The Flash, Past Lives, and every new movie to watch at home

Happy Friday, Polygon readers!

Each week, we spherical up probably the most notable releases new to streaming and VOD, highlighting the largest and greatest new motion pictures for you to watch at home. This week we now have the streaming debut of the new DC Universe superhero movie starring Ezra Miller, a lovely romantic drama from director Celine Song, and rather more.

Big George Foreman, the latest theatrical biopic primarily based on the lifetime of the previous heavyweight boxing champion and grill entrepreneur, comes to Netflix this weekend. Vacation Friends 2, the sequel to the 2021 buddy comedy starring Lil Rel Howery (Get Out) and John Cena arrives on Hulu alongside the exhilarating eco-thriller How to Blow Up a Pipeline. That’s not even mentioning The Flash on Max, or the opposite thrilling new releases on Criterion Channel, on AMC Plus, and out there to lease or buy on VOD companies.

Here’s the whole lot new to watch over the weekend!

New on Netflix

You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah

Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix

Image: Scott Yamano/Netflix

Genre: Comedy-drama
Run time: 1h 41m
Director: Sammi Cohen
Cast: Adam Sandler, Sunny Sandler, Idina Menzel

This coming-of-age teen comedy follows two greatest buddies whose goals of planning their very own epic bat mitzvahs are thrown for a loop when the affections of their college’s hottest boy throw a wrench of their in any other case flawless friendship. Can they mend the rift in time to go to one another’s events and have fun this thrilling new part of their lives?

Big George Foreman

Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix

Photo: Alan Markfield/Sony Pictures

Genre: Biographical sports activities drama
Run time: 2h 9m
Director: George Tillman Jr.
Cast: Khris Davis, Jasmine Mathews, John Magaro

This 2023 biopic stars Khris Davis (Judas and the Black Messiah) as George Foreman, charting the lifetime of the previous heavyweight boxing champ from his humble beginnings to his late-career comeback. The movie covers his time as an newbie boxer, his near-death expertise within the ring, his interval as a Baptist minister, and sure— his promotion of the George Foreman grill.

New on Hulu

How to Blow Up a Pipeline

Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu

Image: Neon

Genre: Eco-thriller
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Daniel Goldhaber
Cast: Ariela Barer, Kristine Froseth, Lukas Gage

Director Daniel Goldhaber (Cam) adapts Andreas Malm’s incendiary 2021 nonfiction e book right into a fictional crime thriller. The movie follows a gaggle of local weather activists who, disillusioned by the ineffectiveness of divestment actions and the inaction of presidency regulation, band collectively to pull off a politically charged act of property harm as environmental protest: blowing up an oil pipeline in West Texas.

From our overview:

How to Blow Up a Pipeline is the uncommon movie that successfully weaponizes a radical political message by marrying it to typical style storytelling. It appears like a game-changer: the type of movie that can encourage artists and budding activists alike for generations to come. It’s thrilling, tense leisure with an explosive, memorable ultimate line of dialogue. 2023 has been an important 12 months in motion pictures to this point, however this one shall be arduous to beat.

Vacation Friends 2

Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu

Image: 20 Century Studios/Hulu

Genre: Buddy comedy
Run time: 1h 43m
Director: Clay Tarver
Cast: Lil Rel Howery, Yvonne Orji, John Cena

This sequel to the 2021 buddy comedy picks up a pair months after the unique. New married couple Marcus (Lil Rel Howery) and Emily (Yvonne Orji) invite their buddies Ron (John Cena) and Kyla (Meredith Hagner) alongside for his or her all-expenses-paid journey to a Caribbean resort. So far, so good — that’s, till Kyla’s ex-con father Reese (Steve Buscemi) is unexpectedly launched from jail and exhibits up at the resort, throwing the {couples}’ fastidiously laid plans right into a tailspin.

New on Max

The Flash

Where to watch: Available to stream on Max

Image: Warner Bros. Pictures

Genre: Superhero motion
Run time: 2h 24m
Director: Andy Muschietti
Cast: Ezra Miller, Sasha Calle, Michael Shannon

Ezra Miller returns because the superheroic velocity demon Barry Allen in The Flash, the primary live-action superhero movie primarily based on the character of the identical identify. Set someday after the occasions of Justice League, Barry by accident faucets into the Speed Force and travels again in time. Seeing this as a chance to save the lifetime of his mom and exonerate his father, Barry travels again in time once more so as to set issues proper… just for them go very, very fallacious. With time working out to save the multiverse, The Flash can have to depend on assistance from an alternate universe model of himself, the Kryptonian superhuman Kara Zor-El (Sasha Calle), and an alternate universe model of Batman (Michael Keaton).

From our overview:

The Flash is a shiny, colourful, imaginative movie with sufficient verve to pop off the display, despite the fact that it’s typically nonsensical in its wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff. But as enjoyable as its imagery might be, it additionally indicators the identical priorities Muschietti confirmed within the It motion pictures. So a lot of The Flash provides means to computer-generated results, not only for the depiction of super-people preventing to save the world — Sasha Calle places in a rage-fueled efficiency as Supergirl, despite the fact that the movie leaves her with frustratingly little to do — however for its longing glances at alternate doable pasts, as Barry travels by time and house to see what may need been.

New on Prime Video

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

Photo: Aidan Monaghan/Paramount Pictures

Where to watch: Available to stream on Paramount Plus
Genre: Fantasy journey
Run time: 2h 14m
Director: Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley
Cast: Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page

Chris Pine (Star Trek) stars as Edgin Darvis, a former bard-turned-thief who kinds an unlikely troupe of adventurers on a quest to recuperate a robust misplaced artifact. When the occasion runs afoul of a harmful determine bent on world domination, Edgin and his allies can have to struggle, run, and roll for initiative so as to save the day.

From our overview,

The movie is playful and earnest all through, specializing in the truth that for the characters, these are severe conditions. Rodriguez’s barbarian remains to be reeling from a damaged relationship, and when her storyline pays off, it’s hilarious — however the viewers remains to be invited to really feel and empathize together with her ache. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves doesn’t re-create sport mechanics or a way of improvisation in addition to, say, The Legend of Vox Machina, however it’s the greatest Dungeons & Dragons movie we might have hoped for. Not solely is it a enjoyable fantasy movie, it’s an important adaptation of a gaming session. And it’s an invite right into a new and extra visible model of a world devoted gamers already love — and that the filmmakers appear to love, too.

New on Criterion Channel

The Eight Mountains

Where to watch: Available to stream on Criterion Channel

Image: Janus Films/The Criterion Channel

Genre: Drama
Run time: 2h 27m
Director: Felix van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch
Cast: Luca Marinelli, Alessandro Borghi

Luca Marinelli (The Old Guard) and Alessandro Borghi (The First King) star on this coming-of-age drama as two Italian boys who, after crossing paths with one another in a secluded alpine village, kind a lifelong bond with each other exploring the peaks and valleys of their majestic childhood home. When their respective lives separate, the 2 males reunite later in life and replicate on their friendship with each other.

New on AMC Plus

Monica

Where to watch: Available to stream on AMC Plus

Image: IFC Films

Genre: Drama
Run time: 1h 46m
Director: Andrea Pallaoro
Cast: Trace Lysette, Patricia Clarkson, Emily Browning

Trace Lysette stars on this 2022 drama as Monica, a trans girl who returns home to take care of her ailing mom after years of being estranged from her household. Upon her arrival, Monica is pressured to reconcile the ache of her previous and forge renewed connections so as to embrace the long run.

New to lease

Past Lives

Where to watch: Available to buy for $19.99 on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Photo: Jon Pack

Genre: Romantic drama
Run time: 1h 46m
Director: Celine Song
Cast: Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Magaro

Greta Lee (Sisters) and Teo Yoo (Decision to Leave) star in director Celine Song’s romantic drama debut as Nora and Hae-sung, two childhood buddies who’re seperated when the previous emigrates from South Korea to Toronto together with her household. Reunited 12 years later, the pair discover themselves unmistakably drawn collectively. As their respective lives and obligations pull them additional and farther aside, Nora and Hae-sung should confront their emotions in regards to the life they may have shared collectively had their previous decisions been completely different, and what to do with these emotions now within the current. Song spoke with Polygon about how the movie is all about “the way that life reflects upon itself,” in addition to her transient foray into Sims 4 theater manufacturing.

Meg 2: The Trench

Where to watch: Available to buy for $19.99 on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Image: Warner Bros. Pictures

Genre: Sci-fi motion
Run time: 1h 56m
Director: Ben Wheatley
Cast: Jason Statham, Wu Jing, Sophia Cai

Remember The Meg, that movie about Jason Statham preventing a huge maneating Megalodon shark? Well, guess what: There’s loads extra fish within the sea, and they’re simply as colossal and pissed off as the primary one!

From our overview:

Two motion pictures in, the Meg sequence doesn’t appear to have a lot concept about what makes sharks scary, other than the truth that they appeared that means in different, higher motion pictures. If too many motion pictures have turned sharks into calculating forces of pure malevolence, at least these perceive the primal, instinctive terror we could really feel upon the conclusion that many elements of this planet don’t belong to us. The trench of Meg 2 has no such terror connected, nor a way of surprise. (More fantastical Warner motion pictures like Aquaman or Godzilla vs. Kong do a greater job on each counts.) Statham is an indomitable drive the movie principally understands; sharks, in the meantime, stay simply one other barely sketched dangerous man.

The Dive

Where to watch: Available to lease for $14.99 on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Image: RLJE Films/Protagonist Pictures

Genre: Thriller
Run time: 1h 31m
Director: Maximilian Erlenwein
Cast: Louisa Krause, Sophie Lowe

Louisa Krause (The Heart Machine) and Sophie Lowe (Blow the Man Down) star on this new survival thriller as Drew and May, two sisters who discover themselves in a life-threatening scenario after a landslide strikes the latter throughout a deep-sea diving journey, trapping them 28 meters beneath the floor. With valuable time and oxygen working out, Drew should devise a determined plan to save her sister’s life.