Deadpool i Wolverine, Platforma 2 od Netflixa i każdy nowy film do obejrzenia

Each week on Polygon, we circular up the most notable fresh releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best fresh movies for you to watch at home.

Evil is in question this week, as Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist and James Watkins’ 2024 remake of Speak No Evil come to streaming on Criterion Channel and VOD, respectively. If you want more than evil on the mind, however, you’re in luck; there are tons of fresh breathtaking releases to choose from on streaming and VOD this week. We’ve got the highly anticipated VOD premiere of Deadpool & Wolverine, the dystopian thriller The Platform 2 on Netflix, Gary Dauberman’s adaptation of Stephen King’s ’Salem’s Lot on Max, and a full lot more where that came from!

Here’s everything fresh that’s available to watch this weekend!

Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix

Genre: Dystopian sci-fi
Run time: 1h 39m
Director: Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia
Cast: Milena Smit, Natalia Tena, Óscar Jaenada, Hovik Keuchkerian

The Platform 2 is the follow-up to the 2019 Spanish dystopian thriller (which is called — you guessed it! — The Platform). Like the first movie, this 1 takes place in a futuristic, multi-leveled prison where the inmates are fed via a floating platform that descends from the top level to the bottom throughout the day. But this leads to a lot of conflict, as the inmates at the top get to eat more than the ones at the bottom. In the sequel, a fresh resident rises against this method.

Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix

Genre: Horror comedy
Run time: 1h 43m
Director: Greg Jardin
Cast: Brittany O’Grady, James Morosini, Gavin Leatherwood

A group of college friends gather for a pre-wedding reunion, which should be all fun and games. But 1 of the guests shows up with a mysterious high-tech gadget and hooks all the guests up to any kind of unusual brain-melding machine. All their thoughts and minds blur together, and the weekend takes a turn from a fun reunion into a surviving nightmare.

Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix

Genre: Drama
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: Minhal Baig
Cast: Blake Cameron James, Gian Knight Ramirez, S. Epatha Merkerson

Set in Chicago in the early ’90s, We Grown Now centers on the communicative of Malik and Eric, 2 young boys increasing up in a housing complex who last the mundanity of school life and the perils of their environment through the strength of their friendship. erstwhile a abrupt tragedy threatens to strain their bond, Malik and Eric will gotta grow up fast and make a choice between what to hold onto and what to let go of.

Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu

Genre: Horror thriller
Run time: 1h 34m
Directors: Karrie Crouse, Will Joines
Cast: Sarah Paulson, Amiah Miller, Alona Jane Robbins

This intellectual thriller takes place in Depression-era Oklahoma, right in the mediate of the Dust Bowl. A young single parent becomes increasingly convinced that something in the dust storms is stalking her household — is it a serial killer hunting close families, or any kind of supernatural presence that takes control of people?

Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu

Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 49m
Director: Pamela Adlon
Cast: Ilana Glazer, Michelle Buteau, John Carroll Lynch

A hilarious raunchy comedy that follows 2 best friends: 1 has 2 kids, and the another is recently pregnant from a one-night stand. Babes is unflinching about the grossness (and hilarity) of pregnancy, but it besides dives into the nitty-gritty of adult friendships and shifting priorities. Ilana Glazer and Michelle Buteau have amazing banter and truly connect in a way that feels achingly authentic.

Where to watch: Available to stream on Max

Genre: Horror
Run time: 1h 53m
Director: Gary Dauberman
Cast: Lewis Pullman, Pilou Asbæk, Alfre Woodard

Director Gary Dauberman (Annabelle Comes Home) is back — this time with a fresh adaptation of Stephen King’s classical 1975 horror novel! Lewis Pullman (Outer Range) stars as Ben Mears, a author who returns to his hometown of Jerusalem’s Lot, Maine, in search of inspiration for his next book. What he finds, however, is simply a town besieged by an otherworldly creature that threatens to kill and subjugate everyone around him.

Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video

Genre: Horror
Run time: 1h 41m
Directors: Bridget Savage Cole, Danielle Krudy
Cast: Ariana DeBose, Barbie Ferreira, Marton Csokas

A cook opens up her first restaurant and must conquer her own self-doubt, typical kitchen chaos, and the turmoil of starting a fresh business. Oh, and besides the old property that she picks as a location may be haunted, and the erstwhile owner was rumored to be a local witch who grew suspicious plants in her garden, among another things. Just fine culinary hijinks!

Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock

Genre: Coming-of-age drama
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: Sean Wang
Cast: Izaac Wang, Joan Chen, Shirley Chen

Set in the late 2000s, this coming-of-age drama follows Chris Wang (Izaac Wang), a 13-year-old boy enjoying his last summertime vacation before entering advanced school. As he’s simultaneously enticed and intimidated by the opportunities and challenges that come with adolescence, will Chris find a way to grow up on his own terms? If you enjoyed Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade or Jonah Hill’s Mid90s, Dìdi should be right up your alley.

Where to watch: Available to stream on Tubi

Genre: Slapstick comedy
Run time: 1h 48m
Director: Mike Cheslik
Cast: Ryland Brickson Cole Tews, Olivia Graves

One of the year’s most exciting, innovative, and entertaining movies, Hundreds of Beavers is a black-and-white silent comedy that is deliriously comic and a genuinely fresh cinematic experience.

You don’t request to be a cinema student or even a fan of silent comedy to appreciate Hundreds of Beavers. That’s the goofy joy of this task — while its foundation is firmly set in the classics of the genre and the medium, at its heart, it’s a laugh-a-minute thrill ride about a very silly individual on a very silly quest. Sometimes, that’s just what the doctor ordered.

Where to watch: Available to stream on Starz

Genre: Horror
Run time: 1h 31m
Director: Renny Harlin
Cast: Madelaine Petsch, Froy Gutierrez, Gabriel Basso

Home-invasion horror movies frankly terrify me to another level, but if that’s your thing, you’ll have a large time with The Strangers: Chapter 1. Especially since it beautiful much follows the game of the original.

New on Metrograph at Home

Where to watch: Available to stream on Metrograph at Home

Genre: Crime drama
Run time: 1h 51m
Director: Lee Chang-dong
Cast: Han Suk-kyu, Shim Hye-jin, Moon Sung-keun

In April, Metrograph theatrically debuted restorations of Lee Chang-dong’s (Burning) first 3 directed features. Now, all 3 restorations will be seeing their streaming debuts on the theater’s streaming platform, Metrograph at Home.

Green Fish, Lee’s directorial debut, is simply a neo-noir crime drama about a erstwhile soldier who falls in with a gang and starts an affair with his boss’s girlfriend.

Where to watch: Available to stream on Metrograph at Home

Genre: Drama
Run time: 2h 10m
Director: Lee Chang-dong
Cast: Sul Kyung-gu, Moon So-ri, Kim Yeo-jin

Lee followed Green Fish with Peppermint Candy, a tragedy told in reverse chronological order, starting with the protagonist’s suicide and then moving back in time to show key moments in his life. The movie won 5 Grand Bell Awards, including Best Film, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.

Where to watch: Available to stream on Metrograph at Home

Genre: romanticist drama
Run time: 2h 12m
Director: Lee Chang-dong
Cast: Sul Kyung-gu, Moon So-ri, Ahn Nae-sang

Lee reunited with the 2 stars of Peppermint Candy for his 3rd feature, a romanticist drama about 2 young disabled people who find love in a society that would alternatively shun them. The movie was a large hit on the festival circuit, especially at the 2002 Venice movie Festival, where it won a Silver Lion for Best Direction, won the Marcello Mastroianni Award for an emerging actor (given to Moon So-ri), and was nominated for the Golden Lion.

Where to watch: Available to stream on Metrograph at Home

Genre: Drama
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Daisuke Miyazaki
Cast: Takuma Fujie, An Ogawa, Kyoko Koizumi

This coming-of-age romance follows Jun (Takuma Fujie), an aspiring guitarist who moves to Nagoya after his shot at a recording deal falls through. While performing songs by his favourite glam stone band, Jun meets Ibuki (An Ogawa), a young female who shares his love for the same band. The pair yet become an item, but can their relation withstand the pressures and mounting responsibilities that come with young adulthood?

Where to watch: Available to stream on Shudder

Genre: Horror anthology
Run time: 1h 54m
Directors: Various
Cast: Dane DiLiegro, Alanah Pearce

The latest installment in the V/H/S horror anthology franchise, V/H/S/Beyond features segments from Justin Long and the married duo Mike Flanagan and Kate Siegel, among others. Like the another V/H/S films (and spinoffs), all of the short segments are in a found-footage style. V/H/S/Beyond’s shorts include (and are surely not limited to): a sinister taxidermist, a UFO crashing into skydivers, and 2 paparazzi sneaking into the set of a Bollywood movie.

Where to watch: Available to stream on Criterion Channel

Genre: Drama
Run time: 1h 46m
Director: Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Cast: Hitoshi Omika, Ryo Nishikawa, Ryuji Kosaka

Ryusuke Hamaguchi returns with a follow-up to his Oscar-nominated 2021 drama Drive My Car. His latest film, Evil Does Not Exist, follows the communicative of a widower and his 8-year-old daughter surviving in a distant village whose way of life is threatened by the arrival of a company that plans to build a glamorous camping hotel in the close area. Does evil exist, and if it does, in what ways does it take form in our everyday life?

Evil Does Not Exist leans toward a folk-horror tradition, as Hamaguchi slow pivots distant from dispassionate naturalism, building to an impressionistic, opaque finale. The provocation of the film’s title echoes through the woods, which the movie begins and ends by regarding from below. possibly that’s what the title is getting at. possibly it’s a whisper echoing through and from the ground itself, about how foolish it is to believe that the earth, even in its stillness and beauty, has any respect for our moral attitude toward it. possibly we ought to tread more carefully, and be fearful in our taking. possibly evil only matters due to the fact that we’re here to think about it, and erstwhile we’re gone, it will be too.

Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Genre: Superhero action
Run time: 2h 8m
Director: Shawn Levy
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Emma Corrin

Ryan Reynolds reprises his function as Deadpool, the alleged Merc with a Mouth, in his first-ever appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. After being abducted by the Time Variance Authority, Deadpool embarks on a quest to recruit an alternate-universe version of Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) to aid prevent his own universe from being destroyed. Matthew Macfadyen (Succession) plays Mr. Paradox, a rogue associate of the TVA, and Emma Corrin (A execution at the End of the World) portrays Cassandra Nova, prof. X’s evil duplicate sister from an alternate universe.

Deadpool & Wolverine has made its hero the worst kind of comic book character: 1 who doesn’t stand for anything. It’s a terrible irony. Fans worried that Disney’s corporate control and the MCU’s rigid communicative oversight would leech distant Deadpool’s edge: the swearing and the jocular violence. Turns out, that part was fine. Instead, the MCU just took his fuckin’ heart.

Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Genre: intellectual thriller
Run time: 1h 58m
Director: Pascal Plante
Cast: Juliette Gariépy, Laurie Babin, Elisabeth Locas

Directed by Pascal Plante (Fake Tattoos), Red Rooms follows Kelly-Anne (Juliette Gariépy), a fashion model surviving in Montreal who grows obsessed with the trial of a suspect accused of broadcasting the execution of 3 women via a dark web livestream service known as a “red room.” As she attempts to track down a part of evidence crucial to the case, Kelly-Anne finds herself drawn into a planet far darker than anything she could’ve possibly imagined. Is her quest for the fact driven by the insatiable curiosity of a true-crime obsessive, or something more?

Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Genre: intellectual horror
Run time: 1h 50m
Director: James Watkins
Cast: Mackenzie Davis, Scoot McNairy, James McAvoy

James Watkins’ remake of the 2022 Danish horror movie Speak No Evil stars Mackenzie Davis (Station Eleven) and Scoot McNairy (Argo) as Louise and Ben, an American couple vacationing in Italy with their daughter, Agnes. After befriending Paddy (James McAvoy) and Ciara (Aisling Franciosi), a free-spirited British couple besides on vacation, Louise and Ben decide to visit the couple after being invited to their farmhouse in the countryside. It’s not long, however, before things take a turn for the worse.

Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 42m
Director: Jazmin Jones

Composed of interviews with artists, writers, and software designers as well as dynamic “screenlife” vignettes, this documentary chronicles the search for Renée L’Espérance, the female whom the fictional character Mavis Beacon was originally based off of. Seeking Mavis Beacon explores the legacy its namesake subject has left behind not only in the planet of computing, but in the planet of online culture itself.

Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Genre: Horror
Run time: 1h 37m
Director: JT Mollner
Cast: Willa Fitzgerald, Kyle Gallner, Barbara Hershey

This fresh horror thriller from manager JT Mollner (Outlaws and Angels) chronicles a one-night stand between a man (Kyle Gallner) and a female (Willa Fitzgerald) that spirals into a cat-and-mouse pursuit of execution and revenge. Told out of chronological order, Strange Darling was shot on 35mm movie and premiered at 2023’s Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas.

Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Genre: Action comedy
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: J.J. Perry
Cast: Dave Bautista, Sofia Boutella, Terry Crews

Action manager extraordinaire J.J. Perry (Day Shift) has returned with another action comedy, this time starring Dave Bautista (Knock at the Cabin) and Sofia Boutella (Kingsman: The Secret Service). The Killer’s Game centers on Joe Flood (Bautista), an infamous hitman who is diagnosed with a terminal illness. alternatively than dying naturally, Joe decides to put a hit out on himself. After learning that his diagnosis was erroneous, Joe has to fight off an army of his assassin colleagues to defend himself and his ex-girlfriend (Boutella) from harm.

Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Genre: Coming-of-age comedy
Run time: 1h 28m
Director: Kevin Smith
Cast: Austin Zajur, Kate Micucci, Siena Agudong

If you’re a fan of 2016’s Everybody Wants Some!!, you should give Kevin Smith’s latest semi-autobiographical comedy a shot. Based on Smith’s experiences sneaking into movie theaters as a teenager, The 4:30 Movie centers on Brian David (Austin Zajur), a teenager in fresh Jersey who yet works up the nerve to ask his crush out to the movies. Just 1 tiny problem, though: He and his idiot friends get thrown out and banned for life just before the date and gotta concoct a strategy in order to guarantee the date goes off without a hitch.

Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger

Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Genre: Documentary
Run time: 2h 11m
Director: David Hinton

Presented and narrated by Martin Scorsese, this documentary chronicles the director’s appreciation for the cinematic partnership of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (aka The Archers), whose decades-long collaboration produced specified lauded classics as Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes, and A substance of Life and Death. Scorsese pays respect to Powell in particular, who was a friend and mentor to Scorsese early on in his career as a filmmaker and was married to Thelma Schoonmaker, Scorsese’s longtime collaborator and editor.