Mean Girls, The Zone of Interest, Netflix’s Mea Culpa, and every new movie to watch 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, Priscilla, the new historical drama from Sofia Coppola starring Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi, is finally available to stream on Max. That’s not all there is to watch this weekend, as there’s plenty of exciting new releases on streaming and VOD.
Blackberry, the biographical comedy-drama about the eponymous handheld device, is streaming on Hulu along with the videogame documentary Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds and All of Us Strangers, the romantic fantasy starring Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal. Mean Girls, The Promised Land, and Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest are also available to purchase and watch on VOD. There’s even a new feature-length sequel to the 2020 heist anime Great Pretenderto enjoy on Crunchyroll this weekend!
Here’s everything new to watch this weekend!
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Genre: Legal thriller
Run time: 2h
Director: Tyler Perry
Cast: Kelly Rowland, Trevante Rhodes, Sean Sagar
Actress-singer Kelly Rowland stars in this new Tyler Perry-directed thriller as Mea Harper, a married criminal defense attorney who takes on a new client: Zyair Malloy (Moonlight’s Trevante Rhodes), an artist accused of murdering his girlfriend. As she and Zyair unexpectedly grow close, Mea finds herself faced with a deadly choice between her desires and her professional obligations.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
Genre: Biographical comedy-drama
Run time: 1h 59m
Director: Matt Johnson
Cast: Glenn Howerton, Jay Baruchel, Matt Johnson
Did you like Air, the biographical drama about the origin of Nike’s business relationship with Michael Jordan? Well, buckle up for BlackBerry, a biographical drama about the rise and fall of the eponymous handheld communications device.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h
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