Greetings, Polygon readers! Each week we round up the most notable new releases on streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies you can watch at home.
Dune – Part Two meets Max, so now you can do a double feature right at home (popcorn bucket not included). But if you’re not a Dune fan, there’s also Jennifer Lopez’s mech flick Atlas on Netflix or the romantic comedy A Colt for all occasions available to rent. There’s also the documentary “Beach Boys” from Disney Plus and the documentary “Blue Angels” from Prime Video – a perfect double feature to watch with Dad!
Here’s everything new to see this weekend!
New on Netflix
Atlas
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Image: Netflix
Genre: Science fiction action
Duration: 1 hour 58 minutes
Director: Brad Peyton
Pour: Jennifer Lopez, Simu Liu, Sterling K. Brown
Jennifer Lopez plays a sharp data analyst with a deep distrust of artificial intelligence. But when her last mission goes wrong, she must learn to trust AI to save humanity. The mech design is also a bit reminiscent of a Titanfall movie!
New to Disney Plus
The Beach Boys
Where to watch: Available to stream on Disney Plus
Photo: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Genre: documentary
Duration: 1h 52m
Director: Frank Marshall and Thom Zimny
It’s the Beach Boys! The new Disney Plus documentary follows the band from the beginning and contains brand new interviews and previously unreleased footage. Look forward to lots of good vibes.
New on Hulu
Ferrari
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
Image: Courtesy of the Everett Collection
Genre: Biographical sports drama
Duration: 2h 10m
Director: Michael Mann
Pour: Adam Driver, Penelope Cruz, Shailene Woodley
Adam Driver plays Enzo Ferrari, the founder of – you guessed it! – the Italian sports car manufacturer of the same name. Ferrari is set in the summer of 1957, when Ferrari (the company, not the guy) plans to take part in the Mille Miglia (a major race).
The sowing
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
Image: Magnolia Pictures/Everett Collection
Genre: Horror thriller
Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes
Director: Barnaby Ceramics
Pour: Scott Haze, Kate Lyn Sheil, Alex Montaldo
This atmospheric horror thriller is about a man who is lost in the desert. Luckily, he finds a woman who lives far away from civilization! Unfortunately, this woman is held captive by a group of sadistic teenagers.
New at Max
Dune – Part Two
Where to watch: Available to stream on Max
Image: Warner Bros.
Genre: Epic science fiction
Duration: 2h 46m
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Pour: Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson
The sequel to the 2021 sci-fi epic does not disappoint. In fact, it exceeds all expectations and makes the first Dune film even better.
From our test report:
For those who loved the promise of Second part was that the conclusion of Paul’s journey would be even more exciting, beautiful and moving. For those who were part Onethe promise was that the slow, introductory pace would serve to tighten up the next part. Dune – Part Two is exactly the film part One It could be promised that this is the rare sequel that not only surpasses its predecessor, but even improves on it.
New on Prime Video
The Blue Angels
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
Image: Amazon/Everett Collection
Genre: documentary
Duration: 1h 32m
Director: Paul Crowder
This documentary follows a new class of Blue Angels, comprised of pilots from the Navy and Marine Corps, as they learn challenging flight techniques, alongside a group of experienced pilots taking to the skies for the last time.
New on Criterion Channel
About dry grasses
Where to watch: Available to stream on Criterion Channel
Image: Courtesy of the Everett Collection
Genre: theatre
Duration: 3h 17m
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Pour: Deniz Celiloglu, Merve Dizdar, Musab Ekici
From the acclaimed Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Hibernation), About dry grasses follows a teacher from Istanbul who is assigned to work in a remote village. After two students (one of them his protégé) accuse him of inappropriate behavior, he longs to return to Istanbul.
New to rent
A Colt for all occasions
Where to watch: Available for rent on Amazon, Appleand Vudu
Image: Universal Pictures
Genre: Action comedy
Duration: 2h 6m
Director: David Leitch
Pour: Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson
A big adventure blockbuster built on big emotions and even bigger practical stunts, this Ryan Gosling-Emily Blunt action-comedy-romance was so bad at the box office on its opening weekend that it sparked a wave of panicked “Are blockbuster movies dead?!?” opinion pieces. (Spoiler: Maybe? If so, that’s OK.) Now the film is hitting theaters on VOD just three weeks after its theatrical debut.
But don’t let worry about its flop status stop you from watching it at home. It’s a pretty charming film, in the spirit of The Lost Citywith big stars joking, flirting and fighting between explosions and some really funny fight scenes. –Tasha Robinson
Civil War
Where to watch: Available for rent on Amazon, Appleand Vudu
Photo: Murray Close/A24
Genre: Dystopian thriller
Duration: 1 hour 49 minutes
Director: Alex Garland
Pour: Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny
Alex Garland’s thriller avoids current political issues and instead focuses on war correspondents and journalism.
From our test report:
The entire film is planned and paced to involve this dynamic. It’s a particularly beautiful drama, shot with a loving warmth that reflects its point of view, through the eyes of two photographers accustomed to capturing everything around them in the form of vivid, captivating images. A sequence at the end of the film, in which the group drives through a forest fire, is particularly beautiful, but the film as a whole seems designed to impress viewers on a visual level.
Stress positions
Where to watch: Available for rent on Amazon, Appleand Vudu
Image: Courtesy of the Everett Collection
Genre: comedy
Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes
Director: Theda Hammel
Pour: John Early, Qaher Harhash, Elizabeth Dement
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, a Brooklyn man is taking care of his nephew in his ex-husband’s apartment while he recovers from a broken leg. But it seems like everyone he knows wants to meet his nephew. It’s hilarious.
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