like an uproarious enjoyable time, and it’s one among the movies I’ve most appeared ahead to catching on streaming after a quick restricted U.S. run. After you see it, be certain that to learn this interview with the director about Polite Society’s assorted influences.
Hidden Blade
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25014708/hidden_blade_01.jpg?resize=1200%2C500&ssl=1)
Image: Well Go USA Entertainment
Genre: Period espionage thriller
Run time: 2h 8m
Director: Cheng Er
Cast: Tony Leung, Wang Yibo, Zhou Xun
This Chinese World War II thriller stars the unimaginable Tony Leung as the Director of Shanghai’s Political Security Department, who finds himself in the center of a time of nice upheaval. The Japanese occupation is in its dying embers, China’s Communist Party is on the rise, and Leung’s character finds himself caught in the center of all of it. It’s a tense, beautiful, sometimes opaque thriller with an incredible main efficiency by one among the best actors of his era.
Silver Dollar Road
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Raoul Peck
Cast: John C. Barnett, Classie Curley, Melvin Davis
I Am Not Your Negro director Raoul Peck turns his sight to story of the Reels household on this new documentary. Following the plight of the household’s battle to protect their declare to their waterfront property in North Carolina from predatorial builders, Silver Dollar Road attracts on archival footage and interviews with the household to inform their story.
Surrounded
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24745083/surrounded_interview_header.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&ssl=1)
Image: MGM
Genre: Western
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Anthony Mandler
Cast: Letitia Wright, Jamie Bell, Michael Ok. Williams
Letitia Wright (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Small Axe) stars on this new Western as a freedwoman who impersonates a person in a plot to declare a gold mine. Her journey brings her face-to-face with the legendary outlaw Tommy Walsh (Jamie Bell), whom she holds captive after her stagecoach is ambushed by a gang of marauding thieves and killers. Surrounded additionally options the closing efficiency by the late Michael Ok. Williams, who accomplished filming prior to his dying in 2021.
New on Apple TV Plus
The Pigeon Tunnel
Where to watch: Available to stream on Apple TV
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25014704/8216.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&ssl=1)
Image: Apple TV Plus
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 32m
Director: Errol Morris
Cast: John le Carré
John le Carré is a private favourite creator for me. His spy novels are notable for his or her groundedness — as a former spy himself, he had loads to draw from — but additionally for his or her cynicism in direction of the heartlessness of that individual commerce. Esteemed documentarian Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line) turns his digicam in direction of the lifetime of the late, nice le Carré, one among the best and most essential authors of the twentieth century.
New on Peacock
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24793114/Ruby_Gillman_Teenage_Kraken_01.jpg?resize=1900%2C1000&ssl=1)
Image: Universal Pictures
Genre: Action-comedy
Run time: 1h 31m
Director: Kirk DeMicco
Cast: Lana Condor, Toni Collette, Annie Murphy
This animated comedy follows a clumsy excessive schooler who discovers that she’s descended from an extended line of warrior Kraken monsters. Destined to inherit her grandmother’s throne and defend the seas from tyrannical mermaids, Ruby should grasp her newfound powers and select her personal path as she prepares to embrace her future.
New to lease
Saw X
Where to watch: Available to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25009026/Saw_X_01.jpg?resize=3600%2C1946&ssl=1)
Image: Lionsgate
Genre: Horror
Run time: 1h 58m
Director: Kevin Greutert
Cast: Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Synnøve Macody Lund
Tobin Bell reprises his function as the machiavellian Jigsaw killer in the tenth installment of the lengthy working Saw horror franchise. A prequel set between the occasions of the authentic movie and 2005’s Saw II, Saw X follows John Kramer as he travels to Mexico to endure an experimental remedy so as to treatment his most cancers. When he realizes that the whole program is a complete rip-off, John enlists the assist of his apprentice Amanda Young (Shawnee Smith) to orchestrate a collection of elaborate “games” so as to actual his personal twisted model of justice.
Lynch/Oz
Where to watch: Available to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 48m
Director: Alexandre O. Philippe
Cast: Amy Nicholson, Rodney Ascher, John Waters
This documentary takes a magnifying glass to the profession of David Lynch, one among the most original and experimental storytellers of his era, and how his life-long love for the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz has impressed his work. Split into six chapters, the movie options narration by a number of notable administrators, together with Karyn Kusama, Rodney Ascher, and David Lowery.
Happy Friday, Polygon readers! Each week, we spherical up the most notable releases to streaming and video rental, highlighting the greatest and finest new movies for you to watch at residence.
No Hard Feelings, the coming-of-age intercourse comedy starring Jennifer Lawrence, arrives on Netflix this week alongside Old Dads, the directorial debut of comic Bill Burr. The motion comedy-drama Polite Society comes to Prime together with the Chinese World War II thriller Hidden Blade starring Tony Leung, whereas the horor thriller Cobweb that includes Antony Starr (The Boys) lands on Hulu. There’s loads of new movies out there to lease as effectively this week, like Saw X; the newest installment in the long-running horror franchise starring Tobin Bell, and extra.
Here’s all the things new to watch this weekend!
New on Netflix
No Hard Feelings
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Photo: Macall Polay/Sony Pictures Entertainment
Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 43m
Director: Gene Stupnitsky
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Andrew Barth Feldman, Laura Benanti
Jennifer Lawrence stars on this raunchy and endearing comedy as Maddie, a younger girl struggling between her job as an Uber driver and a part-time bartender to repay the home she inherited from her late mom. After her automotive is towed, Maddie is introduced with the alternative of a lifetime: Seduce Percy (Andrew Barth Feldman), the college-bound son of a rich couple on their behalf, in trade for a model new set of wheels. Simple sufficient, proper? Yeah, that’s what Maddie thought too.
From our evaluate,
Like most humorous tales, No Hard Feelings looks like a nasty concept at first. It’s a film wherein Jennifer Lawrence, in her first lead function in a full-on comedy, spends roughly 103 minutes making an attempt to seduce a socially awkward 19-year-old for monetary achieve. It’s additionally wildly humorous, and an incredible reminder of how good J-Law is at lighting up a display.
Old Dads
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25014696/OD_11377_R.jpg?resize=6000%2C4000&ssl=1)
Photo: Michael Moriatis/Netflix
Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Bill Burr
Cast: Bill Burr, Bokeem Woodbine, Bobby Cannavale
Three outdated associates change into fathers later in life, solely to be confronted with the generational annoyances that include interacting with anybody born (or something created) after the Eighties. Old Dads is Bill Burr’s directorial function debut and shares a co-writing credit score with writer-producer Ben Tishler.
New on Hulu
Cobweb
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24840299/COBWEB_Still1.jpg?resize=6048%2C4024&ssl=1)
Image: Lionsgate
Genre: Horror thriller
Run time: 1h 28m
Director: Samuel Bodin
Cast: Lizzy Caplan, Woody Norman, Antony Starr
This horror-thriller from the creator of the scariest present on Netflix follows Peter (Woody Norman), a troubled younger boy who — after listening to mysterious knocking sounds coming from the partitions of his residence — makes an attempt to search assist in unearthing a horrible secret hidden from him by his dad and mom.
From our evaluate,
Bodin makes an attempt to invoke dread with lengthy photographs of the movie’s few distinctive set parts — the aforementioned pumpkin patch, or an outdated grandfather clock and icebox that every disguise a hidden passage — however he doesn’t do a lot to render these photos as one thing highly effective or sinister. It’s as if Cobweb is about in a haunted home the place nothing really occurred way back, even because it hides a woman’s voice in its partitions.
New on Prime Video
Polite Society
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24612777/polite_society_4167_D025_00028_R_rgb.jpg?resize=4500%2C3000&ssl=1)
Photo: Parisa Taghizadeh/Focus Features
Genre: Action comedy-drama
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Nida Manzoor
Cast: Priya Kansara, Ritu Arya
When a teenage lady on her path to being a stuntwoman learns that her sister is betrothed to a person, she suspects the man and his mom are up to no good. So she does the solely factor you possibly can in such a state of affairs: strive to sabotage the relationship and beat the shit out of the man in the course of.
Polite Society feels like an uproarious enjoyable time, and it’s one among the movies I’ve most appeared ahead to catching on streaming after a quick restricted U.S. run. After you see it, be certain that to learn this interview with the director about Polite Society’s assorted influences.
Hidden Blade
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25014708/hidden_blade_01.jpg?resize=1200%2C500&ssl=1)
Image: Well Go USA Entertainment
Genre: Period espionage thriller
Run time: 2h 8m
Director: Cheng Er
Cast: Tony Leung, Wang Yibo, Zhou Xun
This Chinese World War II thriller stars the unimaginable Tony Leung as the Director of Shanghai’s Political Security Department, who finds himself in the center of a time of nice upheaval. The Japanese occupation is in its dying embers, China’s Communist Party is on the rise, and Leung’s character finds himself caught in the center of all of it. It’s a tense, beautiful, sometimes opaque thriller with an incredible main efficiency by one among the best actors of his era.
Silver Dollar Road
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Raoul Peck
Cast: John C. Barnett, Classie Curley, Melvin Davis
I Am Not Your Negro director Raoul Peck turns his sight to story of the Reels household on this new documentary. Following the plight of the household’s battle to protect their declare to their waterfront property in North Carolina from predatorial builders, Silver Dollar Road attracts on archival footage and interviews with the household to inform their story.
Surrounded
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24745083/surrounded_interview_header.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&ssl=1)
Image: MGM
Genre: Western
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Anthony Mandler
Cast: Letitia Wright, Jamie Bell, Michael Ok. Williams
Letitia Wright (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Small Axe) stars on this new Western as a freedwoman who impersonates a person in a plot to declare a gold mine. Her journey brings her face-to-face with the legendary outlaw Tommy Walsh (Jamie Bell), whom she holds captive after her stagecoach is ambushed by a gang of marauding thieves and killers. Surrounded additionally options the closing efficiency by the late Michael Ok. Williams, who accomplished filming prior to his dying in 2021.
New on Apple TV Plus
The Pigeon Tunnel
Where to watch: Available to stream on Apple TV
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Image: Apple TV Plus
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 32m
Director: Errol Morris
Cast: John le Carré
John le Carré is a private favourite creator for me. His spy novels are notable for his or her groundedness — as a former spy himself, he had loads to draw from — but additionally for his or her cynicism in direction of the heartlessness of that individual commerce. Esteemed documentarian Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line) turns his digicam in direction of the lifetime of the late, nice le Carré, one among the best and most essential authors of the twentieth century.
New on Peacock
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24793114/Ruby_Gillman_Teenage_Kraken_01.jpg?resize=1900%2C1000&ssl=1)
Image: Universal Pictures
Genre: Action-comedy
Run time: 1h 31m
Director: Kirk DeMicco
Cast: Lana Condor, Toni Collette, Annie Murphy
This animated comedy follows a clumsy excessive schooler who discovers that she’s descended from an extended line of warrior Kraken monsters. Destined to inherit her grandmother’s throne and defend the seas from tyrannical mermaids, Ruby should grasp her newfound powers and select her personal path as she prepares to embrace her future.
New to lease
Saw X
Where to watch: Available to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25009026/Saw_X_01.jpg?resize=3600%2C1946&ssl=1)
Image: Lionsgate
Genre: Horror
Run time: 1h 58m
Director: Kevin Greutert
Cast: Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Synnøve Macody Lund
Tobin Bell reprises his function as the machiavellian Jigsaw killer in the tenth installment of the lengthy working Saw horror franchise. A prequel set between the occasions of the authentic movie and 2005’s Saw II, Saw X follows John Kramer as he travels to Mexico to endure an experimental remedy so as to treatment his most cancers. When he realizes that the whole program is a complete rip-off, John enlists the assist of his apprentice Amanda Young (Shawnee Smith) to orchestrate a collection of elaborate “games” so as to actual his personal twisted model of justice.
Lynch/Oz
Where to watch: Available to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 48m
Director: Alexandre O. Philippe
Cast: Amy Nicholson, Rodney Ascher, John Waters
This documentary takes a magnifying glass to the profession of David Lynch, one among the most original and experimental storytellers of his era, and how his life-long love for the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz has impressed his work. Split into six chapters, the movie options narration by a number of notable administrators, together with Karyn Kusama, Rodney Ascher, and David Lowery.
Happy Friday, Polygon readers! Each week, we spherical up the most notable releases to streaming and video rental, highlighting the greatest and finest new movies for you to watch at residence.
No Hard Feelings, the coming-of-age intercourse comedy starring Jennifer Lawrence, arrives on Netflix this week alongside Old Dads, the directorial debut of comic Bill Burr. The motion comedy-drama Polite Society comes to Prime together with the Chinese World War II thriller Hidden Blade starring Tony Leung, whereas the horor thriller Cobweb that includes Antony Starr (The Boys) lands on Hulu. There’s loads of new movies out there to lease as effectively this week, like Saw X; the newest installment in the long-running horror franchise starring Tobin Bell, and extra.
Here’s all the things new to watch this weekend!
New on Netflix
No Hard Feelings
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24746367/No_Hard_Feelings_Jennifer_Lawrence.jpg?resize=8640%2C5760&ssl=1)
Photo: Macall Polay/Sony Pictures Entertainment
Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 43m
Director: Gene Stupnitsky
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Andrew Barth Feldman, Laura Benanti
Jennifer Lawrence stars on this raunchy and endearing comedy as Maddie, a younger girl struggling between her job as an Uber driver and a part-time bartender to repay the home she inherited from her late mom. After her automotive is towed, Maddie is introduced with the alternative of a lifetime: Seduce Percy (Andrew Barth Feldman), the college-bound son of a rich couple on their behalf, in trade for a model new set of wheels. Simple sufficient, proper? Yeah, that’s what Maddie thought too.
From our evaluate,
Like most humorous tales, No Hard Feelings looks like a nasty concept at first. It’s a film wherein Jennifer Lawrence, in her first lead function in a full-on comedy, spends roughly 103 minutes making an attempt to seduce a socially awkward 19-year-old for monetary achieve. It’s additionally wildly humorous, and an incredible reminder of how good J-Law is at lighting up a display.
Old Dads
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25014696/OD_11377_R.jpg?resize=6000%2C4000&ssl=1)
Photo: Michael Moriatis/Netflix
Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Bill Burr
Cast: Bill Burr, Bokeem Woodbine, Bobby Cannavale
Three outdated associates change into fathers later in life, solely to be confronted with the generational annoyances that include interacting with anybody born (or something created) after the Eighties. Old Dads is Bill Burr’s directorial function debut and shares a co-writing credit score with writer-producer Ben Tishler.
New on Hulu
Cobweb
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24840299/COBWEB_Still1.jpg?resize=6048%2C4024&ssl=1)
Image: Lionsgate
Genre: Horror thriller
Run time: 1h 28m
Director: Samuel Bodin
Cast: Lizzy Caplan, Woody Norman, Antony Starr
This horror-thriller from the creator of the scariest present on Netflix follows Peter (Woody Norman), a troubled younger boy who — after listening to mysterious knocking sounds coming from the partitions of his residence — makes an attempt to search assist in unearthing a horrible secret hidden from him by his dad and mom.
From our evaluate,
Bodin makes an attempt to invoke dread with lengthy photographs of the movie’s few distinctive set parts — the aforementioned pumpkin patch, or an outdated grandfather clock and icebox that every disguise a hidden passage — however he doesn’t do a lot to render these photos as one thing highly effective or sinister. It’s as if Cobweb is about in a haunted home the place nothing really occurred way back, even because it hides a woman’s voice in its partitions.
New on Prime Video
Polite Society
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24612777/polite_society_4167_D025_00028_R_rgb.jpg?resize=4500%2C3000&ssl=1)
Photo: Parisa Taghizadeh/Focus Features
Genre: Action comedy-drama
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Nida Manzoor
Cast: Priya Kansara, Ritu Arya
When a teenage lady on her path to being a stuntwoman learns that her sister is betrothed to a person, she suspects the man and his mom are up to no good. So she does the solely factor you possibly can in such a state of affairs: strive to sabotage the relationship and beat the shit out of the man in the course of.
Polite Society feels like an uproarious enjoyable time, and it’s one among the movies I’ve most appeared ahead to catching on streaming after a quick restricted U.S. run. After you see it, be certain that to learn this interview with the director about Polite Society’s assorted influences.
Hidden Blade
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25014708/hidden_blade_01.jpg?resize=1200%2C500&ssl=1)
Image: Well Go USA Entertainment
Genre: Period espionage thriller
Run time: 2h 8m
Director: Cheng Er
Cast: Tony Leung, Wang Yibo, Zhou Xun
This Chinese World War II thriller stars the unimaginable Tony Leung as the Director of Shanghai’s Political Security Department, who finds himself in the center of a time of nice upheaval. The Japanese occupation is in its dying embers, China’s Communist Party is on the rise, and Leung’s character finds himself caught in the center of all of it. It’s a tense, beautiful, sometimes opaque thriller with an incredible main efficiency by one among the best actors of his era.
Silver Dollar Road
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Raoul Peck
Cast: John C. Barnett, Classie Curley, Melvin Davis
I Am Not Your Negro director Raoul Peck turns his sight to story of the Reels household on this new documentary. Following the plight of the household’s battle to protect their declare to their waterfront property in North Carolina from predatorial builders, Silver Dollar Road attracts on archival footage and interviews with the household to inform their story.
Surrounded
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24745083/surrounded_interview_header.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&ssl=1)
Image: MGM
Genre: Western
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Anthony Mandler
Cast: Letitia Wright, Jamie Bell, Michael Ok. Williams
Letitia Wright (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Small Axe) stars on this new Western as a freedwoman who impersonates a person in a plot to declare a gold mine. Her journey brings her face-to-face with the legendary outlaw Tommy Walsh (Jamie Bell), whom she holds captive after her stagecoach is ambushed by a gang of marauding thieves and killers. Surrounded additionally options the closing efficiency by the late Michael Ok. Williams, who accomplished filming prior to his dying in 2021.
New on Apple TV Plus
The Pigeon Tunnel
Where to watch: Available to stream on Apple TV
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25014704/8216.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&ssl=1)
Image: Apple TV Plus
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 32m
Director: Errol Morris
Cast: John le Carré
John le Carré is a private favourite creator for me. His spy novels are notable for his or her groundedness — as a former spy himself, he had loads to draw from — but additionally for his or her cynicism in direction of the heartlessness of that individual commerce. Esteemed documentarian Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line) turns his digicam in direction of the lifetime of the late, nice le Carré, one among the best and most essential authors of the twentieth century.
New on Peacock
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24793114/Ruby_Gillman_Teenage_Kraken_01.jpg?resize=1900%2C1000&ssl=1)
Image: Universal Pictures
Genre: Action-comedy
Run time: 1h 31m
Director: Kirk DeMicco
Cast: Lana Condor, Toni Collette, Annie Murphy
This animated comedy follows a clumsy excessive schooler who discovers that she’s descended from an extended line of warrior Kraken monsters. Destined to inherit her grandmother’s throne and defend the seas from tyrannical mermaids, Ruby should grasp her newfound powers and select her personal path as she prepares to embrace her future.
New to lease
Saw X
Where to watch: Available to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25009026/Saw_X_01.jpg?resize=3600%2C1946&ssl=1)
Image: Lionsgate
Genre: Horror
Run time: 1h 58m
Director: Kevin Greutert
Cast: Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Synnøve Macody Lund
Tobin Bell reprises his function as the machiavellian Jigsaw killer in the tenth installment of the lengthy working Saw horror franchise. A prequel set between the occasions of the authentic movie and 2005’s Saw II, Saw X follows John Kramer as he travels to Mexico to endure an experimental remedy so as to treatment his most cancers. When he realizes that the whole program is a complete rip-off, John enlists the assist of his apprentice Amanda Young (Shawnee Smith) to orchestrate a collection of elaborate “games” so as to actual his personal twisted model of justice.
Lynch/Oz
Where to watch: Available to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 48m
Director: Alexandre O. Philippe
Cast: Amy Nicholson, Rodney Ascher, John Waters
This documentary takes a magnifying glass to the profession of David Lynch, one among the most original and experimental storytellers of his era, and how his life-long love for the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz has impressed his work. Split into six chapters, the movie options narration by a number of notable administrators, together with Karyn Kusama, Rodney Ascher, and David Lowery.
Happy Friday, Polygon readers! Each week, we spherical up the most notable releases to streaming and video rental, highlighting the greatest and finest new movies for you to watch at residence.
No Hard Feelings, the coming-of-age intercourse comedy starring Jennifer Lawrence, arrives on Netflix this week alongside Old Dads, the directorial debut of comic Bill Burr. The motion comedy-drama Polite Society comes to Prime together with the Chinese World War II thriller Hidden Blade starring Tony Leung, whereas the horor thriller Cobweb that includes Antony Starr (The Boys) lands on Hulu. There’s loads of new movies out there to lease as effectively this week, like Saw X; the newest installment in the long-running horror franchise starring Tobin Bell, and extra.
Here’s all the things new to watch this weekend!
New on Netflix
No Hard Feelings
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24746367/No_Hard_Feelings_Jennifer_Lawrence.jpg?resize=8640%2C5760&ssl=1)
Photo: Macall Polay/Sony Pictures Entertainment
Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 43m
Director: Gene Stupnitsky
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Andrew Barth Feldman, Laura Benanti
Jennifer Lawrence stars on this raunchy and endearing comedy as Maddie, a younger girl struggling between her job as an Uber driver and a part-time bartender to repay the home she inherited from her late mom. After her automotive is towed, Maddie is introduced with the alternative of a lifetime: Seduce Percy (Andrew Barth Feldman), the college-bound son of a rich couple on their behalf, in trade for a model new set of wheels. Simple sufficient, proper? Yeah, that’s what Maddie thought too.
From our evaluate,
Like most humorous tales, No Hard Feelings looks like a nasty concept at first. It’s a film wherein Jennifer Lawrence, in her first lead function in a full-on comedy, spends roughly 103 minutes making an attempt to seduce a socially awkward 19-year-old for monetary achieve. It’s additionally wildly humorous, and an incredible reminder of how good J-Law is at lighting up a display.
Old Dads
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25014696/OD_11377_R.jpg?resize=6000%2C4000&ssl=1)
Photo: Michael Moriatis/Netflix
Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Bill Burr
Cast: Bill Burr, Bokeem Woodbine, Bobby Cannavale
Three outdated associates change into fathers later in life, solely to be confronted with the generational annoyances that include interacting with anybody born (or something created) after the Eighties. Old Dads is Bill Burr’s directorial function debut and shares a co-writing credit score with writer-producer Ben Tishler.
New on Hulu
Cobweb
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24840299/COBWEB_Still1.jpg?resize=6048%2C4024&ssl=1)
Image: Lionsgate
Genre: Horror thriller
Run time: 1h 28m
Director: Samuel Bodin
Cast: Lizzy Caplan, Woody Norman, Antony Starr
This horror-thriller from the creator of the scariest present on Netflix follows Peter (Woody Norman), a troubled younger boy who — after listening to mysterious knocking sounds coming from the partitions of his residence — makes an attempt to search assist in unearthing a horrible secret hidden from him by his dad and mom.
From our evaluate,
Bodin makes an attempt to invoke dread with lengthy photographs of the movie’s few distinctive set parts — the aforementioned pumpkin patch, or an outdated grandfather clock and icebox that every disguise a hidden passage — however he doesn’t do a lot to render these photos as one thing highly effective or sinister. It’s as if Cobweb is about in a haunted home the place nothing really occurred way back, even because it hides a woman’s voice in its partitions.
New on Prime Video
Polite Society
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24612777/polite_society_4167_D025_00028_R_rgb.jpg?resize=4500%2C3000&ssl=1)
Photo: Parisa Taghizadeh/Focus Features
Genre: Action comedy-drama
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Nida Manzoor
Cast: Priya Kansara, Ritu Arya
When a teenage lady on her path to being a stuntwoman learns that her sister is betrothed to a person, she suspects the man and his mom are up to no good. So she does the solely factor you possibly can in such a state of affairs: strive to sabotage the relationship and beat the shit out of the man in the course of.
Polite Society feels like an uproarious enjoyable time, and it’s one among the movies I’ve most appeared ahead to catching on streaming after a quick restricted U.S. run. After you see it, be certain that to learn this interview with the director about Polite Society’s assorted influences.
Hidden Blade
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25014708/hidden_blade_01.jpg?resize=1200%2C500&ssl=1)
Image: Well Go USA Entertainment
Genre: Period espionage thriller
Run time: 2h 8m
Director: Cheng Er
Cast: Tony Leung, Wang Yibo, Zhou Xun
This Chinese World War II thriller stars the unimaginable Tony Leung as the Director of Shanghai’s Political Security Department, who finds himself in the center of a time of nice upheaval. The Japanese occupation is in its dying embers, China’s Communist Party is on the rise, and Leung’s character finds himself caught in the center of all of it. It’s a tense, beautiful, sometimes opaque thriller with an incredible main efficiency by one among the best actors of his era.
Silver Dollar Road
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Raoul Peck
Cast: John C. Barnett, Classie Curley, Melvin Davis
I Am Not Your Negro director Raoul Peck turns his sight to story of the Reels household on this new documentary. Following the plight of the household’s battle to protect their declare to their waterfront property in North Carolina from predatorial builders, Silver Dollar Road attracts on archival footage and interviews with the household to inform their story.
Surrounded
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24745083/surrounded_interview_header.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&ssl=1)
Image: MGM
Genre: Western
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Anthony Mandler
Cast: Letitia Wright, Jamie Bell, Michael Ok. Williams
Letitia Wright (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Small Axe) stars on this new Western as a freedwoman who impersonates a person in a plot to declare a gold mine. Her journey brings her face-to-face with the legendary outlaw Tommy Walsh (Jamie Bell), whom she holds captive after her stagecoach is ambushed by a gang of marauding thieves and killers. Surrounded additionally options the closing efficiency by the late Michael Ok. Williams, who accomplished filming prior to his dying in 2021.
New on Apple TV Plus
The Pigeon Tunnel
Where to watch: Available to stream on Apple TV
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25014704/8216.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&ssl=1)
Image: Apple TV Plus
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 32m
Director: Errol Morris
Cast: John le Carré
John le Carré is a private favourite creator for me. His spy novels are notable for his or her groundedness — as a former spy himself, he had loads to draw from — but additionally for his or her cynicism in direction of the heartlessness of that individual commerce. Esteemed documentarian Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line) turns his digicam in direction of the lifetime of the late, nice le Carré, one among the best and most essential authors of the twentieth century.
New on Peacock
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24793114/Ruby_Gillman_Teenage_Kraken_01.jpg?resize=1900%2C1000&ssl=1)
Image: Universal Pictures
Genre: Action-comedy
Run time: 1h 31m
Director: Kirk DeMicco
Cast: Lana Condor, Toni Collette, Annie Murphy
This animated comedy follows a clumsy excessive schooler who discovers that she’s descended from an extended line of warrior Kraken monsters. Destined to inherit her grandmother’s throne and defend the seas from tyrannical mermaids, Ruby should grasp her newfound powers and select her personal path as she prepares to embrace her future.
New to lease
Saw X
Where to watch: Available to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25009026/Saw_X_01.jpg?resize=3600%2C1946&ssl=1)
Image: Lionsgate
Genre: Horror
Run time: 1h 58m
Director: Kevin Greutert
Cast: Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Synnøve Macody Lund
Tobin Bell reprises his function as the machiavellian Jigsaw killer in the tenth installment of the lengthy working Saw horror franchise. A prequel set between the occasions of the authentic movie and 2005’s Saw II, Saw X follows John Kramer as he travels to Mexico to endure an experimental remedy so as to treatment his most cancers. When he realizes that the whole program is a complete rip-off, John enlists the assist of his apprentice Amanda Young (Shawnee Smith) to orchestrate a collection of elaborate “games” so as to actual his personal twisted model of justice.
Lynch/Oz
Where to watch: Available to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 48m
Director: Alexandre O. Philippe
Cast: Amy Nicholson, Rodney Ascher, John Waters
This documentary takes a magnifying glass to the profession of David Lynch, one among the most original and experimental storytellers of his era, and how his life-long love for the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz has impressed his work. Split into six chapters, the movie options narration by a number of notable administrators, together with Karyn Kusama, Rodney Ascher, and David Lowery.
Happy Friday, Polygon readers! Each week, we spherical up the most notable releases to streaming and video rental, highlighting the greatest and finest new movies for you to watch at residence.
No Hard Feelings, the coming-of-age intercourse comedy starring Jennifer Lawrence, arrives on Netflix this week alongside Old Dads, the directorial debut of comic Bill Burr. The motion comedy-drama Polite Society comes to Prime together with the Chinese World War II thriller Hidden Blade starring Tony Leung, whereas the horor thriller Cobweb that includes Antony Starr (The Boys) lands on Hulu. There’s loads of new movies out there to lease as effectively this week, like Saw X; the newest installment in the long-running horror franchise starring Tobin Bell, and extra.
Here’s all the things new to watch this weekend!
New on Netflix
No Hard Feelings
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Photo: Macall Polay/Sony Pictures Entertainment
Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 43m
Director: Gene Stupnitsky
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Andrew Barth Feldman, Laura Benanti
Jennifer Lawrence stars on this raunchy and endearing comedy as Maddie, a younger girl struggling between her job as an Uber driver and a part-time bartender to repay the home she inherited from her late mom. After her automotive is towed, Maddie is introduced with the alternative of a lifetime: Seduce Percy (Andrew Barth Feldman), the college-bound son of a rich couple on their behalf, in trade for a model new set of wheels. Simple sufficient, proper? Yeah, that’s what Maddie thought too.
From our evaluate,
Like most humorous tales, No Hard Feelings looks like a nasty concept at first. It’s a film wherein Jennifer Lawrence, in her first lead function in a full-on comedy, spends roughly 103 minutes making an attempt to seduce a socially awkward 19-year-old for monetary achieve. It’s additionally wildly humorous, and an incredible reminder of how good J-Law is at lighting up a display.
Old Dads
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25014696/OD_11377_R.jpg?resize=6000%2C4000&ssl=1)
Photo: Michael Moriatis/Netflix
Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Bill Burr
Cast: Bill Burr, Bokeem Woodbine, Bobby Cannavale
Three outdated associates change into fathers later in life, solely to be confronted with the generational annoyances that include interacting with anybody born (or something created) after the Eighties. Old Dads is Bill Burr’s directorial function debut and shares a co-writing credit score with writer-producer Ben Tishler.
New on Hulu
Cobweb
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24840299/COBWEB_Still1.jpg?resize=6048%2C4024&ssl=1)
Image: Lionsgate
Genre: Horror thriller
Run time: 1h 28m
Director: Samuel Bodin
Cast: Lizzy Caplan, Woody Norman, Antony Starr
This horror-thriller from the creator of the scariest present on Netflix follows Peter (Woody Norman), a troubled younger boy who — after listening to mysterious knocking sounds coming from the partitions of his residence — makes an attempt to search assist in unearthing a horrible secret hidden from him by his dad and mom.
From our evaluate,
Bodin makes an attempt to invoke dread with lengthy photographs of the movie’s few distinctive set parts — the aforementioned pumpkin patch, or an outdated grandfather clock and icebox that every disguise a hidden passage — however he doesn’t do a lot to render these photos as one thing highly effective or sinister. It’s as if Cobweb is about in a haunted home the place nothing really occurred way back, even because it hides a woman’s voice in its partitions.
New on Prime Video
Polite Society
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24612777/polite_society_4167_D025_00028_R_rgb.jpg?resize=4500%2C3000&ssl=1)
Photo: Parisa Taghizadeh/Focus Features
Genre: Action comedy-drama
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Nida Manzoor
Cast: Priya Kansara, Ritu Arya
When a teenage lady on her path to being a stuntwoman learns that her sister is betrothed to a person, she suspects the man and his mom are up to no good. So she does the solely factor you possibly can in such a state of affairs: strive to sabotage the relationship and beat the shit out of the man in the course of.
Polite Society feels like an uproarious enjoyable time, and it’s one among the movies I’ve most appeared ahead to catching on streaming after a quick restricted U.S. run. After you see it, be certain that to learn this interview with the director about Polite Society’s assorted influences.
Hidden Blade
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25014708/hidden_blade_01.jpg?resize=1200%2C500&ssl=1)
Image: Well Go USA Entertainment
Genre: Period espionage thriller
Run time: 2h 8m
Director: Cheng Er
Cast: Tony Leung, Wang Yibo, Zhou Xun
This Chinese World War II thriller stars the unimaginable Tony Leung as the Director of Shanghai’s Political Security Department, who finds himself in the center of a time of nice upheaval. The Japanese occupation is in its dying embers, China’s Communist Party is on the rise, and Leung’s character finds himself caught in the center of all of it. It’s a tense, beautiful, sometimes opaque thriller with an incredible main efficiency by one among the best actors of his era.
Silver Dollar Road
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Raoul Peck
Cast: John C. Barnett, Classie Curley, Melvin Davis
I Am Not Your Negro director Raoul Peck turns his sight to story of the Reels household on this new documentary. Following the plight of the household’s battle to protect their declare to their waterfront property in North Carolina from predatorial builders, Silver Dollar Road attracts on archival footage and interviews with the household to inform their story.
Surrounded
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24745083/surrounded_interview_header.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&ssl=1)
Image: MGM
Genre: Western
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Anthony Mandler
Cast: Letitia Wright, Jamie Bell, Michael Ok. Williams
Letitia Wright (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Small Axe) stars on this new Western as a freedwoman who impersonates a person in a plot to declare a gold mine. Her journey brings her face-to-face with the legendary outlaw Tommy Walsh (Jamie Bell), whom she holds captive after her stagecoach is ambushed by a gang of marauding thieves and killers. Surrounded additionally options the closing efficiency by the late Michael Ok. Williams, who accomplished filming prior to his dying in 2021.
New on Apple TV Plus
The Pigeon Tunnel
Where to watch: Available to stream on Apple TV
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Image: Apple TV Plus
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 32m
Director: Errol Morris
Cast: John le Carré
John le Carré is a private favourite creator for me. His spy novels are notable for his or her groundedness — as a former spy himself, he had loads to draw from — but additionally for his or her cynicism in direction of the heartlessness of that individual commerce. Esteemed documentarian Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line) turns his digicam in direction of the lifetime of the late, nice le Carré, one among the best and most essential authors of the twentieth century.
New on Peacock
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24793114/Ruby_Gillman_Teenage_Kraken_01.jpg?resize=1900%2C1000&ssl=1)
Image: Universal Pictures
Genre: Action-comedy
Run time: 1h 31m
Director: Kirk DeMicco
Cast: Lana Condor, Toni Collette, Annie Murphy
This animated comedy follows a clumsy excessive schooler who discovers that she’s descended from an extended line of warrior Kraken monsters. Destined to inherit her grandmother’s throne and defend the seas from tyrannical mermaids, Ruby should grasp her newfound powers and select her personal path as she prepares to embrace her future.
New to lease
Saw X
Where to watch: Available to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25009026/Saw_X_01.jpg?resize=3600%2C1946&ssl=1)
Image: Lionsgate
Genre: Horror
Run time: 1h 58m
Director: Kevin Greutert
Cast: Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Synnøve Macody Lund
Tobin Bell reprises his function as the machiavellian Jigsaw killer in the tenth installment of the lengthy working Saw horror franchise. A prequel set between the occasions of the authentic movie and 2005’s Saw II, Saw X follows John Kramer as he travels to Mexico to endure an experimental remedy so as to treatment his most cancers. When he realizes that the whole program is a complete rip-off, John enlists the assist of his apprentice Amanda Young (Shawnee Smith) to orchestrate a collection of elaborate “games” so as to actual his personal twisted model of justice.
Lynch/Oz
Where to watch: Available to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 48m
Director: Alexandre O. Philippe
Cast: Amy Nicholson, Rodney Ascher, John Waters
This documentary takes a magnifying glass to the profession of David Lynch, one among the most original and experimental storytellers of his era, and how his life-long love for the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz has impressed his work. Split into six chapters, the movie options narration by a number of notable administrators, together with Karyn Kusama, Rodney Ascher, and David Lowery.
Happy Friday, Polygon readers! Each week, we spherical up the most notable releases to streaming and video rental, highlighting the greatest and finest new movies for you to watch at residence.
No Hard Feelings, the coming-of-age intercourse comedy starring Jennifer Lawrence, arrives on Netflix this week alongside Old Dads, the directorial debut of comic Bill Burr. The motion comedy-drama Polite Society comes to Prime together with the Chinese World War II thriller Hidden Blade starring Tony Leung, whereas the horor thriller Cobweb that includes Antony Starr (The Boys) lands on Hulu. There’s loads of new movies out there to lease as effectively this week, like Saw X; the newest installment in the long-running horror franchise starring Tobin Bell, and extra.
Here’s all the things new to watch this weekend!
New on Netflix
No Hard Feelings
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24746367/No_Hard_Feelings_Jennifer_Lawrence.jpg?resize=8640%2C5760&ssl=1)
Photo: Macall Polay/Sony Pictures Entertainment
Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 43m
Director: Gene Stupnitsky
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Andrew Barth Feldman, Laura Benanti
Jennifer Lawrence stars on this raunchy and endearing comedy as Maddie, a younger girl struggling between her job as an Uber driver and a part-time bartender to repay the home she inherited from her late mom. After her automotive is towed, Maddie is introduced with the alternative of a lifetime: Seduce Percy (Andrew Barth Feldman), the college-bound son of a rich couple on their behalf, in trade for a model new set of wheels. Simple sufficient, proper? Yeah, that’s what Maddie thought too.
From our evaluate,
Like most humorous tales, No Hard Feelings looks like a nasty concept at first. It’s a film wherein Jennifer Lawrence, in her first lead function in a full-on comedy, spends roughly 103 minutes making an attempt to seduce a socially awkward 19-year-old for monetary achieve. It’s additionally wildly humorous, and an incredible reminder of how good J-Law is at lighting up a display.
Old Dads
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25014696/OD_11377_R.jpg?resize=6000%2C4000&ssl=1)
Photo: Michael Moriatis/Netflix
Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Bill Burr
Cast: Bill Burr, Bokeem Woodbine, Bobby Cannavale
Three outdated associates change into fathers later in life, solely to be confronted with the generational annoyances that include interacting with anybody born (or something created) after the Eighties. Old Dads is Bill Burr’s directorial function debut and shares a co-writing credit score with writer-producer Ben Tishler.
New on Hulu
Cobweb
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24840299/COBWEB_Still1.jpg?resize=6048%2C4024&ssl=1)
Image: Lionsgate
Genre: Horror thriller
Run time: 1h 28m
Director: Samuel Bodin
Cast: Lizzy Caplan, Woody Norman, Antony Starr
This horror-thriller from the creator of the scariest present on Netflix follows Peter (Woody Norman), a troubled younger boy who — after listening to mysterious knocking sounds coming from the partitions of his residence — makes an attempt to search assist in unearthing a horrible secret hidden from him by his dad and mom.
From our evaluate,
Bodin makes an attempt to invoke dread with lengthy photographs of the movie’s few distinctive set parts — the aforementioned pumpkin patch, or an outdated grandfather clock and icebox that every disguise a hidden passage — however he doesn’t do a lot to render these photos as one thing highly effective or sinister. It’s as if Cobweb is about in a haunted home the place nothing really occurred way back, even because it hides a woman’s voice in its partitions.
New on Prime Video
Polite Society
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24612777/polite_society_4167_D025_00028_R_rgb.jpg?resize=4500%2C3000&ssl=1)
Photo: Parisa Taghizadeh/Focus Features
Genre: Action comedy-drama
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Nida Manzoor
Cast: Priya Kansara, Ritu Arya
When a teenage lady on her path to being a stuntwoman learns that her sister is betrothed to a person, she suspects the man and his mom are up to no good. So she does the solely factor you possibly can in such a state of affairs: strive to sabotage the relationship and beat the shit out of the man in the course of.
Polite Society feels like an uproarious enjoyable time, and it’s one among the movies I’ve most appeared ahead to catching on streaming after a quick restricted U.S. run. After you see it, be certain that to learn this interview with the director about Polite Society’s assorted influences.
Hidden Blade
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25014708/hidden_blade_01.jpg?resize=1200%2C500&ssl=1)
Image: Well Go USA Entertainment
Genre: Period espionage thriller
Run time: 2h 8m
Director: Cheng Er
Cast: Tony Leung, Wang Yibo, Zhou Xun
This Chinese World War II thriller stars the unimaginable Tony Leung as the Director of Shanghai’s Political Security Department, who finds himself in the center of a time of nice upheaval. The Japanese occupation is in its dying embers, China’s Communist Party is on the rise, and Leung’s character finds himself caught in the center of all of it. It’s a tense, beautiful, sometimes opaque thriller with an incredible main efficiency by one among the best actors of his era.
Silver Dollar Road
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Raoul Peck
Cast: John C. Barnett, Classie Curley, Melvin Davis
I Am Not Your Negro director Raoul Peck turns his sight to story of the Reels household on this new documentary. Following the plight of the household’s battle to protect their declare to their waterfront property in North Carolina from predatorial builders, Silver Dollar Road attracts on archival footage and interviews with the household to inform their story.
Surrounded
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24745083/surrounded_interview_header.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&ssl=1)
Image: MGM
Genre: Western
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Anthony Mandler
Cast: Letitia Wright, Jamie Bell, Michael Ok. Williams
Letitia Wright (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Small Axe) stars on this new Western as a freedwoman who impersonates a person in a plot to declare a gold mine. Her journey brings her face-to-face with the legendary outlaw Tommy Walsh (Jamie Bell), whom she holds captive after her stagecoach is ambushed by a gang of marauding thieves and killers. Surrounded additionally options the closing efficiency by the late Michael Ok. Williams, who accomplished filming prior to his dying in 2021.
New on Apple TV Plus
The Pigeon Tunnel
Where to watch: Available to stream on Apple TV
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25014704/8216.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&ssl=1)
Image: Apple TV Plus
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 32m
Director: Errol Morris
Cast: John le Carré
John le Carré is a private favourite creator for me. His spy novels are notable for his or her groundedness — as a former spy himself, he had loads to draw from — but additionally for his or her cynicism in direction of the heartlessness of that individual commerce. Esteemed documentarian Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line) turns his digicam in direction of the lifetime of the late, nice le Carré, one among the best and most essential authors of the twentieth century.
New on Peacock
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24793114/Ruby_Gillman_Teenage_Kraken_01.jpg?resize=1900%2C1000&ssl=1)
Image: Universal Pictures
Genre: Action-comedy
Run time: 1h 31m
Director: Kirk DeMicco
Cast: Lana Condor, Toni Collette, Annie Murphy
This animated comedy follows a clumsy excessive schooler who discovers that she’s descended from an extended line of warrior Kraken monsters. Destined to inherit her grandmother’s throne and defend the seas from tyrannical mermaids, Ruby should grasp her newfound powers and select her personal path as she prepares to embrace her future.
New to lease
Saw X
Where to watch: Available to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25009026/Saw_X_01.jpg?resize=3600%2C1946&ssl=1)
Image: Lionsgate
Genre: Horror
Run time: 1h 58m
Director: Kevin Greutert
Cast: Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Synnøve Macody Lund
Tobin Bell reprises his function as the machiavellian Jigsaw killer in the tenth installment of the lengthy working Saw horror franchise. A prequel set between the occasions of the authentic movie and 2005’s Saw II, Saw X follows John Kramer as he travels to Mexico to endure an experimental remedy so as to treatment his most cancers. When he realizes that the whole program is a complete rip-off, John enlists the assist of his apprentice Amanda Young (Shawnee Smith) to orchestrate a collection of elaborate “games” so as to actual his personal twisted model of justice.
Lynch/Oz
Where to watch: Available to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 48m
Director: Alexandre O. Philippe
Cast: Amy Nicholson, Rodney Ascher, John Waters
This documentary takes a magnifying glass to the profession of David Lynch, one among the most original and experimental storytellers of his era, and how his life-long love for the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz has impressed his work. Split into six chapters, the movie options narration by a number of notable administrators, together with Karyn Kusama, Rodney Ascher, and David Lowery.
Happy Friday, Polygon readers! Each week, we spherical up the most notable releases to streaming and video rental, highlighting the greatest and finest new movies for you to watch at residence.
No Hard Feelings, the coming-of-age intercourse comedy starring Jennifer Lawrence, arrives on Netflix this week alongside Old Dads, the directorial debut of comic Bill Burr. The motion comedy-drama Polite Society comes to Prime together with the Chinese World War II thriller Hidden Blade starring Tony Leung, whereas the horor thriller Cobweb that includes Antony Starr (The Boys) lands on Hulu. There’s loads of new movies out there to lease as effectively this week, like Saw X; the newest installment in the long-running horror franchise starring Tobin Bell, and extra.
Here’s all the things new to watch this weekend!
New on Netflix
No Hard Feelings
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24746367/No_Hard_Feelings_Jennifer_Lawrence.jpg?resize=8640%2C5760&ssl=1)
Photo: Macall Polay/Sony Pictures Entertainment
Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 43m
Director: Gene Stupnitsky
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Andrew Barth Feldman, Laura Benanti
Jennifer Lawrence stars on this raunchy and endearing comedy as Maddie, a younger girl struggling between her job as an Uber driver and a part-time bartender to repay the home she inherited from her late mom. After her automotive is towed, Maddie is introduced with the alternative of a lifetime: Seduce Percy (Andrew Barth Feldman), the college-bound son of a rich couple on their behalf, in trade for a model new set of wheels. Simple sufficient, proper? Yeah, that’s what Maddie thought too.
From our evaluate,
Like most humorous tales, No Hard Feelings looks like a nasty concept at first. It’s a film wherein Jennifer Lawrence, in her first lead function in a full-on comedy, spends roughly 103 minutes making an attempt to seduce a socially awkward 19-year-old for monetary achieve. It’s additionally wildly humorous, and an incredible reminder of how good J-Law is at lighting up a display.
Old Dads
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25014696/OD_11377_R.jpg?resize=6000%2C4000&ssl=1)
Photo: Michael Moriatis/Netflix
Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Bill Burr
Cast: Bill Burr, Bokeem Woodbine, Bobby Cannavale
Three outdated associates change into fathers later in life, solely to be confronted with the generational annoyances that include interacting with anybody born (or something created) after the Eighties. Old Dads is Bill Burr’s directorial function debut and shares a co-writing credit score with writer-producer Ben Tishler.
New on Hulu
Cobweb
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24840299/COBWEB_Still1.jpg?resize=6048%2C4024&ssl=1)
Image: Lionsgate
Genre: Horror thriller
Run time: 1h 28m
Director: Samuel Bodin
Cast: Lizzy Caplan, Woody Norman, Antony Starr
This horror-thriller from the creator of the scariest present on Netflix follows Peter (Woody Norman), a troubled younger boy who — after listening to mysterious knocking sounds coming from the partitions of his residence — makes an attempt to search assist in unearthing a horrible secret hidden from him by his dad and mom.
From our evaluate,
Bodin makes an attempt to invoke dread with lengthy photographs of the movie’s few distinctive set parts — the aforementioned pumpkin patch, or an outdated grandfather clock and icebox that every disguise a hidden passage — however he doesn’t do a lot to render these photos as one thing highly effective or sinister. It’s as if Cobweb is about in a haunted home the place nothing really occurred way back, even because it hides a woman’s voice in its partitions.
New on Prime Video
Polite Society
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24612777/polite_society_4167_D025_00028_R_rgb.jpg?resize=4500%2C3000&ssl=1)
Photo: Parisa Taghizadeh/Focus Features
Genre: Action comedy-drama
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Nida Manzoor
Cast: Priya Kansara, Ritu Arya
When a teenage lady on her path to being a stuntwoman learns that her sister is betrothed to a person, she suspects the man and his mom are up to no good. So she does the solely factor you possibly can in such a state of affairs: strive to sabotage the relationship and beat the shit out of the man in the course of.
Polite Society feels like an uproarious enjoyable time, and it’s one among the movies I’ve most appeared ahead to catching on streaming after a quick restricted U.S. run. After you see it, be certain that to learn this interview with the director about Polite Society’s assorted influences.
Hidden Blade
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25014708/hidden_blade_01.jpg?resize=1200%2C500&ssl=1)
Image: Well Go USA Entertainment
Genre: Period espionage thriller
Run time: 2h 8m
Director: Cheng Er
Cast: Tony Leung, Wang Yibo, Zhou Xun
This Chinese World War II thriller stars the unimaginable Tony Leung as the Director of Shanghai’s Political Security Department, who finds himself in the center of a time of nice upheaval. The Japanese occupation is in its dying embers, China’s Communist Party is on the rise, and Leung’s character finds himself caught in the center of all of it. It’s a tense, beautiful, sometimes opaque thriller with an incredible main efficiency by one among the best actors of his era.
Silver Dollar Road
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Raoul Peck
Cast: John C. Barnett, Classie Curley, Melvin Davis
I Am Not Your Negro director Raoul Peck turns his sight to story of the Reels household on this new documentary. Following the plight of the household’s battle to protect their declare to their waterfront property in North Carolina from predatorial builders, Silver Dollar Road attracts on archival footage and interviews with the household to inform their story.
Surrounded
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24745083/surrounded_interview_header.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&ssl=1)
Image: MGM
Genre: Western
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Anthony Mandler
Cast: Letitia Wright, Jamie Bell, Michael Ok. Williams
Letitia Wright (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Small Axe) stars on this new Western as a freedwoman who impersonates a person in a plot to declare a gold mine. Her journey brings her face-to-face with the legendary outlaw Tommy Walsh (Jamie Bell), whom she holds captive after her stagecoach is ambushed by a gang of marauding thieves and killers. Surrounded additionally options the closing efficiency by the late Michael Ok. Williams, who accomplished filming prior to his dying in 2021.
New on Apple TV Plus
The Pigeon Tunnel
Where to watch: Available to stream on Apple TV
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25014704/8216.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&ssl=1)
Image: Apple TV Plus
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 32m
Director: Errol Morris
Cast: John le Carré
John le Carré is a private favourite creator for me. His spy novels are notable for his or her groundedness — as a former spy himself, he had loads to draw from — but additionally for his or her cynicism in direction of the heartlessness of that individual commerce. Esteemed documentarian Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line) turns his digicam in direction of the lifetime of the late, nice le Carré, one among the best and most essential authors of the twentieth century.
New on Peacock
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24793114/Ruby_Gillman_Teenage_Kraken_01.jpg?resize=1900%2C1000&ssl=1)
Image: Universal Pictures
Genre: Action-comedy
Run time: 1h 31m
Director: Kirk DeMicco
Cast: Lana Condor, Toni Collette, Annie Murphy
This animated comedy follows a clumsy excessive schooler who discovers that she’s descended from an extended line of warrior Kraken monsters. Destined to inherit her grandmother’s throne and defend the seas from tyrannical mermaids, Ruby should grasp her newfound powers and select her personal path as she prepares to embrace her future.
New to lease
Saw X
Where to watch: Available to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25009026/Saw_X_01.jpg?resize=3600%2C1946&ssl=1)
Image: Lionsgate
Genre: Horror
Run time: 1h 58m
Director: Kevin Greutert
Cast: Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Synnøve Macody Lund
Tobin Bell reprises his function as the machiavellian Jigsaw killer in the tenth installment of the lengthy working Saw horror franchise. A prequel set between the occasions of the authentic movie and 2005’s Saw II, Saw X follows John Kramer as he travels to Mexico to endure an experimental remedy so as to treatment his most cancers. When he realizes that the whole program is a complete rip-off, John enlists the assist of his apprentice Amanda Young (Shawnee Smith) to orchestrate a collection of elaborate “games” so as to actual his personal twisted model of justice.
Lynch/Oz
Where to watch: Available to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 48m
Director: Alexandre O. Philippe
Cast: Amy Nicholson, Rodney Ascher, John Waters
This documentary takes a magnifying glass to the profession of David Lynch, one among the most original and experimental storytellers of his era, and how his life-long love for the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz has impressed his work. Split into six chapters, the movie options narration by a number of notable administrators, together with Karyn Kusama, Rodney Ascher, and David Lowery.
Happy Friday, Polygon readers! Each week, we spherical up the most notable releases to streaming and video rental, highlighting the greatest and finest new movies for you to watch at residence.
No Hard Feelings, the coming-of-age intercourse comedy starring Jennifer Lawrence, arrives on Netflix this week alongside Old Dads, the directorial debut of comic Bill Burr. The motion comedy-drama Polite Society comes to Prime together with the Chinese World War II thriller Hidden Blade starring Tony Leung, whereas the horor thriller Cobweb that includes Antony Starr (The Boys) lands on Hulu. There’s loads of new movies out there to lease as effectively this week, like Saw X; the newest installment in the long-running horror franchise starring Tobin Bell, and extra.
Here’s all the things new to watch this weekend!
New on Netflix
No Hard Feelings
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Photo: Macall Polay/Sony Pictures Entertainment
Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 43m
Director: Gene Stupnitsky
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Andrew Barth Feldman, Laura Benanti
Jennifer Lawrence stars on this raunchy and endearing comedy as Maddie, a younger girl struggling between her job as an Uber driver and a part-time bartender to repay the home she inherited from her late mom. After her automotive is towed, Maddie is introduced with the alternative of a lifetime: Seduce Percy (Andrew Barth Feldman), the college-bound son of a rich couple on their behalf, in trade for a model new set of wheels. Simple sufficient, proper? Yeah, that’s what Maddie thought too.
From our evaluate,
Like most humorous tales, No Hard Feelings looks like a nasty concept at first. It’s a film wherein Jennifer Lawrence, in her first lead function in a full-on comedy, spends roughly 103 minutes making an attempt to seduce a socially awkward 19-year-old for monetary achieve. It’s additionally wildly humorous, and an incredible reminder of how good J-Law is at lighting up a display.
Old Dads
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25014696/OD_11377_R.jpg?resize=6000%2C4000&ssl=1)
Photo: Michael Moriatis/Netflix
Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Bill Burr
Cast: Bill Burr, Bokeem Woodbine, Bobby Cannavale
Three outdated associates change into fathers later in life, solely to be confronted with the generational annoyances that include interacting with anybody born (or something created) after the Eighties. Old Dads is Bill Burr’s directorial function debut and shares a co-writing credit score with writer-producer Ben Tishler.
New on Hulu
Cobweb
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24840299/COBWEB_Still1.jpg?resize=6048%2C4024&ssl=1)
Image: Lionsgate
Genre: Horror thriller
Run time: 1h 28m
Director: Samuel Bodin
Cast: Lizzy Caplan, Woody Norman, Antony Starr
This horror-thriller from the creator of the scariest present on Netflix follows Peter (Woody Norman), a troubled younger boy who — after listening to mysterious knocking sounds coming from the partitions of his residence — makes an attempt to search assist in unearthing a horrible secret hidden from him by his dad and mom.
From our evaluate,
Bodin makes an attempt to invoke dread with lengthy photographs of the movie’s few distinctive set parts — the aforementioned pumpkin patch, or an outdated grandfather clock and icebox that every disguise a hidden passage — however he doesn’t do a lot to render these photos as one thing highly effective or sinister. It’s as if Cobweb is about in a haunted home the place nothing really occurred way back, even because it hides a woman’s voice in its partitions.
New on Prime Video
Polite Society
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24612777/polite_society_4167_D025_00028_R_rgb.jpg?resize=4500%2C3000&ssl=1)
Photo: Parisa Taghizadeh/Focus Features
Genre: Action comedy-drama
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Nida Manzoor
Cast: Priya Kansara, Ritu Arya
When a teenage lady on her path to being a stuntwoman learns that her sister is betrothed to a person, she suspects the man and his mom are up to no good. So she does the solely factor you possibly can in such a state of affairs: strive to sabotage the relationship and beat the shit out of the man in the course of.
Polite Society feels like an uproarious enjoyable time, and it’s one among the movies I’ve most appeared ahead to catching on streaming after a quick restricted U.S. run. After you see it, be certain that to learn this interview with the director about Polite Society’s assorted influences.
Hidden Blade
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25014708/hidden_blade_01.jpg?resize=1200%2C500&ssl=1)
Image: Well Go USA Entertainment
Genre: Period espionage thriller
Run time: 2h 8m
Director: Cheng Er
Cast: Tony Leung, Wang Yibo, Zhou Xun
This Chinese World War II thriller stars the unimaginable Tony Leung as the Director of Shanghai’s Political Security Department, who finds himself in the center of a time of nice upheaval. The Japanese occupation is in its dying embers, China’s Communist Party is on the rise, and Leung’s character finds himself caught in the center of all of it. It’s a tense, beautiful, sometimes opaque thriller with an incredible main efficiency by one among the best actors of his era.
Silver Dollar Road
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Raoul Peck
Cast: John C. Barnett, Classie Curley, Melvin Davis
I Am Not Your Negro director Raoul Peck turns his sight to story of the Reels household on this new documentary. Following the plight of the household’s battle to protect their declare to their waterfront property in North Carolina from predatorial builders, Silver Dollar Road attracts on archival footage and interviews with the household to inform their story.
Surrounded
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24745083/surrounded_interview_header.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&ssl=1)
Image: MGM
Genre: Western
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Anthony Mandler
Cast: Letitia Wright, Jamie Bell, Michael Ok. Williams
Letitia Wright (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Small Axe) stars on this new Western as a freedwoman who impersonates a person in a plot to declare a gold mine. Her journey brings her face-to-face with the legendary outlaw Tommy Walsh (Jamie Bell), whom she holds captive after her stagecoach is ambushed by a gang of marauding thieves and killers. Surrounded additionally options the closing efficiency by the late Michael Ok. Williams, who accomplished filming prior to his dying in 2021.
New on Apple TV Plus
The Pigeon Tunnel
Where to watch: Available to stream on Apple TV
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Image: Apple TV Plus
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 32m
Director: Errol Morris
Cast: John le Carré
John le Carré is a private favourite creator for me. His spy novels are notable for his or her groundedness — as a former spy himself, he had loads to draw from — but additionally for his or her cynicism in direction of the heartlessness of that individual commerce. Esteemed documentarian Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line) turns his digicam in direction of the lifetime of the late, nice le Carré, one among the best and most essential authors of the twentieth century.
New on Peacock
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24793114/Ruby_Gillman_Teenage_Kraken_01.jpg?resize=1900%2C1000&ssl=1)
Image: Universal Pictures
Genre: Action-comedy
Run time: 1h 31m
Director: Kirk DeMicco
Cast: Lana Condor, Toni Collette, Annie Murphy
This animated comedy follows a clumsy excessive schooler who discovers that she’s descended from an extended line of warrior Kraken monsters. Destined to inherit her grandmother’s throne and defend the seas from tyrannical mermaids, Ruby should grasp her newfound powers and select her personal path as she prepares to embrace her future.
New to lease
Saw X
Where to watch: Available to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25009026/Saw_X_01.jpg?resize=3600%2C1946&ssl=1)
Image: Lionsgate
Genre: Horror
Run time: 1h 58m
Director: Kevin Greutert
Cast: Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Synnøve Macody Lund
Tobin Bell reprises his function as the machiavellian Jigsaw killer in the tenth installment of the lengthy working Saw horror franchise. A prequel set between the occasions of the authentic movie and 2005’s Saw II, Saw X follows John Kramer as he travels to Mexico to endure an experimental remedy so as to treatment his most cancers. When he realizes that the whole program is a complete rip-off, John enlists the assist of his apprentice Amanda Young (Shawnee Smith) to orchestrate a collection of elaborate “games” so as to actual his personal twisted model of justice.
Lynch/Oz
Where to watch: Available to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 48m
Director: Alexandre O. Philippe
Cast: Amy Nicholson, Rodney Ascher, John Waters
This documentary takes a magnifying glass to the profession of David Lynch, one among the most original and experimental storytellers of his era, and how his life-long love for the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz has impressed his work. Split into six chapters, the movie options narration by a number of notable administrators, together with Karyn Kusama, Rodney Ascher, and David Lowery.
Happy Friday, Polygon readers! Each week, we spherical up the most notable releases to streaming and video rental, highlighting the greatest and finest new movies for you to watch at residence.
No Hard Feelings, the coming-of-age intercourse comedy starring Jennifer Lawrence, arrives on Netflix this week alongside Old Dads, the directorial debut of comic Bill Burr. The motion comedy-drama Polite Society comes to Prime together with the Chinese World War II thriller Hidden Blade starring Tony Leung, whereas the horor thriller Cobweb that includes Antony Starr (The Boys) lands on Hulu. There’s loads of new movies out there to lease as effectively this week, like Saw X; the newest installment in the long-running horror franchise starring Tobin Bell, and extra.
Here’s all the things new to watch this weekend!
New on Netflix
No Hard Feelings
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24746367/No_Hard_Feelings_Jennifer_Lawrence.jpg?resize=8640%2C5760&ssl=1)
Photo: Macall Polay/Sony Pictures Entertainment
Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 43m
Director: Gene Stupnitsky
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Andrew Barth Feldman, Laura Benanti
Jennifer Lawrence stars on this raunchy and endearing comedy as Maddie, a younger girl struggling between her job as an Uber driver and a part-time bartender to repay the home she inherited from her late mom. After her automotive is towed, Maddie is introduced with the alternative of a lifetime: Seduce Percy (Andrew Barth Feldman), the college-bound son of a rich couple on their behalf, in trade for a model new set of wheels. Simple sufficient, proper? Yeah, that’s what Maddie thought too.
From our evaluate,
Like most humorous tales, No Hard Feelings looks like a nasty concept at first. It’s a film wherein Jennifer Lawrence, in her first lead function in a full-on comedy, spends roughly 103 minutes making an attempt to seduce a socially awkward 19-year-old for monetary achieve. It’s additionally wildly humorous, and an incredible reminder of how good J-Law is at lighting up a display.
Old Dads
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25014696/OD_11377_R.jpg?resize=6000%2C4000&ssl=1)
Photo: Michael Moriatis/Netflix
Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Bill Burr
Cast: Bill Burr, Bokeem Woodbine, Bobby Cannavale
Three outdated associates change into fathers later in life, solely to be confronted with the generational annoyances that include interacting with anybody born (or something created) after the Eighties. Old Dads is Bill Burr’s directorial function debut and shares a co-writing credit score with writer-producer Ben Tishler.
New on Hulu
Cobweb
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24840299/COBWEB_Still1.jpg?resize=6048%2C4024&ssl=1)
Image: Lionsgate
Genre: Horror thriller
Run time: 1h 28m
Director: Samuel Bodin
Cast: Lizzy Caplan, Woody Norman, Antony Starr
This horror-thriller from the creator of the scariest present on Netflix follows Peter (Woody Norman), a troubled younger boy who — after listening to mysterious knocking sounds coming from the partitions of his residence — makes an attempt to search assist in unearthing a horrible secret hidden from him by his dad and mom.
From our evaluate,
Bodin makes an attempt to invoke dread with lengthy photographs of the movie’s few distinctive set parts — the aforementioned pumpkin patch, or an outdated grandfather clock and icebox that every disguise a hidden passage — however he doesn’t do a lot to render these photos as one thing highly effective or sinister. It’s as if Cobweb is about in a haunted home the place nothing really occurred way back, even because it hides a woman’s voice in its partitions.
New on Prime Video
Polite Society
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24612777/polite_society_4167_D025_00028_R_rgb.jpg?resize=4500%2C3000&ssl=1)
Photo: Parisa Taghizadeh/Focus Features
Genre: Action comedy-drama
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Nida Manzoor
Cast: Priya Kansara, Ritu Arya
When a teenage lady on her path to being a stuntwoman learns that her sister is betrothed to a person, she suspects the man and his mom are up to no good. So she does the solely factor you possibly can in such a state of affairs: strive to sabotage the relationship and beat the shit out of the man in the course of.
Polite Society feels like an uproarious enjoyable time, and it’s one among the movies I’ve most appeared ahead to catching on streaming after a quick restricted U.S. run. After you see it, be certain that to learn this interview with the director about Polite Society’s assorted influences.
Hidden Blade
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25014708/hidden_blade_01.jpg?resize=1200%2C500&ssl=1)
Image: Well Go USA Entertainment
Genre: Period espionage thriller
Run time: 2h 8m
Director: Cheng Er
Cast: Tony Leung, Wang Yibo, Zhou Xun
This Chinese World War II thriller stars the unimaginable Tony Leung as the Director of Shanghai’s Political Security Department, who finds himself in the center of a time of nice upheaval. The Japanese occupation is in its dying embers, China’s Communist Party is on the rise, and Leung’s character finds himself caught in the center of all of it. It’s a tense, beautiful, sometimes opaque thriller with an incredible main efficiency by one among the best actors of his era.
Silver Dollar Road
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Raoul Peck
Cast: John C. Barnett, Classie Curley, Melvin Davis
I Am Not Your Negro director Raoul Peck turns his sight to story of the Reels household on this new documentary. Following the plight of the household’s battle to protect their declare to their waterfront property in North Carolina from predatorial builders, Silver Dollar Road attracts on archival footage and interviews with the household to inform their story.
Surrounded
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24745083/surrounded_interview_header.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&ssl=1)
Image: MGM
Genre: Western
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Anthony Mandler
Cast: Letitia Wright, Jamie Bell, Michael Ok. Williams
Letitia Wright (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Small Axe) stars on this new Western as a freedwoman who impersonates a person in a plot to declare a gold mine. Her journey brings her face-to-face with the legendary outlaw Tommy Walsh (Jamie Bell), whom she holds captive after her stagecoach is ambushed by a gang of marauding thieves and killers. Surrounded additionally options the closing efficiency by the late Michael Ok. Williams, who accomplished filming prior to his dying in 2021.
New on Apple TV Plus
The Pigeon Tunnel
Where to watch: Available to stream on Apple TV
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25014704/8216.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&ssl=1)
Image: Apple TV Plus
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 32m
Director: Errol Morris
Cast: John le Carré
John le Carré is a private favourite creator for me. His spy novels are notable for his or her groundedness — as a former spy himself, he had loads to draw from — but additionally for his or her cynicism in direction of the heartlessness of that individual commerce. Esteemed documentarian Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line) turns his digicam in direction of the lifetime of the late, nice le Carré, one among the best and most essential authors of the twentieth century.
New on Peacock
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24793114/Ruby_Gillman_Teenage_Kraken_01.jpg?resize=1900%2C1000&ssl=1)
Image: Universal Pictures
Genre: Action-comedy
Run time: 1h 31m
Director: Kirk DeMicco
Cast: Lana Condor, Toni Collette, Annie Murphy
This animated comedy follows a clumsy excessive schooler who discovers that she’s descended from an extended line of warrior Kraken monsters. Destined to inherit her grandmother’s throne and defend the seas from tyrannical mermaids, Ruby should grasp her newfound powers and select her personal path as she prepares to embrace her future.
New to lease
Saw X
Where to watch: Available to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25009026/Saw_X_01.jpg?resize=3600%2C1946&ssl=1)
Image: Lionsgate
Genre: Horror
Run time: 1h 58m
Director: Kevin Greutert
Cast: Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Synnøve Macody Lund
Tobin Bell reprises his function as the machiavellian Jigsaw killer in the tenth installment of the lengthy working Saw horror franchise. A prequel set between the occasions of the authentic movie and 2005’s Saw II, Saw X follows John Kramer as he travels to Mexico to endure an experimental remedy so as to treatment his most cancers. When he realizes that the whole program is a complete rip-off, John enlists the assist of his apprentice Amanda Young (Shawnee Smith) to orchestrate a collection of elaborate “games” so as to actual his personal twisted model of justice.
Lynch/Oz
Where to watch: Available to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 48m
Director: Alexandre O. Philippe
Cast: Amy Nicholson, Rodney Ascher, John Waters
This documentary takes a magnifying glass to the profession of David Lynch, one among the most original and experimental storytellers of his era, and how his life-long love for the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz has impressed his work. Split into six chapters, the movie options narration by a number of notable administrators, together with Karyn Kusama, Rodney Ascher, and David Lowery.
Happy Friday, Polygon readers! Each week, we spherical up the most notable releases to streaming and video rental, highlighting the greatest and finest new movies for you to watch at residence.
No Hard Feelings, the coming-of-age intercourse comedy starring Jennifer Lawrence, arrives on Netflix this week alongside Old Dads, the directorial debut of comic Bill Burr. The motion comedy-drama Polite Society comes to Prime together with the Chinese World War II thriller Hidden Blade starring Tony Leung, whereas the horor thriller Cobweb that includes Antony Starr (The Boys) lands on Hulu. There’s loads of new movies out there to lease as effectively this week, like Saw X; the newest installment in the long-running horror franchise starring Tobin Bell, and extra.
Here’s all the things new to watch this weekend!
New on Netflix
No Hard Feelings
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24746367/No_Hard_Feelings_Jennifer_Lawrence.jpg?resize=8640%2C5760&ssl=1)
Photo: Macall Polay/Sony Pictures Entertainment
Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 43m
Director: Gene Stupnitsky
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Andrew Barth Feldman, Laura Benanti
Jennifer Lawrence stars on this raunchy and endearing comedy as Maddie, a younger girl struggling between her job as an Uber driver and a part-time bartender to repay the home she inherited from her late mom. After her automotive is towed, Maddie is introduced with the alternative of a lifetime: Seduce Percy (Andrew Barth Feldman), the college-bound son of a rich couple on their behalf, in trade for a model new set of wheels. Simple sufficient, proper? Yeah, that’s what Maddie thought too.
From our evaluate,
Like most humorous tales, No Hard Feelings looks like a nasty concept at first. It’s a film wherein Jennifer Lawrence, in her first lead function in a full-on comedy, spends roughly 103 minutes making an attempt to seduce a socially awkward 19-year-old for monetary achieve. It’s additionally wildly humorous, and an incredible reminder of how good J-Law is at lighting up a display.
Old Dads
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25014696/OD_11377_R.jpg?resize=6000%2C4000&ssl=1)
Photo: Michael Moriatis/Netflix
Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Bill Burr
Cast: Bill Burr, Bokeem Woodbine, Bobby Cannavale
Three outdated associates change into fathers later in life, solely to be confronted with the generational annoyances that include interacting with anybody born (or something created) after the Eighties. Old Dads is Bill Burr’s directorial function debut and shares a co-writing credit score with writer-producer Ben Tishler.
New on Hulu
Cobweb
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24840299/COBWEB_Still1.jpg?resize=6048%2C4024&ssl=1)
Image: Lionsgate
Genre: Horror thriller
Run time: 1h 28m
Director: Samuel Bodin
Cast: Lizzy Caplan, Woody Norman, Antony Starr
This horror-thriller from the creator of the scariest present on Netflix follows Peter (Woody Norman), a troubled younger boy who — after listening to mysterious knocking sounds coming from the partitions of his residence — makes an attempt to search assist in unearthing a horrible secret hidden from him by his dad and mom.
From our evaluate,
Bodin makes an attempt to invoke dread with lengthy photographs of the movie’s few distinctive set parts — the aforementioned pumpkin patch, or an outdated grandfather clock and icebox that every disguise a hidden passage — however he doesn’t do a lot to render these photos as one thing highly effective or sinister. It’s as if Cobweb is about in a haunted home the place nothing really occurred way back, even because it hides a woman’s voice in its partitions.
New on Prime Video
Polite Society
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24612777/polite_society_4167_D025_00028_R_rgb.jpg?resize=4500%2C3000&ssl=1)
Photo: Parisa Taghizadeh/Focus Features
Genre: Action comedy-drama
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Nida Manzoor
Cast: Priya Kansara, Ritu Arya
When a teenage lady on her path to being a stuntwoman learns that her sister is betrothed to a person, she suspects the man and his mom are up to no good. So she does the solely factor you possibly can in such a state of affairs: strive to sabotage the relationship and beat the shit out of the man in the course of.
Polite Society feels like an uproarious enjoyable time, and it’s one among the movies I’ve most appeared ahead to catching on streaming after a quick restricted U.S. run. After you see it, be certain that to learn this interview with the director about Polite Society’s assorted influences.
Hidden Blade
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25014708/hidden_blade_01.jpg?resize=1200%2C500&ssl=1)
Image: Well Go USA Entertainment
Genre: Period espionage thriller
Run time: 2h 8m
Director: Cheng Er
Cast: Tony Leung, Wang Yibo, Zhou Xun
This Chinese World War II thriller stars the unimaginable Tony Leung as the Director of Shanghai’s Political Security Department, who finds himself in the center of a time of nice upheaval. The Japanese occupation is in its dying embers, China’s Communist Party is on the rise, and Leung’s character finds himself caught in the center of all of it. It’s a tense, beautiful, sometimes opaque thriller with an incredible main efficiency by one among the best actors of his era.
Silver Dollar Road
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Raoul Peck
Cast: John C. Barnett, Classie Curley, Melvin Davis
I Am Not Your Negro director Raoul Peck turns his sight to story of the Reels household on this new documentary. Following the plight of the household’s battle to protect their declare to their waterfront property in North Carolina from predatorial builders, Silver Dollar Road attracts on archival footage and interviews with the household to inform their story.
Surrounded
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24745083/surrounded_interview_header.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&ssl=1)
Image: MGM
Genre: Western
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Anthony Mandler
Cast: Letitia Wright, Jamie Bell, Michael Ok. Williams
Letitia Wright (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Small Axe) stars on this new Western as a freedwoman who impersonates a person in a plot to declare a gold mine. Her journey brings her face-to-face with the legendary outlaw Tommy Walsh (Jamie Bell), whom she holds captive after her stagecoach is ambushed by a gang of marauding thieves and killers. Surrounded additionally options the closing efficiency by the late Michael Ok. Williams, who accomplished filming prior to his dying in 2021.
New on Apple TV Plus
The Pigeon Tunnel
Where to watch: Available to stream on Apple TV
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25014704/8216.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&ssl=1)
Image: Apple TV Plus
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 32m
Director: Errol Morris
Cast: John le Carré
John le Carré is a private favourite creator for me. His spy novels are notable for his or her groundedness — as a former spy himself, he had loads to draw from — but additionally for his or her cynicism in direction of the heartlessness of that individual commerce. Esteemed documentarian Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line) turns his digicam in direction of the lifetime of the late, nice le Carré, one among the best and most essential authors of the twentieth century.
New on Peacock
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24793114/Ruby_Gillman_Teenage_Kraken_01.jpg?resize=1900%2C1000&ssl=1)
Image: Universal Pictures
Genre: Action-comedy
Run time: 1h 31m
Director: Kirk DeMicco
Cast: Lana Condor, Toni Collette, Annie Murphy
This animated comedy follows a clumsy excessive schooler who discovers that she’s descended from an extended line of warrior Kraken monsters. Destined to inherit her grandmother’s throne and defend the seas from tyrannical mermaids, Ruby should grasp her newfound powers and select her personal path as she prepares to embrace her future.
New to lease
Saw X
Where to watch: Available to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25009026/Saw_X_01.jpg?resize=3600%2C1946&ssl=1)
Image: Lionsgate
Genre: Horror
Run time: 1h 58m
Director: Kevin Greutert
Cast: Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Synnøve Macody Lund
Tobin Bell reprises his function as the machiavellian Jigsaw killer in the tenth installment of the lengthy working Saw horror franchise. A prequel set between the occasions of the authentic movie and 2005’s Saw II, Saw X follows John Kramer as he travels to Mexico to endure an experimental remedy so as to treatment his most cancers. When he realizes that the whole program is a complete rip-off, John enlists the assist of his apprentice Amanda Young (Shawnee Smith) to orchestrate a collection of elaborate “games” so as to actual his personal twisted model of justice.
Lynch/Oz
Where to watch: Available to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 48m
Director: Alexandre O. Philippe
Cast: Amy Nicholson, Rodney Ascher, John Waters
This documentary takes a magnifying glass to the profession of David Lynch, one among the most original and experimental storytellers of his era, and how his life-long love for the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz has impressed his work. Split into six chapters, the movie options narration by a number of notable administrators, together with Karyn Kusama, Rodney Ascher, and David Lowery.
Happy Friday, Polygon readers! Each week, we spherical up the most notable releases to streaming and video rental, highlighting the greatest and finest new movies for you to watch at residence.
No Hard Feelings, the coming-of-age intercourse comedy starring Jennifer Lawrence, arrives on Netflix this week alongside Old Dads, the directorial debut of comic Bill Burr. The motion comedy-drama Polite Society comes to Prime together with the Chinese World War II thriller Hidden Blade starring Tony Leung, whereas the horor thriller Cobweb that includes Antony Starr (The Boys) lands on Hulu. There’s loads of new movies out there to lease as effectively this week, like Saw X; the newest installment in the long-running horror franchise starring Tobin Bell, and extra.
Here’s all the things new to watch this weekend!
New on Netflix
No Hard Feelings
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Photo: Macall Polay/Sony Pictures Entertainment
Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 43m
Director: Gene Stupnitsky
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Andrew Barth Feldman, Laura Benanti
Jennifer Lawrence stars on this raunchy and endearing comedy as Maddie, a younger girl struggling between her job as an Uber driver and a part-time bartender to repay the home she inherited from her late mom. After her automotive is towed, Maddie is introduced with the alternative of a lifetime: Seduce Percy (Andrew Barth Feldman), the college-bound son of a rich couple on their behalf, in trade for a model new set of wheels. Simple sufficient, proper? Yeah, that’s what Maddie thought too.
From our evaluate,
Like most humorous tales, No Hard Feelings looks like a nasty concept at first. It’s a film wherein Jennifer Lawrence, in her first lead function in a full-on comedy, spends roughly 103 minutes making an attempt to seduce a socially awkward 19-year-old for monetary achieve. It’s additionally wildly humorous, and an incredible reminder of how good J-Law is at lighting up a display.
Old Dads
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25014696/OD_11377_R.jpg?resize=6000%2C4000&ssl=1)
Photo: Michael Moriatis/Netflix
Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Bill Burr
Cast: Bill Burr, Bokeem Woodbine, Bobby Cannavale
Three outdated associates change into fathers later in life, solely to be confronted with the generational annoyances that include interacting with anybody born (or something created) after the Eighties. Old Dads is Bill Burr’s directorial function debut and shares a co-writing credit score with writer-producer Ben Tishler.
New on Hulu
Cobweb
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24840299/COBWEB_Still1.jpg?resize=6048%2C4024&ssl=1)
Image: Lionsgate
Genre: Horror thriller
Run time: 1h 28m
Director: Samuel Bodin
Cast: Lizzy Caplan, Woody Norman, Antony Starr
This horror-thriller from the creator of the scariest present on Netflix follows Peter (Woody Norman), a troubled younger boy who — after listening to mysterious knocking sounds coming from the partitions of his residence — makes an attempt to search assist in unearthing a horrible secret hidden from him by his dad and mom.
From our evaluate,
Bodin makes an attempt to invoke dread with lengthy photographs of the movie’s few distinctive set parts — the aforementioned pumpkin patch, or an outdated grandfather clock and icebox that every disguise a hidden passage — however he doesn’t do a lot to render these photos as one thing highly effective or sinister. It’s as if Cobweb is about in a haunted home the place nothing really occurred way back, even because it hides a woman’s voice in its partitions.
New on Prime Video
Polite Society
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24612777/polite_society_4167_D025_00028_R_rgb.jpg?resize=4500%2C3000&ssl=1)
Photo: Parisa Taghizadeh/Focus Features
Genre: Action comedy-drama
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Nida Manzoor
Cast: Priya Kansara, Ritu Arya
When a teenage lady on her path to being a stuntwoman learns that her sister is betrothed to a person, she suspects the man and his mom are up to no good. So she does the solely factor you possibly can in such a state of affairs: strive to sabotage the relationship and beat the shit out of the man in the course of.
Polite Society feels like an uproarious enjoyable time, and it’s one among the movies I’ve most appeared ahead to catching on streaming after a quick restricted U.S. run. After you see it, be certain that to learn this interview with the director about Polite Society’s assorted influences.
Hidden Blade
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25014708/hidden_blade_01.jpg?resize=1200%2C500&ssl=1)
Image: Well Go USA Entertainment
Genre: Period espionage thriller
Run time: 2h 8m
Director: Cheng Er
Cast: Tony Leung, Wang Yibo, Zhou Xun
This Chinese World War II thriller stars the unimaginable Tony Leung as the Director of Shanghai’s Political Security Department, who finds himself in the center of a time of nice upheaval. The Japanese occupation is in its dying embers, China’s Communist Party is on the rise, and Leung’s character finds himself caught in the center of all of it. It’s a tense, beautiful, sometimes opaque thriller with an incredible main efficiency by one among the best actors of his era.
Silver Dollar Road
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Raoul Peck
Cast: John C. Barnett, Classie Curley, Melvin Davis
I Am Not Your Negro director Raoul Peck turns his sight to story of the Reels household on this new documentary. Following the plight of the household’s battle to protect their declare to their waterfront property in North Carolina from predatorial builders, Silver Dollar Road attracts on archival footage and interviews with the household to inform their story.
Surrounded
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24745083/surrounded_interview_header.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&ssl=1)
Image: MGM
Genre: Western
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Anthony Mandler
Cast: Letitia Wright, Jamie Bell, Michael Ok. Williams
Letitia Wright (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Small Axe) stars on this new Western as a freedwoman who impersonates a person in a plot to declare a gold mine. Her journey brings her face-to-face with the legendary outlaw Tommy Walsh (Jamie Bell), whom she holds captive after her stagecoach is ambushed by a gang of marauding thieves and killers. Surrounded additionally options the closing efficiency by the late Michael Ok. Williams, who accomplished filming prior to his dying in 2021.
New on Apple TV Plus
The Pigeon Tunnel
Where to watch: Available to stream on Apple TV
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Image: Apple TV Plus
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 32m
Director: Errol Morris
Cast: John le Carré
John le Carré is a private favourite creator for me. His spy novels are notable for his or her groundedness — as a former spy himself, he had loads to draw from — but additionally for his or her cynicism in direction of the heartlessness of that individual commerce. Esteemed documentarian Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line) turns his digicam in direction of the lifetime of the late, nice le Carré, one among the best and most essential authors of the twentieth century.
New on Peacock
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24793114/Ruby_Gillman_Teenage_Kraken_01.jpg?resize=1900%2C1000&ssl=1)
Image: Universal Pictures
Genre: Action-comedy
Run time: 1h 31m
Director: Kirk DeMicco
Cast: Lana Condor, Toni Collette, Annie Murphy
This animated comedy follows a clumsy excessive schooler who discovers that she’s descended from an extended line of warrior Kraken monsters. Destined to inherit her grandmother’s throne and defend the seas from tyrannical mermaids, Ruby should grasp her newfound powers and select her personal path as she prepares to embrace her future.
New to lease
Saw X
Where to watch: Available to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25009026/Saw_X_01.jpg?resize=3600%2C1946&ssl=1)
Image: Lionsgate
Genre: Horror
Run time: 1h 58m
Director: Kevin Greutert
Cast: Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Synnøve Macody Lund
Tobin Bell reprises his function as the machiavellian Jigsaw killer in the tenth installment of the lengthy working Saw horror franchise. A prequel set between the occasions of the authentic movie and 2005’s Saw II, Saw X follows John Kramer as he travels to Mexico to endure an experimental remedy so as to treatment his most cancers. When he realizes that the whole program is a complete rip-off, John enlists the assist of his apprentice Amanda Young (Shawnee Smith) to orchestrate a collection of elaborate “games” so as to actual his personal twisted model of justice.
Lynch/Oz
Where to watch: Available to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 48m
Director: Alexandre O. Philippe
Cast: Amy Nicholson, Rodney Ascher, John Waters
This documentary takes a magnifying glass to the profession of David Lynch, one among the most original and experimental storytellers of his era, and how his life-long love for the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz has impressed his work. Split into six chapters, the movie options narration by a number of notable administrators, together with Karyn Kusama, Rodney Ascher, and David Lowery.
Happy Friday, Polygon readers! Each week, we spherical up the most notable releases to streaming and video rental, highlighting the greatest and finest new movies for you to watch at residence.
No Hard Feelings, the coming-of-age intercourse comedy starring Jennifer Lawrence, arrives on Netflix this week alongside Old Dads, the directorial debut of comic Bill Burr. The motion comedy-drama Polite Society comes to Prime together with the Chinese World War II thriller Hidden Blade starring Tony Leung, whereas the horor thriller Cobweb that includes Antony Starr (The Boys) lands on Hulu. There’s loads of new movies out there to lease as effectively this week, like Saw X; the newest installment in the long-running horror franchise starring Tobin Bell, and extra.
Here’s all the things new to watch this weekend!
New on Netflix
No Hard Feelings
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24746367/No_Hard_Feelings_Jennifer_Lawrence.jpg?resize=8640%2C5760&ssl=1)
Photo: Macall Polay/Sony Pictures Entertainment
Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 43m
Director: Gene Stupnitsky
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Andrew Barth Feldman, Laura Benanti
Jennifer Lawrence stars on this raunchy and endearing comedy as Maddie, a younger girl struggling between her job as an Uber driver and a part-time bartender to repay the home she inherited from her late mom. After her automotive is towed, Maddie is introduced with the alternative of a lifetime: Seduce Percy (Andrew Barth Feldman), the college-bound son of a rich couple on their behalf, in trade for a model new set of wheels. Simple sufficient, proper? Yeah, that’s what Maddie thought too.
From our evaluate,
Like most humorous tales, No Hard Feelings looks like a nasty concept at first. It’s a film wherein Jennifer Lawrence, in her first lead function in a full-on comedy, spends roughly 103 minutes making an attempt to seduce a socially awkward 19-year-old for monetary achieve. It’s additionally wildly humorous, and an incredible reminder of how good J-Law is at lighting up a display.
Old Dads
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25014696/OD_11377_R.jpg?resize=6000%2C4000&ssl=1)
Photo: Michael Moriatis/Netflix
Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Bill Burr
Cast: Bill Burr, Bokeem Woodbine, Bobby Cannavale
Three outdated associates change into fathers later in life, solely to be confronted with the generational annoyances that include interacting with anybody born (or something created) after the Eighties. Old Dads is Bill Burr’s directorial function debut and shares a co-writing credit score with writer-producer Ben Tishler.
New on Hulu
Cobweb
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24840299/COBWEB_Still1.jpg?resize=6048%2C4024&ssl=1)
Image: Lionsgate
Genre: Horror thriller
Run time: 1h 28m
Director: Samuel Bodin
Cast: Lizzy Caplan, Woody Norman, Antony Starr
This horror-thriller from the creator of the scariest present on Netflix follows Peter (Woody Norman), a troubled younger boy who — after listening to mysterious knocking sounds coming from the partitions of his residence — makes an attempt to search assist in unearthing a horrible secret hidden from him by his dad and mom.
From our evaluate,
Bodin makes an attempt to invoke dread with lengthy photographs of the movie’s few distinctive set parts — the aforementioned pumpkin patch, or an outdated grandfather clock and icebox that every disguise a hidden passage — however he doesn’t do a lot to render these photos as one thing highly effective or sinister. It’s as if Cobweb is about in a haunted home the place nothing really occurred way back, even because it hides a woman’s voice in its partitions.
New on Prime Video
Polite Society
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24612777/polite_society_4167_D025_00028_R_rgb.jpg?resize=4500%2C3000&ssl=1)
Photo: Parisa Taghizadeh/Focus Features
Genre: Action comedy-drama
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Nida Manzoor
Cast: Priya Kansara, Ritu Arya
When a teenage lady on her path to being a stuntwoman learns that her sister is betrothed to a person, she suspects the man and his mom are up to no good. So she does the solely factor you possibly can in such a state of affairs: strive to sabotage the relationship and beat the shit out of the man in the course of.
Polite Society feels like an uproarious enjoyable time, and it’s one among the movies I’ve most appeared ahead to catching on streaming after a quick restricted U.S. run. After you see it, be certain that to learn this interview with the director about Polite Society’s assorted influences.
Hidden Blade
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25014708/hidden_blade_01.jpg?resize=1200%2C500&ssl=1)
Image: Well Go USA Entertainment
Genre: Period espionage thriller
Run time: 2h 8m
Director: Cheng Er
Cast: Tony Leung, Wang Yibo, Zhou Xun
This Chinese World War II thriller stars the unimaginable Tony Leung as the Director of Shanghai’s Political Security Department, who finds himself in the center of a time of nice upheaval. The Japanese occupation is in its dying embers, China’s Communist Party is on the rise, and Leung’s character finds himself caught in the center of all of it. It’s a tense, beautiful, sometimes opaque thriller with an incredible main efficiency by one among the best actors of his era.
Silver Dollar Road
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Raoul Peck
Cast: John C. Barnett, Classie Curley, Melvin Davis
I Am Not Your Negro director Raoul Peck turns his sight to story of the Reels household on this new documentary. Following the plight of the household’s battle to protect their declare to their waterfront property in North Carolina from predatorial builders, Silver Dollar Road attracts on archival footage and interviews with the household to inform their story.
Surrounded
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24745083/surrounded_interview_header.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&ssl=1)
Image: MGM
Genre: Western
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Anthony Mandler
Cast: Letitia Wright, Jamie Bell, Michael Ok. Williams
Letitia Wright (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Small Axe) stars on this new Western as a freedwoman who impersonates a person in a plot to declare a gold mine. Her journey brings her face-to-face with the legendary outlaw Tommy Walsh (Jamie Bell), whom she holds captive after her stagecoach is ambushed by a gang of marauding thieves and killers. Surrounded additionally options the closing efficiency by the late Michael Ok. Williams, who accomplished filming prior to his dying in 2021.
New on Apple TV Plus
The Pigeon Tunnel
Where to watch: Available to stream on Apple TV
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25014704/8216.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&ssl=1)
Image: Apple TV Plus
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 32m
Director: Errol Morris
Cast: John le Carré
John le Carré is a private favourite creator for me. His spy novels are notable for his or her groundedness — as a former spy himself, he had loads to draw from — but additionally for his or her cynicism in direction of the heartlessness of that individual commerce. Esteemed documentarian Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line) turns his digicam in direction of the lifetime of the late, nice le Carré, one among the best and most essential authors of the twentieth century.
New on Peacock
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24793114/Ruby_Gillman_Teenage_Kraken_01.jpg?resize=1900%2C1000&ssl=1)
Image: Universal Pictures
Genre: Action-comedy
Run time: 1h 31m
Director: Kirk DeMicco
Cast: Lana Condor, Toni Collette, Annie Murphy
This animated comedy follows a clumsy excessive schooler who discovers that she’s descended from an extended line of warrior Kraken monsters. Destined to inherit her grandmother’s throne and defend the seas from tyrannical mermaids, Ruby should grasp her newfound powers and select her personal path as she prepares to embrace her future.
New to lease
Saw X
Where to watch: Available to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25009026/Saw_X_01.jpg?resize=3600%2C1946&ssl=1)
Image: Lionsgate
Genre: Horror
Run time: 1h 58m
Director: Kevin Greutert
Cast: Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Synnøve Macody Lund
Tobin Bell reprises his function as the machiavellian Jigsaw killer in the tenth installment of the lengthy working Saw horror franchise. A prequel set between the occasions of the authentic movie and 2005’s Saw II, Saw X follows John Kramer as he travels to Mexico to endure an experimental remedy so as to treatment his most cancers. When he realizes that the whole program is a complete rip-off, John enlists the assist of his apprentice Amanda Young (Shawnee Smith) to orchestrate a collection of elaborate “games” so as to actual his personal twisted model of justice.
Lynch/Oz
Where to watch: Available to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 48m
Director: Alexandre O. Philippe
Cast: Amy Nicholson, Rodney Ascher, John Waters
This documentary takes a magnifying glass to the profession of David Lynch, one among the most original and experimental storytellers of his era, and how his life-long love for the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz has impressed his work. Split into six chapters, the movie options narration by a number of notable administrators, together with Karyn Kusama, Rodney Ascher, and David Lowery.
Happy Friday, Polygon readers! Each week, we spherical up the most notable releases to streaming and video rental, highlighting the greatest and finest new movies for you to watch at residence.
No Hard Feelings, the coming-of-age intercourse comedy starring Jennifer Lawrence, arrives on Netflix this week alongside Old Dads, the directorial debut of comic Bill Burr. The motion comedy-drama Polite Society comes to Prime together with the Chinese World War II thriller Hidden Blade starring Tony Leung, whereas the horor thriller Cobweb that includes Antony Starr (The Boys) lands on Hulu. There’s loads of new movies out there to lease as effectively this week, like Saw X; the newest installment in the long-running horror franchise starring Tobin Bell, and extra.
Here’s all the things new to watch this weekend!
New on Netflix
No Hard Feelings
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24746367/No_Hard_Feelings_Jennifer_Lawrence.jpg?resize=8640%2C5760&ssl=1)
Photo: Macall Polay/Sony Pictures Entertainment
Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 43m
Director: Gene Stupnitsky
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Andrew Barth Feldman, Laura Benanti
Jennifer Lawrence stars on this raunchy and endearing comedy as Maddie, a younger girl struggling between her job as an Uber driver and a part-time bartender to repay the home she inherited from her late mom. After her automotive is towed, Maddie is introduced with the alternative of a lifetime: Seduce Percy (Andrew Barth Feldman), the college-bound son of a rich couple on their behalf, in trade for a model new set of wheels. Simple sufficient, proper? Yeah, that’s what Maddie thought too.
From our evaluate,
Like most humorous tales, No Hard Feelings looks like a nasty concept at first. It’s a film wherein Jennifer Lawrence, in her first lead function in a full-on comedy, spends roughly 103 minutes making an attempt to seduce a socially awkward 19-year-old for monetary achieve. It’s additionally wildly humorous, and an incredible reminder of how good J-Law is at lighting up a display.
Old Dads
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25014696/OD_11377_R.jpg?resize=6000%2C4000&ssl=1)
Photo: Michael Moriatis/Netflix
Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Bill Burr
Cast: Bill Burr, Bokeem Woodbine, Bobby Cannavale
Three outdated associates change into fathers later in life, solely to be confronted with the generational annoyances that include interacting with anybody born (or something created) after the Eighties. Old Dads is Bill Burr’s directorial function debut and shares a co-writing credit score with writer-producer Ben Tishler.
New on Hulu
Cobweb
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24840299/COBWEB_Still1.jpg?resize=6048%2C4024&ssl=1)
Image: Lionsgate
Genre: Horror thriller
Run time: 1h 28m
Director: Samuel Bodin
Cast: Lizzy Caplan, Woody Norman, Antony Starr
This horror-thriller from the creator of the scariest present on Netflix follows Peter (Woody Norman), a troubled younger boy who — after listening to mysterious knocking sounds coming from the partitions of his residence — makes an attempt to search assist in unearthing a horrible secret hidden from him by his dad and mom.
From our evaluate,
Bodin makes an attempt to invoke dread with lengthy photographs of the movie’s few distinctive set parts — the aforementioned pumpkin patch, or an outdated grandfather clock and icebox that every disguise a hidden passage — however he doesn’t do a lot to render these photos as one thing highly effective or sinister. It’s as if Cobweb is about in a haunted home the place nothing really occurred way back, even because it hides a woman’s voice in its partitions.
New on Prime Video
Polite Society
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24612777/polite_society_4167_D025_00028_R_rgb.jpg?resize=4500%2C3000&ssl=1)
Photo: Parisa Taghizadeh/Focus Features
Genre: Action comedy-drama
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Nida Manzoor
Cast: Priya Kansara, Ritu Arya
When a teenage lady on her path to being a stuntwoman learns that her sister is betrothed to a person, she suspects the man and his mom are up to no good. So she does the solely factor you possibly can in such a state of affairs: strive to sabotage the relationship and beat the shit out of the man in the course of.
Polite Society feels like an uproarious enjoyable time, and it’s one among the movies I’ve most appeared ahead to catching on streaming after a quick restricted U.S. run. After you see it, be certain that to learn this interview with the director about Polite Society’s assorted influences.
Hidden Blade
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25014708/hidden_blade_01.jpg?resize=1200%2C500&ssl=1)
Image: Well Go USA Entertainment
Genre: Period espionage thriller
Run time: 2h 8m
Director: Cheng Er
Cast: Tony Leung, Wang Yibo, Zhou Xun
This Chinese World War II thriller stars the unimaginable Tony Leung as the Director of Shanghai’s Political Security Department, who finds himself in the center of a time of nice upheaval. The Japanese occupation is in its dying embers, China’s Communist Party is on the rise, and Leung’s character finds himself caught in the center of all of it. It’s a tense, beautiful, sometimes opaque thriller with an incredible main efficiency by one among the best actors of his era.
Silver Dollar Road
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Raoul Peck
Cast: John C. Barnett, Classie Curley, Melvin Davis
I Am Not Your Negro director Raoul Peck turns his sight to story of the Reels household on this new documentary. Following the plight of the household’s battle to protect their declare to their waterfront property in North Carolina from predatorial builders, Silver Dollar Road attracts on archival footage and interviews with the household to inform their story.
Surrounded
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24745083/surrounded_interview_header.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&ssl=1)
Image: MGM
Genre: Western
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Anthony Mandler
Cast: Letitia Wright, Jamie Bell, Michael Ok. Williams
Letitia Wright (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Small Axe) stars on this new Western as a freedwoman who impersonates a person in a plot to declare a gold mine. Her journey brings her face-to-face with the legendary outlaw Tommy Walsh (Jamie Bell), whom she holds captive after her stagecoach is ambushed by a gang of marauding thieves and killers. Surrounded additionally options the closing efficiency by the late Michael Ok. Williams, who accomplished filming prior to his dying in 2021.
New on Apple TV Plus
The Pigeon Tunnel
Where to watch: Available to stream on Apple TV
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25014704/8216.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&ssl=1)
Image: Apple TV Plus
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 32m
Director: Errol Morris
Cast: John le Carré
John le Carré is a private favourite creator for me. His spy novels are notable for his or her groundedness — as a former spy himself, he had loads to draw from — but additionally for his or her cynicism in direction of the heartlessness of that individual commerce. Esteemed documentarian Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line) turns his digicam in direction of the lifetime of the late, nice le Carré, one among the best and most essential authors of the twentieth century.
New on Peacock
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24793114/Ruby_Gillman_Teenage_Kraken_01.jpg?resize=1900%2C1000&ssl=1)
Image: Universal Pictures
Genre: Action-comedy
Run time: 1h 31m
Director: Kirk DeMicco
Cast: Lana Condor, Toni Collette, Annie Murphy
This animated comedy follows a clumsy excessive schooler who discovers that she’s descended from an extended line of warrior Kraken monsters. Destined to inherit her grandmother’s throne and defend the seas from tyrannical mermaids, Ruby should grasp her newfound powers and select her personal path as she prepares to embrace her future.
New to lease
Saw X
Where to watch: Available to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25009026/Saw_X_01.jpg?resize=3600%2C1946&ssl=1)
Image: Lionsgate
Genre: Horror
Run time: 1h 58m
Director: Kevin Greutert
Cast: Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Synnøve Macody Lund
Tobin Bell reprises his function as the machiavellian Jigsaw killer in the tenth installment of the lengthy working Saw horror franchise. A prequel set between the occasions of the authentic movie and 2005’s Saw II, Saw X follows John Kramer as he travels to Mexico to endure an experimental remedy so as to treatment his most cancers. When he realizes that the whole program is a complete rip-off, John enlists the assist of his apprentice Amanda Young (Shawnee Smith) to orchestrate a collection of elaborate “games” so as to actual his personal twisted model of justice.
Lynch/Oz
Where to watch: Available to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 48m
Director: Alexandre O. Philippe
Cast: Amy Nicholson, Rodney Ascher, John Waters
This documentary takes a magnifying glass to the profession of David Lynch, one among the most original and experimental storytellers of his era, and how his life-long love for the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz has impressed his work. Split into six chapters, the movie options narration by a number of notable administrators, together with Karyn Kusama, Rodney Ascher, and David Lowery.
Happy Friday, Polygon readers! Each week, we spherical up the most notable releases to streaming and video rental, highlighting the greatest and finest new movies for you to watch at residence.
No Hard Feelings, the coming-of-age intercourse comedy starring Jennifer Lawrence, arrives on Netflix this week alongside Old Dads, the directorial debut of comic Bill Burr. The motion comedy-drama Polite Society comes to Prime together with the Chinese World War II thriller Hidden Blade starring Tony Leung, whereas the horor thriller Cobweb that includes Antony Starr (The Boys) lands on Hulu. There’s loads of new movies out there to lease as effectively this week, like Saw X; the newest installment in the long-running horror franchise starring Tobin Bell, and extra.
Here’s all the things new to watch this weekend!
New on Netflix
No Hard Feelings
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Photo: Macall Polay/Sony Pictures Entertainment
Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 43m
Director: Gene Stupnitsky
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Andrew Barth Feldman, Laura Benanti
Jennifer Lawrence stars on this raunchy and endearing comedy as Maddie, a younger girl struggling between her job as an Uber driver and a part-time bartender to repay the home she inherited from her late mom. After her automotive is towed, Maddie is introduced with the alternative of a lifetime: Seduce Percy (Andrew Barth Feldman), the college-bound son of a rich couple on their behalf, in trade for a model new set of wheels. Simple sufficient, proper? Yeah, that’s what Maddie thought too.
From our evaluate,
Like most humorous tales, No Hard Feelings looks like a nasty concept at first. It’s a film wherein Jennifer Lawrence, in her first lead function in a full-on comedy, spends roughly 103 minutes making an attempt to seduce a socially awkward 19-year-old for monetary achieve. It’s additionally wildly humorous, and an incredible reminder of how good J-Law is at lighting up a display.
Old Dads
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Photo: Michael Moriatis/Netflix
Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Bill Burr
Cast: Bill Burr, Bokeem Woodbine, Bobby Cannavale
Three outdated associates change into fathers later in life, solely to be confronted with the generational annoyances that include interacting with anybody born (or something created) after the Eighties. Old Dads is Bill Burr’s directorial function debut and shares a co-writing credit score with writer-producer Ben Tishler.
New on Hulu
Cobweb
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
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Image: Lionsgate
Genre: Horror thriller
Run time: 1h 28m
Director: Samuel Bodin
Cast: Lizzy Caplan, Woody Norman, Antony Starr
This horror-thriller from the creator of the scariest present on Netflix follows Peter (Woody Norman), a troubled younger boy who — after listening to mysterious knocking sounds coming from the partitions of his residence — makes an attempt to search assist in unearthing a horrible secret hidden from him by his dad and mom.
From our evaluate,
Bodin makes an attempt to invoke dread with lengthy photographs of the movie’s few distinctive set parts — the aforementioned pumpkin patch, or an outdated grandfather clock and icebox that every disguise a hidden passage — however he doesn’t do a lot to render these photos as one thing highly effective or sinister. It’s as if Cobweb is about in a haunted home the place nothing really occurred way back, even because it hides a woman’s voice in its partitions.
New on Prime Video
Polite Society
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Photo: Parisa Taghizadeh/Focus Features
Genre: Action comedy-drama
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Nida Manzoor
Cast: Priya Kansara, Ritu Arya
When a teenage lady on her path to being a stuntwoman learns that her sister is betrothed to a person, she suspects the man and his mom are up to no good. So she does the solely factor you possibly can in such a state of affairs: strive to sabotage the relationship and beat the shit out of the man in the course of.
Polite Society feels like an uproarious enjoyable time, and it’s one among the movies I’ve most appeared ahead to catching on streaming after a quick restricted U.S. run. After you see it, be certain that to learn this interview with the director about Polite Society’s assorted influences.
Hidden Blade
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: Well Go USA Entertainment
Genre: Period espionage thriller
Run time: 2h 8m
Director: Cheng Er
Cast: Tony Leung, Wang Yibo, Zhou Xun
This Chinese World War II thriller stars the unimaginable Tony Leung as the Director of Shanghai’s Political Security Department, who finds himself in the center of a time of nice upheaval. The Japanese occupation is in its dying embers, China’s Communist Party is on the rise, and Leung’s character finds himself caught in the center of all of it. It’s a tense, beautiful, sometimes opaque thriller with an incredible main efficiency by one among the best actors of his era.
Silver Dollar Road
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Raoul Peck
Cast: John C. Barnett, Classie Curley, Melvin Davis
I Am Not Your Negro director Raoul Peck turns his sight to story of the Reels household on this new documentary. Following the plight of the household’s battle to protect their declare to their waterfront property in North Carolina from predatorial builders, Silver Dollar Road attracts on archival footage and interviews with the household to inform their story.
Surrounded
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
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Image: MGM
Genre: Western
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Anthony Mandler
Cast: Letitia Wright, Jamie Bell, Michael Ok. Williams
Letitia Wright (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Small Axe) stars on this new Western as a freedwoman who impersonates a person in a plot to declare a gold mine. Her journey brings her face-to-face with the legendary outlaw Tommy Walsh (Jamie Bell), whom she holds captive after her stagecoach is ambushed by a gang of marauding thieves and killers. Surrounded additionally options the closing efficiency by the late Michael Ok. Williams, who accomplished filming prior to his dying in 2021.
New on Apple TV Plus
The Pigeon Tunnel
Where to watch: Available to stream on Apple TV
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Image: Apple TV Plus
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 32m
Director: Errol Morris
Cast: John le Carré
John le Carré is a private favourite creator for me. His spy novels are notable for his or her groundedness — as a former spy himself, he had loads to draw from — but additionally for his or her cynicism in direction of the heartlessness of that individual commerce. Esteemed documentarian Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line) turns his digicam in direction of the lifetime of the late, nice le Carré, one among the best and most essential authors of the twentieth century.
New on Peacock
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock
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Image: Universal Pictures
Genre: Action-comedy
Run time: 1h 31m
Director: Kirk DeMicco
Cast: Lana Condor, Toni Collette, Annie Murphy
This animated comedy follows a clumsy excessive schooler who discovers that she’s descended from an extended line of warrior Kraken monsters. Destined to inherit her grandmother’s throne and defend the seas from tyrannical mermaids, Ruby should grasp her newfound powers and select her personal path as she prepares to embrace her future.
New to lease
Saw X
Where to watch: Available to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Image: Lionsgate
Genre: Horror
Run time: 1h 58m
Director: Kevin Greutert
Cast: Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Synnøve Macody Lund
Tobin Bell reprises his function as the machiavellian Jigsaw killer in the tenth installment of the lengthy working Saw horror franchise. A prequel set between the occasions of the authentic movie and 2005’s Saw II, Saw X follows John Kramer as he travels to Mexico to endure an experimental remedy so as to treatment his most cancers. When he realizes that the whole program is a complete rip-off, John enlists the assist of his apprentice Amanda Young (Shawnee Smith) to orchestrate a collection of elaborate “games” so as to actual his personal twisted model of justice.
Lynch/Oz
Where to watch: Available to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 48m
Director: Alexandre O. Philippe
Cast: Amy Nicholson, Rodney Ascher, John Waters
This documentary takes a magnifying glass to the profession of David Lynch, one among the most original and experimental storytellers of his era, and how his life-long love for the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz has impressed his work. Split into six chapters, the movie options narration by a number of notable administrators, together with Karyn Kusama, Rodney Ascher, and David Lowery.
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