Challengers, Sasquatch Sunset, and Every Movie You’ll See This Weekend

Hello, Polygon readers! Each week, we round up the hottest new releases on streaming and VOD, bringing you the biggest and best new movies you can watch at home.

this week, challengerLuca Guadagnino’s erotic sports drama starring Zendaya (Dune: Part 2) appears on VOD following its theatrical release last month. If watching Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross feud and flirt with one another over one of the best scores ever written doesn’t sound like your idea of ​​a good time, don’t worry. There are plenty of other new releases to see this one. weekend. There’s a serial killer crime drama. he went that way On Hulu, Godzilla x Kong: A New Empire on VOD, and Madame Web On Netflix, if you’re interested in it!

Here’s all the new content you can watch this weekend!

What’s new on Netflix

Madame Web

Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix

Image: Sony Pictures

genre: superhero action
Runtime: 1 hour 54 minutes
director: SJ Clarkson
Gibbs: Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, Isabella Merced

Sony’s latest take on the Spider-Man universe without Spider-Man stars Dakota Johnson as Cassie Webb, a Manhattan-based paramedic who gains the ability to see visions of the future after a near-death experience. When a mysterious supernatural stranger who had been with Cassie’s mother while she was studying spiders in the Amazon shortly before her death begins hunting three young girls, Cassie takes it upon herself to protect them.

From our reviews:

Madame Web It might be the most shameless superhero movie of all time. Far from the cash-grab that the film starring F-list superheroes seemed like when it was first announced a few years ago, Sony’s latest Marvel offshoot is only sporadically allowed in Dakota Johnson’s film, with a two-hour post-credits scene. An underrated talent for comedy.

unicorn thelma

Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix

Image: Netflix

genre: musical comedy
Runtime: 1 hour 33 minutes
move: Jared Hess, Lynn Wang
Gibbs: Brittany Howard, Will Forte, Jermaine Clement

This animated musical comedy follows the story of Thelma (Brittany Howard), a little pony who transforms into an unexpected pink and purple unicorn. Determined to chase her dreams of musical stardom, Thelma convinces the world that she is a unicorn, but jealous narwhal Nicky (Ally Dixon) tries to steal the spotlight back.

What’s new on Hulu

he went that way

Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu

Image: Vertical Entertainment

genre: crime drama
Runtime: 1 hour 35 minutes
director: Geoffrey Darling
Gibbs: Zachary Quinto, Jacob Elordi, Patrick J. Adams

Jacob Elordi (salt bun) and Zachary Quinto (star trek) stars in a crime thriller about serial killer Bobby Falls, who takes a ride with animal trainer Jim Goodwin from Kalamazoo, Michigan. The trailer hints at the film’s ultimate conclusion and a series of suspenseful events including a murder, a robbery, and a delicious dinner.

Sweet East

Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu

Image: Utopia

genre: road film
Runtime: 1 hour 44 minutes
director: Sean Price Williams
Gibbs: Talia Ryder, Earl Cave, Simon Rex

After becoming separated from her classmates during a field trip, a high school senior named Lillian (Talia Ryder) goes on an impromptu road trip that brings her into contact with anarchists, skinheads, filmmakers, and other strange strangers.

What’s new on Starz

The Hunger Games: Ballad of the Singing Bird and the Snake

Where to watch: Available to stream on Starz

Photo: Murray Close/Lionsgate

genre: dystopian action
Runtime: 2 hours 37 minutes
director: Francis Lawrence
Gibbs: Tom Blythe, Rachel Zegler, Peter Dinklage

Francis Lawrence returns to the world of the Hunger Games to tell the early story of Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth), who becomes president of Panem and enemy of Katniss Everdeen.

It is set 60 years before the events of the first film. The Hunger Games: Ballad of the Singing Bird and the Snake A flashback to the fateful meeting between Coriolanus and Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler). Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler) is a tribute to District 12 who had a profound impact on his life and worldview.

In our review,

Neither Collins’ book nor Lawrence’s film redo the action of the Hunger Games events. They analyze them and then force us to sit on the Capitol side of the equation. They want to know why we’re drawn to love triangles, pretty dresses and themed stadiums in the first place. After all, we have always been spectators watching Katniss’ story from a safe distance. Ballad of the Singing Bird and the Snake It shows what happens when we get too caught up in propaganda, luxury, and promises of safety. In that way, it’s a fitting end to the franchise and the way the genre has evolved into its own beast.

What’s new at Shudder

Night’s Watch: The Devil Is Eternal

Where to watch: Available to stream on Shudder

Image: Thrilled

genre: fear
Runtime: 1 hour 50 minutes
director: Ole Bornedal
Gibbs: Fanny Leander Bornedal, Nikolaj Coster-Baldo, Alex Hogg Andersen

Years after her parents are nearly murdered by a serial killer turned police inspector, Emma (Fanny Linder Bornedal) accepts a night watch position in the forensics department where she once worked. When Emma confronts her parents’ tormentor, she inadvertently reawakens her thirst for his blood, causing her to unleash a terrible evil that threatens to destroy herself and all who stand in her way.

new lease

challenger

Where to watch: Available for rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Image: MGM/YouTube

genre: sports drama
Runtime: 2 hours 11 minutes
director: Luca Guadagnino
Gibbs: Zendaya, Josh O’Connor, Mike Feist

Luca Guadagnino’s sultry sports drama about a love triangle in professional tennis has set the world on fire since its release in late April and is one of the best films of the year. Now you can enjoy it at home too.

From our reviews:

The script is a fine three-course meal for Feist and O’Connor. Art and Patrick exchange face and heel roles from scene to scene and era to era, helping and hurting each other in equal measure. But for Zendaya, who has never been given this much space in a leading role, this is an absolute jack-of-all-trades. Tashi is a satisfyingly rich character who is justifiably furious at her own ambitions being thwarted and cruelly furious at all the men who have the courage to keep playing her game that was taken from her. She is simultaneously hungry for affection and withholding her affections, simultaneously sensual curiosity and cold coolness, ambitious and exhausted, conflicted and confident. She’s a character that makes up a media master’s thesis, and picking on Tashi’s conflicting motivations and how she integrates them is likely to become a pop culture obsession in the coming months.

Godzilla x Kong: A New Empire

Where to watch: Available for rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Image: Warner Bros. Photography

genre: monster action
Runtime: 1 hour 55 minutes
director: Adam Wingard
Gibbs: Godzilla, Kong, Rebecca Hall

The boys returned to town. Of course, the boys become Godzilla and Kong. Godzilla vs Kong Director Adam Wingard returns with this team-up film. In this film, large corporations must work together to stop an invasion of their shared Earth.

From our reviews:

Godzilla x Kong (Yes, kind of like a streetwear collab.) It’s more than ‘good’, ‘bad’, or ‘movie’. This is an arena show where a professional wrestler screams in a squared circle, hits his chest, raises the jumbotron hype meter, and then does his signature moves. It constantly avoids connections in favor of escalation, with a brutally efficient pace that minimizes what the script doesn’t care about (mainly people) and maximizes what it does (giant monsters doing wrestling moves). It’s an achievement of absurd spectacle, a ridiculous and foolish way to spend $135 million. I hope Warner Bros. continues to burn money like this.

sasquatch sunset

Where to watch: Available for rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Image: Square Stakes/ZBI

genre: fancy
Runtime: 1 hour 30 minutes
move: Nathan Zellner, David Zellner
Gibbs: Riley Keough, Jesse Eisenberg, Christoph Zajac-Dennek

The Zellner brothers’ irreverent comedy (Treasure Hunter Kumiko), sasquatch sunset It follows a group of four Sasquatch as they try to find success in the forests of Northern California. Along the way, they have to deal with poisonous mushrooms, mountain lions, and a constant stream of Sasquatch hornets.

sting

Where to watch: Available for rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Image: Well Go USA Entertainment

genre: fear
Runtime: 1 hour 32 minutes
director: Kia Roach-Turner
Gibbs: Alila Brown, Penelope Mitchell, Ryan Corr

Alyla Browne (who plays young Furiosa in Greg Miller’s upcoming apocalyptic action film) stars in this horror thriller as a rebellious 12-year-old who adopts a tiny spider after discovering it in her apartment. Simple, right? That would be true if the spider were just an ordinary terrestrial spider and not an alien arachnid with a tendency to prey on birds, young children, and adults. Get Raid Cans!