Thor: Love and Thunder, Morbius, and every other new movie you can stream from home this weekend
This week has plenty of new movies premiering for home viewing. There are huge releases like Thor: Love and Thunder, Morbius morbin’ its way to Netflix, and one of the three upcoming Pinocchio adaptations.
Look beyond those big-ticket items, however, and you’ll find some great under-the-radar gems. The Senegalese genre mashup Saloum, which is genuinely fantastic, premieres on Shudder. The beloved anime series Odd Taxi (which has one of the coolest OPs around, by the way) has a movie adaptation out on Crunchyroll, and highly praised recent releases Marcel the Shell With Shoes On and Petite Maman are finally available to watch at home.
Here’s everything new you can watch at home this weekend.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Disney Plus
Taika Waititi returns to the Thor franchise after the success of Thor: Ragnarok, this time writing as well as directing. Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson, and Natalie Portman (making her long-awaited return to the MCU) all reprise their roles from the franchise, while Christian Bale and Russell Crowe join in on the fun.
From our review:
Unfortunately, what might have been a terrific road-trip film is undercut by characters who somehow lost their entire personalities after Thanos’ snap. Thor is strangely inconsistent throughout the film — the Thor at the beginning of the movie is different from the Thor who appears 20 minutes later, who is also different from the Thor we say goodbye to again when the credits roll. Jane Foster, largely absent from the franchise for the better part of a decade, has a lot of fun relishing her new godlike powers, but there’s a tension between her newfound superhuman life and her dire normal one, and the film is too glib to sustain the tonal whiplash
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