Jujutsu Kaisen 0, new Minions, and every other movie you can stream from home this weekend
This weekend sees the premiere of Athena, the explosive French thriller epic from acclaimed music video director Romain Gavras on Netflix, as well as the highly anticipated streaming premiere of the record-breaking Jujutsu Kaisen 0 anime film on Crunchyroll. If neither of those strike your fancy, not to worry — this week is practically bursting at the seams with exciting new movies to stream and rent on VOD.
We’ve got the action thriller Lou starring Allison Janney (The West Wing) and Jurnee Smollett (Lovecraft Country) and the Tyler Perry-directed period romance drama A Jazzman’s Blues on Netflix, the time-hopping romance comedy Meet Cute on Peacock, the Oprah Winfrey-produced Sidney Poitier documentary on Apple TV Plus, and the supernatural period murder thriller Raven’s Hollow on Shudder.
Not to mention Dead for a Dollar, Walter Hill’s first Western in over 27 years, starring Christoph Waltz and Willem Dafoe on VOD, and Don Hertzfeldt’s Academy Award-nominated sci-fi short World of Tomorrow available to stream for free(!) on YouTube! See what we meant by bursting at the seams?
To help you choose what to watch tonight, here’s the best of what’s new to stream and rent this weekend.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
A tightly wound thriller sure to blow your mind, Athena is the third movie from decorated music video director Romain Gavras. Gavras is best known for his work on M.I.A.’s “Born Free” and “Bad Girls” videos, as well as Jay-Z and Kanye West’s “No Church in the Wild,” and his previous movie, The World Is Yours,screened at Cannes. In this one, a French suburb erupts after the brutal killing of a young man.
From our review:
Athena is arguably a style-over-substance movie, given how little time and
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