Every week on Polygon, we spherical up essentially the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the most important and greatest new films so that you can watch at house.
This week, The Substance, the brand new body-horror thriller from director Coralie Fargeat (Revenge) starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley, is accessible to stream on Mubi U.S. (and for rental) following its profitable theatrical run. That’s not all, although, as there are tons of recent titles to look at on streaming and VOD this week. Time Reduce, the brand new sci-fi slasher movie starring Madison Bailey (Outer Banks), involves Netflix; Despicable Me 4 arrives on Peacock; and Joker: Folie à Deux, the extremely anticipated sequel to Todd Phillips’ 2019 movie Joker starring Joaquin Phoenix, lands on VOD this weekend, together with a number of different new titles.
Right here’s the whole lot new that’s out there to look at this weekend!
The place to look at: Obtainable to stream on Netflix

Photograph: Allen Fraser/Netflix
Style: Sci-fi slasher
Run time: 1h 30m
Director: Hannah Macpherson
Solid: Madison Bailey, Antonia Gentry, Griffin Gluck
This sci-fi slasher movie from Netflix includes some time-wimey shenanigans. A highschool senior (Madison Bailey) finds a time machine and travels again to 2003 in an try to avoid wasting the older sister she by no means met from a serial killer. There’s slasher horror, large time-travel ripple impact questions, and likewise a complete lot of early aughts throwbacks (like Heelys!). Additionally, boy that trailer isn’t doing any favors for these of us on the market who’re a bit frightened of being eaten by an escalator.
Harold and the Purple Crayon
The place to look at: Obtainable to stream on Netflix

Picture: Sony Photos Releasing
Style: Comedy journey
Run time: 1h 30m
Director: Carlos Saldanha
Solid: Zachary Levi, Lil Rel Howery, Benjamin Bottani
Primarily based on the basic kids’s image guide of the identical identify, Harold and the Purple Crayon follows an grownup Harold, who decides to go away the pages of his guide and enter the true world. Because it seems, his magical purple crayon has the identical powers in the true world. Cue havoc — and likewise a nefarious librarian attempting to make use of the crayon for his personal egocentric functions.
The place to look at: Obtainable to stream on Max

Picture: A24
Style: Drama
Run time: 1h 53m
Director: Annie Baker
Solid: Zoe Ziegler, Julianne Nicholson, June Walker Grossman
Janet Planet is a quaint and quiet film that follows the peculiar relationship between a lonely 11-year-old lady named Lacy and her free-spirited mom, Janet, over the course of 1 melancholy summer season. By Lacy’s eyes, we study extra about Janet and the shut however nearly codependent connection between mom and daughter. It’s a film that captures a particular feeling of meditative loneliness throughout muggy summer season days.
The place to look at: Obtainable to stream on Disney Plus
Style: Documentary
Run time: 1h 45m
Director: Laurent Bouzereau
This documentary follows the life and profession of John Williams, the legendary composer accountable for penning the rating for such iconic movies as Raiders of the Misplaced Ark, Schindler’s Listing, Jaws, and Star Wars.
The place to look at: Obtainable to stream on Paramount Plus

Picture: Shout! Studios
Style: Western
Run time: 2h 9m
Director: Viggo Mortensen
Solid: Vicky Krieps, Viggo Mortensen, Solly McLeod
Kevin Costner isn’t the one one with a brand new Western out this yr, as Viggo Mortensen tries his hand on the style. The Lifeless Don’t Harm follows the story of Holger Olsen (Mortensen) and his lover Vivienne Le Coudy (Vicky Krieps), who try and construct a life collectively after the previous returns house from combating within the Civil Warfare. Irrevocably modified by his expertise, Holger should confront the methods each he and Vivienne have grown in a ruthless world the place violence and wealth are the regulation of the land.
The place to look at: Obtainable to stream on Peacock

Picture: Common Photos / Everett Assortment
Style: Comedy
Run time: 1h 34m
Administrators: Chris Renaud
Solid: Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Pierre Coffin
Reformed supervillain turned undercover agent Gru is again with an all-new journey! Despicable Me 4 sees Gru relocate his household when his former rival Maxime Le Mal (Will Ferrell) reemerges, looking for revenge. As Gru’s household makes an attempt to regulate to their new house, Gru’s teenage neighbor makes an attempt to observe in his villainous footsteps, whereas Gru’s Minions resolve to turn into superheroes. That’s a lot, I do know!
Despicable Me 4 is filled with good concepts, with numerous them particularly interesting to what folks like about these films: Minion antics, Gru’s villain-ness versus his regular household life, and over-the-top Huge Unhealthy Man theatrics amongst them. However all these bits and items are mixed in and never cohesive sufficient to make sense as a narrative. The film is discordant, like a bunch of musicians enjoying unfamiliar devices (or a bunch of — dare I say — Minions given devices) and attempting to make a coherent track. However amid that chaos, typically the music begins sounding good — a cool jazzy saxophone solo soars briefly above the cacophony. You simply need to grit your tooth and ignore the clanging drums and out-of-tune oboes round it.
The place to look at: Obtainable to stream on Mubi U.S.

Style: Physique horror
Run time: 2h 20m
Director: Coralie Fargeat
Solid: Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid
Have you ever ever dreamt of a greater model of your self? Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore) has. As soon as a celebrated Hollywood film star turned aerobics TV present host, Elisabeth has been pushed out of her longtime job by her producer, Harvey (Dennis Quaid), who is keen to fill the slot with somebody youthful and warmer. Determined to regain her sense of value, she seizes the chance to make use of a black market drug that creates a youthful model of herself named Sue (Margaret Qualley). When the symbiotic relationship between the pair begins to pressure, the 2 genetic twins turn into trapped in a combat for supremacy.
The place to look at: Obtainable to stream on Shudder

Style: Supernatural horror
Run time: 1h 35m
Director: Joshua John Miller
Solid: Russell Crowe, Ryan Simpkins, Sam Worthington
I do know what you’re pondering, and no: This isn’t The Pope’s Exorcist. This the different supernatural horror thriller starring Russell Crowe wearing a priest’s vestments. Crowe stars in The Exorcism as a troubled actor who’s tapped to play a priest in a supernatural horror movie after his predecessor is discovered useless on account of mysterious circumstances. It’s solely after accepting the job that he realizes that he’s signed on for greater than he bargained for.
The place to look at: Obtainable to stream on Shudder
Style: Documentary
Director: Thommy Hutson
Solid: Brad Dourif, Chris Sarandon, Jennifer Tilly
Few horror franchises are as iconic and enduring because the Little one’s Play collection. That includes behind-the-scenes footage of the making of the movies, in addition to interviews with the solid and crew alongside critics and historians, Thommy Hutson’s documentary touts itself as the final word account of the Little one’s Play movie franchise.
The place to look at: Obtainable to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Photograph: Niko Tavernise/Warner Bros. Photos
Style: Psychological thriller
Run time: 2h 18m
Director: Todd Phillips
Solid: Joaquin Phoenix, Girl Gaga, Brendan Gleeson
Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) is again — and this time, he’s acquired a girlfriend! Todd Phillips’ sequel to 2019’s Joker picks up two years after the earlier movie, with Arthur nonetheless in custody at Arkham State Hospital awaiting trial for homicide. Upon assembly Harleen “Lee” Quinzel (Girl Gaga), Arthur finds himself torn between his attraction to her (and her subsequent attraction to the Joker) and his uncertainty as as to whether he desires to be the Joker anymore. Query is, does Joker: Folie à Deux land the punchline, or is that this curtains for Arthur’s story?
The reality, whether or not or not Phillips would need to admit it, is that his rapt framing of Phoenix’s efficiency, his devoted homage to ’70s grit and ’60s musical fantasy, the smugness of a script that omits the punchline from a knock-knock joke and submits that as sensible character commentary — this stuff usually are not so distant from the rule-of-cool, Easter-egg-hiding, smug-quip-dropping world of comedian guide cinema as he wish to think about. Joker and Folie à Deux aren’t any much less indulgent than every other movies resting on the legacy of generations of work-for-hire comics artists whose output at the moment falls underneath the possession of the Warner Bros. Discovery conglomerate. Phillips simply desires you to assume it’s.
The place to look at: Obtainable to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Picture: Tailor-made Movies
Style: Docudrama
Run time: 2h 2m
Director: Ali Abbasi
Solid: Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Robust, Maria Bakalova
Ali Abbasi’s biographical drama charts the story of Donald Trump (Sebastian Stan) and lawyer Roy Cohn’s (Jeremy Robust) first assembly in 1973, following the mentor-mentee relationship between the pair as Trump lays the foundations for what would later turn into his lofty political aspirations.
The place to look at: Obtainable to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Picture: Focus Options/Common Photos
Style: Biopic comedy
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: Morgan Neville
Solid: Pharrell Williams, Morgan Neville, Kendrick Lamar
When you thought to your self, Wow, I’ve at all times needed to look at a biopic about singer-songwriter and document producer Pharrell Williams, however with a cool enjoyable twist, then you definitely’re in luck. Piece by Piece dives into Williams’ life, from his childhood to his profitable profession, and tells it within the type of animated Lego bricks. And you realize what? I like this for him. Lego-fied celebrities who make appearances on this film embrace Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, Gwen Stefani, and Kendrick Lamar.
Tremendous/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
The place to look at: Obtainable to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Style: Documentary
Run time: 1h 44m
Administrators: Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui
This documentary recollects the life and profession of Christopher Reeve, who starred as the long-lasting Man of Metal in 1978’s Superman and later turned a passionate incapacity rights activist after a horse driving accident left him paralyzed.
The place to look at: Obtainable to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Picture: BKStudios/Greenwich Leisure
Style: Interval drama
Run time: 1h 41m
Director: Anand Tucker
Solid: Ian McKellen, Gemma Arterton, Mark Robust
Sir Ian McKellen stars on this interval thriller as Jimmy Erskine, the resident movie critic of a tabloid newspaper with a popularity for caustic and incendiary screeds. After being fired within the wake of a scandal, Jimmy concocts a plot with the assistance of a younger actress (Gemma Arterton) to blackmail his former employer (Mark Robust) into giving him his job again.