This week, The Gray Man – Avengers: Endgame director duo Anthony Russo and Joe Russo espionage action thriller starring Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans and Ana de Armas – finally premiered on Netflix.
There’s also a ton of other newly released films on VOD and streaming to choose from this weekend, including Scott Derrickson’s 2022 horror film The Black Phone with Ethan Hawke, Alex Garland’s folk horror drama Men with Jessie Buckley and Rory Kinnear, and the Music Documentary This is GWAR on Shudder. That’s not even mentioning the just-announced addition of Deadpool, Deadpool 2, and 2017’s Logan to Disney Plus.
Here are the new movies you can watch at home this week.
The Gray Man
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix See the article : What time will Anything’s Possible arrive on Prime Video?.
Ryan Gosling stars in Anthony Russo and Joe Russo’s espionage action thriller The Gray Man as Court Gentry, a convicted CIA operative known as the “Sierra Six” who goes AWOL after stumbling upon secrets capable of exposing his to incriminate superiors. With no other recourse, Gentry’s handlers send another asset, Lloyd Hansen (Chris Evans), to finish off Gentry before he can implicate the agency. Ana de Armas (Knives Out, No Time to Die) co-stars as Dani Miranda, a CIA officer sympathetic to Gentry’s cause, who agrees to help him in his mission to bring the agency to justice.
There isn’t a single original idea here, and that’s a good thing! The appeal of a film like The Gray Man lies in, more than anything else, how the cast and crew work together to execute thrilling action sequences. Unfortunately, the Russos’ style, full of bombastic excess and barely funny statements, gets in the way. There are well-conceived sequences here – every fight scene is made possible against the most convincing backdrop. There’s an early fight during a firework display, and a mid-film scrap between Six and some heavily armed goons where all he has is a day light outlining his movements in the smoke, or a flashlight that illuminates one blow at a time. But audiences only get frustratingly limited windows to appreciate the striking staging and, more importantly, the actors in it.
The Black Phone
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Doctor Strange director Scott Derrickson returns with The Black Phone, an adaptation of Joe Hill‘s 2004 short story of the same name. It follows a 13-year-old boy (Mason Thames) who, after being killed by a deranged serial killer known as The Grabber (Ethan Hawke) has been kidnapped, communicates with the voices of the killer’s previous victims via a mysterious black phone to plan. his exit.
Outside of the sense of morbid inevitability, however, The Black Phone is a mess. The main issue is the performances, which range from amazing to downright lame. Jeremy Davies is particularly bad as Finney and Gwen’s drunken father, whose slurs and screams fail to register as authentically pathetic or menacing. Hawke is also too ubiquitous to read as credibly terrifying: When we first see Grabber, his face is painted white and he speaks in a high-pitched, affecting voice reminiscent of Atlanta’s Teddy Perkins. Weird, right? What is he trying to mean, and how does it fit into his psychosis? It doesn’t matter – this is the first and last time character details appear in the film.
Men
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Jessie Buckley (I’m Thinking of Ending Things) stars in Alex Garland’s 2022 folk horror film Men as Harper Marlowe, a recent widow who travels to a rural village in the country to recover from the trauma of her husband’s suicide. Shortly after arriving, however, Harper finds herself threatened by the strange men who inhabit the town, all of whom are portrayed by Rory Kinnear (The Imitation Game).
Men carries some echoes of other recent horror films, especially those built around small, say aggressions that represent larger divisions in society. It resembles Jordan Peele’s Get Out in several structural ways: Just as Get Out’s Black protagonist Chris clings to his phone contact with his Black friend Rod (Lil Rel Howery) as a lifeline when he’s out of his element in a white country enclave, Harper receives her only support over the phone from her friend Riley (Gayle Rankin), the other significant woman in the film. (Other notable similarities cannot be discussed without spoilers.) And the lush surroundings, gender tension, the focus on grief and ways to express it, the seething rage beneath the surface, and the resulting primal screams are all reminiscent of Ari Aster’s Midsommar, another one. Film drenched in fear and a sense of inevitability.
Too Old for Fairy Tales
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
This Polish coming-of-age family comedy follows a young boy who wants nothing more than to become a competitive player. When his mother comes down with an illness and his aunt comes to stay with them, the boy sees his life in a new way.
Live Is Life
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
The Spanish comedy-drama Live Is Life follows the story of five childhood friends on the brink of adulthood who go on one last adventure in search of a magical flower that could grant their wishes.
The Forgiven
Where to watch: Available to rent for $6.99 on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Ralph Fiennes (The Grand Budapest Hotel) and Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty) star in the 2022 drama The Forgiven as David and Jo, a wealthy couple on the brink of divorce who take a vacation to Morocco in an effort to find their To repair marriage. Unfortunately, the couple’s already tense trip takes a turn for the worst when they accidentally hit and kill a young boy on their way to a party. Forced to reckon with how their respective paths in life have brought them to this point, David and Jo must decide what to do with their lives going forward.
Amityville in Space
Where to watch: Available to rent for $1.99 on Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Are you familiar with Stuart Rosenberg’s 1979 horror film The Amityville Horror? What about the 1997 sci-fi horror film Event Horizon starring Laurence Fishburne and Sam Neill? Well, Amityville in Space is like if you took those two movies, smashed them together, and the result was a B-movie about the infamous murder house that was launched into space before emerging from a black hole filled with eldritch horrors is occupied. Does it look good? Because of…
Aftershock
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee’s 2022 documentary Aftershock follows the stories of Omari Maynard and Bruce McIntyre, the husbands of two women who died due to preventable childbirth complications, and their fight for justice. Aftershock investigates and explores the phenomenon of Black maternal deaths in America, what institutional problems lie at the heart of the issue, and what can be done to help.
Milkwater
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
Molly Bernard (Otherhood) stars in the 2021 comedy-drama Milkwater as Milo, an aimless young woman who spontaneously agrees to become a surrogate for Roger (Patrick Breen), an older gay man she meets in a bar. As the pregnancy progresses, so does their relationship, as Milo is forced to contend with the full emotional weight and consequences of their decision.
You Are Not My Mother
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
The 2021 psychological horror film You Are Not My Mother stars Hazel Doupe as Char, a young girl whose bedridden mother Angela (Carolyn Bracken) mysteriously disappears a week before Halloween. When Angela returns home the next evening, Char notices strange and inexplicable changes in her mother’s personality and behavior, and begins to suspect that something terrible has happened to her. As Halloween quickly approaches, Char must uncover dark secrets of her family’s history in a race to save her mother and herself from a fate worse than death.
All My Friends Hate Me
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
The 2021 comedy-horror film All My Friends Hate Me stars Tom Stourton as Pete, a man who returns from volunteering in a refugee camp to celebrate his birthday alongside his old college friends on a joyous weekend. There’s just one problem: Pete can’t seem to shake the suspicion that his “friends” secretly hate him. As the weekend progresses, his friends’ terrible inside jokes gradually become more biting, hostile, and personal, leading Pete to suspect that they may have more sinister plans in mind than simply hanging out together. “Social anxiety meets psychological horror” sounds like a recipe for an entertaining (and terrifying) watch.
The Day The Music Died
Where to watch: Available to stream on Paramount Plus
The 2022 documentary The Day The Music Died charts the legacy of Don McLean’s iconic 1971 song “American Pie,” celebrating the song’s 50th anniversary through interviews with McLean as well as colleagues and admirers such as Garth Brooks, Peter Gallagher, and Brian Wilson.
Anything’s Possible
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
Eva Reign (Sideways Smile) stars in actor-director Billy Porter’s coming-of-age rom-com Anything’s Possible as Kelsa, a confident high school senior who is courted by her classmate Khal (Abubakr Ali). As the young couple navigates the challenges and stigma that come with Kelsa being trans, both Khal and Kelsa grow and learn what it means to love someone.
Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video
Matt Hookings (Winter Ridge) stars in the 2022 biographical drama Prizefighter as Jem Belcher, a champion bare-knuckle boxer from the 19th century. Following Belcher’s career from his early days as an amateur pugilist under the tutelage of his grandfather Jack Slack (Russell Crowe), his professional rise alongside his trainer Bill Warr (Ray Winstone), and his fateful fight to reclaim his title in the standoff known as ” The Forgotten Fight of the Century,” Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher is a boxing biopic about one of the sport’s most legendary underdogs.
Dual
Where to watch: Available to rent for $3.99 on Amazon, Apple and Vudu
Riley Stearns (The Art of Self-Defense) wrote and directed this science fiction film about Sarah (Karen Gillan), a woman who, after being diagnosed with a terminal illness, decides to clone herself for her loved ones to spare from grief. to lose her. When she makes an unexpected recovery, Sarah tries and fails to destroy her clone. With no other option, Sarah is forced to fight her clone to the death in a court-mandated duel to decide which one of them is allowed to exist.
This premise is absurd on a thousand levels, but Stearns leans right into the absurd, especially with that ad for the cloning service, which presents a deadpan scenario where a depressed man clones himself so that he can commit suicide in peace without disturbing his family. to do. members suffer. This kind of brutally caustic humor defines the film. Anyone who can’t see themselves smiling at least a little at the grim prospect of a new clone quietly coming over the corpse of its predecessor and taking its place is advised to steer clear.
Moloch
Where to watch: Available to stream on Shudder
The Dutch folk horror film Moloch follows the story of Betriek (Sallie Harmsen), a 38-year-old woman who lives with her family on the edge of a sea, whose home is attacked one night by a mysterious stranger. When Betriek begins a search for answers, she stumbles across something more terrifying and ancient than she could have possibly imagined.
This is GWAR
Where to watch: Available to stream on Shudder
The 2022 documentary This is GWAR charts the story of the titular raunchy and idiosyncratic heavy metal art collective, as told by the band members and collaborators who have kept the project going for over 30 years. The film features interviews with Weird Al Yankovic, Alex Winter, Bam Margera, and more.
