Netflix’s Do Revenge, Three Thousand Years of Longing, and every other new movie you can stream from home this weekend
This weekend sees the debut of Netflix’s teenage black comedy film Do Revenge starring Camila Mendes (Riverdale), Maya Hawke (Stranger Things), Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), and Sophie Turner (Game of Thrones). Not looking for a Heathers-style high school revenge flick? Not to worry, there’s plenty to choose from when it comes to this week’s slate of movies new to streaming and VOD.
We’ve got Three Thousand Years of Longing, George Miller’s highly anticipated follow-up to 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road starring Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba, 2022 thriller-drama Breaking starring John Boyega and the late Michael K. Williams, the Goodnight Mommy American remake starring Naomi Watts and streaming on Prime Video, the coming-of-age anime film Drifting Home on Netflix, the Channing Tatum-led drama Dog on Prime Video, plus tons more.
To help you choose what to watch tonight, here are the best selections for what to stream and rent this weekend.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
A teen dark comedy starring Riverdale’s Camila Mendes, Stranger Things’ Maya Hawke, with Sarah Michelle Gellar and Sophie Turner? Sign us up.
From our review:
Like other movies in the mean-girls high school subgenre, Do Revenge focuses on convoluted social plots and vicious popular cliques. But it isn’t derivative or a cliche: Instead, it’s a natural evolution of this type of movie for 2022. Some parts of high school are constants, but youth culture rapidly evolves, so teen movies — especially ones adapting or paying homage to older material — risk feeling outdated. Do Revenge dodges that curse because of the way Robinson and co-writer Celeste Ballard smartly update certain plot points.
Where to watch: Available to rent for
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