Netflix’s Damsel, Poor Things, Wonka, and every new movie to watch this weekend

Greetings, Polygon readers! Every week, we spherical up probably the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the most important and finest new motion pictures for you to watch at house.

This week, Damsel, a new darkish fantasy journey starring Millie Bobby Brown of Stranger Issues fame, premieres on Netflix. That’s not the one large streaming debut this weekend, as Yorgos Lanthimos’ Frankenstein-esque darkish comedy Poor Issues starring Emma Stone lastly arrives to stream on Hulu, together with Wonka on Max and Imply Women on Paramount Plus.

There’s a number of thrilling new launch on VOD this week as effectively, together with Wim Wenders’ Oscar-nominated drama Excellent Days starring Kōji Yakusho (Remedy, 13 Assassins) and Matthew Vaughn’s irreverent spy comedy Argylle starring Bryce Dallas Howard. There’s additionally a ton of different latest VOD releases out there for decreased costs this week, like All of Us Strangers, Anybody however You, and Aquaman and the Misplaced Kingdom.

Right here’s every little thing new to watch this weekend!

New on Netflix

Damsel

The place to watch: Out there to stream on Netflix

Style: Darkish fantasy
Run time: 1h 47m
Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Forged: Millie Bobby Brown, Ray Winstone, Nick Robinson

Stranger Issues’ Millie Bobby Brown stars in this fantasy motion movie as a princess who agrees to marry the prince of a neighboring kingdom, solely to uncover his household intends to sacrifice her to a ravenous dragon. Trapped fathoms beneath the Earth’s floor in a cavernous collection of catacombs with the fearsome creature, she’ll have to muster every ounce of her braveness, energy, and guile to escape along with her life and reap vengeance on her would-be suitor.

To Kill a Tiger

The place to watch: Out there to stream on Netflix on March 10

Picture: Netflix

Style: Documentary
Run time: 2h 5m
Director: Nisha Pahuja

This Oscar-nominated documentary government produced by Dev Patel and Mindy Kaling follows the story of a younger woman and her household in rural India who, within the wake of devastating assault, search justice with the assistance of an advocacy group devoted to combating sexual violence.

New on Hulu

Poor Issues

The place to watch: Out there to stream on Hulu

Picture: Searchlight Photos

Style: Darkish comedy
Run time: 2h 22m
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Forged: Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Mark Ruffalo

Emma Stone stars as a younger girl introduced to life from a mind transplant in this twist on the Frankenstein system, tailored by Greek darkish comedy filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos from Alasdair Grey’s novel. It’s been an awards darling to date, successful 5 BAFTAs and two Golden Globes, and it was nominated for 11 Oscars, together with Finest Image.

The Marsh King’s Daughter

The place to watch: Out there to stream on Hulu

Picture: Lionsgate Movies/STX Leisure

Style: Psychological thriller
Run time: 1h 49m
Director: Neil Burger
Forged: Daisy Ridley, Ben Mendelsohn, Brooklynn Prince

Daisy Ridley stars in this psychological thriller based mostly on Karen Dionne’s novel as Helena, a lady with a troubled previous who journeys into the the marshlands of Michigan’s Higher Peninsula on the hunt for her father (Ben Mendelsohn), who has escaped police custody. Realizing that he’ll finally come to terrorize her household, Helena arms herself to both kill or seize him earlier than he hurts anybody else.

New on Max

Wonka

The place to watch: Out there to stream on Max

Photograph: Jaap Buittendijk/Warner Bros. Photos

Style: Musical fantasy
Run time: 1h 56m
Director: Paul King
Forged: Timothée Chalamet, Calah Lane, Keegan-Michael Key

Timothée Chalamet (Dune: Half Two) stars in this new musical prequel to Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Manufacturing facility as everybody’s soon-to-be-favorite chocolatier, now merely an aspiring magician wanting to break into the sweet enterprise. He’ll have to discover a manner to overcome the nefarious chocolate cartel and construct a manufacturing unit of his personal if he’ll any hope of attaining his dream, although.

From our overview:

Usually, I take into account it unfair to evaluate two motion pictures like this, however as I mentioned, I’m an enormous fan. But extra importantly, Wonka straight invokes the earlier movie in methods large and small, going as far as to have Chalamet’s model of the character converse in the identical diction as Wilder’s, full with a “Scratch that, reverse it” line. As this is a narrative a couple of younger Willy Wonka, the movie should depart a bit of room to get from right here to there, so Chalamet is granted the area to make the character his personal. However this is a model of Willy that’s too sanded-down, too approachable to be actually memorable.

New on Prime Video

Ricky Stanicky

The place to watch: Out there to stream on Prime Video

Picture: Prime Video

Style: Comedy
Run time: 1h 53m
Director: Peter Farrelly
Forged: Zac Efron, John Cena, Jermaine Fowler

After transferring to the extra dramatic aspect of issues with Inexperienced Ebook, slapstick comedy director Peter Farrelly (Dumb and Dumber) returns with an outlandishly named movie with an much more outlandish premise. Three pals have been utilizing an imaginary fourth buddy named Ricky Stanicky to get out of something they could need to get out of — obligations, occasions, you title it. When their companions start to suspect Stanicky isn’t actual, the trio hires an actor (John Cena) to be Ricky Stanicky.

Marlowe

The place to watch: Out there to stream on Prime Video

Picture: Quim Vives/Briarcliff Leisure

Style: Neo-noir crime thriller
Run time: 1h 49m
Director: Neil Jordan
Forged: Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, Jessica Lange

Liam Neeson (Taken) performs Raymond Chandler’s iconic down-on-his-luck detective in a feature-length adaptation of the 2014 Philip Marlowe novel The Black-Eyed Blonde by John Banville. Employed by a glamorous heiress (Diane Kruger) to verify the whereabouts of her ex-lover and carry them again, Marlowe shortly finds himself entrenched in an investigation that goes far deeper (and probably far deadlier) than a lover’s quarrel.

New on Paramount Plus

Imply Women

The place to watch: Out there to stream on Paramount Plus

Photograph: Jojo Whilden/Paramount Photos

Style: Musical teen comedy
Run time: 1h 52m
Administrators: Samantha Jayne, Arturo Perez Jr.
Forged: Angourie Rice, Reneé Rapp, Auliʻi Cravalho

This musical comedy based mostly on the Broadway musical based mostly on the 2004 teen comedy follows the story of Cady Heron (Angourie Rice), a homeschooled teenager who strikes from Kenya to the USA to attend faculty for the primary time. When her crush on a boy named Aaron (Christopher Briney) places her on the outs with probably the most vengeful group of standard women within the faculty, Cady may have to discover a manner to come out on prime.

From our overview:

Imply Women (2024) probably received’t change the unique 2004 movie in anybody’s hearts. The beginning and the top — probably the most Cady-focused elements — aren’t robust sufficient to carry the remainder of the movie, particularly when evaluating Rice’s tackle the character to Lindsay Lohan’s authentic movie efficiency, or Erika Henningsen’s robust vocals within the authentic Broadway solid recording.

However Rapp, Cravalho, and the remainder of the solid maintain up the movie, and usually flip it into a superb time. There are sufficient infectious songs to make up for the uninteresting ones, although the ratio isn’t fairly sufficient to solidify it as a transcendent musical expertise. (There are all the time a few duds in a musical, however there must be extra bangers.) Total, the 2024 Imply Women hits the precise notes, persevering with the unique movie’s legacy as a substitute of completely revamping it.

What Occurs Later

The place to watch: Out there to stream on Paramount Plus March 10

Style: Romantic comedy
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Meg Ryan
Forged: Meg Ryan, David Duchovny, Hal Liggett

It’s the return of the Meg Ryan rom-com, this time additionally written and directed by her! Her second directed function (following the 2015 drama Ithaca), What Occurs Later sees her star towards David Duchovny. The 2 performs exes who’re caught collectively at an airport throughout a snowstorm.

New on MGM Plus

American Fiction

The place to watch: Out there to stream on MGM Plus

Picture: MGM/Amazon Studios

Style: Comedy-drama
Run time: 1h 57m
Director: Twine Jefferson
Forged: Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, Sterling Okay. Brown

The Oscar-nominated debut from Twine Jefferson stars Jeffrey Wright (The Batman) as Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, a annoyed novelist dwelling in Los Angeles who writes a scathing satire of stereotypical “Black” books, just for it to skyrocket to the distinguished heights of literary acclaim. Looks like a shoe-in for followers of such motion pictures as Putney Swope and Bamboozled.

New to lease

Argylle

The place to watch: Out there to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Photograph: Peter Mountain/Common Photos/Apple Authentic Movies/Marv

Style: Motion comedy
Run time: 2h 19m
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Forged: Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell, Bryan Cranston

What occurs while you take the meta-fictional irreverence of Stranger than Fiction and smash it along with a premise comparable to Matthew Vaughn’s 2014 movie Kingsman: The Secret Service?

What you get is Argylle, an motion satire of paperback spy fiction à la 1984’s Romancing the Stone that follows Elly Conway (Bryce Dallas Howard), an introverted novelist who’s dragged kicking and screaming right into a world of worldwide espionage when it seems that her standard spy novels are predicting the long run. Who’s the true agent Argylle? You’ll have to watch so as to discover out.

From our overview:

Argylle is just too winking, too eager to present that it’s in by itself joke, to admit any actual romantic feeling or any pleasure that runs deeper than the floor degree of its flashy choreography. Vaughn, the impish ringmaster, delights in difficult the viewers to determine what’s actual and what’s fictional inside his stylized, nested worlds. It’s simply that he by no means actually solutions the query: Why ought to we care? With Argylle, he mounts a playful, rollicking thriller with an all-star solid and some dazzling motion — however then holds the viewers at arm’s size from it, simply to present how intelligent he’s been in placing it collectively. The actually intelligent factor would have been to let the dumb movie be joyously dumb, and invite the viewers to lose themselves in it as a substitute.

Excellent Days

The place to watch: Out there to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Style: Drama
Run time: 2h 3m
Director: Wim Wenders
Forged: Kōji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Yumi Asō

Legendary German filmmaker Wim Wenders’ newest movie is a slice-of-life drama that mixes 4 quick tales. It has been nominated for Finest Worldwide Function at this 12 months’s Oscars, and has gotten explicit reward for Kōji Yakusho’s lead efficiency.

Occupied Metropolis

The place to watch: Out there to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Picture: A24

Style: Documentary
Run time: 4h 22m
Director: Steve McQueen
Forged: Melanie Hyams, Carice van Houten

Director Steve McQueen (Small Axe) returns with a new documentary that chronicles the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam throughout World Struggle II. Juxtaposing archival footage of town’s previous and current, Occupied Metropolis is a life-affirming meditation on the character of human resilience and the precarity of the long run.