One of this year’s best animated movies finally arrives on VOD
Each week on Polygon, we round up the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies for you to watch at home.
This week, The Wild Robot, the new animated sci-fi film starring Lupita Nyong’o, stomps its way onto VOD this week. That’s not the only big VOD release, though: Alien: Romulus, the latest film in the beloved sci-fi horror franchise, starring Cailee Spaeny (Civil War) and David Jonsson (Industry), is also available to rent and purchase digitally this weekend. There’s a ton of other releases on streaming to watch, too, like The Shadow Strays — the new action thriller from The Night Comes for Us’ Timo Tjahjanto — on Netflix, Martin Bourboulon’s two-part adaptation of The Three Musketeers on Hulu, Ti West’s Maxxxine on Max, and a shocking indie horror thriller called MadS on Shudder.
Here’s everything new that’s available to watch this weekend!Table of ContentsNew on Netflix
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Genre: Action thriller
Run time: 2h
Director: Timo Tjahjanto
Cast: Aurora Ribero, Hana Malasan, Taskya Namya
Timo Tjahjanto (The Night Comes for Us, The Big 4) returns with a dark, suspenseful powderkeg of an action thriller. Aurora Ribero stars in The Shadow Strays as “13,” a teenager trained from youth to work as an assassin on behalf of a clandestine organization. After being suspended in the wake of a disastrously failed mission, she meets and befriends a young boy who loses his mother, and sets out to rescue him after he is kidnaped by a ruthless crime syndicate.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Genre: Crime thriller
Run time: 1h 35m
Director: Anna Kendrick
Cast: Daniel Zovatto, Anna Kendrick, Tony Hale
A true-crime thriller based on real serial killer Rodney Alcala (Daniel Zovatto), who was a contestant on The Dating Game in the middle of his killing spree. He ended up winning the game, but the bachelorette Cheryl Bradshaw (played in the movie by Anna Kendrick, who also directs) refused to go out with him, because he was creepy. Oh girl, you don’t even know.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Genre: Psychological thriller
Run time: 1h 34m
Director: Jordan Scott
Cast: Eric Bana, Sadie Sink, Sylvia Hoeks
In this thriller, Eric Bana plays a psychiatrist who is researching a cult responsible for a mass suicide in Berlin, while also helping local law enforcement. But the already fraught events get extra personal when his daughter (Sadie Sink) falls for the son of the cult’s charismatic leader and gets pulled even deeper into their machinations.New on Hulu
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
Genre: Historical epic
Run time: 2h 1m
Director: Martin Bourboulon
Cast: François Civil, Vincent Cassel, Romain Duris
The Three Musketeers — Part I: D’Artagnan is the first of a two-part 2023 French adaptation of The Three Musketeers.
