Every week on Polygon, we round up the most notable new releases coming to streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies you can watch at home.
This week, Inside Out 2starring Amy Poehler and Maya Hawke is finally streaming on Disney Plus after its VOD premiere in August. There are even more to choose from, such as: B. that of Jon Watts. Wolfs on Apple TV Plus, the Rosemary’s baby Prequel Apartment 7A on Paramount Plus, the paramedic drama Asphalt city on Hulu and the documentary Will & Harper on Netflix. Not to mention new releases on VOD like the supernatural horror film The front room and the Colleen Hoover adaptation It ends with us.
Here’s everything new to see this weekend!
Where to see: Available to stream on Netflix
Genre: documentary
Duration: 1h 54m
Director: Josh Greenbaum
Pour: Will Ferrell, Harper Steele
In this documentary, comedian Will Ferrell goes on a road trip with Harper Steele, the former SNL head writer and Ferrell’s good friend of 17 years, who recently came out as a trans woman. After Steele contacted him about her transition, Ferrell decided to learn more about the trans community and the two embarked on a cross-country road trip. This film documents their experiences – and more importantly, their friendship.
Where to see: Available to stream on Netflix
Genre: Coming-of-age drama
Duration: 1h 51m
Director: Sydney Freeland
Pour: Kauchani Bratt, Jessica Matten, Devin Sampson-Craig
Based on the non-fiction book Canyon dreams, Rez Ball follows a Native American high school basketball team in New Mexico. The team is ready to compete in the state championships, but needs to recover after losing its star player. It is an underdog story that also features Native American culture. Produced by LeBron James (yes, The LeBron James), Rez Sports comes from director Sydney Freeland (The best of Drunktown) with a screenplay co-written by Freeland and Sterling Harjo (Reservation dogs).
Where to see: Available to stream on Hulu
Genre: thriller
Duration: 2h 5m
Director: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
Pour: Tye Sheridan, Sean Penn, Michael Pitt
Based on Shannon Burke’s 2008 novel BlackfliesThis drama stars Tye Sheridan (Ready, player one) as Ollie Cross, a trainee paramedic at the New York Fire Department who is assigned to take on the night shift alongside his grizzled partner Gene (Sean Penn). Think Training daybut with paramedics, and you’ll understand, tonally, what this film is going for.
Where to see: Available to stream on Prime Video
Genre: Secret
Duration: 1h 37m
Director: Philippe Lacote
Pour: Joseph Gordon Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Richard Madden
What’s better than a Richard Madden? Two Richard Maddens! In this crime drama, Madden plays two beautiful twin brothers who get caught up in a love triangle. Enter a tortured detective named “The Jealousy Man” (played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt), who travels to a remote Greek island to investigate a suspicious love triangle-related death. It is based on a short story by the Norwegian writer Jo Nesbø.
Where to see: Available to stream on Apple TV Plus
Image: Apple
Genre: Action comedy
Duration: 1h 48m
Director: Jon Watts
Pour: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Amy Ryan
Jon Watts finally escaped the content mines of the MCU and made a new film starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt! Wolfs It centers on the story of Jack (Clooney) and Nick (Pitt), two professional “fixers” who are hired to clean up the crime scene of a murder. The problem is that they both prefer to work alone and have to work together when the job goes wrong.
Where to see: Available to stream on Disney Plus
Image: Disney/Pixar
Genre: Coming-of-age fantasy
Duration: 1h 36m
Director: Kelsey Mann
Pour: Amy Poehler, Maya Hawke, Kensington Tallman
Almost ten years later From the inside out became one of the most popular Pixar films of all time, the sequel broke box office records and became the highest-grossing animated film of all time and by far the highest-grossing film of 2024. Set two years after the original, Inside Out 2 follows Riley as a 13-year-old with new challenges and new emotions.
Pixar purists are certainly rightly concerned about the studio’s recent commitment to sequels and franchises, and how many of its newer originals lack the old emotional magic that gave the studio its reputation and a stream of indelible, unforgettable hits. But Inside Out 2 is a good sign that the company is concentrating again on its core competencies. It’s a sequel to a film that didn’t need it, and an expansion of a setting that derives much of its initial power from the simplicity of its structure: five emotions caught in conflict over an unprecedented new challenge. But the new film earns its place in the Pixar pantheon with its creativity, craft and heartfelt script. It’s almost enough to make it Inside Out 3: The College Years seems like a promising pitch.
Where to see: Available to stream on Paramount Plus
Image: Paramount Plus
Genre: Psychological thriller
Duration: 1h 44m
Director: Natalie Erika James
Pour: Julia Garner, Dianne Wiest, Jim Sturgess
Julia Garner (Ozark) stars in this psychological thriller as Terry, an ambitious young dancer who, shortly after moving to New York, suffers a horrific injury that shatters her dreams of fame. When a wealthy, older couple offers her a room in their luxury apartment building, Terry takes the opportunity to rest and recuperate. But shortly after her arrival, she begins to suspect that there is more to this building than meets the eye. Apartment 7A is a prequel to Roman Polanski’s 1968 horror classic Rosemary’s baby.
Where to see: Available to stream on Shudder and AMC Plus
Image: Shudder
Genre: horror
Duration: 1h 38m
Director: Damian McCarthy
Pour: Carolyn Bracken, Gwilym Lee, Tadhg Murphy
curiosity follows Darcy (Carolyn Bracken), a blind psychic medium who is grieving the recent death of her sister (also Carolyn Bracken). Not entirely satisfied with the official story behind the murder, Darcy heads back to the crime scene and uses a (very scary-looking) wooden doll to psychically figure out what really happened the night her twin sister died.
Where to see: Can be rented from Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Image: A24
Genre: Horror thriller
Duration: 1h 34m
Directors: Max Eggers, Sam Eggers
Pour: Brandy, Andrew Burnap, Kathryn Hunter
Brandy stars in this new horror thriller from directing duo Sam and Max Eggers as Belinda, a newly pregnant anthropology professor who eagerly awaits the birth of her next child while still grieving the death of her firstborn son. When she and her husband Norman (Andrew Burnap) take in his newly widowed stepmother, Solange (Kathryn Hunter), their new guest’s arrival brings with it several dark, disturbing revelations that threaten Belinda’s life and sanity.
Where to see: Can be rented from Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Image: Magnetic release
Genre: Horror mystery
Duration: 1h 35m
Director: Jason Yu
Pour: Jung Yu-mi, Lee Sun-kyun, Kim Gook-hee
This Korean horror thriller follows Soo-jin (Jung Yu-mi) and Hyeon-soo (Lee Sun-kyun), a newly married couple whose home life is threatened by their bizarre sleepwalking behavior. Fearing for the life of her newborn child, Hyeon-soo must search for a cure for her husband’s illness before something terrible happens.
Where to see: Can be rented from Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Image: Columbia Pictures
Genre: Romantic drama
Duration: 2h 10m
Director: Justin Baldoni
Pour: Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni, Jenny Slate
Raise your hand if your social media algorithms think that just because you like reading must I love Colleen Hoover’s books. It ends with us is based on Hoover’s best-selling 2016 novel and is about a florist in an abusive relationship who reconnects with her first love. Despite what the TikTok edits might suggest, it’s really about breaking the cycle of domestic violence.
Where to see: Can be rented from Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Image: Sony Pictures Classics
Genre: comedy
Duration: 1h 51m
Director: Nathan Silver
Pour: Jason Schwartzman, Carol Kane, Dolly De Leon
In this comedy-drama, a cantor experiencing a crisis of faith after the death of his wife reunites with his childhood music teacher, who asks him for help with a delayed bat mitzvah. Sparks fly between the two as they deal with their personal relationships with Judaism again. Between the templeThe film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year.
