Greetings, Polygon readers! Each week we round up the most notable new releases coming to streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new films you can watch at home.
This week, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” director Martin Scorsese’s historical crime drama starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone, finally arrives on Apple TV Plus after its theatrical release. That's not all: Ridley Scott's epic historical drama “Napoleon” is finally available to buy and rent on VOD. There's plenty more to choose from this week, including a new heist comedy starring Kevin Hart on Netflix, a dark comedy from director Jake Johnson on Hulu, and a romantic action comedy starring Kaley Cuoco and David Oyelowo on Prime Video, among others.
Here's everything new to see this weekend!
New on Netflix
Elevator
Where to see: Available to stream on Netflix
Image: Netflix
Genre: Heist comedy
Duration: 1h 44m
Director: F. Gary Gray
Pour: Kevin Hart, Vincent D'Onofrio, Gugu Mbatha-Raw
In this new crime comedy, Kevin Hart plays Cyrus Whitaker, the leader of an international heist group who is forced by his former FBI agent (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) to commit the wildest heist of his career: the theft of $500 million worth of gold aboard a ship Zurich -Flowed airplane in mid-flight. How hard could it be?
After everything
Where to see: Available to stream on Netflix
Image: tension images
Genre: Love drama
Duration: 1h 33m
Director: Castile Landon
Pour: Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Josephine Langford, Mimi Keene
The fifth film in the After series follows Hardin (Hero Fiennes Tiffin), a best-selling author who travels to Portugal to distract himself from his ex Tessa (Josephine Langford). After meeting Natalie (Mimi Keene), his girlfriend and former flame, Hardin must make a difficult decision: move on or keep fighting for love?
New on Hulu
Confidence
Where to see: Available to stream on Hulu
Image: Hulu
Genre: Dark comedy
Duration: 1h 25m
Director: Jake Johnson
Pour: Jake Johnson, Anna Kendrick, Andy Samberg
Jake Johnson (“New Girl”) directs and stars in this new comedy about a middle-aged man who is given the opportunity of a lifetime: take part in a dark web reality TV show and compete for $1 million -Dollar. The only catch is that over the next 30 days he has to evade an army of assassins hell-bent on killing him, and they can only kill him if he's alone.
Beyond utopia
Where to see: Available to stream on Hulu
Image: Roadside sights
Genre: documentary
Duration: 1h 55m
Director: Madeleine Gavin
This documentary tells the story of several families who, after living their entire lives in North Korea, risk everything to flee the country in hopes of finding a better life. Compiled from first-hand footage of the protagonists themselves, “Beyond Utopia” shows the extreme lengths people go to to secure their freedom.
New at Max
On the way to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
Where to see: Available to stream on Max
Genre: documentary
Duration: 1h 42m
Director: Joe Brewster, Michèle Stephenson
Pour: Nikki Giovanni, Taraji P. Henson, Virginia Fowler
This documentary chronicles the life and legacy of Nikki Giovanni, the African American poet and activist whose writing and commentary earned her a reputation as one of the Black Revolution's foremost poets. Combining archival footage with intimate commentary from Giovanni himself, the film offers a glimpse into the mind of one of the Black Arts Movement's most important authors.
New to Prime Video
role playing game
Where to see: Available to stream on Prime Video
Photo: Reiner Bajo
Genre: Action comedy
Duration: 1h 40m
Director: Thomas Vincent
Pour: Kaley Cuoco, David Oyelowo, Connie Nielsen
Kaley Cuoco (The Flight Attendant) and David Oyelowo (Selma) star in this action comedy about Emma and Dave Brackett, a married couple with two children living in suburban New Jersey. Their domestic life is turned upside down when Emma's double life as an international assassin comes to light and Dave is inadvertently drawn into a world in which he is overwhelmed.
New to Apple TV Plus
Flower Moon Killer
Where to see: Available to stream on Apple TV Plus
Image: Apple TV Plus
Genre: Western crime drama
Duration: 2h 38m
Director: Martin Scorsese
Pour: Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, Robert De Niro
Martin Scorsese returns with a Western crime thriller based on David Grann's 2017 non-fiction book. Set in 1920s Oklahoma, the film follows the life of Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio), a gullible World War I veteran who was involved in the systematic killing of members of the Osage Nation in order to claim rights to their oil-rich land, while he was married to his Osage wife, Mollie Kyle (Lily Gladstone).
From our review:
Roth and Scorsese carefully add context, texture and detail to the screenplay of “Killers of the Flower Moon,” even as they forego exposition and ensure that every scene has dramatic meaning. It's an incredibly vivid film. (And after 206 minutes, you definitely feel like you've lived in it.) It shows how the Osage became rich after being pushed onto a desolate stretch of prairie that was home to vast deposits of oil, and how a parasitic White society joined the tribe – not least Hale (Robert De Niro), a grandfatherly figure who claimed her friendship, praised her wisdom and feigned sadness over her poor health, even as he planned to gain control of her oil through a marriage campaign acquire, murder and insurance fraud.
New for rent
Napoleon
Where to see: Can be rented from Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Image: Apple TV Plus
Genre: Epic historical drama
Duration: 2h 38m
Director: Ridley Scott
Pour: Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby, Tahar Rahim
Joaquin Phoenix stars in Ridley Scott's historical epic about Napoleon Bonaparte, the infamous French emperor and military commander who rose to fame during the French Revolution and embarked on a global conquest of power. A four-hour director's cut is expected to arrive on Apple TV Plus sometime this year, but for now you can buy, rent and stream the two-and-a-half-hour cut.
From our review:
The result is a frustrated but unremarkable picture of a man after whom an entire historical era is named, and who was brought to earth as perhaps Europe's most accomplished buffoon. Scott, Phoenix, and Scarpa show no great interest in how Napoleon's delusions or errors justified or qualified him for his conquest of the world stage. Instead, they devote the film's 158-minute running time to depicting how one man's uncontrolled insecurity leaves him forever unsatisfied and drags the entire world with him in his dissatisfaction. They don't bother to say much about Napoleon's impact on his country or the world, or to name his political interests, the ways in which he brought progress or became a tyrant.
The disappearance of Shere Hite
Where to see: Can be rented from Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Photo: Mike Wilson/IFC Films
Genre: documentary
Duration: 1h 58m
Director: Nicole Newnham
This documentary traces the career and influence of Shere Hite, the American sex educator and feminist whose 1976 study of female sexuality sent shockwaves through public and societal discourse. Executive produced by Dakota Johnson, the film chronicles both Hite's rise to fame and how her influence has been lost to history.
He went this way
Where to see: Can be rented from Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Image: Vertical Entertainment
Genre: Crime drama
Duration: 1h 35m
Director: Jeffrey Darling
Pour: Zachary Quinto, Jacob Elordi, Patrick J. Adams
Jacob Elordi (Saltburn) and Zachary Quinto (Star Trek) star in this crime thriller about Bobby Falls, a serial killer who takes Jim Goodwin, an animal trainer in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The trailer hints at the film's final conclusion as well as a thrilling series of events including murder, robbery and good dinner.
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