The Flash, Meg 2, Past Lives and all the new movies to watch at home this weekend (2023)

Happy Friday, Polygon readers!

Each week, we round up the most notable streaming and VOD releases, highlighting the biggest and best new movies for you to watch at home. This week sees the streaming debut of the new DC Universe superhero movie starring Ezra Miller, a beautiful romantic drama from director Celine Song, and more.

Grande George Foreman, the upcoming theatrical biopic based on the life of the former heavyweight boxing champion and barbecue entrepreneur, hits Netflix this weekend.Holiday friends 2, the sequel to the 2021 comedy starring Lil Rel Howery (To go out) and John Cena are coming to Hulu with the exciting eco-thrillerHow to explode a pipeline. It's not even mentionedO Flashon Max, or other exciting new releases on the Criterion Channel, on AMC Plus and available for rent or purchase on VOD services.

Here's everything new to see this weekend!

New on Netflix

You are not invited to my Bat Mitzvah

Where to see:Can be streamed on Netflix

Image: Scott Yamano/Netflix

Sex:comedy-drama
Running time:1t 41m
Manager:Sammi Cohen
List:Adam Sandler, Sunny Sandler, Idina Menzel

This upcoming teen comedy follows two best friends whose dreams of planning their own epic bat mitzvahs are shattered when the crush of the most popular boy in their school strains their otherwise flawless friendship. Will they be able to mend the rift in time to go to each other's parties and celebrate this exciting new phase of their lives?

Grande George Foreman

Where to see:Can be streamed on Netflix

Foto: Alan Markfield/Sony Pictures

Sex:biographical sports drama
Running time:2t 9m
Manager:George Tillman Jr.
List:Chris Davis, Jasmine Mathews, John Magaro

This 2023 biopic stars Khris Davis (Judas and the Black Messiah) as George Foreman, tracing the life of the former heavyweight boxing champion from his humble beginnings to his late-career comeback. The film covers his time as an amateur boxer, his near-death experience in the ring, his stint as a Baptist minister and, yes, his promotion to the George Foreman Grill.

New on Hulu

How to explode a pipeline

Where to see:Available for streaming onHulu

Image: Neon

Sex:ecological tension
Running time:1t 44m
Manager:Daniel Goldhaber
List:Ariela Barer, Kristine Froseth, Lukas Gage

Director Daniel Goldhaber (Camera) adapts Andreas Malm's fiery non-fiction from 2021 into a fictional crime novel. The film follows a group of climate activists who, disillusioned with the ineffectiveness of the divestment movement and lack of action from government regulation, band together to carry out a politically charged act of material damage as an environmental protest: blowing up a pipeline in West Texas.

From ouranalyse:

How to explode a pipelineis the rare film that effectively weaponizes a radical political message by combining it with conventional genre storytelling. It sounds like a game changer: the kind of film that will inspire budding artists and activists for generations to come. It's gripping, tense entertainment with an explosive and memorable last line of dialogue. 2023 wasa great year in film so far, but this one will be hard to beat.

Holiday friends 2

Where to see:Available for streaming onHulu

Image: 20 Century Studios/Hulu

Sex:friends comedy
Running time:1t 43m
Manager:Argila Tarver
List:Lil Rel Howery, Yvonne Orji, John Cena

This sequel to the 2021 buddy comedy picks up a few months after the original. New couple Marcus (Lil Rel Howery) and Emily (Yvonne Orji) invite their friends Ron (John Cena) and Kyla (Meredith Hagner) on an all-expenses-paid trip to a Caribbean resort. So far, so good—that is, until Kyla's ex-king Reese's (Steve Buscemi) father is unexpectedly released from prison and shows up at the resort, throwing the couple's carefully laid plans into disarray.

What's new in Max

O Flash

Where to see:Available for streaming onMaks

Image: Warner Bros.

Sex:superheltehandling
Running time:2t 24m
Manager:Andy Muschietti
List:Ezra Miller, Sasha Calle, Michael Shannon

Ezra Miller returns as the superheroic speed demon Barry AllenO Flash, the first live-action superhero film based on the character of the same name. Set some time after the events ofJustice League, Barry accidentally accesses the Speed ​​​​Force and travels back in time. Seeing this as an opportunity to save his mother's life and exonerate his father, Barry travels back in time to set things right... but they go very, very wrong. With time running out to save the multiverse, The Flash must enlist the help of an alternate universe version of himself, the Kryptonian superhuman Kara Zor-El (Sasha Calle) and an alternate universe version of Batman. (Michael Keaton).

From ouranalyse:

O Flashit's a bright, colorful, imaginative film with just enough energy to jump off the screen, even if it's often absurd in its wobbly, lopsided, and timely stuff. But as amusing as his pictures are, they also signal the same priorities that Muschietti displayed in the It films.O Flashgives way to computer-generated effects, not just for the depiction of superhumans fighting to save the world—Sasha Calle gives a furious performance as Supergirl, though the film leaves her frustratingly little to do—but for her wistful appearance. alternate between possible pasts as Barry travels through time and space to see what might have been.

News not Prime Video

Dungeons & Dragons: Honra mellem Ladrões

Foto: Aidan Monaghan/Paramount Pictures

Where to see:Can be streamed on Paramount Plus
Sex:fantasy adventure
Running time:2t 14m
Manager:Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley
List:Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page

Chris Pinho (Star Trek) stars Edgin Darvis, a former bard turned thief who forms an unlikely group of adventurers on a mission to retrieve a powerful lost artifact. When the party collides with a dangerous figure bent on world domination, Edgin and his allies must fight, run and seize the initiative to save the day.

From ouranalyse,

The film is playful and serious with a focus on the characters being in serious situations. Rodriguez's barbarian is still reeling from a broken relationship, and when his plot pays off, it's funny—but the audience is still invited to feel and empathize with his pain.Dungeons & Dragons: Honra mellem Ladrõesdoes not recreate game mechanics or a sense of improvisation as well as e.g.Legends around Vox Machina,but it's the best Dungeons & Dragons movie we could hope for. It's not just a fun fantasy movie, it's a great adaptation of a gaming session. And it's an invitation to a new, more visual version of a world that hardcore gamers already love - and that filmmakers apparently love too.

News on the Criterion Channel

The Eight Mountains

Where to see:Can be streamed on the Criterion Channel

Billede: Janus Films/The Criterion Channel

Sex:Drama
Running time:2t 27m
Manager:Felix van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch
List:Luca Marinelli and Alessandro Borghi

Luca Marinelli (the old guard) and Alessandro Borghi (The first king) stars in this coming-of-age drama as two Italian boys who, after crossing paths in an isolated Alpine village, form a lifelong bond and explore the peaks and valleys of their majestic childhood home. As their respective lives diverge, the two men are later reunited and reflect on their friendship.

What's new on AMC Plus

Monica

Where to see:Can be streamed on AMC Plus

Image: IFC Films

Sex:Drama
Running time:1t 46m
Manager:Andrea Pallaoro
List:Trace Lysette, Patricia Clarkson, Emily Browning

Trace Lysette stars in this 2022 drama as Monica, a transgender woman who returns home to care for her sick mother after years away from her family. Upon arrival, Monica is forced to reconcile the pain of her past and make renewed connections to embrace the future.

new for rent

Past lives

Where to see:Can be purchased for $19.99 atAmazonas,TrasheVudu

Photo by: Jon Pack

Sex:romantic drama
Running time:1t 46m
Manager:Celine sang
List:Greta Lee, Theo Yoo, John Magaro

Greta Lee (sisters) and Teo Yoo (decision to leave) stars in director Celine Song's debut romantic drama as Nora and Hae-sung, two childhood friends who are separated when the former emigrates from South Korea to Toronto with his family. Reunited 12 years later, the two find themselves unmistakably united. As their respective lives and commitments pull them further and further apart, Nora and Hae-sung must confront their feelings about the life they could have shared had their past choices been different, and what to do with those feelings now . . Song spoke to Polygon about how the film is about "how life reflects itself" as well as its brief foraysThe Sims 4 Theatrical Production.

Meg 2: The Trench

Where to see:Can be purchased for $19.99 atAmazonas,TrasheVudu

Image: Warner Bros.

Sex:science fiction-handling
Running time:1t 56m
Manager:Ben Wheatley
List:Jason Statham, Wu Jing, Sophia Cai

To rememberHe, that movie about Jason Statham fighting a giant mane-eating Megalodon shark? Well, guess what: there are many more fish in the sea, and they are just as colossal and angry as the first one!

From ouranalyse:

After two movies, the Meg series doesn't seem to have much of an idea of ​​what makes sharks scary, other than the fact that they've appeared that way in other, better movies. If too many movies have turned sharks into calculating forces of pure evil, these at least understand the primal, instinctive horror we can feel when we realize that many parts of this planet don't belong to us. the trench ofMega 2it doesn't have the associated terror or sense of wonder. (More great Warner movies likeAquamanorGodzilla x Kongdoes a better job on both counts.) Statham is an indomitable force that the film mostly understands; the sharks, meanwhile, remain just another poorly sketched villain.

dip

Where to see:Available to rent for $14.99 atAmazonas,TrasheVudu

Image: RLJE Filmes/Photos of the Protagonist

Sex:Action movie
Running time:1t 31m
Manager:Maximiliano Erlenwein
List:Louisa Krause, Sophie Lowe

Luísa Krause (the heart machine) and Sophie Lowe (blow the man up) stars in this new survival thriller as Drew and May, two sisters who find themselves in a life-threatening situation after a landslide hits the latter during a deep-sea diving trip, trapping them 28 meters below the surface. . With precious time and oxygen running out, Drew must come up with a desperate plan to save his sister's life.