Despicable Me 4, Netflix’s Mission: Cross and all the new movies to watch

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, Despicable Me 4the latest Minions film starring Steve Carell, is coming to VOD after its theatrical premiere earlier this year. But that’s not all, because we also have several exciting streaming premieres this weekend such as The Bikers on peacock, The Chimera on Hulu, The instigators on Apple TV Plus and more.

Here’s everything new to see this weekend!

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New on Netflix

Mission: Cross

Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu

Genre: Action comedy
Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes
Director: Lee Myung-Hoon
Pour: Hwang Jung-min, Yum Jung-Ah, Jeon Hye-jin

A retired secret agent (Hwang Jung-min) is unexpectedly thrown back into the fray of international espionage when he becomes involved in a mission involving his wife (Yum Jung-ah), a detective who knows absolutely nothing about her husband’s past life.

New on Hulu

The Chimera

Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu

Image: Neon

Genre: Historical drama and comedy drama
Duration: 2h 13m
Director: Alice Rohrwacher
Pour: Josh O’Connor, Carol Duarte, Isabella Rossellini

The latest from the masterful Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher (Happy like Lazzaro, The student) plays one of the challenger Boys as a British archaeologist in a story about stolen historical artifacts. The Chimera was nominated for the Palme d’Or at Cannes 2023.

New on Prime Video

A quick movement

Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video

Genre: Action drama
Duration: 1 hour 58 minutes
Director: Kelly Blatz
Pour: KJ Apa, Eric Dane, Maia Reficco

KJ Apa (Riverdale) plays Wes, a troubled young man who tries to convince his estranged father Dean (Eric Dane) to teach him how to become a professional motorcycle racer, in this sports drama. Taking him under his wing, Dean and Wes are forced to navigate their troubled relationship while trying to build a new future for themselves.

New on Apple TV Plus

The instigators

Where to watch: Available to stream on Apple TV Plus

Image: Apple

Genre: Heist comedy
Duration: 1 hour 41 minutes
Director: Doug Liman
Pour: Matt Damon, Casey Affleck, Hong Chau

Matt Damon and director Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity) reunite for this irreverent crime comedy, starring Casey Affleck (Manchester by the sea) and Hong Chau (The whale). Damon plays Rory, an ex-Marine who agrees to rob a mayoral fundraiser with an ex-convict (Affleck). When the botched robbery sparks a citywide manhunt by the police and the vengeful crime boss behind the plot, the pair “consensually” kidnap Rory’s therapist (Chau) in a desperate attempt to escape and survive.

New to Peacock

The Bikers

Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock

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?

New to rent

Despicable Me 4

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

Image: Lighting

Genre: comedy
Duration: 1h 34m
Directors: Chris Renaud
Pour: Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Pierre Coffin

Former supervillain and current secret agent Gru is back with a brand new adventure! Despicable Me 4 Gru is forced to relocate his family when his former rival Maxime Le Mal (Will Ferrell) resurfaces seeking revenge. While Gru’s family tries to adjust to their new home, Gru’s teenage neighbor tries to follow in his villainous footsteps, while Gru’s minions decide to become superheroes. This is a muchI know!

From our test report:

Despicable Me 4 is full of good ideas, many of which specifically appeal to what people like about these movies: the antics of the Minions, Gru’s villainy as opposed to his normal family life, and over-the-top theatrics of the big bad. But all of this minutiae is jumbled together and not coherent enough to make sense as a story. The film is discordant, like a group of musicians playing unfamiliar instruments (or a group of — dare I say — Minions being given instruments) trying to make a coherent song. But amidst this chaos, the music sometimes starts to sound good — a cool, jazzy saxophone solo briefly climbs the cacophony. You just have to grit your teeth and ignore the clanging drums and out-of-tune oboes around it.

Dandelion

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

Image: IFC Films

Genre: drama
Duration: 1 hour 53 minutes
Director: Nicole Riegel
Pour: KiKi Layne, Thomas Doherty, Melanie Nicholls-King

KiKi Layne (If Beale Street could talk) stars in this musical drama as Dandelion, a struggling singer-songwriter who travels the country giving concerts while yearning for a career breakthrough she fears will never come. After she begins a romance with Casey (Thomas Doherty), a fellow dissatisfied musician, their love proves to be the inadvertent catalyst for Dandelion’s discovery of an authentic artistic voice all her own.

Widow Clicquot

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

Image: Vertical Entertainment

Genre: drama
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Director: Thomas Napper
Pour: Haley Bennett, Leo Suter, Natasha O’Keeffe

In this historical drama, Haley Bennett (Swallow) as Barbe-Nicole Clicquot, the widow of an 18th-century winemaker who takes over the management of her fledgling winery after his untimely death. Barbe-Nicole must overcome financial difficulties and political turmoil while fighting to make a name for herself and lead the company to success.