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, Deadpool and WolverineThe 34th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, arrives on Disney Plus after its VOD premiere in early October. There are plenty of other new releases to enjoy this week, such as tornadoes in peacock, transformers one on Paramount Plus, the “geri-action” revenge comedy telma on Hulu and the brilliant crime drama musical Emilia Perez starring Zoe Saldaña (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3) on Netflix. Not to mention there are a ton of new movies arriving on VOD, like Francis Ford Coppola's. Megalopolis starring Adam Driver (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) and Magpie starring Daisy Ridley (Star Wars: The Last Jedi).
Here's everything new that's available to check out this weekend!
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Gender: criminal musical
Execution time: 2h 12m
Director: Jacques Audiard
Cast: Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gómez
Winner of the Cannes Jury Prize Emilia Perez It's a police movie, a comedy, and a musical Based on an opera libretto of the same name, Emilia Perez It follows the leader of a cartel who wants to complete her gender transition. She hires a lawyer to help her find a surgeon, fake her own death, and hide her family for their safety. But Emilia can't escape her life of crime, and when she tries to reunite with her family, that shady past comes back to haunt her.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
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Gender: Drama
Execution time: 1h 40m
Director: wild dominican
Cast: Elliot Page, Hillary Baack, Peter Outerbridge
Elliot Page plays a man named Sam who travels to his hometown for the first time in four years to celebrate his father's birthday. Faced with family tension, as his family struggles to accept his gender transition, Sam reconnects with an old love. close to you It premiered at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival and critics praised Page's naturalistic performance.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Image: Vertical Entertainment
Gender: Drama
Execution time: 1h 30m
Director: Thomas Napper
Cast: Haley Bennett, Tom Sturridge, Natasha O'Keeffe
This period drama stars Haley Bennett (Swallow) as Barbe-Nicole Clicquot, the widow of an 18th-century winegrower who becomes the boss of his fledgling vineyard after his untimely death. To overcome financial difficulties and political turmoil, Barbe-Nicole must fight to make a name for herself and bring the company to fruition.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Gender: Fantasy romantic comedy
Execution time: 1h 30m
Director: Jerry Ciccoritti
Cast: Lacey Chabert, Dustin Milligan, Katy Mixon
This questionably titled romantic comedy follows Kathy (Lacey Chabert), a recently widowed woman who finds herself alone on vacation. After accidentally bringing to life a handsome snowman named Jack (Dustin Milligan), Kathy quickly finds herself head over heels in love with our sexy new boyfriend. As their relationship intensifies, can they both keep their cool?
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
Image: Magnolia Photos
Gender: action comedy
Execution time: 1h 38m
Director: Jose Margolin
Cast: June Squibb, Fred Hechinger, Richard Roundtree
telma is a revenge movie about a woman who travels across Los Angeles to reclaim what's been taken from her… and she's also 93 years old, so much of that trek is done on a senior mobility scooter.
Thelma watches a Mission: Impossible movie during the film, and her inspiration from Tom Cruise is not just in the spirit, but in the text itself. After being scammed, seeing Cruise's face in a magazine inspires Thelma to take the law into her own hands. But that kind of sincerity wouldn't work without telmaThe magnificent and committed performances of Squibb and Roundtree. Both actors are tremendously funny and Roundtree's charm gives the film an enormous amount of heart. For her part, Margolin says Squibb was adamant about owning the Tom Cruise mantle and doing as many stunts as she could herself.
It's rare that a summer action movie is also one of the funniest and sweetest of the year, but telma manages to achieve it. So if you're feeling the lack of Tom Cruise in movie theaters this year, remember that. telma and June Squibb are there, carrying the torch in his honor.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Max
Image: 20th Century Studios, Marvel Studios
Gender: superhero action
Execution time: 2h 8m
Director: Shawn Levy
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Emma Corrin
Ryan Reynolds reprises his role as Deadpool, the so-called Mercenary Mouth, in his first appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. After being kidnapped by the Time Variance Authority, Deadpool embarks on a quest to recruit an alternate universe version of Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) to help prevent his own universe from being destroyed. Matthew Macfadyen (Succession) plays Mr. Paradox, a rebellious member of the TVA, and Emma Corrin (A murder at the end of the world) plays Cassandra Nova, Professor X's evil twin sister from an alternate universe.
Deadpool and Wolverine has turned its hero into the worst kind of comic book character: one who represents nothing. It's a terrible irony. Fans worried that Disney's corporate control and rigid narrative oversight of the MCU would eliminate Deadpool's edge: bad language and humorous violence. Turns out that part was okay. Instead, the MCU just took its damn heart.
Where to watch: Streaming on Paramount Plus
Image: Paramount Pictures
Gender: science fiction adventure
Execution time: 1h 17m
Director: Josh Cooley
Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Brian Tyree Henry, Scarlett Johansson
This animated prequel to the Transformers franchise chronicles the origins of Orion Pax (Chris Hemsworth) and D-16 (Brian Tyree Henry), years before they later became known as Optimus Prime and Megatron. Set on the planet Cybertron, transformers one focuses on the friendship of Orion and D-16 before a quirk of fate sets them on course to become bitter enemies.
Director Josh Cooley's semi-reboot of the Transformers cinematic universe (it's unclear if it has any association with the Transformers Bay-verse) is better than the prequel's premise (and trailers) suggest. transformers one is funny, sometimes sweet, sometimes heartbreaking, and completely compelling in telling the origin story of friends-turned-foes Optimus Prime and Megatron. Thanks to its strong cast and a solid story backed by a classic hero's journey, transformers one It has a spark that we've rarely seen in a Transformers movie outside of 2018. Bumblebee.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock
Image: Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures
Gender: disaster thriller
Execution time: 2h 2m
Director: Lee Isaac Chung
Cast: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, Anthony Ramos
Director Lee Isaac Chung continues his 2020 breakthrough Minari with a standalone sequel to the 1996 film Tornado. Starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Glen Powell, tornadoes follows a group of dueling storm chasers as they try to navigate and survive an outbreak of tornadoes wreaking havoc in Oklahoma.
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Image: American Zoetrope/Lionsgate
Gender: science fiction drama
Execution time: 2h 18m
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel
Francis Ford Coppola has returned with his first film in over a decade! Loosely inspired by the Catilinarian conspiracy of 63 BC, Megalopolis It stars Adam Driver as Caesar Catiline, a visionary architect and descendant of one of the ruling families of the city of New Rome. César clashes with Franklyn Cicero (Giancarlo Esposito), the mayor of New Rome, over their respective visions for the future. The dispute only intensifies after Cicero's daughter Julia (Nathalie Emmanuel) meets Caesar and subsequently falls in love with him.
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Image: Hopper Stone/Sony Pictures
Gender: biographical comedy
Execution time: 1h 49m
Director: Jason Reitman
Cast: Gabriel LaBelle, Rachel Sennott, Cory Michael Smith
This biographical comedy follows the 90 minutes leading up to the premiere of Saturday night livewith a cast playing some of the iconic comedians at the opening SNL line up. We have Gabriel LaBelle as Lorne Michaels, Rachel Sennott as Rosie Shuster, Cory Michael Smith as Chevy Chase, Ella Hunt as Gilda Radner, Dylan O'Brien as Dan Aykroyd and more. The film comes from Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire duo Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan, but reviews indicate it's much better than those two.
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple and Vudu
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Gender: Comedy
Execution time: 1h 50m
Director: Hallie Meyers-Shyer
Cast: Michael Keaton, Mila Kunis, Laura Benanti
Michael Keaton stars in this family comedy as Andy, an art gallery owner whose wife leaves him and enters a 90-day rehab program. With no one else to lean on, Andy resorts to asking Grace (Mila Kunis), his daughter from his previous marriage, to help him while he cares for his 9-year-old twin half-siblings.
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple and Vudu
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Gender: Suspense
Execution time: 1h 30m
Director: Sam Yates
Cast: Shazad Latif, Daisy Ridley, Matilda Lutz
Daisy Ridley (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) and Shazad Latif (The traveler) star in this new neo-noir thriller as Annette and Ben, a married couple whose daughter participates in a new film. When Annette begins to suspect that Ben is having an affair with Alicia (Matilda Lutz), a famous actress who is her daughter's co-star, their marriage begins to fracture, leading Annette to contemplate the unthinkable.
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Image: Vertical Entertainment
Gender: romantic comedy horror
Execution time: 1h 43m
Director: Carolina Lindy
Cast: Tommy Dewey, Melissa Barrera, Edmund Donovan
Monster lovers: this one's for you. A soft-spoken young actress going through a difficult time in her life ends up falling in love with the literal monster in her closet. Well, at first he's a bit of a touchy-feely Beast of a jerk. Beauty and the beastbut the two eventually become confidants before a romance develops between them. It is based on the short film of the same name by director Caroline Lindy.