Each week on Polygon, we round up the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies for you to watch at home.
This week there’s a new Amy Schumer comedy on Netflix, the Florence Pugh/Andrew Garfield romantic drama We Live in Time on Max, and Pharrell Williams’ Lego biopic arriving on Peacock. Hulu is also bringing in two very different movies: In the Summers, a drama about two sisters and their differing relationships with their difficult father, and Kill, a tremendously violent revenge thriller set on a train. Rounding all of this off are a few new movies available to rent, including September 5, Wolf Man, and Wish You Were Here.
Here’s everything new that’s available to watch this weekend!
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 37m
Director: Tyler Spindel
Cast: Amy Schumer, Will Forte, Jillian Bell
Oh, Amy Schumer — back at it again with another quirky comedy about a woman who’s lost control of her life. This time, she plays Lainy, a woman who feels left out when her best friend gets pregnant and her own boyfriend isn’t planning on proposing anytime soon. On a whim, she dons a fake pregnancy belly and then decides to continue pretending to be pregnant. What could possibly go wrong?
Where to watch: Available to stream on Max
Genre: Drama
Run time: 1h 48m
Director: John Crowley
Cast: Andrew Garfield, Florence Pugh, Grace Delaney
Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh lead this romantic drama, which takes place over a couple of decades with a nonlinear narrative. There’s a funky meet-cute (she hits him with her car while he’s on the way to buy a pen to sign the divorce papers served to him by his wife) and some electric chemistry — but it is a drama, so tragedy is definitely going to befall this otherwise beautiful couple. Will they learn to live in the moment with the time they have together?
Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock
Genre: Animated biopic
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: Morgan Neville
Cast: Pharrell Williams, Morgan Neville, Kendrick Lamar
Pharrell Williams has a biographical documentary! And it’s animated! In the Lego style! Sure! Watch little Lego Pharrell talk about his life, with guest appearances from Lego Gwen Stefani, Lego Kendrick Lamar, Lego Timbaland, Lego Justin Timberlake, Lego Busta Rhymes, Lego Jay-Z, Lego Pusha T, Lego Missy Elliott, and more. I wonder how all these celebrities felt about their Lego-sonas.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
Image: Lionsgate
Genre: Action
Run time: 1h 45m
Directors: Nikhil Nagesh Bhat
Cast: Lakshya, Raghav Juyal, Tanya Maniktala
Kill is a revenge epic that takes place almost entirely on a train, which provides excellent locations for exhilarating, bone-crunching fights that help make it not just one of the best action movies of last year, but also one of the most most brutal and bloody movies in recent memory.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
Genre: Drama
Run time: 1h 40m
Directors: Alessandra Lacorazza
Cast: Residente, Sasha Calle, Lio Mehiel
A semi-autobiographical drama, In the Summers follows two sisters who visit their father during summers in Colombia. While the girls are close with their father in their younger years, slowly his alcoholism and emotional distance begins to take a toll on their relationship. In the Summers is filmmaker Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio’s directorial debut. At last year’s Sundance Film Festival, she became the first Latina filmmaker to win the directing award; the movie also won the Grand Jury Prize U.S. Dramatic.
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Genre: Romance
Run time: 1h 40m
Directors: Payal Kapadia
Cast: Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam
A careful, beautiful, and deeply human movie, All We Imagine as Light follows the daily lives of two women in Mumbai as they struggle for love, connection, and understanding in one of the largest cities on Earth.
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Genre: Historical thriller
Run time: 1h 35m
Directors: Tim Fehlbaum
Cast: Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin
A tense thriller, September 5 follows the ABC Sports journalism team during the 1972 Olympics. When the members of Israel’s Olympic team are suddenly taken hostage, their job goes from covering sports to something far more complicated in the blink of an eye.
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Genre: Romantic drama
Run time: 1h 54m
Director: Julia Stiles
Cast: Isabelle Fuhrman, Mena Massoud, Gabby Kono-Abdy
A tale of tragic romance, Wish You Were Here follows Charlotte (Isabelle Fuhrman), a young woman looking for excitement who spends one terrific night with a man she just met (Mena Massoud). But when she wakes up the next morning, she discovers he’s terminally ill, and she decides to help him enjoy the time he has left.
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Photo: Nicola Dove/Universal Pictures
Genre: Werewolf horror
Run time: 1h 43m
Director: Leigh Whannell
Cast: Christopher Abbott, Julia Garner, Matilda Firth
The latest in the ongoing, sort of accidental reboot of the Dark Universe, Wolf Man follows a man (Christopher Abbott) and his family on a trip back to his childhood home in the woods of Oregon. The only problem is there’s a monster loose in those woods, and it’s looking for new victims.
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Genre: Drama
Run time: 1h 26m
Director: Morrisa Maltz
Cast: Jasmine Shangreaux, Lily Gladstone, Raymond Lee
Jazzy takes place over six years, centering on the titular young girl and her best friend, Syriah. Jazzy and Syriah grow up together in South Dakota and share a close friendship and special bond. When Syriah moves away, Jazzy confronts the heartache of growing up and the tumultuous changes that come with adolescence. Jazzy comes from filmmaker Morrisa Maltz, who previously wrote and directed The Unknown Country, starring Lily Gladstone.
