Every week on Polygon, we spherical up essentially the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the largest and greatest new motion pictures so that you can watch at dwelling.
This week, Look Again, the critically acclaimed anime movie primarily based on Tatsuki Fujimoto’s manga of the identical title, is lastly accessible 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 accessible to hire or buy on VOD, together with A Totally different Man starring Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson.
Right here’s all the pieces new that’s accessible to look at this weekend!
The place to look at: Obtainable to stream on Netflix
Style: Vacation rom-com
Run time: 1h 45m
Director: Rusty Cundieff
Forged: Christina Milian, Devale Ellis, Mitch Grassi
This vacation rom-com follows a lady 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 be able to’t get a ticket to the sold-out live performance! So she hires a personalised concierge service to assist her get a ticket. However after all the concierge is good-looking and charming… Who will she select? Will she get to see Pentatonix dwell?
The place to look at: Obtainable to stream on Hulu
Picture: Darren Michaels/Vertical
Style: Thriller comedy
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Chris Pine
Forged: 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 group a greater place à la Erin Brockovich (although the native metropolis council is more and more irritated by him). After being contacted by a fantastic and mysterious lady, Darren embarks on a quest to unearth corruption within the metropolis.
The place to look at: Obtainable to stream on Prime Video
Picture: Studio Durian/GKIDS
Style: Coming-of-age drama
Run time: 58m
Director: Kiyotaka Oshiyama
Forged: Yuumi Kawai, Mizuki Yoshida
Primarily based 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 college classmates who bond over their shared love and keenness for drawing manga. We added it to our checklist of the most effective animated options of the yr, so you must positively test it out.
The place to look at: Obtainable to stream on Prime Video
Picture: Marni Grossman/Amazon MGM Studios
Style: Comedy
Run time: 1h 29m
Director: Megan Park
Forged: Aubrey Plaza, Maisy Stella, Percy Hynes White
On this time-wimey comedy, a teenage woman named Elliot (Maisy Stella) does a lot of shrooms and by some means results in contact along with her 39-year-old self (Aubrey Plaza). Her older self has a number of phrases of knowledge however one large warning: Don’t fall in love with the lovable boy engaged on her household’s cranberry farm that summer season. Stella and Plaza share a very simple 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 speedy 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 parts to craft a narrative about these unheralded final moments, those we don’t understand might be watersheds on the way in which to rising up. Youthful Elliott is raring to go away all the pieces 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’ll — and Park neatly pulls it off by drawing on Elliott’s views of each the previous and the current.
The place to look at: Obtainable to stream on Shudder
Picture: Shudder
Style: Horror
Run time: 1h 27m
Director: Bruce Goodison
Forged: Nick Frost, Synnove Karlsen, Luke Norris
This new horror film, c0-written by Nick Frost (Shaun of the Lifeless), stars Synnove Karlsen (Final Night time in Soho) and Luke Norris (The Duchess) as a pair who hail a black cab after an evening out with their associates. Issues take a sinister flip when their driver (Frost) abducts them and drives them out to a abandoned (and supposedly haunted) stretch of street. What horrors await them after they attain their ultimate vacation spot, and can they depart a great tip?
The place to look at: Obtainable to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Picture: A24
Style: Psychological thriller
Run time: 1h 52m
Director: Aaron Schimberg
Forged: Sebastian Stan, Adam Pearson, Renate Reinsve
Sebastian Stan (Captain America: The Winter Soldier) stars in A Totally 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 trying up — that’s, till a person with neurofibromatosis named Oswald (Adam Pearson) comes into the image. Will Edward have the ability to discover peace with Oswald and his personal previous?
The place to look at: Obtainable to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Picture: Music Field Movies
Style: Drama
Run time: 1h 35m
Director: Alessandra Lacorazza
Forged: René Pérez, Sasha Calle, Lio Mehiel
This drama follows a pair of siblings who dwell with their loving however emotionally unstable father throughout their yearly summer season visits to his dwelling in New Mexico. Informed 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: Obtainable to hire on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Picture: StudioCanal
Style: Drama
Run time: 1h 58m
Director: Nora Fingscheidt
Forged: Saoirse Ronan, Paapa Essiedu, Nabil Elouahabi
Saoirse Ronan stars as a younger lady, contemporary out of rehab for alcoholism, who returns dwelling to the distant Orkney Islands in Scotland as she figures out what to do along 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 Pageant.