The best movies new to streaming this August

August is lastly upon us, which implies that we’re winding down to the final weeks of summer time as we head into the autumn season. There are such a lot of thrilling new releases to look ahead to this month, together with M. Evening Shyamalan’s newest horror film Lure, Borderlands, the Hunter Schafer-starring horror thriller Cuckoo, Fede Álvarez’s Alien: Romulus, and far more.

In the event you’re searching for the best movies you possibly can stream from residence this month proper now, although, don’t fret. We’ve finished the arduous work of separating the wheat from the chaff so that you don’t have to, curating an inventory of the best movies new to streaming this August. We’ve obtained a traditional comedy starring the legendary Leslie Nielsen, the streaming premiere of the newest installment within the Planet of the Apes franchise, an inimitable Paul Thomas Anderson traditional, and that’s simply naming a number of!

Listed here are the movies new to streaming providers you need to watch this month.

Editor’s decide: The Bare Gun: From the Recordsdata of Police Squad!

The place to watch: Prime Video
Style: Crime comedy
Director: David Zucker
Forged: Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, O.J. Simpson

Some comedies are humorous due to a exact alchemy of the proper script and simply the precise actors. They really feel like a one in 1,000,000 miracle that may be inconceivable to repeat. Different comedies work as a result of three or 4 of the funniest individuals on the earth simply occurred to be mates, and simply occurred to trick a studio into giving them sufficient cash to make a film, and also you get the sense that virtually all the pieces they are saying is hilarious. The Bare Gun falls firmly into the latter class.

Written by David and Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Pat Proft, The Bare Weapons is a parody of police procedurals that entails all the pieces from a convention of America’s best enemies, to an assassination plot towards the queen, to a number of jarring scenes from O.J. Simpson — who was, on the time, largely generally known as a really well-known soccer participant. The film is stuffed with ridiculous and hilarious jokes, however what actually sells them is the good deadpan supply of Leslie Nielson, considered one of comedy’s all-time best stars. —Austen Goslin

New on Netflix

The Deer King

Picture: Manufacturing I.G/GKIDS

Style: Fantasy journey
Administrators: Masashi Ando, Masayuki Miyaji
Forged: Shin’ichi Tsutsumi, Ryoma Takeuchi, Anne Watanabe

A fantasy epic created by many Studio Ghibli alums, The Deer King adapts a sequence of fantasy novels into an anime epic that it some ways appears like a model of Princess Mononoke made for extra grownup audiences.

From our colleague Tasha Robinson’s suggestion of the film:

The visible design is equally wealthy and stately. Intense set items just like the mine escape alternate with extra leisurely, superbly detail-driven sequences of mundane life for individuals distant from the conflict, and in a position to dwell outdoors it. It’s an interesting film: In its best moments, extra spectacular, visionary, and grownup than most anime fantasies of the previous a long time, and extra visually stunning. Even the place it struggles, it’s at all times from an excessive amount of ambition quite than not sufficient.

New on Hulu

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Picture: twentieth Century Studios

Style: Sci-fi motion
Director: Wes Ball
Forged: Owen Teague, Freya Allan, Kevin Durand

The Planet of the Apes prequel sequence has been probably the most common and under-praised movie franchises of the final couple a long time. 2019’s Struggle for the Planet of the Apes introduced Caesar’s story to a detailed, and it appeared to put a capstone on the sequence, however this yr’s newest entry turned out to be a surprisingly enjoyable addition.

Not like the final two movies, which have largely been grizzled conflict movies about people and apes dealing with off, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is a full-blown journey film. The movie follows Noa (Owen Teague), a younger ape whose village will get captured by an ape warlord named Proximus (Kevin Durand). Noa, together with a few individuals he meets alongside the way in which, like a disciple of Caesar (Peter Macon) and a younger human (Freya Allen), make their method throughout the post-human world in hopes of saving Noa’s household. It’s a candy, enjoyable, action-packed film, and appears completely beautiful. If Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is the way forward for the sequence, then I’m more than pleased to see the franchise proceed. —AG

New on Max

Beetlejuice

Picture: Warner Bros. Footage

Style: Comedy horror
Director: Tim Burton
Forged: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Michael Keaton

Tim Burton is ready to return this September with the long-awaited sequel to his 1988 comedy horror traditional Beetlejuice, so what higher time than now to revisit and benefit from the authentic’s creepy, crawly delights?

Starring Michael Keaton as its mischievous namesake, the movie was Burton’s direct follow-up to his directorial debut Pee-wee’s Massive Journey and a breakthrough success for the then-29 yr outdated director. Burton’s aesthetic signature is spelled out in practically each body of the movie’s run-time, with crooked otherworldly corridors that recall the experimental set items of German Expressionism, the eerie coloured lighting of giallo horror, and the outlandishly creepy and foolish results of stop-motion claymation.

The industrial and demanding success of Burton’s sophomore movie is straight accountable for the near-decade lengthy stretch of unbelievable movies he would go on to produce, with the likes of Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and extra. In the event you’re searching for a comedy horror movie that’s bursting with visible character and laughs aplenty, and even when you’re simply new to Tim Burton and wish to get a deal with for his inventive sensibilities, you possibly can’t go unsuitable with Beetlejuice… crap, he’s proper behind me, isn’t he? —TE

New on Prime Video

Invasion of the Physique Snatchers

Picture: MGM Dwelling Leisure

Style: Sci-fi horror
Director: Don Siegel
Forged: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates

It’s genuinely surprising how creepy the unique 1956 model of Invasion of the Physique Snatchers is in the present day. The traditional sci-fi story a couple of small city slowly being changed by pod-people is definitely disturbing sufficient within the huge image, however the true horror of the film lies within the earliest response to the snatchers taking up. Seeing the panic on individuals’s faces after they understand that the face in entrance of them is not the soul and particular person they knew and liked is a magical form of terror that also hits residence nearly 70 years later. —AG

New on Criterion Channel

Magnolia

Picture: New Line Cinema

Style: Drama
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Forged: John C. Reilly, Tom Cruise, Julianne Moore

Paul Thomas Anderson’s ensemble drama has probably the most excessive examples of “six degrees of separation” in all of cinema. With a sprawling ensemble solid together with Tom Cruise, John C. Reilly, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Juliane Moore, Magnolia is a tragicomic epic that focuses on the heartbreaks, disappointments, and private breakthroughs of a handful of individuals whose lives intersect with each other in serendipitous and surprising methods.

Paul Thomas Anderson took the carte blanche goodwill earned by means of his breakthrough success with Boogie Nights and ran with it to create a confounding and coronary heart wrenching mosaic movie about love and life within the San Fernando Valley. It’s a confounding and unabashedly earnest film that’s totally not like something Anderson has created earlier than or since. As if that weren’t sufficient, it’s additionally obtained a lovely rating courtesy of Jon Brion and a number of other vocal performances by Aimee Mann, whose music impressed Anderson whereas writing the movie’s script. In the event you’ve by no means seen Magnolia, you owe it to your self, on the very least, to make the time to see it as soon as. —TE