Every week on Polygon, 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, Look backthe critically acclaimed anime film based on Tatsuki Fujimoto’s manga of the same name, is finally available to stream on Prime Video. That’s not all, though; the time travel comedy My old ass Starring Aubrey Plaza, it also debuts on Prime Video this weekend Poolman on Hulu, Black cabin on Shudder and the Christmas rom-com Meet me next Christmas on Netflix. There are also several new releases available to rent or purchase on VOD, including Another man with Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson.
Here’s everything new to watch this weekend!
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Genre: Holiday rom-com
Duration: 1h 45m
Director: Rusty Cundief
Form: Christina Milian, Devale Ellis, Mitch Grassi
This holiday rom-com follows a woman who happened to meet a handsome stranger at an airport one Christmas day. After feeling the sparks, they decided to meet at a Pentatonix concert next year. Fast forward a year and she can’t get a ticket for the sold out concert! So she hires a personal concierge to help her get a ticket. But of course the concierge is handsome and charming… Who will she choose? Will she see Pentatonix live?
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
Genre: Mystery comedy
Duration: 1h 40m
Director: Chris Pain
Form: Chris Pine, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Danny DeVito
In Chris Pine’s directorial debut, he stars as Darren, a fearlessly optimistic Los Angeles pool cleaner who is also determined to make his community a better place à la Erin Brockovich (although the local city council is increasingly annoyed by him). . After contacting a beautiful and mysterious woman, Darren embarks on a quest to expose the city’s corruption.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
Genre: Coming of age drama
Duration: 58m
Director: Kiyotaka Oshiyama
Form: Yuumi Kawai, Mizuki Yoshida
Based on the one-shot manga by Chainsaw man Author Tatsuki Fujimoto, Kiyotaka Oshiyama’s coming-of-age anime drama focuses on the lives and friendship of Fujino (Yuumi Kawai) and Kyomoto (Mizuki Yoshida), two elementary school classmates who bond over their shared love and passion for drawing manga. We added it to our list of the best animated films of the year, so you should definitely check it out.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 1h 29m
Director: Megan Park
Form: Aubrey Plaza, Maisy Stella and Percy Hynes White
In this timeless comedy, a teenage girl named Elliot (Maisy Stella) does a… lot of magic mushrooms and somehow comes into contact with her 39-year-old self (Aubrey Plaza). Her older self has many words of wisdom, but one big warning: don’t fall in love with the cute boy who worked on her family’s cranberry farm that summer. Stella and Plaza share a very easy and fun chemistry that makes their interactions a joy to watch. And the film is especially poignant because of the lessons that both versions of Elliot learn from each other.
In addition to the time travel setup, My old ass‘s most direct connection is the leads and their easy rapport. This movie could have just been a collection of gags and gags about touching your older self’s butt. But Park uses the timely elements to craft a story about those unheralded final moments, which we don’t know will be a turning point on the road to adulthood. The younger Elliott is eager to put it all behind her and move on to her next big adventure, but the older Elliott can provide some perspective. At the same time, the older Elliott is able to enjoy her bygone youth and take advantage of the time when she was a fearless teenager who could conquer the world. My old ass is about growing up – the joy, the pain and those little moments that resonate with us for much longer than we think they will – and Park does so cleverly by drawing on Elliott’s perspectives on both the past and the present.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Shudder
Genre: Horror
Duration: 1h 27m
Director: Bruce Goodison
Form: Nick Frost, Synnove Karlsen, Luke Norris
This new horror film, co-written by Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead), stars Synnove Karlsen (Last night in Soho) and Luke Norris (The Duchess) like a couple hailing a black cab after a night out with their friends. Things take a sinister turn when their driver (Frost) kidnaps them and drives them to a deserted (and supposedly haunted) stretch of road. What horrors await them when they reach their final destination, and will they leave a good tip?
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Genre: Psychological thriller
Duration: 1h 52m
Director: Aaron Schimberg
Form: Sebastian Stan, Adam Pearson, Renate Reinsve
Sebastian Stan (Captain America: the winter soldier) stars in it Another man as Edward, an aspiring actor who struggles with insecurity about his neurofibromatosis. After undergoing a radical medical procedure to change his appearance, Edward’s life seems to be looking up, until a man with neurofibromatosis named Oswald (Adam Pearson) enters the picture. Will Edward be able to find peace with Oswald and his own past?
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Genre: Drama
Duration: 1h 35m
Director: Alessandra Lacorazza
Form: René Pérez, Sasha Calle, Lio Mehiel
This drama follows a pair of siblings who live with their loving but emotionally unstable father during their annual summer visits to his home in New Mexico. Told over a period of several years, In the summers is a moving portrait of a tense parent-child relationship.
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Genre: Drama
Duration: 1h 58m
Director: Nora Fingscheidt
Form: Saoirse Ronan, Paapa Essiedu, Nabil Elouahabi
Saoirse Ronan stars as a young woman, fresh out of rehab for alcoholism, who returns to the distant Orkney Islands of Scotland while figuring out what to do with her life and struggling to connect with others. Eventually she takes a job with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and finds solace in biology and birdwatching. The outlet was originally a memoir of the same name by one of the film’s screenwriters, Amy Liptrot, and premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.