Killers of the Flower Moon, Netflix’s Lift and all the new films to watch

Greetings, Polygon readers! Each week we round up the most notable new releases coming to streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new films you can watch at home.

This week, Flower Moon Killer, the historical crime drama from director Martin Scorsese starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone, is finally coming to Apple TV Plus after its theatrical release. That’s not all: Ridley Scott’s epic historical drama Napoleon is finally available for purchase and rental on VOD. There’s plenty more to choose from this week, including a new heist comedy starring Kevin Hart on Netflix, a dark comedy from director Jake Johnson on Hulu, and a romantic action comedy starring Kaley Cuoco and David Oyelowo on Prime Video, among others.

Here’s everything new to see this weekend!

New on Netflix

Elevator

Where to see: Available to stream on Netflix

Image: Netflix

Genre: Heist comedy
Duration: 1h 44m
Director: F. Gary Gray
Pour: Kevin Hart, Vincent D’Onofrio, Gugu Mbatha-Raw

In this new crime comedy, Kevin Hart plays Cyrus Whitaker, the leader of an international heist group who is forced by his former FBI agent (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) to commit the wildest heist of his career: the theft of $500 million worth of gold aboard a ship Zurich -Flowed airplane in mid-flight. How hard could it be?

After everything

Where to see: Available to stream on Netflix

Image: tension images

Genre: Love drama
Duration: 1h 33m
Director: Castile Landon
Pour: Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Josephine Langford, Mimi Keene

The fifth film in the After series follows Hardin (Hero Fiennes Tiffin), a best-selling author who travels to Portugal to distract himself from his ex Tessa (Josephine Langford). After meeting Natalie (Mimi Keene), his girlfriend and former flame, Hardin must make a difficult decision: move on or keep fighting for love?

New on Hulu

Confidence

Where to see: Available to stream on Hulu

Image: Hulu

Genre: Dark comedy
Duration: 1h 25m
Director: Jake Johnson
Pour: Jake Johnson, Anna Kendrick, Andy Samberg

Jake Johnson (New girl) directs and stars in this new comedy about a middle-aged man who is offered the chance of a lifetime: take part in a dark web reality TV show and compete for $1 million. The only catch is that for the next 30 days he has to evade an army of assassins who are hell-bent on killing him, and they can only kill him if he’s alone.

Beyond utopia

Where to see: Available to stream on Hulu

Image: Roadside sights

Genre: documentary
Duration: 1h 55m
Director: Madeleine Gavin

This documentary tells the story of several families who, after living their entire lives in North Korea, risk everything to flee the country in hopes of finding a better life. Compiled from first-hand photographs of the subjects themselves, Beyond utopia shows the enormous lengths people go to to secure their freedom.

New at Max

On the way to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project

Where to see: Available to stream on Max

Genre: documentary
Duration: 1h 42m
Director: Joe Brewster, Michèle Stephenson
Pour: Nikki Giovanni, Taraji P. Henson, Virginia Fowler

This documentary chronicles the life and legacy of Nikki Giovanni, the African American poet and activist whose writing and commentary earned her a reputation as one of the Black Revolution’s foremost poets. Combining archival footage with intimate commentary from Giovanni himself, the film offers a glimpse into the mind of one of the Black Arts Movement’s most important authors.

New to Prime Video

role playing game

Where to see: Available to stream on Prime Video

Photo: Reiner Bajo

Genre: Action comedy
Duration: 1h 40m
Director: Thomas Vincent
Pour: Kaley Cuoco, David Oyelowo, Connie Nielsen

Kaley Cuoco (The flight attendant) and David Oyelowo (Selma) stars in this action comedy about Emma and Dave Brackett, a married couple with two children living in a New Jersey suburb. Their domestic life is turned upside down when Emma’s double life as an international assassin comes to light and Dave is inadvertently drawn into a world in which he is overwhelmed.

New to Apple TV Plus

Flower Moon Killer

Where to see: Available to stream on Apple TV Plus

Image: Apple TV Plus

Genre: Western crime drama
Duration: 2h 38m
Director: Martin Scorsese
Pour: Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, Robert De Niro

Martin Scorsese returns with a Western crime thriller based on David Grann’s 2017 non-fiction book. Set in 1920s Oklahoma, the film follows the life of Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio), a gullible World War I veteran who was involved in the systematic killing of members of the Osage Nation in order to claim rights to their oil-rich land, while he was married to his Osage wife, Mollie Kyle (Lily Gladstone).

From our review:

Roth and Scorsese sow carefully Flower Moon KillerThe script must be consistent with context, structure and detail, even while eschewing exposition and ensuring that each scene has dramatic meaning. It’s an incredibly vivid film. (And after 206 minutes, you definitely feel like you’ve lived in it.) It shows how the Osage became rich after being pushed onto a desolate stretch of prairie that was home to vast deposits of oil, and how a parasitic White society joined the tribe – not least Hale (Robert De Niro), a grandfatherly figure who claimed her friendship, praised her wisdom and feigned sadness over her poor health even as he plotted to acquire it Headrights to their oil through a marriage, murder and insurance fraud campaign.

New for rent

Napoleon

Where to see: Can be rented from Amazon, Apple and Vudu

Image: Apple TV Plus

Genre: Epic historical drama
Duration: 2h 38m
Director: Ridley Scott
Pour: Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby, Tahar Rahim

Joaquin Phoenix stars in Ridley Scott’s historical epic about Napoleon Bonaparte, the infamous French emperor and military commander who rose to fame during the French Revolution and embarked on a global conquest of power. A four-hour director’s cut is expected to arrive on Apple TV Plus sometime this year, but for now you can buy, rent and stream the two-and-a-half-hour cut.

From our review:

The result is a frustrated but unremarkable picture of a man after whom an entire historical era is named, and who was brought to earth as perhaps Europe’s most accomplished buffoon. Scott, Phoenix, and Scarpa show no great interest in how Napoleon’s delusions or errors justified or qualified him for his conquest of the world stage. Instead, they devote the film’s 158-minute running time to depicting how one man’s uncontrolled insecurity leaves him forever unsatisfied and drags the entire world with him in his dissatisfaction. They don’t bother to say much about Napoleon’s impact on his country or the world, or to name his political interests, the ways in which he brought progress or became a tyrant.

The disappearance of Shere Hite

Where to see: Can be rented from Amazon, Apple and Vudu

Photo: Mike Wilson/IFC Films

Genre: documentary
Duration: 1h 58m
Director: Nicole Newnham

This documentary traces the career and influence of Shere Hite, the American sex educator and feminist whose 1976 study of female sexuality sent shockwaves through public and societal discourse. Executive produced by Dakota Johnson, the film chronicles both Hite’s rise to fame and how her influence has been lost to history.

He went this way

Where to see: Can be rented from Amazon, Apple and Vudu

Image: Vertical Entertainment

Genre: Crime drama
Duration: 1h 35m
Director: Jeffrey Darling
Pour: Zachary Quinto, Jacob Elordi, Patrick J. Adams

Jacob Elordi (Salt burn) and Zachary Quinto (Star Trek) stars in this crime thriller about Bobby Falls, a serial killer who takes Jim Goodwin, an animal trainer from Kalamazoo, Michigan. The trailer hints at the film’s final conclusion as well as a thrilling series of events including murder, robbery and good dinner.