Triangle of Sadness, A Man Called Otto and other new streaming movies

It’s award season, and you know what that means: more and more award contenders are finding their way onto streaming services.

This week nominated for best picture triangle of sadness lands on Hulu, animated contestant Marcel wears the shell with shoes on shuffles his way to Showtime and has been nominated multiple times Lifeadapted from a great movie of all time, comes on VOD.

That’s not all – there’s a new rom-com on Netflix that house party Remake on HBO Max, Tom Hanks’ A man named Ottoand much more to choose from this week when deciding what to watch at home.

Let’s get into that.

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New on Netflix

love at first kiss

Where to see: Available to stream on Netflix

Image: Netflix

Genre: Romantic comedy
Duration: 1h 36m
Director: Alauda Ruiz de Azua
Pour: Alvaro Cervantes, Silvia Alonso, and Gorka Otxoa

This romantic comedy from Europe follows a young man who, as a teenager, discovers that he can play out his entire future with someone as soon as he plays his first kiss. As an adult running a troubled book publishing company, he continues his search for his soulmate.

New on Hulu

triangle of sadness

Where to see: Available for streaming Hello

Photo: Fredrik Wenzel/Platform Production

Genre: dramedy
Duration: 2h 27m
Director: Ruben Ostlund
Pour: Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Dolly de Leon

One of several satires of the rich and powerful to come out in 2022, triangle of sadness is the second winner of the Palme d’Or by Swedish director Ruben Östlund in Cannes (The squarealthough I prefer it Force majeure). This one follows a group of wealthy people on a luxury cruise and what happens when things go horribly wrong.

New to HBO Max

house party

Where to see: Available for streaming HBO Max

Image: Warner Media

Genre: comedy
Duration: 1h 41m
Director: Calmatic
Pour: Tosin Cole, Jacob Latimore, and Karen Obolom

This remake of the 1990 Kid ‘n Play classic is the feature film debut from music video director Calmatic (best known for the “Old Town Road” music video) and stars Tosin Cole and Jacob Latimore as two young friends who are hired to clean up LeBron make Jacob’s villa. When they throw a party instead, things get wild. The litany of celebrity cameos includes Kid Cudi, Snoop Dogg, LeBron James and teammate Anthony Davis, and of course Kid ‘n Play.

New to Showtime

Marcel wears the shell with shoes on

Where to see: Available for streaming show time

Image: A24

Genre: comedy drama
Duration: 1h 30m
Director: Dean Fleischer Camp
Pour: Jenny Slate, Rosa Salazar, Thomas Mann

This is a feature adaptation of the popular YouTube series that follows a tiny shell wearing shoes (voiced by Jenny Slate) and philosophizing from a tiny perspective on the world.

From our review:

Saying casually subtle things in a charmingly direct way is something of Marcel’s thing. Marcel the Shell with shoes on gets a remarkable amount of mileage out of Marcel by making simple, unconventional observations about the people and things around him. Considering the original Marcel videos totaled less than 12 minutes, it’s a testament to the script’s strengths that the full-length version of his schtick never gets old. (The film is also relatively thin at 89 minutes, but still.) The dramatic arc of this magical realist comedy is gentle: Dean’s YouTube videos about Marcel bring them viral fame that excites and terrifies them both. The jokes, too, are tender and lovable.

New to Shudder

spoon of sugar

Where to see: Available to stream on Shudder and AMC more

Image: AMC Networks

Genre: horror
Duration: 1h 34m
Director: Mercedes Bryce Morgan
Pour: Morgan Saylor, Kat Foster, Myko Olivier

Millicent (Morgan Saylor), a suspiciously young-looking woman, is hired to babysit Johnny (Danilo Crovetti), a young, mute boy suffering from a combination of illnesses and life-threatening allergies. As Millicent learns more about the dark secrets of the child’s family and develops an unhealthy attraction to the boy’s father (Myko Olivier), she begins to take matters into her own hands to ensure she is never separated from the family again will always. As the trailer looks spoon of sugar seems to be some kind of horror film that ends up somewhere in between Orphaned, Holy Maud, And A cure for wellness.

New on VOD

Magic Mike’s Last Dance

Where to see: Can be rented for $19.99 Amazon, Appleand vudu

Image: Warner Bros. Pictures

Genre: comedy drama
Duration: 1h 52m
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Pour: Channing Tatum, Salma Hayek, and Ayub Khan Din

One of cinema’s sexiest franchises comes to a close with this final installment in the Magic Mike trilogy. Steven Soderbergh returns to the director’s chair for this film, in which Channing Tatum’s Mike becomes the “sheltered man” to the very wealthy Salma Hayek.

From our review:

On the whole, Magic Mike’s Last Dance has the feel of a stage musical, complete with great emotion expressed through song – or a half-naked interpretive dance in artificial rain, whichever you choose. It’s a lustful, aspiring fairy tale with sublime scenarios, luxurious clothing choices and a London where working-class Adonises stage impromptu flash mobs in double-decker buses. (This scene briefly turns the film into a jazzy caper for the the italian job, but with the intention of seducing an uptight bureaucrat rather than stealing $4 million worth of gold bullion.) But allowing both love and money to complicate the original enjoyment of watching muscular men circling in sweatpants ultimately dilutes the once simple pleasures of film. Maybe you tip to have everything.

A man named Otto

Where to see: Available for $14.99 Amazon, Appleand vudu

Image: Columbia Pictures

Genre: comedy drama
Duration: 2h 6m
Director: Marc Foerster
Pour: Tom Hanks, Mariana Trevino, and Rachel Keller

Tom Hanks plays against the guy in this comedy-drama adaptation of Fredrik Backman’s 2012 novel A man named Ove as a grumpy, lonely widower who – contrary to his own antisocial nature – accidentally forms a friendship with his new neighbor and their child.

Life

Where to see: Can be rented for $19.99 Amazon, Appleand vudu

Image: Lionsgate UK

Genre: theatre
Duration: 1h 42m
Director: Oliver Herman
Pour: Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp

Nominated for two Oscars (Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actor), Life is an adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s masterful drama ikiru. Nighy plays an office worker who receives a harsh medical diagnosis and sets out to make the most of his remaining time.