Netflix's The Takedown, Hatching and anything else you can watch at home

This weekend The takedownthe French buddy cop action comedy starring Omar Sy (lupine) and Laurent Lafitte (ell), finally premieres on Netflix. That’s not all the streaming service has to offer, like the adaptation of Sarah Dessen’s 2009 romance novel YA on the trip, animated comedy Marmaduke starring Pete Davidson and the Hindi-language revenge thriller Thar debuts on Netflix this weekend.

Dear Evan Hansen is finally streaming on HBO Max after being released on VOD last year, while two Finnish horror films in the form of hatching and The twin are now available to stream on Hulu and Shudder respectively. Aside from streaming releases, Liam Neeson’s latest action movie, black lightand the historical gangster drama The outfit with Mark Rylance are now available to rent on VOD.

So you know what’s new and available, here are the new movies to watch this weekend via streaming and VOD.

The takedown

Where to see: Available for streaming Netflix

Omar Sy (lupine) and Laurent Lafitte (ell) team up again for the Netflix buddy cop action comedy The takedown. Set after the events of 2012 On the other side of the tracksmisfit cops Ousmane Diakité (Sy) and François Monge (Lafitte) reunite to investigate a criminal conspiracy that will take them across France.

From our review:

As a director, Leterrier knows how to have fun. He demonstrated his flair for complicated set pieces in the film Manic Magic Heist Now you see Me and the martial arts action film Unleashed, who has Jet Li as an enforcer, who was raised as a human attack dog. Leterrier spices up his compositions with dynamic tones of orange, red and blue, giving his action a far more playful palette than the gritty grunge aesthetic of modern action films The Adam Project

or The 355. (Leterrier recently replaced Justin Lin as director of the Fast & Furious series Fast X.)

hatching

Where to see: Available to stream on Hulu

A Finnish horror film that doubles as a satire of online culture, hatching follows Tinja, a 12-year-old girl who has seemingly been the subject of her parents’ video blog her entire life. When Tinja stumbles upon a strange egg and brings it home, it quickly grows in size before… well, hatching into a creature nicknamed “Alli.”

From our review:

But Alli is a mesmerizing presence that gives the film a cultish, quivering center. Bergholm tells Polygon that she literally googled the world’s top film animation specialist and then contacted him about working on the film. This bold decision paid off: your animatronics supervisor, Gustav HoegenHe came directly to this film by leading hands-on creature effects teams for Lucasfilm Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, solo, The Last Jedi, Villain Oneand The Force Awakens. Her SFX makeup boss, Conor O’Sullivan, has a pedigree similar to half of the Oscar-nominated effects duo that gave Heath Ledger his grotesque look as the Joker The dark knight. Together, she and her teams make Alli terribly visceral, with the familiar weight and conviction of a practical effect rather than a CG effect. And Solalinna’s performance with the puppet is compelling and harrowing. Together they lead the film past its weaknesses to a memorable ending.

Dear Evan Hansen

Where to see: Available for streaming HBO Max

Adapted from the Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical of the same name, Stephen Chbosky’s coming-of-age musical film Dear Evan Hansen stars Ben Platt as a high school senior with social anxiety disorder who embarks on a journey of self-discovery after the death of a classmate.

There’s been a lot of talk about the film since it came out last year, most of it relating to Platt’s, uh, questionable portrayal of an adolescent adolescent. Is this a “so bad it’s good” musical or just plain bad? From our review:

Platt’s technically adept, otherwise disastrous performance is starting to make more sense as an act of compensation. His nervous, choking performance while singing is the only way to convey his inner conflict, working against the wooden inertia of his posture and his blocking. Director Stephen Chbosky (The perks of Being a Wallflower

) similarly strives to create a scale sufficient to fill the canvas. At his cheesiest, he illustrates that Evan has gone viral by hurling a barrage of smartphone video responses through a black vacuum until they coalesce into an Instagram photo. While Evan searches for hints of beauty in the everyday monotony of his school – Chbosky’s aesthetic could be aptly described as “the ‘before’ part of a mood-altering drug commercial” – the film boggles in the banality it seeks to escape.

With me on the trip

Where to see: Available for streaming Netflix

Belmont Cameli as Eli & Emma Pasarow (as Auden) in With the Ride (2022)

Based on Sarah Dessen’s 2009 young adult romance novel, With me on the journey follows Auden (Emma Pasarow), a sheltered young woman who visits her father in Colby Beach, California for the summers before attending college. There she meets Eli (Belmont Cameli), a mysterious boy who shares her sleepless nature. As they embark on night-time adventures around town together, Auden is challenged to live her childhood dreams and forced to ask herself the difficult question of what she, not her parents, wants out of life.

Marmaduke

Where to see: Available to stream on Netflix

The computer-animated comedy of 2022 Marmaduke tells the story of an unusually large dog (Pete Davidson) who engages in all manner of messy mischief, silliness, and weird antics. After going viral and being accused of being untrainable, the world’s top dog trainer tries to turn Marmaduke into an award-winning pooch. Will the lovable dog succeed in stealing the gold, or will he be known as a lost cause forever?

thar

Where to see: Available to stream on Netflix

It stars father-son duo Anil Kapoor and Harsh Varrdhan Kapoor thar, a Hindi-language revenge thriller set near the India-Pakistan border in the 1980s. The latter plays Siddharth, a handsome antiques dealer on a mysterious mission to avenge his past, while the former plays Surekha Singh, a local police officer investigating a recent killing spree in the area. When these two men’s paths cross, long-buried secrets are revealed and justice called into question.

The twin

Where to see: Available to stream on Shudder

The second Finnish horror film on this week’s list (this one is in English though) follows a couple who move to Sweden after the death of one of their twins. However, their new surroundings are not as idyllic as they would like as they learn some chilling truths that could upend their family as they know it.

black light

Where to see: Can be rented for $5.99 Amazon, Appleand vudu

the latest in a long time long series of Liam Neeson-led action films, black light Neeson plays Travis Block, a government “fixer” with special abilities that include interrogation (ie, beating up people) and infiltrating highly secure areas. When Block discovers a conspiracy against US citizens, his daughter and granddaughter are kidnapped to force him to cooperate. Instead, he goes on a killing spree against FBI Director Gabriel Robinson (Aidan Quinn) to get her back at any cost.

The outfit

Where to see: Can be rented for $19.00 Amazon, Appleand vudu

The crime drama 2021 The outfit Stars Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies) as Leonard Burling, an English master tailor who serves clients from all over Chicago, but above all a family of villainous gangsters. When two murderers knock on the door of his corner shop and take him and his assistant Mable (Zoey Deutch) hostage in exchange for a favor, Leonard finds himself plunged into a deadly contest of deception and murder to bring to light threatens his own long-buried past.