Netflix’s Hit Man, The Strangers: Chapter 1, and every movie new to streaming this week
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.
Kick off summer with two shark movies — one about a shark in Paris (un requin à Paris) and one about sharks circling a crashed airplane! There’s also Richard Linklater’s new romantic comedy, which stars Glen Powell as an undercover cop posing as a hitman who falls for a woman who hires him. And there’sThe Strangers: Chapter 1, for anyone who wants to watchThe Strangers, but slightly remixed.
Here’s everything new available to watch this weekend!
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Genre: Romantic black comedy
Run time: 1h 55m
Director: Richard Linklater
Cast: Glen Powell, Adria Arjona, Retta
Glen Powell leads this romantic comedy/crime thriller about a police officer posing as a hitman. While he usually arrests the people who hire him, he ends up persuading a woman who hired him to take a different path, rather than killing her husband… which leads to them becoming romantically entangled. And it’s based on a true story!
From our impressions after seeing it at the New York Film Festival:
Hit Man is somewhere between a rom-com and a police caper, and every second is a breezy joy. The movie is built entirely around Powell’s endless charisma, charm, and comedic chops, and no one else in a 2023 movie has been this much fun to watch. It’s rare these days to get movies that are this completely built around a star, but Hit Man is a perfect reminder of just how great it is when we do.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Genre: Creature-feature horror
Run time: 1h 41m
Director: Xavier Gens
Cast: Bérénice Bejo, Nassim Lyes, Anaïs Parello
It’s a movie about a giant shark roaming Paris, from the people who brought us Mayhem! What more do you need?!
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
Genre: Drama
Run time: 2h 4m
Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Koji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa
