Every week at Polygon, we round up the most notable new releases on streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies for you to watch at home.
This week, Blink twicethe new psychological horror film from actress and director Zoë Kravitz, is available to buy and rent on VOD, after its theatrical release last month. There's also the horror thriller Cuckoostarring Hunter Schafer, which is also available to rent and buy on VOD. If none of these movies interest you, don't worry; there are plenty of other new releases to stream this week, such as Jane Schoenbrun's film I saw the TV shine About Max, Luca Guadagnino ChallengersThe mystery of Norwegian terror Handling the Undead on Hulu and much more!
Here's everything new to watch this weekend!
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Gender: Drama
Execution time: 1h 41min
Director: Azazel Jacobs
Cast: Carrie Coon, Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen
This family drama follows three estranged sisters who reunite during the final days of their ailing father. The tension between the three is further exacerbated by the fact that one of them is not biologically related to the others. Old animosity is rekindled, but the three must overcome their differences in order to spend their final moments with their father.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Image: Sony Pictures
Gender: Adventure comedy
Execution time: 1h 41min
Director: Marco Dindal
Cast: Chris Pratt, Samuel L. Jackson and Hannah Waddingham
It's Chris Pratt! As Garfield! The lazy orange cat reunites with his long-lost father, Vic (voiced by Samuel L. Jackson, among others). Along with Odie, Vic and Garfield plan a farm robbery so they can steal lots of milk to appease the Persian cat crime boss Vic works for. The film is directed by Mark Dindal, best known for The Emperor's Follies.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
Image: Neon
Gender: Horror drama
Execution time: 1h 37min
Director: Thea Hvistendahl
Cast: Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, Bahar Pars
There are plenty of horror movies about the dead coming back to life. None of them are like… Handling the UndeadHowever, based on John Ajvide Lindqvist's 2005 novel, the film follows the story of three families living in Oslo whose loved ones mysteriously rise from the dead as semi-conscious corpses. How will they handle this new phenomenon? Is it a second chance to say goodbye… or a curse?
Where to watch: Available to stream on Max
Image: A24/Everett Collection
Gender: Psychological horror
Execution time: 1 hour and 40 minutes
Director: Jane Schönbrun
Cast: Judge Smith, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Helena Howard
If you haven't had a chance to check out Jane Schoenbrun's critically acclaimed psychological horror drama yet, don't worry: you still have time, especially now that the film is available to stream on Max. Justice Smith stars as Owen, an isolated teen who forms a bond with an older classmate, Maddy (Brigette Lundy-Paine), through a TV series called The dull pinkHowever, as the years go by, Owen realizes that there is more to the show (and his own reality) than meets the eye.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
Image: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures/YouTube
Gender: Sports drama
Execution time: 2 hours and 11 minutes
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Cast: Zendaya, Josh O'Connor and Mike Faist
Luca Guadagnino's sensual sports drama about a love triangle in professional tennis has taken some circles around the world by storm since its release in late April, and is one of the best films of the year. Now, you can enjoy it at home.
That script is a terrific three-course dinner for Faist and O’Connor. They get to alternate between protagonist and villain roles from scene to scene and time to time, as Art and Patrick help and hurt each other in equal measure. But it’s an absolute buffet for Zendaya, who even in leading roles has never had this much room to expand. Tashi is a gratifyingly rich character, at once justifiably angry at the failure of her ambitions and cruelly angry at all the men who have the gall to keep playing the game that was taken from her. She’s simultaneously hungry for affection and withholding it, by turns sensually curious and coolly dispassionate, ambitious and exhausted, conflicted and self-assured. She’s the kind of character media master’s theses are made of, and unravelling Tashi’s conflicted motives and how she integrates them is likely to become a pop culture obsession in the months ahead.
Where to watch: Available to stream on AMC Plus
Image: IFC Films
Gender: Drama
Execution time: 1h 53min
Director: Nicole Riegel
Cast: KiKi Layne, Thomas Doherty and Melanie Nicholls-King
Ki Ki Layne (If Beale Street Could Talk) stars in this musical drama as Dandelion, a singer-songwriter who travels the country performing concerts, all the while yearning for a big career break that she fears will never happen. After striking up a romance with Casey (Thomas Doherty), a disaffected musician, their love proves to be the unwitting catalyst for Dandelion discovering an authentic artistic voice of her own.
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Image: Neon/Everett Collection
Gender: Horror
Execution time: 1h 42min
Director: Singer Tilman
Cast: Hunter Schafer, Dan Stevens and Jessica Henwick
Hunter Schafer (Euphoria) stars in this horror film as Gretchen, a teenager who has recently lost her mother. After being forced to move to the Bavarian Alps by her father and stepmother, she is hired to work for Herr König (Dan Stevens), the owner of the hotel her parents were commissioned to build. However, Gretchen soon discovers that there is something far more sinister beneath the surface of this idyllic resort.
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Image: Amazon MGM Studios
Gender: Psychological thriller
Execution time: 1h 42min
Director: Zoe Kravitz
Cast: Naomi Ackie, Channing Tatum and Christian Slater
Zoë Kravitz's directorial debut is a psychological thriller about a waitress named Frida (Naomi Ackie) who is whisked away to a private island by a tech mogul for a lavish party getaway. But Frida begins to notice something strange is going on with the female guests. Fun fact: the film's working title was Pussy Islandbut the Motion Picture Association of America had a problem with that.
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Image: Magnolia Pictures
Gender: Sci-Fi Drama
Execution time: 1h 47min
Director: Bernardo Britto
Cast: Mary-Louise Parker, Ayo Edebiri, Carlos Jacott
Omnidirectional loop It premiered at the 2024 South by Southwest festival. It's a sci-fi drama about a Florida woman named Zoya (Mary-Louise Parker) who teams up with a scientist to solve the problem of time travel, due to the black hole growing inside her chest. It's not just about time travel, but a time loop and a lot of strange things that happen as Zoya deals with her life and her regrets.
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Photography: Glen Wilson/Sony Pictures
Gender: Sci-Fi Horror
Execution time: 1h 24min
Director: Chris Weitz
Cast: John Cho, Katherine Waterston and Havana Rose Liu
Remember Smart homeThat 1999 sci-fi comedy about a fully automated house voiced by Katey Sagal that goes crazy? Well, imagine if that movie was a horror thriller and you had the essence of Scaredthe new film by director Chris Weitz (The golden compass, The Twilight Saga: New Moon) starring John Cho and Katherine Waterston.
When a happy family decides to try out AIA (Havana Rose Liu), a commercial artificial intelligence designed to help them better organize their family life, they couldn't be happier with the results. That is, until the AI begins psychologically manipulating the family and harming those close to them in its twisted desire to be part of the family.
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Image: Bleecker Street Media
Gender: Sci-Fi Thriller
Execution time: 1h 48min
Director: Mikael Håfström
Cast: Casey Affleck, Laurence Fishburne and Emily Beecham
This sci-fi thriller stars Casey Affleck (Manchester by the sea) as John, an astronaut aboard an experimental spacecraft designed to conduct a multi-year mission to Saturn's moon Titan. When the passengers aboard the ship begin to suspect that the mission has somehow been compromised, John must work alongside the ship's captain (Laurence Fishburne) to find a solution and survive.