Every week on Polygon, we round up the hottest new releases on streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies for you to watch at home.
This week, Flowdirector Gints Zilbalodis's Golden Globe-winning animated film comes ashore for purchase on VOD. There are also plenty of other interesting releases on VOD this week, like the apocalyptic musical. The end starring Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon, as well as two heartbreaking documentaries in the form of Soundtrack of a coup d'état and black box diaries. As for this week's new streaming options, we've got a French action thriller on Netflix, a Max supernatural documentary, and a horror comedy starring Nick Frost (Shaun of the dead, hot fluff) in Shudder.
Here's everything new that's available to check out this weekend!
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Gender: action thriller
Execution time: 1h 35m
Director: Rodolfo Lauga
Cast: Guillaume Canet, Nassim Lyes, Stéphane Caillard
After surviving an attempt on his life, Franck Lazareff is pursued by mysterious men from his past to work again on his behalf in exchange for the safe return of his wife. Caught between his criminal past and his life as a police officer, Franck must make difficult decisions and overcome incredible obstacles to protect his loved ones.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Max
Image: A24
Gender: Documentary
Execution time: 1h 45m
Director: Lana Wilson
This documentary explores the psychology of psychics and documents a group of practitioners in New York City as they perform intimate readings with their clients. Less a detailed examination of the veracity of his supernatural inclinations than a portrait of grief and the countless ways in which it manifests itself, look me in the eyes is a moving and moving film that is one of the best documentaries of the year.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Paramount Plus
Image: Paramount Plus
Gender: Documentary
Execution time: 1h 42m
Director: Shiori Ito
In 2017, Japanese journalist Shiori Itō accused a media executive with prominent ties to the Japanese prime minister of raping her. black box diaries chronicles Itō's real-time investigation into her own assault, the subsequent media scandal that followed, and her struggle to navigate the country's antiquated sex crimes laws in search of justice.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Shudder and AMC Plus
Gender: horror comedy
Execution time: 1h 26m
Director: Steffen Haars
Cast: Nick Frost, Aisling Bea, Sebastian Croft
A peculiar family takes a well-deserved vacation on a remote island. What could go wrong? Well, like the characters of EscapeIn , the new horror comedy from director Steffen Haars, you will soon discover that there is a serial killer on the loose and looking for his next victims. The film stars Nick Frost, known for his iconic role in the Edgar Wright film. Shaun of the deadalongside Aisling Bea (up here).
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Image: Janus Films
Gender: Adventure
Execution time: 1h 25m
Director: Gints Zilbalodis
Animator Gints Zilbalodis' feature debut took home the Golden Globe award for Best Animated Feature this past weekend, and it's not hard to see why. In addition to being a visually wonderful show without any dialogue, it is also, as my colleague Petrana Radulovic says, a “vivid story of loss, survival and renewal.” Flow centers on a black cat who navigates the post-apocalyptic ruins of a world submerged by a flood aboard a ship piloted by a capybara. If that doesn't sound like a good time, I don't know what does.
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Gender: apocalyptic musical
Execution time: 2h 28m
Director: Joshua Oppenheimer
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, George MacKay
The act of killing Director Joshua Oppenheimer films from documentary to fiction with style. This sci-fi musical centers on an eccentric and wealthy family who, two decades after an apocalyptic event, live in a luxurious isolated house converted from a salt mine. Having never seen the outside world, the sole scion of the family's beliefs (George MacKay) is shaken by the mysterious appearance of a woman (Moses Ingram) from the surface.
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Gender: Documentary thriller
Execution time: 1h 25m
Director: Asif Kapadia
Cast: Samantha Morton, Naomi Ackie, Hector Hewer
Inspired by Chris Marker's 1962 dystopian feature film La Jetée, Asif Kapadia's documentary-fiction hybrid centers on a scavenger (Samantha Morton) in an apocalyptic future who examines her memories of the past. It hasn't received particularly good reviews, but the premise sounds interesting enough to warrant a watch, at the very least.
Soundtrack of a coup d'état
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Gender: Documentary
Execution time: 2h 30m
Director: Johan Grimon Prez
This documentary (also one of the best of the year) chronicles the political machinations behind the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba, prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, whose uranium became a controversial resource in the midst of the Cold War. After learning that their diplomatic envoy to Africa served as a smokescreen for a covert postcolonial coup, jazz ambassadors, including Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane and Nina Simone, struggle with the contradiction of representing a country where reigns reign. institutional segregation.