The best new movies to watch at home this weekend, including Enola Holmes 2 on Netflix, the new Harry Styles movie My Policeman, and Weird: The Al Yankovic Story on The Roku Channel.
Enola Holmes 2, the sequel to the 2020 mystery film starring Stranger Things’ Millie Bobby Brown as Sherlock Holmes’ teen sister, premieres on Netflix this weekend. That’s not all, as Crimes of the Future — David Cronenberg’s latest body horror opus starring Viggo Mortensen and Léa Seydoux — finally comes to streaming on Hulu, while new comedy mystery See How They Run makes its own streaming premiere on HBO Max.
Still not interested? Not to worry — there’s plenty more new movies available to watch on VOD and streaming. Here’s the rundown on everything there is to watch this weekend.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Genre: Mystery/action thriller
Run time: 2h 9m
Director: Harry Bradbeer
Cast: Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, Helena Bonham Carter
Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things) reprises her role as Sherlock Holmes’ (Cavill) brilliant and capricious teenage sister in the sequel to 2020’s Enola Holmes. Searching for the missing sister of her first client as a private detective, Enola finds herself swept up in a larger, more sinister mystery. To solve it, she’ll have to call up not only her brother, but allies both new and old to crack the case and secure her place as London’s next master sleuth.
From our review:
The Enola Holmes movies aren’t just delightful mysteries focusing on a plucky teenage detective and a spectacular cast of supporting characters: They also hold a magnifying glass over the world of Victorian London, one often glamorized in other adaptations. The hand holding that glass is shaky, though, and still obscures part of the view. With such a marked improvement, maybe the next one will get it perfect. And Enola Holmes does deserve a third movie — and perhaps a fourth and a fifth. She’s a wonderful heroine who not only works well with her famous brother, but also on her own. The world deserves more Enola Holmes.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
Genre: Horror/sci-fi
Run time: 1h 47m
Director: David Cronenberg
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart
Viggo Mortensen stars in Cronenberg’s latest venture into body horror as Saul Tenser, a performance artist in a dystopian future where a combination of pollution, environmental collapse, and biotechnological advances have yielded a world where humans no longer feel pain and vestigial organs have manifested among certain individuals to compensate for poisonous elements in the atmosphere and food. When Saul is approached by a mysterious man with a ghastly offer, he finds himself at the epicenter of a conspiracy designed to steer the course of human evolution.
From our review:
There are discomfiting moments, horrific moments, and even some flashes of gnarliness in his relatively recent movies, like Maps to the Stars and Cosmopolis (both with Stewart’s Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson; Taylor Lautner must be doing kick-flips as he waits by the phone). But Crimes is Cronenberg’s first full-on sci-fi/horror movie since 1999’s playful gaming odyssey eXistenZ. His return to genre territory is both more extreme and less. eXistenZ is a more user-friendly trip for the squeamish, but in spite of Crimes’ explicitly surgical moments, it’s a more contemplative, sometimes recessive film. You could even call it a mood piece.
Where to watch: Available to stream on HBO Max
Genre: Whodunit/comedy
Run time: 1h 38m
Director: Tom George
Cast: Sam Rockwell, Saoirse Ronan, David Oyelowo
Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan star as grouchy Inspector Stoppard and his irrepressibly chipper partner Constable Stalker in this mystery-comedy set in 1950s London. When the director (Adrien Brody) of an upcoming film adaptation of Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap is killed during a party celebrating the play’s 100th performance, Stoppard and Stalker are called in to investigate and nab the culprit. Who among the cast is responsible for the murder, you’re wondering? I’ll never tell; watch the movie and find out!
From our review:
See How They Run works better as an outright comedy than as a murder mystery, although it doesn’t nail either form. Chappell’s script is loaded with tasty barbs, painful puns, and gently mocking characterization.
