Greetings, Polygon readers! Every week we round up the hottest new releases in streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies for you to watch at home.
This week, Killers of the Flower Moon, director Martin Scorsese’s historical crime drama starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone, is finally coming to Apple TV Plus after its theatrical run. That’s not all: Ridley Scott’s epic historical drama Napoleon is finally available for purchase and rental on VOD. There’s plenty more to choose from this week, including a new heist comedy starring Kevin Hart on Netflix, a dark comedy from director-star Jake Johnson on Hulu, and a romantic action comedy starring Kaley Cuoco and David Oyelowo on Prime Video. .
Here’s everything you can watch this weekend!
New on Netflix
Lifting
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Image: Netflix
Genre: Comedy robbery
Duration: 1h 44m
Director: F. Gary Gray
Form: Kevin Hart, Vincent D’Onofrio, Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Kevin Hart stars in this new crime comedy as Cyrus Whitaker, the leader of an international heist crew who is forced by his former FBI agent (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) to pull off the wildest heist of his career: stealing $500 million in gold on board a Zuricher. -tied aircraft mid-flight. How hard can it be?
After all
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Image: tension photos
Genre: Romantic drama
Duration: 1h 33m
Director: Castile Landon
Form: Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Josephine Langford, Mimi Keene
The fifth film in the After series follows Hardin (Hero Fiennes Tiffin), a bestselling author who travels to Portugal to take his mind off his ex Tessa (Josephine Langford). After meeting Natalie (Mimi Keene), his girlfriend and former flame, Hardin must make a difficult decision: move on or keep fighting for love?
New on Hulu
Self-sustainability
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
Image: Hulu
Genre: Dark comedy
Duration: 1h 25m
Director: Jake Johnson
Form: Jake Johnson, Anna Kendrick, Andy Samberg
Jake Johnson (New girl) directs and stars in this new comedy about a middle-aged man who gets the opportunity of a lifetime: join a reality TV show on the dark web and compete for $1 million. The only catch is that for the next thirty days he will have to evade an army of assassins determined to kill him, and they can only kill him if he is alone.
Beyond utopia
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
Image: Roadside attractions
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 1h 55m
Director: Madeleine Gavin
This documentary follows the story of several families who, after living in North Korea all their lives, risk everything to flee the country in the hope of finding a better life. Compiled from first-hand images from the subjects themselves, Beyond utopia shows how extreme many people will do to secure their freedom.
New on Max
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
Where to watch: Available to stream on Max
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 1h 42m
Director: Joe Brewster, Michele Stephenson
Form: Nikki Giovanni, Taraji P. Henson, Virginia Fowler
This documentary chronicles the life and legacy of Nikki Giovanni, the African-American poet and activist whose writing and commentary earned her a reputation as one of the preeminent poets of the Black Revolution. Combining archival footage with intimate commentary from Giovanni himself, the film offers a glimpse into the mind of one of the Black Arts Movement’s most important authors.
New on Prime Video
Role play
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
Photo: Reiner Bajo
Genre: Action comedy
Duration: 1h 40m
Director: Thomas Vincentius
Form: Kaley Cuoco, David Oyelowo, Connie Nielsen
Kaley Cuoco (The stewardess) and David Oyelowo (Selma) star in this action comedy about Emma and Dave Brackett, a married couple with two children living in suburban New Jersey. Their home life is turned upside down when Emma’s double life as an international assassin is exposed, inadvertently dragging Dave into a world he’s in over his head.
New to Apple TV Plus
Killers of the Flower Moon
Where to watch: Available to stream on Apple TV Plus
Image: Apple TV Plus
Genre: Western crime drama
Duration: 2h 38m
Director: Martin Scorsese
Form: Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, Robert De Niro
Martin Scorsese returns with a Western crime drama based on the 2017 non-fiction book by David Grann. The film is set in 1920s Oklahoma and follows the life of Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio), a gullible veteran of the First World War complicit in the systematic murder of Osage Nation members in a plot to claim rights to their oil-rich land while they were married. to his Osage wife, Mollie Kyle (Lily Gladstone).
From our review:
Roth and Scorsese sow carefully Killers of the Flower Moon‘s script with context, texture and detail, even as they avoid exposition and ensure every scene has a dramatic point. It is an incredibly lived-in film. (And at 206 minutes, you certainly feel like you’ve lived in it.) It shows how the Osage became wealthy after being harassed on a desolate stretch of prairie that turned out to have vast oil deposits, and how a parasitic white society clung to it . pitted against the tribe – not least Hale (Robert De Niro), a grandfather who claimed their friendship, praised their wisdom and feigned sorrow over their poor health even as he plotted to destroy the right to their oil through a campaign of marriage, murder and insurance fraud.
New for rent
Napoleon
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Image: Apple TV Plus
Genre: Epic historical drama
Duration: 2h 38m
Director: Ridley Scott
Form: Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby, Tahar Rahim
Joaquin Phoenix stars in Ridley Scott’s historical epic about Napoleon Bonaparte, the infamous French emperor and military commander who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and embarked on a global conquest of power. A four-hour director’s cut is expected to arrive on Apple TV Plus sometime this year, but for now you can buy, rent, and stream the two-and-a-half-hour version.
From our review:
The result is a frustrated yet subdued portrayal of a man who has an entire historical era named after him, brought down to earth as perhaps Europe’s most accomplished cuck. Scott, Phoenix, and Scarpa do not show much interest in how Napoleon’s delusions or shortcomings justified or qualified him for his conquest of the world stage. Instead, they devote the film’s 158-minute running time to depicting how one man’s unchecked insecurity left him forever dissatisfied and dragged the entire world along with him in his dissatisfaction. They don’t bother to say much about Napoleon’s influence on his country or the world, or to identify his policy interests, the ways in which he brought progress or became a tyrant.
The Disappearance of Shere Hite
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Photo: Mike Wilson/IFC Films
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 1h 58m
Director: Nicole Newham
This documentary charts the career and influence of Shere Hite, the American sex educator and feminist whose 1976 research into female sexuality sent shockwaves through public and social discourse. Produced by Dakota Johnson, the film chronicles Hite’s rise to prominence and explores how her influence has been lost to history.
He went that way
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Image: Vertical entertainment
Genre: Crime drama
Duration: 1h 35m
Director: Jeffrey Darling
Form: Zachary Quinto, Jacob Elordi, Patrick J. Adams
Jacob Elordi (Salt burn) and Zachary Quinto (Star Trek) stars in this crime thriller about Bobby Falls, a serial killer who hitches a ride with Jim Goodwin, an animal trainer in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The trailer hints at the film’s final conclusion, as well as a suspenseful series of events including murder, theft and delicious food.