
Love Hurts, LOTR: War of the Rohirrim, Venom 3 on Netflix, and every movie new to streaming this week
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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, Venom: The Last Dance, the latest symbiotic antihero film starring Tom Hardy, slithers its way onto Netflix. Thats not all thats new to streaming this week, as The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim makes its way onto Max, and the Oscar-nominated drama Nickel Boys arrives on MGM Plus just in time for this weekends awards ceremony. Theres tons of other exciting new releases on VOD as well, including Steven Soderberghs supernatural drama Presence, the action comedy Love Hurts starring Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once), and the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown starring Timothe Chalamet.Heres everything new thats available to watch this weekend!New on NetflixVenom: The Last DanceWhere to watch: Available to stream on NetflixGenre:Superhero actionRun time:1h 50mDirector:Kelly MarcelCast:Tom Hardy, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Juno TempleTom Hardy returns for one last outing as the long-tongued parasitic antihero Venom. Following the events ofVenom: Let There Be Carnage, Eddie Brock (Hardy) and the Venom symbiote are still on the run. Hunted by both the military and a mysterious extraterrestrial threat known as the Xenophage, Eddie and Venom must work together once more to survive and clear their name.From ourreview:The originalVenomfound success in the mess of Hardys gutsy performance straining against stakes as mundane as Eddie interacting with his ex and her aggressively normal new boyfriend, after they watched him feverishly climb into a restaurants lobster tank.Last Dance, however, removes every human consideration from the equation of Eddies life every social tie, every personal goal, every stake smaller than aliens and the government are trying to kill us.New on MaxThe Lord of the Rings: The War of the RohirrimWhere to watch:Available to stream on MaxGenre:Fantasy epicRun time:2h 14mDirector:Kenji KamiyamaCast:Brian Cox, Gaia Wise, Miranda OttoSet hundreds of years before the War of the Ring,The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrimcenters on the story of Hra (Gaia Wise), the daughter of King Helm Hammerhand (Brian Cox). When Wulf (Luke Pasqualino), a ruthless Dunlending lord, embarks on a campaign of revenge against her father, Hra and her family must make a last stand to protect their kingdom.From ourreview:Director Kenji Kamiyama (Blade Runner: Black Lotus) takes on the task of making an animated Middle-earth that feels like part of the same tapestry as Jacksons Lord of the Rings movies. This attention to detail and reproduction is the movies greatest strength The War of the Rohirrimlooks and feels like Jacksons LotR in the best way. Its packed full of sword-swinging adventure, kingly drama and riveting monster mayhem. Unfortunately, it also reproduces the aspect of the Jackson movies that has aged most poorly.n hac habitasse platea dictumst quisque sagittis purus. Vitae suscipit tellus mauris a diam maecenas.New on Paramount PlusSeptember 5Where to watch: Available to stream on Paramount PlusGenre: Historical dramaRun time: 1h 35mDirector: Tim FehlbaumCast: Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben ChaplinNominated for Best Original Screenplay at this years Academy Awards,September 5is a historical drama about the Munich massacre of 1972. The film follows the events of the tragedy through the eyes of the ABC crew in charge of reporting on the Munich Olympics but the uneventful sports event takes a turn when militant organization Black September takes the Israeli team hostage.New on MGM PlusNickel BoysWhere to watch: Available to stream on MGM PlusGenre: Historical dramaRun time: 2h 20mDirector: RaMell RossCast: Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Hamish LinklaterBased on Colson Whiteheads novel, RaMell Ross Oscar-nominated drama centers on Elwood Curtis (Ethan Herisse), a young African American teen who is sentenced to a brutal reformatory school in the Jim Crow South. Struggling to hold on to his hopes of attending college, Elwood befriends Turner (Brandon Wilson), a fellow student, who helps him in navigating the harsh realities of their new home together.New to rentPresenceWhere to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and VuduGenre: Supernatural dramaRun time: 1h 25mDirector: Steven SoderberghCast: Lucy Liu, Chris Sullivan, Callina LiangSteven Soderberghs supernatural thriller flips the script on horror tropes: In this haunted house story, the first-person point of view is the enigmatic entity haunting the house. A fractured family moves into a new house, and they soon realize that theres something seemingly malevolent lurking in its halls. Lucy Liu and Chris Sullivan star as the parents, with Callina Liang and Eddy Maday as the surly teenagers.From our review:For audiences expecting breathless tricks out of the usual found-footage horror playbook the kinds of barely glimpsed threats and dimly lit shocks a fast-moving, low-fidelity camera enables Soderberghs approach may seem perverse. The houses bright, open airiness and richly appointed rooms make it seem like an unlikely and even ill-suited space for a haunting. Theres no chance the camera will ever abruptly capture some unexpected, horrifying specter, because the cameraisthe specter.Love HurtsWhere to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and VuduGenre: Action comedyRun time: 1h 23mDirector: Jonathan EusebioCast: Ke Huy Quan, Ariana DeBose, Daniel WuKe Huy Quan stars as Marvin, an assassin turned realtor whos just trying to live a normal life. But when he receives a valentine from the target he let go, hes pulled back into the criminal world. Former killer colleagues hound him, trying to find the location of his former mark, who he still harbors feelings for! While the movie is unfortunately light on the love, it still goes hard on the action.From our review:Leitchs most memorable action movies all take place outside of familiar reality, and within pocket worlds with their own clear, strange, often comedic rules. The only rule at work inLove HurtsisLets not commit to anything except the fights. Its as though everyone involved except Quan himself felt like it was uncool to show up for this movie. And hes trying to show up for everyone, everywhere, all at once, but it still isnt enough.A Complete UnknownWhere to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and VuduGenre: DocudramaRun time: 2h 21mDirector: James MangoldCast: Timothe Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle FanningTimothe Chalamet stars as Bob Dylan in this heavily Oscar-nominated docudrama from director James Mangold (Ford v Ferrari). After arriving in New York City, the 19-year-old folk music prodigy navigates the pitfalls of fame as his meteoric rise to stardom coincides with the political and social upheaval of the 1960s.The KillerWhere to watch:Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu; streaming on PeacockGenre:Action thrillerRun time:2h 6mDirector:John WooCast:Nathalie Emmanuel, Omar Sy, Sam WorthingtonLegendary action directorJohn Wooreturns with an English-language reimagining of his 1989 action thrillerThe Killer, this time starring Nathalie Emmanuel (Game of Thrones) and Omar Sy (Lupin). Emmanuel portrays Zee, a notorious assassin known and feared in the Parisian underworld as the Queen of the Dead. After refusing to kill a witness who was blinded during her latest assignment, Zee becomes the target of her former employers. Her escapades draw the attention of Sey (Sy), a savvy police detective with whom she reluctantly allies.Its certainly a departure from the original film starring Chow Yun-fat, but hey: If Olivier Assayas can successfully remakeIrma Vepnearly 26 years after the fact, why shouldnt Woo be capable of doing the same with his own work?From our review:The shootouts are tense and balletic, with terrific sound design punctuations of gunfire, something that was also a strength inSilent Night. The loud bangs play well off the dramatic, moody score from composer Marco Beltrami, which, like the movie, balances romance and excitement with shades of classical orchestration and jazz. And the movie justlooksgreat, even though its a straight-to-streaming production: The colors pop, the city of Paris buzzes with life, and the way Woo moves his camera to follow and augment the action is unparalleled.
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