Bikeriders, Planet of the Apes and all the new movies you can watch at home

Each week at Polygon, we round up the most notable new releases on streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies you can watch at home.

This week, The Bikersthe new crime drama with Jodie Comer (The final duel) and Austin Butler (Dune – Part Two), appears as VOD next to Planet of the Apes: Kingdom and many other exciting new releases. That’s not all – there are plenty of other films to watch this weekend, like the hybrid animated historical drama The farmers on Netflix, the science fiction drama The Animal Kingdom on Hulu, a documentary about the life and career of actress Faye Dunaway on Max, and much more.

Here’s everything new to see this weekend!

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New on Netflix

The farmers

Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix

Image: Breakthru Films/Sony Pictures Classics

Genre: Animated historical drama
Duration: 1 hour 54 minutes
Directors: DK Welchman, Hugh Welchman
Pour: Kamila Urzędowska, Robert Gulaczyk, Mirosław Baka

Love Vincent Directing duo DK Welchman and Hugh Welchman return with another historical drama made up of thousands of hand-painted images. Set in a 19th-century Polish village full of feuds and gossip, a young woman named Jagna desperately tries to build a life for herself beyond the expectations of those around her.

New on Hulu

The Animal Kingdom

Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu

Image: Magnet comes loose

Genre: Science fiction
Duration: 2h 10m
Director: Thomas Cailley
Pour: Romain Duris, Paul Kircher, Adèle Exarchopoulos

In a world where humans are afflicted by a genetic mutation that turns them into animal hybrids, a desperate father (Romain Duris) and his son (Paul Kircher) set out to search for his wife, who has disappeared in a nearby forest along with other similarly affected hybrids. Remember, Sweet tooth meets The lobsterPolygon had the opportunity to speak with Cailey about the film’s origins and creature design.

New at Max

Faye

Where to watch: Available to stream on Max

Genre: documentary
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes
Director: Laurent Bouzereau

This documentary looks back at the life and career of Faye Dunaway, the Oscar-winning actress known for her iconic performances in films such as Bonnie and Clyde, networkAnd ChinatownBouzereau’s film includes testimony from Dunaway’s colleagues and admirers, as well as extensive interviews with Dunaway himself.

New on Prime Video

Divorce in the black

Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video

Image: Prime Video

Genre: theatre
Duration: 2h 23m
Director: Tyler Perry
Pour: Meagan Good, Cory Hardrict, Joseph Lee Anderson

Tyler Perry’s latest film is about a young bank employee whose husband leaves her. At first she is determined to fight for her marriage, but soon she realizes that her husband once sabotaged her chance at true love.

New to Shudder

Arcadian

Where to watch: Available to stream on Shudder

Photo: Patrick Redmond/RLJE Films

Genre: Action Horror
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes
Director: Benjamin Brewer
Pour: Nicolas Cage, Jaeden Martell, Maxwell Jenkins

If you have already seen Nicolas Cage in Long legshere’s another Cage drama for you. The actor plays a father of two sons desperately trying to protect and raise his family on a near-future Earth devastated by the arrival of ferocious nocturnal creatures. When their father is wounded by one of these creatures, his sons must stick together and apply every lesson of their training to survive.

From our test report:

Once the action really gets going, however, Cage is largely absent, and unclear spatial context and confusing, hard-to-see plot rob the otherwise explosive final act of a significant amount of its power. And once the film devolves into a fairly standard chase and fight movie, its lack of more character depth or nuance or more compelling relationships between the protagonists limits the filmmakers’ ability to make this story stand out from all the previous projects it recalls. Arcadian does a few things remarkably well for a sci-fi/horror film, but it needed a lot more to really spark: more commitment to the vaguely realized setting, more energy between the two very different brothers at its center, and, most importantly, more Nicolas Cage—no matter which versions of him.

New to rent

Planet of the Apes: Kingdom

Where to watch: Available for rent on Amazon, Appleand Vudu

Image: 20th Century Studios

Genre: Post-apocalyptic science fiction
Duration: 2h 25m
Director: Wes Ball
Pour: Owen Teague, Freya Allan, Kevin Durand

300 years after the events of Matt Reeves’ Planet of the Apes: SurvivalThis new installment in the series follows Noa (Owen Teague), a young ape who embarks on a journey to save his tribe from Proximus Caesar (Kevin Durand), an insane ape who has twisted Caesar’s legacy to create an empire built on conquest and slavery.

From our test report:

As a story, Planet of the Apes: Kingdom rarely achieves more than narrative prowess. But because the focus is almost exclusively on the apes, the technical achievement in their portrayal is always at the forefront. It’s honestly incredible what the team at Wētā FX, in collaboration with all of the other effects artists on the film, did to bring the apes to life, giving them all distinct body language and faithfully translating every movement and subtle expression the actors made onto their faces. These are some of the most emotive digital creations ever seen in a blockbuster action film, and it’s incredible to see them in such a mundane film.

The Bikers

Where to watch: Available for rent on Amazon, Appleand Vudu

Image: 20th Century Studios

Genre: Crime Drama
Duration: 1h 56m
Director: Jeff Nichols
Pour: Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, Tom Hardy

The Bikers follows a motorcycle club over a decade as it evolves from a simple collection of enthusiasts into a hardcore gang. Jodie Comer plays Kathy, a young woman who is drawn into the world of biker gangs after meeting the hotheaded Benny (Austin Butler).

From our test report:

The Bikers is a film of old-fashioned, simple pleasures: great tunes, perfect costumes, mythical shots and a cast of great character actors who really give it their all. (Including, but not limited to, Michael Shannon, West Side StoryThey are Mike Faist, Justified(Damon Herriman, and a completely unrecognizable Norman Reedus as a shaggy Californian wild biker.) It is a film about looking at the beautiful, inscrutable people on the screen – and this one beautiful, inscrutable person in particular – just as Hardy’s character does at one point with Marlon Brando in The wildand thought: How about it, Be them?

The Exorcism

Where to watch: Available for rent on Amazon, Appleand Vudu

Image: Vertical Entertainment

Genre: Horror thriller
Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes
Director: Joshua John Miller
Pour: Russell Crowe, Ryan Simpkins, Sam Worthington

Russell Crowe plays an actor on the set of a supernatural horror film similar to the original The Exorcist Film. His mental state slowly deteriorates and as his behavior becomes more and more erratic, his daughter begins to suspect that there may be a more sinister reason behind it than his previous drug addiction.

The Garfield Movie

Where to watch: Available for rent on Amazon, Appleand Vudu

Image: Sony Pictures

Genre: Adventure comedy
Duration: 1 hour 41 minutes
Director: Mark Dindal
Pour: Chris Pratt, Samuel L. Jackson, Hannah Waddingham

It’s Chris Pratt! As Garfield! The lazy orange cat meets his long-lost father Vic again (of all people, Samuel L. Jackson voices him). Together with Odie, Vic and Garfield plan a robbery on a farm to steal a lot of milk and use it to appease the Persian cat gangster boss that Vic works for. The film was directed by Mark Dindal, who is best known for his A kingdom for a llama.

The Convert

Where to watch: Available to rent from Amazon. Appleand Vudu

Image: MBK Productions/Magnolia Pictures

Genre: Historical drama
Duration: 1h 59m
Director: Lee Tamahori
Pour: Guy Pearce, Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne, Antonio Te Maioha

In this historical drama, a preacher comes to a remote outpost in New Zealand – and becomes caught up in a war between Māori tribes. The drama is based on the 2011 novel Wolf by New Zealand author Hamish Clayton.

Wild cat

Image: Renovo Media Group/Oscilloscope Laboratories

Genre: Biographical drama
Duration: 1 hour 43 minutes
Director: Ethan Hawke
Pour: Maya Hawke, Rafael Casal, Philip Ettinger

Maya Hawke (Stranger Things) stars in her father Ethan Hawke’s latest film: a biographical drama about the life and struggles of the inimitable Southern Gothic author Flannery O’Connor. Wild cat follows O’Connor’s efforts to publish her first novel, interspersed with episodes recreating characters and scenes inspired by the author’s short stories.