No Hard Feelings on Netflix, Saw X and every new movie you can watch at home this weekend

Happy Friday, Polygon readers! Each week, we round up the most noteworthy releases for streaming and video rental, highlighting the biggest and best new movies you can watch at home.

No hard feelingsthe coming-of-age sex comedy starring Jennifer Lawrence is coming to Netflix this week with Old dads, the directorial debut of comedian Bill Burr. The action comedy-drama Polite Society comes to Prime alongside the Chinese WWII thriller Hidden blade starring Tony Leung, while the horror thriller Cobweb with Antony Starr (The boys) lands on Hulu. There are plenty of new movies available to rent this week too, such as He saw X; the latest installment in the long-running horror franchise starring Tobin Bell and more.

Here’s all the news to watch this weekend!

New on Netflix

No hard feelings

Where to watch: Available for streaming Netflix

Kind: Comedy
Execution time: 1h 43m
Director: Gene Stupnicki
Mold: Jennifer Lawrence, Andrew Barth Feldman, Laura Benanti

Jennifer Lawrence stars in this mischievous and endearing comedy as Maddy, a young woman who juggles her job as an Uber driver and part-time bartender to pay off the house she inherited from her late mother. After her car is towed, Maddy gets the chance of a lifetime: Seduce Percy (Andrew Barth Feldman), the college-aged son of a wealthy couple, on their behalf in exchange for a brand new set of wheels. Simple enough, right? Yeah, that’s what Maddy thought too.

From our review,

Like most funny stories, No hard feelings seems like a bad idea at first. It’s a movie in which Jennifer Lawrence, in her first lead role in a full-length comedy, spends about 103 minutes trying to seduce a socially awkward 19-year-old for financial gain. It’s also extremely funny and a great reminder of just how good J-Law is at lighting up a screen.

Old dads

Where to watch: Available for streaming Netflix

Photo: Michael Moriatis/Netflix

Kind: Comedy
Execution time: 1h 44m
Director: Bill Burr
Mold: Bill Burr, Bokeem Woodbine, Bobby Cannavale

Three old friends become fathers later in life, only to be confronted with the generational annoyances that come with interacting with anyone born (or anything created) after the 1980s. Old dads is the feature directorial debut of Bill Burr and he shares a co-screenplay with writer-producer Ben Tishler.

New on Hulu

Cobweb

Where to watch: Available for streaming Hulu

Image: Lionsgate

Kind: Horror thriller
Execution time: 1h 28m
Director: Samuel Bodin
Mold: Lizzy Caplan, Woody Norman, Antony Starr

This horror thriller from the creator of the scariest show on Netflix follows Peter (Woody Norman), a troubled young boy who – after hearing mysterious banging sounds coming from the walls of his house – tries to find help to uncover a terrible secret that is hidden from him by his parents.

From our review,

Bodin tries to invoke horror with long shots of the film’s few distinctive elements—the aforementioned pumpkin patch, or an old grandfather clock and icebox that each hide a secret passageway—but he doesn’t do much to convey these images as anything powerful or awful. It is like Cobweb He’s in a haunted house where nothing actually happened a long time ago, even though it hides a girl’s voice within its walls.

New to Prime Video

Polite Society

Where to watch: Available for streaming Prime Video

Photo: Parisa Taghizadeh/Focus Features

Kind: Action comedy-drama
Execution time: 1h 44m
Director: Nida Manzoor
Mold: Priya Kansara, Ritu Arya

When a teenage girl on her way to becoming a stuntwoman learns that her sister is engaged to a man, she suspects that the man and his mother are up to no good. So do the only thing you can in a situation like this: try to sabotage the relationship and beat the guy in the process.

Polite Society sounds like a riotous hour of fun and is one of the films I was most looking forward to streaming after a short limited run in the US. After watching it, be sure to read this interview with the director Polite Society‘small various influences.

Hidden blade

Where to watch: Available for streaming Prime Video

Image: Well Go USA Entertainment

Kind: Period spy thriller
Execution time: 2h 8m
Director: Cheng Er
Mold: Tony Leung, Wang Yibo, Zhou Xun

This Chinese World War II thriller stars the incredible Tony Leung as the Director of Shanghai’s Civil Security Department, who finds himself in the midst of a time of great upheaval. The Japanese occupation is in its dying embers, the Chinese Communist Party is on the rise, and Leung’s character is caught in the middle of it all. It’s a tense, beautiful, occasionally opaque thriller with an excellent lead performance from one of the best actors of his generation.

Silver Dollar Road

Where to watch: Available for streaming Prime Video

Kind: Documentary
Execution time: 1 hour 40m
Director: Raul Peck
Mold: John C. Barnett, Classie Curley, Melvin Davis

I’m not your nigga Filmmaker Raoul Peck turns his gaze to the history of the Reels family in this new documentary. After the plight of the family’s fight to keep their claim to their North Carolina waterfront property from predatory developers, Silver Dollar Road draws on archival material and interviews with the family to tell their story.

surrounded

Where to watch: Available for streaming Prime Video

Image: MGM

Kind: west
Execution time: 1 hour 40m
Director: Anthony Mandler
Mold: Letitia Wright, Jamie Bell, Michael K. Williams

Letitia Wright (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Small Axe) stars in this new western as a free woman who impersonates a man in a plot to claim a gold mine. Her journey brings her up against legendary outlaw Tommy Walsh (Jamie Bell), whom she holds captive after her wagon is ambushed by a raiding gang of thieves and murderers. surrounded also features the final performance of the late Michael K. Williams, who completed filming before his death in 2021.

New to Apple TV Plus

The pigeon tunnel

Where to watch: Available for streaming Apple TV

Image: Apple TV Plus

Kind: Documentary
Execution time: 1h 32m
Director: Errol Morris
Mold: John le Carré

John le Carré is a personal favorite author of mine. His spy novels are notable for their earthiness – a former spy himself, he had much to draw from – but also for their cynicism towards the callousness of the trade. The esteemed documentarian Errol Morris (The thin blue line) turns its camera to the life of the late, great Le Carré, one of the best and most important writers of the 20th century.

New to Peacock

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken

Where to watch: Available for streaming Peacock

Image: Universal Pictures

Kind: Action-comedy
Execution time: 1h 31m
Director: Kirk DeMicco
Mold: Lana Condor, Toni Collette, Annie Murphy

This animated comedy follows an awkward high school student who discovers that she is descended from a long line of Kraken warrior monsters. Destined to inherit her grandmother’s throne and defend the seas from tyrannical mermaids, Ruby must master her new powers and choose her own path as she prepares to embrace her destiny.

New for rent

He saw X

Where to watch: Available for rent Amazon, appleand Vudu

Image: Lionsgate

Kind: Horror
Execution time: 1h 58m
Director: Kevin Groitert
Mold: Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Synnøve Macody Lund

Tobin Bell reprises his role as Machiavellian assassin Jigsaw in the 10th installment of the long-running Saw horror franchise. A prequel set between the events of the original film and 2005 Saw II, Saw X follows John Kramer as he travels to Mexico to undergo an experimental treatment to cure his cancer. When he realizes that the entire scheme is a complete sham, John enlists the help of his apprentice Amanda Young (Shawnee Smith) to orchestrate a series of elaborate “games” in order to pursue his own twisted justice.

Leeds/Oz

Where to watch: Available for rent Amazon, appleand Vudu

Kind: Documentary
Execution time: 1h 48m
Director: Alexandre O. Philippe
Mold: Amy Nicholson, Rodney Ascher, John Waters

This documentary puts a magnifying glass into the career of David Lynch, one of the most unique and experimental storytellers of his generation, and how his lifelong love of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz has inspired his work. Divided into six chapters, the film features narration from several notable directors, including Karyn Kusama, Rodney Ascher and David Lowery.