Every week on Polygon, we spherical up essentially the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the largest and finest new motion pictures so that you can watch at dwelling.
This week, Look Again, the critically acclaimed anime movie based mostly 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 That’s not all, although; the time-travel comedy My Outdated Ass starring Aubrey Plaza additionally arrives on Prime Video this weekend alongside Poolman on Hulu, Black Cab on Shudder, and the Christmas rom-com Meet Me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 lease or buy on VOD, together with A Totally different Man starring Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson.
Right here’s all the things new that’s accessible to observe this weekend!
The place to observe: Accessible to stream on Netflix
Style: Vacation rom-com
Run time: 1h 45m
Director: Rusty Cundieff
Solid: 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 satisfy 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 personalised 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 observe: Accessible to stream on Hulu
Photograph: Darren Michaels/Vertical
Style: Thriller comedy
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Chris Pine
Solid: 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 aggravated by him). After being contacted by a phenomenal and mysterious lady, Darren embarks on a quest to unearth corruption within the metropolis.
The place to observe: Accessible to stream on Prime Video
Picture: Studio Durian/GKIDS
Style: Coming-of-age drama
Run time: 58m
Director: Kiyotaka Oshiyama
Solid: Yuumi Kawai, Mizuki Yoshida
Based mostly on the one-shot manga by Chainsaw Man creator 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 record of the finest animated options of the yr, so it is best to undoubtedly test it out.
The place to observe: Accessible to stream on Prime Video
Photograph: Marni Grossman/Amazon MGM Studios
Style: Comedy
Run time: 1h 29m
Director: Megan Park
Solid: 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 someway results in contact together with her 39-year-old self (Aubrey Plaza). Her older self has a lot of 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 time. Stella and Plaza share a very simple and enjoyable chemistry that makes their interactions a delight to observe. And the film is very poignant within the classes that each variations of Elliot take from one another.
Past the time-travel setup, My Outdated Ass’s most speedy hook is the leads and their straightforward rapport. This film may have simply been a group 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 can be watersheds on the way in which to rising up. Youthful Elliott is raring to depart all the things behind and transfer on to her subsequent nice journey, however older Elliott is ready to provide some perspective. On the similar 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 Outdated Ass is about rising up — the enjoyment, the ache, and people little moments that resonate with us far longer than we expect they may — and Park well pulls it off by drawing on Elliott’s views of each the previous and the current.
The place to observe: Accessible to stream on Shudder
Picture: Shudder
Style: Horror
Run time: 1h 27m
Director: Bruce Goodison
Solid: 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 pals. 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 after they attain their last vacation spot, and can they go away tip?
The place to observe: Accessible to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Picture: A24
Style: Psychological thriller
Run time: 1h 52m
Director: Aaron Schimberg
Solid: 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 observe: Accessible to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Picture: Music Field Movies
Style: Drama
Run time: 1h 35m
Director: Alessandra Lacorazza
Solid: 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 time visits to his dwelling in New Mexico. Advised over the span of a number of years, Within the Summers is a affecting portrait of a strained parent-child relationship.
The place to observe: Accessible to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Picture: StudioCanal
Style: Drama
Run time: 1h 58m
Director: Nora Fingscheidt
Solid: Saoirse Ronan, Paapa Essiedu, Nabil Elouahabi
Saoirse Ronan stars as a younger lady, recent out of rehab for alcoholism, who returns dwelling to the distant Orkney Islands in Scotland as she figures out what to do together with her life and struggles to attach with others. Finally, 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.