The Sea Beast, Everything Everywhere All at Once, and more new movies you can watch at home
This week has a ton of new movies available for you to watch at home, including a half-dozen Netflix originals, new Shudder and Mubi movies, and a group of movies either newly available on VOD or at a reduced price.
Among the Netflix offerings is the animated comedy adventure The Sea Beast, from the co-director of Big Hero 6 and Moana. There’s also the highly acclaimed Everything Everywhere All at Once at a reduced rental price, a Thai rom-com slacker comedy, and a new documentary about legendary Australian musician (and screenwriter!) Nick Cave from director Andrew Dominik (Killing Them Softly).
Here are the new movies you can watch at home this week.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Set in a world where fearsome monsters rule the seas and brave sailors hunt them, Moana co-director Chris Williams’ The Sea Beast follows a brave monster hunter named Jacob (Karl Urban) who is forced to take care of a young girl named Maisie (Zaris-Angel Hator) who stows away on his ship.
From our review:
The Sea Beast offers several breaks from tedious recent trends in animation. The dialogue is written and performed in a vernacular that reaches for a kind of offhand, English-accented poetry — the sea beasts, for example, are described as “nature’s darkest design.” Though the language doesn’t always hit the mark, it’s almost completely free of tinny sarcasm and faux-comic placeholders. (“Awkward!” “Well, that happened,” and the like.) Similarly, the grandeur of the movie’s strongest visuals is allowed to stand on its own, favoring painterly compositions of the ocean’s frightening vastness over busy, desperate-to-please antics.
Where to watch: Available to rent for $5.99 on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
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