Every week on Polygon, we spherical up essentially the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the largest and finest new films so that you can watch at house.
This week, Look Again, the critically acclaimed anime movie based mostly on Tatsuki Fujimoto’s manga of the identical title, is lastly obtainable to stream on Prime Video. That’s not all, although; the time-travel comedy My Previous Ass starring Aubrey Plaza additionally arrives on Prime Video this weekend alongside Poolman on Hulu, Black Cab on Shudder, and the Christmas rom-com Meet Me Subsequent Christmas on Netflix. There are additionally a number of new releases obtainable to lease or buy on VOD, together with A Completely different Man starring Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson.
Right here’s every part new that’s obtainable to look at this weekend!
The place to look at: Accessible to stream on Netflix
Style: Vacation rom-comRun time: 1h 45mDirector: Rusty CundieffCast: Christina Milian, Devale Ellis, Mitch Grassi
This vacation rom-com follows a girl who serendipitously met a good-looking stranger in an airport one Christmas. After feeling the sparks, they determined to fulfill subsequent yr at a Pentatonix live performance. Flash ahead a yr, and she will’t get a ticket to the sold-out live performance! So she hires a customized concierge service to assist her get a ticket. However in fact the concierge is good-looking and charming… Who will she select? Will she get to see Pentatonix reside?
The place to look at: Accessible to stream on Hulu
Picture: Darren Michaels/Vertical
Style: Thriller comedyRun time: 1h 40mDirector: Chris PineCast: Chris Pine, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Danny DeVito
Chris Pine’s directorial debut stars himself as Darren, a unflinchingly optimistic pool cleaner in Los Angeles — who’s additionally decided to make his neighborhood a greater place à la Erin Brockovich (although the native metropolis council is more and more irritated by him). After being contacted by a good looking and mysterious lady, Darren embarks on a quest to unearth corruption within the metropolis.
The place to look at: Accessible to stream on Prime Video
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Style: Coming-of-age dramaRun time: 58mDirector: Kiyotaka OshiyamaCast: Yuumi Kawai, Mizuki Yoshida
Based mostly on the one-shot manga by Chainsaw Man writer Tatsuki Fujimoto, Kiyotaka Oshiyama’s coming-of-age anime drama facilities on the life and friendship of Fujino (Yuumi Kawai) and Kyomoto (Mizuki Yoshida), two grade faculty classmates who bond over their shared love and fervour for drawing manga. We added it to our checklist of the very best animated options of the yr, so it’s best to undoubtedly test it out.
The place to look at: Accessible to stream on Prime Video
Picture: Marni Grossman/Amazon MGM Studios
Style: ComedyRun time: 1h 29mDirector: Megan ParkCast: Aubrey Plaza, Maisy Stella, Percy Hynes White
On this time-wimey comedy, a teenage lady named Elliot (Maisy Stella) does plenty of shrooms and by some means results in contact together with her 39-year-old self (Aubrey Plaza). Her older self has numerous phrases of knowledge however one massive warning: Don’t fall in love with the lovable boy engaged on her household’s cranberry farm that summer season. Stella and Plaza share an easy and enjoyable chemistry that makes their interactions a delight to look at. And the film is very poignant within the classes that each variations of Elliot take from one another.
Past the time-travel setup, My Previous Ass’s most rapid hook is the leads and their straightforward rapport. This film may have simply been a set of hijinks and jokes about touching your older self’s butt. However Park makes use of the timey-wimey components to craft a narrative about these unheralded final moments, those we don’t notice shall be watersheds on the best way to rising up. Youthful Elliott is raring to go away every part behind and transfer on to her subsequent nice journey, however older Elliott is ready to provide some perspective. On the identical time, older Elliott will get to savor her bygone youth and faucet into the times of being a fearless teenager who may conquer the world. My Previous Ass is about rising up — the enjoyment, the ache, and people little moments that resonate with us far longer than we expect they are going to — and Park neatly pulls it off by drawing on Elliott’s views of each the previous and the current.
The place to look at: Accessible to stream on Shudder
Picture: Shudder
Style: HorrorRun time: 1h 27mDirector: Bruce GoodisonCast: Nick Frost, Synnove Karlsen, Luke Norris
This new horror film, c0-written by Nick Frost (Shaun of the Lifeless), stars Synnove Karlsen (Final Evening in Soho) and Luke Norris (The Duchess) as a pair who hail a black cab after an evening out with their mates. Issues take a sinister flip when their driver (Frost) abducts them and drives them out to a abandoned (and supposedly haunted) stretch of highway. What horrors await them once they attain their ultimate vacation spot, and can they depart a superb tip?
The place to look at: Accessible to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Picture: A24
Style: Psychological thrillerRun time: 1h 52mDirector: Aaron SchimbergCast: Sebastian Stan, Adam Pearson, Renate Reinsve
Sebastian Stan (Captain America: The Winter Soldier) stars in A Completely different Man as Edward, an aspiring actor wracked with insecurity over his neurofibromatosis. After present process a radical medical process to rework his look, Edward’s life seems to be wanting up — that’s, till a person with neurofibromatosis named Oswald (Adam Pearson) comes into the image. Will Edward be capable to discover peace with Oswald and his personal previous?
The place to look at: Accessible to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Picture: Music Field Movies
Style: DramaRun time: 1h 35mDirector: Alessandra LacorazzaCast: René Pérez, Sasha Calle, Lio Mehiel
This drama follows a pair of siblings who reside with their loving however emotionally unstable father throughout their yearly summer season visits to his house in New Mexico. Instructed over the span of a number of years, Within the Summers is a affecting portrait of a strained parent-child relationship.
The place to look at: Accessible to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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Style: DramaRun time: 1h 58mDirector: Nora FingscheidtCast: Saoirse Ronan, Paapa Essiedu, Nabil Elouahabi
Saoirse Ronan stars as a younger lady, contemporary out of rehab for alcoholism, who returns house to the distant Orkney Islands in Scotland as she figures out what to do together with her life and struggles to attach with others. Ultimately, she takes a job with the Royal Society for the Safety of Birds and finds consolation in biology and birdwatching. The Outrun was initially a memoir of the identical title by one of many film’s screenwriters, Amy Liptrot, and premiered at this yr’s Sundance Movie Competition.
