The Equalizer 3, Return to Seoul and every new movie you can watch at home this weekend
Happy New Year, 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, The equalizer 3the latest action thriller from Denzel Washington and director Antoine Fuqua, arrives simultaneously on Netflix Association of the Snowthe survival thriller based on the infamous 1972 flight disaster in the Andes. Return to Seouldirector Davy Chou's critically acclaimed drama, and One beautiful morning, the romantic drama starring Léa Seydoux and Pascal Greggory, is now available to stream on Prime Video. There are also several other exciting new releases to choose from, including the beautiful drama All unpaved roads taste of salt And Bendthe great new action thriller from Gangs of London director Xavier Gens.
Here's everything you can watch this weekend!
New on Netflix
The equalizer 3
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Photo: Stefano Montesi/Sony Pictures Entertainment
Genre: Action
Duration: 1h 49m
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Form: Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, David Denman
Denzel Washington reprises his role as surgically precise vigilante Robert McCall in the third installment of the Equalizer series. After moving to Italy, McCall discovers that his new friends from a southern Italian town are being terrorized by members of a mafia organization. Bad news for the mafia: they're about to get even.
Association of the Snow
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Image: Netflix
Genre: Survival thriller
Duration: 2h 24m
Director: YES Bayona
Form: Matías Recalt, Agustín Pardella, Felipe González Otaño
Based on a true story, this survival thriller follows the passengers of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 who, after being stranded in the Andes Mountains with no way to contact the outside world, must work together to avoid starvation and freezing to death. The trailer certainly looks gripping, with the survivors struggling under the most horrific circumstances to secure their rescue and keep morale high.
Good grief
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Photo: Chris Baker/Netflix
Genre: Comedy drama
Duration: 1h 40m
Director: Dan Levy
Form: Dan Levy, Ruth Negga, Himesh Patel
Writer-director Dan Levy stars in this romantic comedy-drama as an artist who, after the loss of his writer husband, takes his two best friends on vacation to Paris. Upon arrival, the three face their own individual revelations and challenges as they grow closer together.
New on Prime Video
Return to Seoul
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
Image: Aurora Films/Sony Pictures Classics
Genre: Drama
Duration: 1h 59m
Director: Davy Chou
Form: Ji-Min Park, Oh Kwang-rok, Guka Han
Freddie (Ji-Min Park), an impulsive 25-year-old adoptee, travels with a group of friends to South Korea – the place where she was born before being adopted and raised in France. She embarks on an impromptu journey of self-discovery and finds herself straddling the line between the familiar and the strange, the true and the false, in a quest to understand what she meant to her mother and why she was put up for adoption.
One beautiful morning
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
Image: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Genre: Romantic drama
Duration: 1h 52m
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
Form: Léa Seydoux, Pascal Greggory, Melvil Poupaud
Lea Seydoux (Crimes of the future, Death stranding) stars in this new romantic drama from Bergman Island director Mia Hansen-Løve as Sandra, a young widowed mother who struggles to secure a decent nursing home for her ailing father (Pascal Greggory) while raising her 8-year-old daughter. When they reconnect with Clément (Melvil Poupaud), an old friend from her past, the two are undeniably attracted to each other – despite Clément's marriage to another woman.
Enemy
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
Image: Amazon Studios
Genre: Science fiction drama
Duration: 1h 50m
Director: Garth Davis
Form: Saoirse Ronan, Paul Mescal, Aaron Pierre
Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal star in this sci-fi psychological thriller about Henrietta and Junior, a married couple whose love is tested when Junior is called to work on a massive space station in orbit. In his place, Henrietta will be left in the company of a robot replica of her husband. Remember that one episode from the sixth season of Black mirror starring Aaron Paul and Josh Hartnett? This sounds something like this.
New for rent
All unpaved roads taste of salt
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Image: A24
Genre: Drama
Duration: 1h 37m
Director: Raven Jackson
Form: Kaylee Nicole Johnson, Chris Chalk, Jayah Henry
Writer-director Raven Jackson's latest drama jumps back and forth in time and follows the story of a pair of black sisters growing up in the South. Described as a “poetic memoir (…) that moves through both everyday and life-defining moments” by critic Monica Castillothe trailer contains few words, but a lot of mood and feeling.
Eileen
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Image: Neon
Genre: Psychological thriller
Duration: 1h 38m
Director: William Oldroyd
Form: Thomasin McKenzie, Anne Hathaway, Shea Whigham
This psychological thriller, based on the 2015 novel by Ottessa Moshfegh, stars Thomasin McKenzie (Last night in Soho) as a young secretary who falls in love with Rebecca (Anne Hathaway), the charismatic new psychologist at the juvenile detention center where she works. As their friendship grows, Eileen discovers new aspects of her personality – with an effect as sinister as it is deadly.
Bend!
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Image: IFC Films
Genre: Crime action
Duration: 1h 39m
Director: Xavier Gens
Form: Nassim Lyes, Loryn Nounay, Olivier Gourmet
An early contender for one of this year's best action films, Bend follows Samir (Nassim Lyes), an ex-con and martial artist, who flees from France to Thailand to escape his former gang. Struggling to build a new life, Samir is once again drawn into a world of deceit and violence when a powerful real estate mogul kidnaps a member of his family.
From our review:
BendLyes' action is brutal and kinetic, with inventive kills, powerful location work and realistic choreography that draws from the best of Lyes' kickboxing history. It's a real star performance for him, as he combines the demanding physical demands of the role with a deep well of sadness that permeates the whole thing, even as he dispatches enemy after enemy.