Netflix’s The Gray Man, The Black Phone, and more new movies you can watch at home this weekend
This week, The Gray Man — Avengers: Endgame directing duo Anthony Russo and Joe Russo’s espionage action thriller starring Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, and Ana de Armas — finally premieres on Netflix.
There’s also a ton of other newly released movies on VOD and streaming to choose from this weekend, including Scott Derrickson’s 2022 horror film The Black Phone starring Ethan Hawke, Alex Garland’s folk horror drama Men starring Jessie Buckley and Rory Kinnear, and the music documentary This is GWAR on Shudder. That's not even mentioning the just-announced addition of Deadpool, Deadpool 2, and 2017’s Logan to Disney Plus.
Here are the new movies you can watch at home this week.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Ryan Gosling stars in Anthony Russo and Joe Russo’s espionage action thriller The Gray Man as Court Gentry, a convict turned CIA operative known as “Sierra Six” who goes AWOL after stumbling across secrets capable of incriminating his superiors. With no other recourse, Gentry’s handlers dispatch another asset, Lloyd Hansen (Chris Evans), to terminate Gentry before he can implicate the agency. Ana de Armas (Knives Out, No Time to Die) co-stars as Dani Miranda, a CIA officer sympathetic to Gentry’s cause, who agrees to help him in his mission to bring the agency to justice.
From our review:
There isn’t a single original idea here, and that’s fine! The appeal of a film like The Gray Man lies in how more than what, as the cast and crew work in concert to execute exciting action sequences. Unfortunately, the Russos’ style, full of bombastic excess and barely funny quips, gets in their way. There are well-conceived sequences here — every fight scene is framed against the most compelling backdrop possible.
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