The best new movies to watch at home this weekend, including Netflix’s new White Noise movie from Noah Baumbach, The Black Phone on Prime Video, and more.
Happy New Year, Polygon readers! After the flurry of new movies arriving at home for the Christmas season, we’re in a bit of a slower season of new movie releases at home.
That doesn’t mean there aren’t any to watch, however! Noah Baumbach (Marriage Story) has a new movie out — his adaptation of Don DeLillo’s White Noise makes its way to Netflix. There are new documentaries on Prime Video and HBO Max, and the Scott Derrickson horror movie The Black Phone, with Ethan Hawke, also makes its way to Prime Video.
Let’s get into it!
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Genre: Comedy
Run time: 2h 15m
Director: Noah Baumbach
Cast: Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle
Noah Baumbach adapts Don DeLillo’s famed postmodern novel for Netflix, with a star-studded cast including his partner Greta Gerwig (with whom he is writing the upcoming Barbie), Adam Driver, and André Benjamin. It’s the first time Baumbach has directed a full-length feature adaptation of someone else’s writing.
From our review:
The thing that most annoys DeLillo purists about Baumbach’s film might be the thing that makes it most pleasurable to watch for everyone else: It’s fun. It’s a messy movie that can’t quite find the thread to make sense of DeLillo’s vision or the reality of his characters — particularly during its bewildering final third, after the Airborne Toxic Event dissipates and Jack becomes obsessed with Babette’s place in a kind of pharmaceutical conspiracy.
