Red One, Heretic, Netflixs Maria, and every movie new to streaming
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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, Maria, Pablo Larrans biopic on the life and career of opera singer Maria Callas starring Angelina Jolie, comes to streaming on Netflix. If virtuoso sopranos arent to your liking, not to worry: There are plenty more exciting new releases to watch this week on streaming and VOD. The holiday action comedy Red One starring Dwayne The Rock Johnson and J.K. Simmons drops onto Prime Video this week, while the religious horror thriller Heretic starring Hugh Grant comes to VOD. Thats not all Atlantics director Mati Diop has a new documentary on Mubi, and the Catholic thriller Conclave is available to stream on Peacock!Heres everything new thats available to watch this weekend!New on NetflixMariaWhere to watch:Available to stream on NetflixGenre:BiopicRun time:2h 4mDirector:Pablo LarranCast:Angelina Jolie, Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba RohrwacherDirector Pablo Larran continues his trilogy of biopics about important 20th-century women with opera singer Maria Callas. Starring Angelina Jolie, Maria follows the titular opera singer as she hallucinates a young filmmaker and tells him her life story. Callas was the subject of a number of scandals, including an affair with Aristotle Onassis Jackie Kennedy Onassis husband. Which is fitting, since Larran directed a biopic about Jackie Kennedy back in 2016.It Ends with UsWhere to watch:Available to stream on NetflixGenre:Romantic dramaRun time:2h 10mDirector:Justin BaldoniCast:Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni, Jenny SlateRaise your hand if your social media algorithms think that just because you like to read, youmustlove Colleen Hoovers books.It Ends with Usis based on Hoovers bestselling 2016 novel, which follows a florist in an abusive relationship who reconnects with her first love. Despite what the TikTok edits would have you think, its actually about breaking the cycle of domestic abuse.Carry-OnWhere to watch:Available to stream on NetflixGenre:Crime thrillerRun time:1h 59mDirector:Jaume Collet-SerraCast:Taron Egerton, Jason Bateman, Sofia CarsonThis ones for all you Die Hardis a Christmas movie people out there! In this new Netflix thriller, a TSA agent cheerily shows up for a Christmas Eve shift only to get threatened by a mysterious stranger into smuggling a dangerous package onto a flight. If he doesnt follow orders, says the stranger through an earpiece, his girlfriend will be killed. But as the agent continues to defy the stranger, the consequences heighten. Nothing says holiday cheer like high-octane thrillers, apparently!New on HuluSugarcaneWhere to watch: Available to stream on HuluGenre: DocumentaryRun time: 1h 47mDirectors: Emily Kassie, Julian Brave NoiseCatCast: Julian Brave NoiseCat, Ed Archie NoiseCat, Charlene BelleauThis documentary follows an investigation into the Canadian Indian residential school system, which came under fire in 2021 following the discovery of several unmarked graves on the grounds of a school run by the Catholic Church. Sugarcane documents the national outcry against a system designed to destroy Indigenous communities, and the efforts by said communities to reconcile with the horrors inflicted upon them.New on MaxJoker: Folie DeuxWhere to watch: Available to stream on MaxGenre:Psychological thrillerRun time:2h 18mDirector:Todd PhillipsCast:Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Brendan GleesonArthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) is back and this time, hes got a girlfriend! Todd Phillips sequel to 2019sJokerpicks up two years after the previous film, with Arthur still in custody at Arkham State Hospital awaiting trial for murder. Upon meeting Harleen Lee Quinzel (Lady Gaga), Arthur finds himself torn between his attraction to her (and her subsequent attraction to the Joker) and his uncertainty as to whether he wants to be the Joker anymore. Question is, doesJoker: Folie Deuxland the punchline, or is this curtains for Arthurs story?From ourreview:The truth, whether or not Phillips would want to admit it, is that his rapt framing of Phoenixs performance, his dedicated homage to 70s grit and 60s musical fantasy, the smugness of a script that omits the punchline from a knock-knock joke and submits that as smart character commentary these things are not so distant from the rule-of-cool, Easter-egg-hiding, smug-quip-dropping world of comic book cinema as he would like to imagine. Joker and Folie Deux are no less indulgent than any other films resting on the legacy of generations of work-for-hire comics artists whose output currently falls under the ownership of the Warner Bros. Discovery conglomerate. Phillips just wants you to think it is.New on Disney PlusElton John: Never Too LateWhere to watch: Available to stream on Disney PlusGenre: DocumentaryRun time: 1h 42mDirectors: R.J. Cutler, David FurnishDisneys newest musician documentary is all about Elton John. The musician looks back on his career, going back to his really early days to the preparations for his final concert. He gets candid about his mental health, closeted sexuality, and drug abuse. The movie debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this year.New on Prime VideoRed OneWhere to watch: Available to stream on Prime VideoGenre: Holiday comedyRun time: 2h 3mDirector: Jake KasdanCast: Dwayne Johnson, Chris Evans, Lucy LiuDwayne The Rock Johnsons Christmas action movie looks a little bit like Rise of the GuardiansmeetsTaken. InRed One, a secret organization protects the balance between the real world and mythological figures like Santa Claus and the Headless Horseman. But when Santa gets kidnapped right before Christmas, one of Santas security details enlists a tracker to help him find Father Christmas himself.New on PeacockConclaveWhere to watch: Available to stream on PeacockGenre:Mystery thrillerRun time:2hDirector:Edward BergerCast:Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John LithgowRalph Fiennes stars inAll Quiet on the Western Frontdirector Edward Bergers latest thriller as Thomas Lawrence, a cardinal tasked with convening a secluded conclave in order to decide on the appointment of a new pope. As interfactional disputes between the cardinals amassed give rise to conspiracies and questions, Thomas must weigh the future of the church against the weight of his own conscience.New on MubiDahomeyWhere to watch: Available to stream on Mubi USGenre: DocumentaryRun time: 1h 8mDirector: Mati DiopCast: Gildas Adannou, Morias Agbessi, Maryline AgbossiAtlantics director Mati Diop returns with a new documentary about colonialism, culture, and history as a living subject. Dahomey chronicles the return of 26 plundered treasures to the Republic of Benin formerly the African kingdom of Dahomey. Diops film asks whether or not the return of these items, which number among thousands of other artifacts taken from Africa, is sufficient restitution for despoilment of the continent and its people.New on Criterion ChannelIts Not MeWhere to watch: Available to stream on Criterion ChannelGenre: Biographical shortRun time: 41mDirector: Leos CaraxCast: Leos Carax, Denis Lavant, Nastya Golubeva CaraxDirector Leos Caraxs (Holy Motors, Annette) biographical short is a free-form retrospective of his career, looking back over the past 40 years of his life and films to meditate on the nature of time, art, and mortality. Originally intended for an exhibition at the Pompidou Museum that never happened, Its Not Me is Caraxs answer to the question, Where are you at, Leos Carax?New to rentVenom: The Last DanceWhere to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and VuduGenre: Superhero actionRun time: 1h 50mDirector: Kelly MarcelCast: Tom Hardy, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Juno TempleTom Hardy returns for one last outing as the long-tongued parasitic vigilante. Following the events of Venom: 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 our review: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.HereticWhere to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and VuduGenre: Horror thrillerRun time: 1h 51mDirectors: Scott Beck, Bryan WoodsCast: Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher, Chloe EastStop me if youve heard this one: Two Mormon missionaries walk into a mans house right before a snowstorm. After realizing theyve been trapped, the missionaries are forced to participate in a twisted game for survival or be executed. No, youve never heard that one before? Well then, you gotta watch this movie its wild!The Best Christmas Pageant EverWhere to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and VuduGenre: Holiday comedyRun time: 1h 39mDirector: Dallas JenkinsCast: Kynlee Heiman, Sebastian Billingsley-Rodriguez, Judy GreerSix unruly siblings suddenly decide to join the churchs Christmas pageant, much to the chagrin of most of the town. But the pageant director is determined to make this show the best Christmas pageant ever (ba-dum tss) and shows the siblings some kindness that they rarely get from the rest of the town. Now thats the true meaning of Christmas!The Best Christmas Pageant Everis based on a 1972 childrens book of the same name.
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