Netflix’s teenage black comedy movie debuts this weekend take revenge Starring Camila Mendes (riverdale), Maya Hawke (stranger things), Sarah Michelle Gellar (buffy the vampire slayer), Sophie Turner (game of thrones).not looking for heathersWind high school revenge drama? Don’t worry. When it comes to this week’s list of new movies to stream and VOD, there’s a lot to choose from.
we have 3,000 years of longingGeorge Miller’s highly anticipated sequel to 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road starring Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba, a 2022 thriller drama preliminary report Starring John Boyega and the late Michael K. Williams good night mom The American remake starring Naomi Watts is now available on Prime Video, a coming-of-age animated film. drift home Netflix drama starring Channing Tatum dog In addition to Prime Video, there are many others.
To help you choose what to watch tonight, here’s what’s best to stream and rent this weekend.
take revenge
Where to watch: Streamable on Netflix
A youthful dark comedy starring riverdaleCamila Mendes of stranger thingsMaya Hawke, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Sophie Turner? Sign up.
From our review:
Like other films in the mean schoolgirl subgenre, take revenge It focuses on complex social conspiracies and vicious popular factions. But it’s not derivative or cliche. Instead, this is the natural evolution of his 2022 film of this type. Some parts of high school are constant, but youth culture evolves so quickly that teen movies, especially older ones, are adapted and respected. Materials — the risk of feeling obsolete. take revenge Dodge the curse because of the way Robinson and co-writer Celeste Ballard cleverly update certain plot points.
3,000 years of longing
Where to watch: Available to rent for $19.99 Amazon, apple, budu
Based on AS Byatt’s 1994 book The gin in the eyes of the nightingaleGeorge Miller’s 3,000 years of longing It centers on Dr. Alicia Binney (Tilda Swinton), a scholar of myths and stories who inexplicably uncorked gin (Idris Elba) from a bottle imprisoned for the past 100 years. Jinn tells Alitea her three stories from her three-thousand-year captivity, until she grants her three wishes. Each story is a story of loss, longing, betrayal and love.
From our review:
There are movies that change the nature of the air you breathe after you watch them, such as the motifs in the score looping in your head, or the colors of the world outside the theater not quite matching what you see on the screen. 3,000 years of longing is one of those movies, a story about stories — a complex genre that tends to be self-important — that isn’t just concerned with magic as a brooding, unifying force. they are stronger than that. It’s more dangerous than that. And a more satisfying way to explore this is trying to guess how this ends than watching two people who believe they know everything there is to know about the story. .
revenge
Where to watch: Streamable peacock
BJ Novak brings the podcast-style mystery to the big screen in his directorial debut, starring a New York-based journalist who travels to Texas to investigate a disappearance.
From our review:
The film regularly reminds audiences that, yes, guns and fast food are a major part of American life for the Texas crowd. The fact that it has adds another layer — as does the fact that he’s engaged in it anyway. But those extra layers don’t necessarily enrich the movie-watching experience. . Final, revenge It starts to feel a bit like an inflated meme that tracks the pipeline from gifted kid to endangered homicide detective.
preliminary report
Where to watch: Available to rent for $19.99 Amazon, apple, budu
John Boyega to star in thriller preliminary report as Brian Brown Easley, a Marine Corps veteran who threatens to blow up a bank in Wells Fargo to take money he owes from the VA.
Inspired by a true story, preliminary report Also notable is the late Michael K. Williams in one of his final roles as Eli Bernard, a police officer who sympathizes with Brown Easley’s plight as he desperately tries to escalate the hostage situation. increase.
good night mom
Where to watch: Streamable prime video
Naomi Watts stars in the 2022 American remake of Veronica Franz and Severine Fiala’s 2014 psychological horror film. good night momThe film is centered around twin boys. After arriving at her mother’s secluded country house and discovering her face covered in bandages, she becomes suspicious that this woman isn’t actually her mother. Become.
From our review:
When the English remake was announced good night momthe biggest looming question was whether the new film would end up as hard and nihilistic as the original. It doesn’t really work as a movie in and of itself.
The new version stars Naomi Watts as the famous mom. ring When funny game Under her belt, Watts might have seemed like an easy choice for the lead in yet another American reboot of the international horror hit. It is not due to The only problem is the script and direction.
drift home
Where to watch: Streamable on Netflix
Hiroyasu Ishida’s (penguin highway) latest anime feature drift home Childhood friends Kousuke and Natsume visit the apartment building they used to live in before it was demolished, and are transported to another dimension surrounded by the vast ocean. The two of them, left behind by a mutual friend, must work together to find a way out of this strange world and back to where they came from.
From our review:
Ikemen animation production by Studio Colorido (penguin highway, whisker away) does a lot to sell its outlandish premise. Structures move and break with incredible weight, while the driving action is about buildings floating on the sea like rafts. Akihiro Nagae’s designs remain realistic even when presented to children as fantastical. Photorealistic background art contrasts modernity with mid-century post-war architecture, but Ishida’s direction is not obsessed with realism. It never contradicts the film’s sense of crisis when the director utilizes broad and sometimes springy physical comedy in the character’s interactions with these environments: Use to reach the adjacent floating building and smash through the tin.Bounce onto the building like a pinball.
broad peak
Where to watch: Streamable on Netflix
Based on the true story of legendary Polish climber Maciej Verbeka broad peak Follow the story of Verbekah as she sets out to complete her journey to the top of one of the world’s most dangerous mountains. Some 25 years after the failure of his first expedition.
dog
Where to watch: Streamable prime video
Channing Tatum has played Dog Man before, but what about Man with Dog?
Tatum co-directs the film with Reed Carolyn and stars as an Army Ranger mourning the loss of a friend who goes on an expedition to take his friend’s dog to his funeral.
confession, fletch
Where to watch: Available to rent for $19.99 Amazon, apple, budu
A reboot of the 1980s comedy series stars Jon Hamm as Chevy Chase as a witty comedy detective.
From our review:
The way Hamm’s series revival has received a middling dual release in some theaters and VOD suggests just how low Miramax’s faith in the project is. I’m saying It’s fast and funny – the sort of comedy that adult moviegoers have seen far more often than it does today, comedies falling out of favor in the cinematic world devoted to Liam his Neeson his style of revenge movies. but confession, fletch The use of comedy is refreshing, as is the use of Jon Hamm.
Flax gourmet
Where to watch: Streamable shivering
Directed by acclaimed Peter Strickland (Duke of Burgundy, with fabric) returns with a captivating drama set in a culinary laboratory.of trailer It promises “sensory overload,” Strickland’s typical impeccable costume and attention to detail, and the unsettling air that’s so common in his films.