Anyone but You on Netflix, Monkey Man, and every new movie to watch at home this weekend
Greetings, Polygon readers! Each week, we round up the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies for you to watch at home.
This week, Monkey Man, the new action thriller starring and directed by Dev Patel, makes its debut on VOD. That’s not the only recent release coming to streaming this week, as the sapphic crime thriller Love Lies Bleeding starring Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian is also available to purchase and rent this weekend. The romantic comedy Anyone but You and the dark comedy drama Miller’s Girl come to Netflix, while the debut horror thriller Humane, directed by Caitlin Cronenberg, arrives on Shudder.
Here’s everything new that’s available to watch this weekend!
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Genre: Romantic comedy
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Will Gluck
Cast: Sydney Sweeney, Glen Powell, Alexandra Shipp
Sydney Sweeney (Euphoria) and Glen Powell (Top Gun: Maverick) star in this romantic comedy loosely based on William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing as Bea and Ben, two young singles who become cold toward one another after an otherwise great first date. After unexpectedly being reunited at a destination wedding in Australia, the pair agree to pretend to be dating in order to ward off their exes. Shenanigans ensue!
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Genre: Black comedy drama
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: Jade Halley Bartlett
Cast: Martin Freeman, Jenna Ortega, Dagmara Domińczyk
Martin Freeman (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey) and Jenna Ortega (Wednesday) star in this thriller about a high school writing teacher who is seduced by a rich, bored, and manipulative young student. Things obviously go very, very badly.
From our review:
What Miller’s Girl does best — and what gives Ortega the chance to absolutely own this movie — is capture the particular era of adolescence where girls can easily swing back and forth between adulthood and childhood without warning. Ortega gets the
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