Death on the Nile, Netflix’s Apollo 10 1/2, and every new movie you can stream from home this weekend
Some weekends are a downright drought of new releases. That is not at all the case this week, with more than a dozen new movies available for you to watch at home, including seven new Netflix movies.
Among the highlights this week: Death on the Nile, Kenneth Branagh’s follow-up to his previous Agatha Christie adaptation, Murder on the Orient Express, which sees Branagh reprise his role at Hercule Poirot alongside an ensemble cast including Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer, and many others. The mystery movie is now streaming on Hulu and HBO Max.
Also available at home this week: animated musical comedy Sing 2, Richard Linklater’s coming-of-age story Apollo 10 1/2 on Netflix, Judd Apatow’s meta movie comedy The Bubble on Netflix, and much, much more.
To help you get a handle on what’s new and available, here are the new movies you can watch on streaming and VOD this weekend.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu and HBO Max
Kenneth Branagh returns to direct and star in the follow-up to his 2017 adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express. In Death on the Nile, detective Hercule Poirot is once again called upon to investigate a murder most foul. With a wide cast of cosmopolitan suspects and tangled web of grievances and motives to parse, Poirot will have to summon every once of his analytical cunning if he has to have any hope of bringing the culprit to justice. From our review,
While the film is slow-moving and at times turgid, its take on love as class warfare gives it a compelling mean streak that’s fun to think about, even when it doesn’t unfold onscreen in the most compelling manner. Beautifully presented and lavishly designed, Branagh’s vision is hamstrung by a large cast that leaves too many characters
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