White Noise, Black Phone, and every new movie you can watch at home

Happy New Year to all Polygon readers! After a flurry of new movies arriving at home for the Christmas season, the season for new movie releases at home has slowed down a bit.

But that doesn’t mean there’s nothing to see! Noah Baumbach (marriage story) is releasing a new film — his adaptation of Don DeLillo white noise Head over to Netflix. There’s a new documentary from Prime Video and HBO Max, and a Scott Derrickson horror movie. black phonealong with Ethan Hawke, will also appear on Prime Video.

let’s start!

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white noise

Where to watch: Streamable on Netflix

Genre: comedy
Execution time: 2 hours 15 minutes
directed by: Noah Baumbach
cast: Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle

Noah Baumbach adapts Don DeLillo’s famous postmodern novel for Netflix, with a star-studded cast that includes his partner Greta Gerwig (with whom he’s writing the next) barbie), Adam Driver, Andre Benjamin. This is Baumbach’s first feature film adaptation of someone else’s work.

From our review:

What worries DeLillo purists most about Baumbach’s film may be what makes it the most enjoyable to watch for everyone else. It’s fun. This is a thorny movie that fails to find a clue to understanding DeLillo’s vision or the reality of his characters. Especially during his bewildering final third after the airborne toxicity event vanishes and Jack kind of becomes obsessed with Babette’s place in the medicine. conspiracy. But it’s made with wit and an infectious taste: Baumbach lunges to make you laugh or scare you, often with success, splashing your screen with bright colors and movement. Under the end credits, he stages a dance number in a supermarket aisle, imagining DeLillo and his bombastic characters as a modern American church. The latter, I think, is the greater force for him. He took the Netflix money and ran away.

stuck with you

Where to watch: Streamable on Netflix

Image: Netflix

Genre: Love comedy
Execution time: 59m
directed by: Frank Belloc
cast: Kev Adams, Camille Lelouch

Two people trapped in an elevator on their way to a New Year’s Eve party make a connection in this short French rom-com.

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wildcat

Image: Prime Video

Where to watch: Streamable on Prime Video

Genre: documentary
Execution time: 1 hour 45 minutes
directed by: Melissa Lesh, Trevor Beck Frost
cast: none

wildcat A young soldier returning from war travels to the Amazon rainforest and bonds with a scientist and an orphaned ocelot.

black phone

Where to watch: Streamable on Prime Video

Image: Universal Pictures

Genre: horror
Execution time: 1 hour 33 minutes
directed by: Scott Derrickson
cast: Mason Thames, Ethan Hawke

this is not black phones Streaming Debut — The Ethan Hawke-led horror first landed on Peacock a few months ago. But the move to Prime Video has made it available to more people. black phone now. Whether it’s a good thing or not is up to you!

From our review:

But outside the morbid sense of inevitability, black phone Confusion. The main problem is performance, which ranges from inexplicable to downright persistent. Jeremy Davies is particularly bad as Finney and Gwen’s drunk dad. Also Intimidation. Hawk is also too ubiquitous to be called incredibly scary. When we first see Glover, his face is painted white and he speaks in a high affected voice. Atlantaof Teddy Perkins. Weird, right? What is he trying to mean, and how does that fit into his psychosis? It doesn’t matter—this will be the first and last time we’ll see character details in a movie.

HBO Max

Rules for this place

Where to watch: Streamable on HBO Max

Image: Warner Media

Genre: documentary
Execution time: Do not know
directed by: Andrew Callahan
cast: Andrew Callahan

Produced by Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, Jonah Hill and others in partnership with A24, this documentary follows Andrew Callahan, a “gonzo journalist” who documents the events that led to the January 6th Capitol Riot.

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burial

Where to watch: Streamable on Shudder

Image: Shiver

Genre: thriller
Execution time: 1 hour 35 minutes
directed by: Ben Parker
cast: Tom Felton, Harriet Walter, Charlotte Vega

Starring Tom Felton, this thriller follows a group of soldiers who transport the corpse of Hitler, who was ambushed by Nazi soldiers, from Germany to Russia.