Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, Netflix’s The Conference, and every new movie to watch at home this weekend
Happy Friday, Polygon readers!
Each week, we round up notable new releases for streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies for you to watch at home.
Mission Impossible: Dead by Reason Part OneThe long-awaited seventh installment in Tom Cruise’s explosive action thriller series is finally available to purchase digitally following its theatrical premiere earlier this year. Expendables, the aptly titled fourth entry in the expendables action franchise, is also available for purchase this week. There are plenty of new releases to check out on streaming this week, including new German horror movies on Netflix as well as streaming premieres Slotherhouse on Hulu.
Here’s everything new to watch this weekend!
New on Netflix
Conference
Where is it to look; Available to stream to Netflix
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Image: Netflix
Genre: Horror comedy
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Patrick Eklund
Send: Katia Winter, Eva Melander, Adam Lundgren
What’s worse than building a theater conference where everyone gets nervous? What about the interview set in retirement, where a masked murderer walks among them looking for the next kill among the corrupt prosecution?
Once a star
Where is it to look; Available to stream to Netflix
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Image: Netflix
Genre: Drama
Run time: 2h 17m
Director: Nonzee Nimibutr
Send: Darina Boonchu, Sukollawat Kanarot, Nuengthida Sophon
New on Hulu
Slotherhouse
Where is it to look; Available to stream on Hulu
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Image: Hulu
Genre: Slasher comedy
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: Matthew Goodhue
Send: Stephen Kapicic, Lisa Ambalavanar, Olivia Rouyre
When a girl adopts a lazy sorority, a bunch of people start to die, posing the question: What if the movie was a murder, but maybe it was laziness?
Daliland
Where is it to look; Available to stream to Hulu
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Image: Magnolia Pictures
Genre: Drama
Run time: 1h 37m
Director: Mary Harron
Send: Ben Kingsley, Barbara Sukowa, Christopher Briney
This biographical drama stars Ben Kingsley as Salvador Dali, the eccentric and prolific surrealist painter whose work captivated the world. The story is told through the perspective of James (Christopher Briney), a young art assistant working in a New York gallery in the ’70s, who meets and befriends Dali during a stormy separation from his wife Gala (Barbara Sukowa).
New in First Video
Burial
Where is it to look; Available to stream to The first video
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Image: Amazon Studios
Genre: Legal drama
Run time: 2h 6m
Director: Maggie Betts
Send: Jamie Foxx, Tommy Lee Jones, Jurnee Smollett
Inspired by true events, this legal drama stars Jamie Foxx as Willie E. Gary, a personal injury lawyer who agrees to help the troubled owner of a funeral home business (Tommy Lee Jones) who has been robbed by a corporate conglomerate against a contract dispute. .
New on Paramount Plus
Starling Girl
Where is it to look; Available to stream to Ruler Plus
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Image: Bleecker Street Media
Genre: Drama
Run time: 1h 57m
Director: Laurus Parmet
Send: Eliza Scanlen, Louis Pullman, Wrenn Schmidt
A 17-year-old girl (Elisa Scanlen) struggles with the strict education of living in a fundamentalist Christian community in Kentucky and her budding desire to pursue sport and a life free from religious expectations. Among these changes, the fat girl gets closer to her youth minister, Owen (Louis Pullman), who has just returned from working as a missionary abroad.
New on AMC Plus
Lakota Nation vs
Where is it to look; Available to stream to AMC Plus
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Image: IFC Films
Genre: of letters
Run time: 2 hours
Directors: Jesse Short Bull, Laura Tomaselli
Send: It brings Candi Plenty, Krystal Bubbles two, Nick Estes
This document follows the struggle of the Lakota Indians who fought for a century to claim their land, which was taken from them against the treaty.
New on Starz
Are you there God? It is me, Margaret
Where is it to look; Available to stream to Starz
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Photo: Dana Hawley/Lionsgate
Genre: Coming-of-age dramady
Run time: 1h 46m
Director: Kelly Fremon Craig
Send: Abby Ryder Fortson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates
Judy Blume’s iconic coming-of-age story takes on this adaptation from Kelly Fremon Craig (At the mouth of seventeenAbby Ryder Fortson (the original Cassie from the Ant-Man movies) as Margaret and Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, and Benny Safdie as her family.
The rents are new
Mission Impossible: Dead by Reason Part One
Where is it to look; It is available for purchase on Amazon, Lakeand Vudu
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Image: Skydance/Paramount Pictures
Genre: Action spy thriller
Run time: 2h 43m
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Send: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames
Ethan Hunt is back in the first of two installments in the franchise (the other is slated for a 2024 release). This time, Hunt and the IMF square off against a rogue AI.
From our review,
Like its predecessors – especially Christopher McQuarrie’s previous two entries in the series – the film married its prospects to Tom Cruise, and to his remarkable interest in acting his skills. Ethan Hunt’s incredible feats often seem true because they essentially are are rent Everything else in these films is to promote that commitment. There are enough characters to make Hunt feel human enough; The villain there was enough to prove Hunt; The plot is meant to shuttle Ethan from one explosion to the next.
Expendables
Where is it to look; It is available for purchase on Amazon, Lakeand Vudu
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Photo: Yana Blajeva/Lionsgate
Genre: Action
Run time: 1h 43m
Director: Scott Waugh
Send: Jason Statham, Sylvester Stallone, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson
The fourth entry in the daring franchise has the best action scenes yet, it delivers Jason Statham, and brings in Tony Jaa and Iko Uwais for some bona fide martial arts.
From our review,
Expendables He stretches freedom to its limits, and frankly those limits do not reach further. There’s a level of self-awareness to the Expendables films that can make their paper-thin plots and characterizations excusable — in the end, it’s just a reason that some of the story’s actions overlap. But in the decade-plus series of tributes, he has not developed any flowers of his own style. Mission: Impossible movies have their signature, Fast and Furious movies have their improbable car applications, but The Expendables doesn’t lack a comparable calling card. For fans, nothing looked better than Jason Statham’s soft rabbit and Sylvester Stallone’s flaunting. And frankly, there are many other places for people who want to carry them.
He lives in the middle
Where is it to look; They are available for rent Amazon, Lakeand Vudu
Genre: A horror from above
Run time: 1h 39m
Director: Bishal Dutta
Send: Megan Suri, Neeru Bajwa, Mohana Krishnan
This horror film follows two girls in an American high school, who each relate to their Indian heritage in a different way: One embraces it, the other rejects it. When one of them throws his heart out, the other hopes to stop it.
A dark harvest
Where is it to look; They are available for rent Amazon, Lakeand Vudu
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Image: MGM/United Artist Release
Genre: Fantasy horror
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: David Slade
Send: Casey Likes, E’myri Crutchfield, Dustin Ceithamer
Director David Slade (30 days of night) returns with an all-new horror fantasy film based on Norman Partridge’s 2006 novel. In a sleepy, unnamed Midwestern town, teenage boys gather every year for an annual ritual: To hunt down “Sawtooth Jack,” a vicious animal with a pumpkin for a head, and kill him before midnight so that the town is free. misfortune Will they be able to succeed this year, and what other dark secrets are hidden behind this prodigious tradition?
dear David
Where is it to look; They are available for rent Amazon, Lakeand Vudu
Genre: A horror from above
Run time: 1h 34m
Director: John McPhail
Send: Augustus Prew, Andrea Bang, René Escobar Jr.
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