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, Inside Out 2, starring Amy Poehler and Maya Hawke, finally comes to streaming on Disney Plus after its VOD premiere back in August. There’s even more to choose from, like Jon Watts’ Wolfs on Apple TV Plus, the Rosemary’s Baby prequel Apartment 7A on Paramount Plus, the paramedic drama Asphalt City on Hulu, and the documentary Will & Harper on Netflix. That’s not to mention new releases on VOD like the supernatural horror film The Front Room and the Colleen Hoover adaptation It Ends With Us.
Here’s everything new that’s available to watch this weekend!
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 54m
Director: Josh Greenbaum
Cast: Will Ferrell, Harper Steele
In this documentary, comedian Will Ferrell goes on a road trip with Harper Steele, former SNL head writer and Ferrell’s good friend of 17 years, who has recently come out as a trans woman. After Steele reached out to him about her transition, Ferrell decided to learn more about the trans community, and the two of them embarked on a cross-country road trip. This movie documents their experience — and more importantly, their friendship.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Genre: Coming of age drama
Run time: 1h 51m
Director: Sydney Freeland
Cast: Kauchani Bratt, Jessica Matten, Devin Sampson-Craig
Based on the nonfiction book Canyon Dreams, Rez Ball follows a Native American high school basketball team in New Mexico. The team is set to compete at the state championships, but they must rally after losing their star player. It’s an underdog story that also showcases Native American culture. Produced by LeBron James (yes, that LeBron James), Rez Sports comes from director Sydney Freeland (Drunktown’s Finest) with a script co-written by Freeland and Sterlin Harjo (Reservation Dogs).
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
Genre: Thriller
Run time: 2h 5m
Director: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
Cast: Tye Sheridan, Sean Penn, Michael Pitt
Based on Shannon Burke’s 2008 novel Black Flies, this drama stars Tye Sheridan (Ready Player One) as Ollie Cross, a rookie paramedic for the New York City Fire Department who is assigned to work the night shift alongside his grizzled partner Gene (Sean Penn). Think Training Day, but with paramedics, and you’ll get the gist of what this film is aiming for tonally.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
Genre: Mystery
Run time: 1h 37m
Director: Philippe Lacôte
Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Richard Madden
What’s better than one Richard Madden? Two Richard Maddens! In this crime mystery drama, Madden plays two gorgeous twin brothers who get caught in a love triangle. Enter a tortured detective known as “The Jealousy Man” (played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt), who treks to a remote Greek island to investigate a suspicious death tied into the love triangle. It’s based on a short story by Norwegian writer Jo Nesbø.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Apple TV Plus
Image: Apple
Genre: Action comedy
Run time: 1h 48m
Director: Jon Watts
Cast: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Amy Ryan
Jon Watts finally escaped from the MCU content mines and made a new movie, starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt! Wolfs centers on the story of Jack (Clooney) and Nick (Pitt), two professional “fixers” who are hired to clean up the scene of a murder. Problem is, they both prefer to work alone, and have to work together once the assignment goes south.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Disney Plus
Image: Disney/Pixar
Genre: Coming-of-age fantasy
Run time: 1h 36m
Director: Kelsey Mann
Cast: Amy Poehler, Maya Hawke, Kensington Tallman
Nearly ten years after Inside Out became one of the most beloved Pixar films ever made, the sequel broke box office records to become the highest-grossing animated movie ever and the highest-grossing movie of 2024 by some margin. Set two years after the original, Inside Out 2 follows Riley as a13-year-old with new challenges and new emotions.
Pixar purists are certainly justified in feeling some anxiety about the way the studio has been committing to sequels and franchises lately, and how many of its more recent originals have lacked the old emotional magic that gave the studio its reputation and produced a stream of indelible, memorable hits. But Inside Out 2 is a good sign that the company is moving back toward its core strengths. It’s a sequel to a movie that didn’t call for one, and an expansion of a setting that took a lot of its initial power from the simplicity of its setup: five emotions, locked in conflict over an unprecedented new challenge. But the new movie earns its place in the Pixar pantheon with its creativity, its craft, and its heartfelt writing. It’s almost enough to make Inside Out 3: The College Years seem like a promising pitch.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Paramount Plus
Image: Paramount Plus
Genre: Psychological thriller
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Natalie Erika James
Cast: Julia Garner, Dianne Wiest, Jim Sturgess
Julia Garner (Ozark) stars in this psychological thriller as Terry, an ambitious young dancer who suffers a terrible injury that derails her dreams of stardom shortly after moving to New York. When a wealthy, older couple offers her a room to stay at their luxury apartment building, Terry seizes on the opportunity to rest and recuperate. Shortly upon arriving, however, she grows to suspect that there’s more to this building than what it might seem. Apartment 7A is a prequel to Roman Polanski’s 1968 horror classic Rosemary’s Baby.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Shudder and AMC Plus
Image: Shudder
Genre: Horror
Run time: 1h 38m
Director: Damian McCarthy
Cast: Carolyn Bracken, Gwilym Lee, Tadhg Murphy
Oddity follows Darcy (Carolyn Bracken), a blind clairvoyant medium who’s grieving the recent death of her sister (also Carolyn Bracken). Not quite happy with the official story behind the killing, Darcy heads back to the crime scene and uses a (very spooky looking) wooden mannequin to psychically determine what really happened on the night her twin sister died.
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Image: A24
Genre: Horror thriller
Run time: 1h 34m
Directors: Max Eggers, Sam Eggers
Cast: Brandy, Andrew Burnap, Kathryn Hunter
Brandy stars in this new horror thriller from director duo Sam and Max Eggers as Belinda, a newly pregnant anthropology professor eagerly expecting the birth of her next child while still mourning the death of her firstborn son. When she and her husband Norman (Andrew Burnap) take in his newly widowed stepmother Solange (Kathryn Hunter), the arrival of their new guest brings about several dark disturbing revelations that threaten Belinda’s life and sanity.
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Image: Magnet Releasing
Genre: Horror mystery
Run time: 1h 35m
Director: Jason Yu
Cast: Jung Yu-mi, Lee Sun-kyun, Kim Gook-hee
This Korean horror mystery follows Soo-jin (Jung Yu-mi) and Hyeon-soo (Lee Sun-kyun), a newlywed couple whose domestic life is threatened by the latter’s bizarre behavior while sleepwalking. Fearing for the life of their newborn child, Hyeon-soo must search for a cure for her husband’s condition before something terrible happens.
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Image: Columbia Pictures
Genre: Romantic drama
Run time: 2h 10m
Director: Justin Baldoni
Cast: Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni, Jenny Slate
Raise your hand if your social media algorithms thinks that just because you like to read you must love Colleen Hoover’s books. It Ends With Us is based on Hoover’s best-selling 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, it’s actually about breaking the cycle of domestic abuse.
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Image: Sony Pictures Classics
Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 51m
Director: Nathan Silver
Cast: Jason Schwartzman, Carol Kane, Dolly De Leon
In this comedy-drama, a cantor facing a crisis of faith after his wife’s death reunites him with his childhood music teacher, who seeks his help for a belated bat mitzvah. Sparks fly between the two as they reconnect and confront their personal relationships with Judaism. Between the Temples first premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
