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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Genre: Horror
Playing time: 1h 42m
Director: Tilman Singer
Form: Hunter Schafer, Dan Stevens, Jessica Henwick
Hunter Schafer (Euphoria) stars in this horror film as Gretchen, a teenager grieving the recent loss of 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 have been hired to help build. However, Gretchen soon discovers that something far more sinister is going on beneath the surface of this idyllic resort.
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Genre: Psychological thriller
Playing time: 1h 42m
Director: Zoë Kravitz
Form: Naomi Ackie, Channing Tatum, Christian Slater
Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut is a psychological thriller about a cocktail waitress named Frida (Naomi Ackie) who is whisked away to a private island by a tech mogul for a lavish party. But Frida begins to notice something strange happening to the female guests. Fun fact: the working title for the film was Cat Islandbut the Motion Picture Association had a problem with that.
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Genre: Sci-fi drama
Playing time: 1h 47m
Director: Bernardo Britto
Form: Mary-Louise Parker, Ayo Edebiri, Carlos Jacott
Omni-loop 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 time travel problem, due to the black hole growing in her chest. It’s not just time travel, but a time loop and a whole lot of timey-wimey funk as Zoya comes to terms with her life and her regrets.
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Genre: Sci-fi horror
Playing time: 1h 24m
Director: Chris Weitz
Form: John Cho, Katherine Waterston, Havana Rose Liu
To remind Smart Homethat 1999 sci-fi comedy about a fully automated house voiced by Katey Sagal that goes berserk? Well, imagine if that movie was a horror thriller and you’ve got the gist of scaredthe new film from director Chris Weitz (The Golden Compass, The Twilight Saga: New Moon) starring John Cho and Katherine Waterston.
When a happy family decides to test 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 to psychologically manipulate the family and harm those around them in its twisted desire to be part of the family.
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Genre: Sci-fi thriller
Playing time: 1h 48m
Director: Mikael Håfström
Form: Casey Affleck, Laurence Fishburne, Emily Beecham
This science fiction thriller stars Casey Affleck (Manchester by the sea) as John, an astronaut aboard an experimental spacecraft designed to make a years-long mission to Saturn’s moon Titan. When the ship’s passengers begin to suspect that the mission has somehow been compromised, John must work with the ship’s captain (Laurence Fishburne) to find a solution and survive.