Polygon readers, and Netflix just got a new Knives Out movie.
Daniel Craig returns with new ensemble cast Glass Onion: A Knife Out Mystery, is one of quite a few new movies to land on streaming services and VOD this week. Netflix’s Matilda Musical is participating. Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount Plus) and strange world (Disney Plus) is about to make a splash with competing platforms.
Another exciting week for VOD releases.indie darling after sunLike the flick of Santa as an action star, one of this year’s top movies, is now available to watch at home. violent night.
let’s start!
netflix
Glass Onion: A Knife Out Mystery
Where to watch: Streamable netflix
Genre: Mystery/Comedy
Execution time: 2 hours 20 minutes
directed by: Ryan Johnson
cast: Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Dave Bautista
A sequel to Rian Johnson’s 2019 ensemble mystery is coming as part of the franchise. What was once an up-and-coming non-IP genre is now a Netflix heavyweight, first released in theaters and now available for streaming at home.
Daniel Craig returns as Detective Benoît Blanc and faces a new group of wealthy people played by very famous people as he tries to solve a new murder case. This time in Greece, a tech billionaire (Edward Norton) invites his friends to a party and one of them ends up dead.
From our review:
glass onion It’s brighter, louder, and more extroverted than the first. knife outIts themes and fashion flirt with bold, cartoonish silliness.This time, Johnson is aiming for big ideas and big laughs. knife out Targeting the defensive pretense of inheritance, glass onion Mock new money desperate peacocks in a world of tech billionaires, influencers and epiphany politicians. But as before, the gentleman Benoît Blanc is here to remove these people’s illusions with comical courtesy.
Invitation
Where to watch: Streamable netflix
Genre: horror
Execution time: 1 hour 44 minutes
directed by: Jessica M. Thompson
cast: Natalie Emmanuel, Thomas Doherty, Sean Pertwee
Inspired by Bram Stoker Dracula, Invitation Follow a young woman who meets her extended family after the death of her mother, only to discover they are vampires!
From our review:
1 copy Get out1 copy ready or nottoo few parts Dracula, Invitation is an infinitely better horror story pastiche that it can never measure. Movies let vampires do almost anything, Invitation Commit the unforgivable sin of boring vampires.
Matilda the Musical by Roald Dahl
Where to watch: Streamable netflix
Genre: musical/fantasy
Execution time: 1 hour 57 minutes
directed by: Matthew Warchus
cast: Alisha Weir, Emma Thompson, Lashana Lynch
Film adaptation of Roald Dahl’s musical Matilda went semi-virus A few weeks ago, with eye-catching choreography that puts many other modern film musicals to shame.
paramount plus
Top Gun: Maverick
Where to watch: Streamable paramount plus
Genre: action
Execution time: 2 hours 11 minutes
directed by: Joseph Kosinski
cast: Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly
Undisputed 2022 Box Office Champion (but road of water lurk), Top Gun: Maverick After months of waiting, we are finally heading to Paramount Plus this week.This means it’s the perfect time to see Top Gun: Maverick Also. Or if it’s Tom Cruise, jump out of the plane. by you
From our review:
If there is anything worth salvaging from that age, and from that age, top gun — the sense of optimism that dominated action movies in the ’80s. And the belief that even the simplest and most banal stories, told with sufficient skill and conviction, can please everyone in the world. Top Gun: Maverick Both of these qualities are present in abundance. They’re embodied in Tom Cruise, author of his own mythology and who may be the last true movie star. But more than that, he wishes he could take off and never come back.
Hulu
Mac & Rita
Where to watch: Streamable Hulu
Genre: comedy
Execution time: 1 hour 34 minutes
directed by: Katie Aselton
cast: Diane Keaton, Elizabeth Lail, Molly Duplass
new wrinkles big, freaky fridayand other body swap comedies, Mac & Rita It follows a young writer (Elizabeth Lail) who one day wakes up as her 70-year-old self (Diane Keaton).
sharp stick
Where to watch: Streaming on Hulu
Genre: comedy
Execution time: 1 hour 32 minutes
directed by: Lena Dunham
cast: Christine Froses, Jon Bernthal, Luka Savate
Lena Dunham has already delivered one of the year’s best comedies Catherine called BirdieHer second comedy for 2022 is a more R-rated variety about a woman (Kristin Froces) who begins an affair with her employer (Jon Bernthal). Dunham also co-starred in the film, as did Jennifer Jason Leigh and Evon Moss-Barrack (bear, Andor).
disney plus
strange world
Where to watch: Streamable disney plus
Genre: action adventure
Execution time: 1 hour 42 minutes
Director: Don Hall, Quy Nguyen
cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jabkey Young-White, Gabrielle Union
This animated adventure was one of Disney’s biggest box office hits for a while, but now you can check it out from the comfort of your own home.
From our review:
When the emotional center of the film focuses on this group of ragtag explorers desperate to save the world as they know it, it’s an epic and exciting adventure, with beautiful scenery and illusions at every turn. It shines when the film focuses on the broader spectrum, but loses what shines when it is pulled back into a relationship that has gone too far. Looks like they’re supposed to be anchored in reality, but all they do is drag strange world It fell when it could have surged.
Apple TV Plus
A boy, a mole, a fox and a horse
Where to watch: Streamable apple tv
Genre: family
Execution time: 34m
directed by: peter bainton
cast: Tom Hollander, Idris Elba, Gabriel Byrne
Charlie McKessie’s 2019 children’s novel is voiced by Idris Elba, Tom Hollander and Gabriel Byrne and is gorgeously hand-drawn animated.
VOD
after sun
Where to watch: available for $19.99 at Amazon, apple tvWhen google play
Genre: Drama
Execution time: 1 hour 42 minutes
directed by: Charlotte Wells
cast: Frankie Corio, Paul Mezcal, Celia Rawlson-Hall
Polygon’s #8 best movie of the year is filmmaker Charlotte Wells’ impressive feature debut, which you can finally watch at home.let us advertise after sun speaks for itself.
Human memory is notoriously unreliable — even your sworn testimony is flawed enough to be discarded. Childhood memories are perhaps the best example of this: even small and isolated memories, when viewed on the full spectrum of adulthood, can be filtered through the prism of concern and care that accompanies them, completely changing tone. It can be a difficult concept to wrap your head around.Such after sun It feels like a small miracle in that we were able to not only capture the scope, but gracefully frame the whole concept.
Young father Callum (Paul Mezcal) and his 11-year-old daughter Sophie (Frankie Corio) are on a rare resort vacation. teasing the video camera). Its plot is simple in composition but far more profound in its execution, capturing with equal vivid clarity the poignant perspective of both Calum and Sophie’s vacation experiences.of after sunhands, memory is as slippery as ever. At times, conversations haunt Sophie and threaten to drown Callum. Growth is about seeing the full picture of their journey, after sun The ability to capture it is quietly devastating. It’s a testament to the performances (most of all Mezcal’s compassionate fatigue) at the heart of how the film manages to suggest so much without overdoing its point. It may be, but other times it’s all we have just a memory echoing in a grainy video camera or a memory of a warm hug. —Zosha Millman
violent night
Where to watch: Available to rent for $19.99 Amazon and vudu
Genre: action
Execution time: 1 hour 52 minutes
directed by: Tommy Wirkola
cast: David Harbor, John Leguizamo, Beverly D’Angelo
This action movie starring David Harbor as Santa Claus is presented by 87North Productions. 87North Productions is a legendary Hollywood action studio that brought you many of your favorite parts from John Wick and other recent action classics.
From our review:
violent night It works best, especially when it captures the warped sensibilities of early 90’s Chris Columbus movies. home aloneThe events of that film are actually horrifyingly traumatic and violent, and are pointed out so often that it hardly needs to be said that Macaulay Culkin’s Kevin McCallister is a pint-sized sociopath. Trudy Lightstone also has a sadistic streak in her, and the film’s most insane scenes are played out with oversized cheers that effectively create a giggling disgust. The moment is intentionally designed. The film revels in snarky one-liners and outrageous gore for the audience, but overall, violent nightThe big red bag of self-awareness tricks is overstuffed.