Blink Twice, Challengers, Netflix’s His Three Daughters and Every New Movie to Stream This Week

By James On Sep 20, 2024

Every week at Polygon, we round up the most notable new releases for streaming and VOD, and highlight the biggest and best new movies to watch at home.

This week, Blink twicethe new psychological horror film from actor-director Zoë Kravitz, is available to purchase and rent on VOD, after premiering in theaters last month. There’s also the horror thriller Cuckoostarring Hunter Schafer, which is also available to rent and buy on VOD. If neither of these interest you, don’t worry; there are plenty of other new releases to stream this week, including Jane Schoenbrun’s I saw the TV glow on Max, Luca Guadagnino’s Challengersthe norwegian horror mystery Dealing with the undead on Hulu, and more!

Here’s everything new to check out this weekend!

Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix

Photo: Sam Levy/Netflix

Genre: Drama
Playing time: 1h 41m
Director: Azazel Jacobs
Form: Carrie Coon, Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen

This family drama follows three estranged sisters who are reunited during the final days of their ailing father. The tension between the three is further fueled by the fact that one of them is not biologically related to the rest. Old animosities are rekindled, but the three must overcome their differences to spend their final moments with their father.

Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix

Jon Arbuckle grates Parmesan cheese over Garfield's lasagna as Odie looks on in a still from The Garfield Movie

Image: Sony Pictures

Genre: Adventure comedy
Playing time: 1h 41m
Director: Mark Dindal
Form: Chris Pratt, Samuel L. Jackson, Hannah Waddingham

It’s Chris Pratt! As Garfield! The lazy orange cat reunites with his long-lost father, Vic (voiced by Samuel L. Jackson, of all people). Together 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 New Groove.

Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu

A woman holds the limp body of a child in her arms next to a boat, surrounded by a marsh of reeds in Handling the Undead.

Image: Neon

Genre: Horror drama
Playing time: 1h 37m
Director: Thea Hvistendahl
Form: Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, Bahar Pars

There are tons of horror movies about the dead coming back to life. None of them are really like Dealing with the undeadalthough. Based on the 2005 novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, the film follows the story of three families living in Oslo, whose loved ones all mysteriously return from the dead as semi-conscious corpses. How do they cope with this new phenomenon, and is it a second chance to say goodbye… or a curse?

Where to watch: Available to stream on Max

Twenty-year-old Owen (Justice Smith) is a movie theater employee, standing in a darkened theater looking into the camera. Behind him, a slide with the text

Image: A24/Everett Collection

Genre: Psychological horror
Playing time: 1h 40m
Director: Jane Schönbrun
Form: Judge Smith, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Helena Howard

If you somehow haven’t had a chance to check out Jane Schoenbrun’s critically acclaimed psychological horror drama yet, don’t worry: there’s still time, especially now that the film is available to stream on Max. Justice Smith plays Owen, an isolated teenager who forms a bond with an older classmate, Maddy (Brigette Lundy-Paine), through a television series called The pink opaqueAs the years pass, however, it gradually becomes clear to Owen that there is more to the show – and his own reality – than meets the eye.

Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video

Teenager Tashi (Zendaya, in a bright red sweater) sits on a hotel bed, eyes closed, chin up, hands at her sides, as Art (Mike Faist) and Patrick (Josh O'Connor) sit on either side of her, passionately kissing her neck, in Challengers

Image: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures/YouTube

Genre: Sports drama
Playing time: 2h 11m
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Form: Zendaya, Josh O’Connor, Mike Faist

Luca Guadagnino’s sensual sports drama about a love triangle in professional tennis has been setting certain circles in the world alight 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 three-course meal for Faist and O’Connor. They alternate face-and-heel roles from scene to scene and era to era, while Art and Patrick help and hurt each other in equal measure. But it’s an absolute smorgasbord for Zendaya, who, even in leading roles, has never been given so much room to stretch. Tashi is a satisfyingly rich character, both righteously angry about the thwarting of her ambitions and viciously angry at any men who dare continue to play the game that’s been stolen from her. She’s simultaneously hungry for affection and withholding it, alternately sensually curious and coldly impartial, ambitious and exhausted, conflicted and self-assured. She’s the kind of character media theorems are made of, and unraveling Tashi’s conflicting motives and how she integrates them will likely become a pop culture obsession in the months to come.

Where to watch: Available to stream on AMC Plus

A close-up of a woman playing guitar in Dandelion.

Image: IFC Films

Genre: Drama
Playing time: 1h 53m
Director: Nicole Riegel
Form: KiKi Layne, Thomas Doherty, Melanie Nicholls-King

KiKi Layne (If Beale Street Could Talk) stars in this musical drama as Dandelion, a struggling singer-songwriter who travels the country performing while longing for a career breakthrough she fears may never come. After she begins a romance with Casey (Thomas Doherty), another disaffected musician, their love proves to be the unintended catalyst for Dandelion to discover an authentic artistic voice that is all her own.