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, you can invite Ryan Coogler’s sexy horror movie Sinners into your home for the first time through VOD demand services. Also available for rent is The Surfer, a psychological thriller where Nicolas Cage loses his mind while trying to surf with his son. Prey director Dan Trachtenberg continues sending aliens to hunt people across time in the animated film Predator: Killer of Killers, which premieres on Hulu. The streaming service is also launching Steven Soderbergh’s haunted house film Presence, following its January theatrical release.
Here’s everything new that’s available to watch this weekend!
New on Netflix
K.O.
Genre: Martial arts drama
Run time: 1h 26m
Director: Antoine Blossier
Cast: Ciryl Gane, Maleaume Paquin, Alice Belaïdi
In this brawl-packed French movie, a disgraced MMA fighter who accidentally killed his opponent in a match gets a chance at redemption when the dead man’s widow asks for his help tracking down her missing teenage son. He teams up with a young cop to take on a Marseille gang.
Straw
Genre: Thriller
Run time: 1h 48m
Director: Tyler Perry
Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Sherri Shepherd, Teyana Taylor
A single mother played by Golden Globe winner Taraji P. Henson (Empire, Hidden Figures) is having a really bad day after being evicted and robbed. She just needs to cash a check to get medicine for her daughter, but winds up being accused of holding up a bank in this thriller written and directed by Tyler Perry, and exploring the impact of social inequity.
New on AMC+
Neighborhood Watch
Genre: Crime thriller
Run time: 1h 32m
Director: Duncan Skiles
Cast: Jack Quaid, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Malin Akerman
A man (The Boys’ Jack Quaid) with a history of mental illness sees a woman get abducted. When authorities won’t believe him, he turns to his cranky retired security-guard neighbor (Jeffrey Dean Morgan of The Walking Dead) for help investigating. They team up for a fast-paced mystery driven by a strong dynamic between the duo.
New on HBO Max
The Alto Knights
Genre: Crime drama
Run time: 2h
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Robert De Niro, Debra Messing, Kathrine Narducci
Robert De Niro has played plenty of mob bosses, in films like The Godfather and The Untouchables. Now he’s playing two in the same movie: Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, who are fighting for control of New York. Academy Award winner Barry Levinson (Rain Man, Wag the Dog) directs with a script from Goodfellas and Casino writer Nicholas Pileggi.
Mountainhead
Genre: Satire
Run time: 1h 49
Director: Jesse Armstrong
Cast: Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Cory Michael Smith
Succession creator Jesse Armstrong takes another spin at skewering the ultra-rich in Mountainhead, where a group of tech bros played by Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Cory Michael Smith, and Ramy Youssef have gathered to flaunt their success and go skiing. But when the combination of AI and social media leads to global turmoil, their ulterior motives and long-simmering tensions come to the forefront.
Parthenope
Genre: Coming-of-age drama
Run time: 2h 17m
Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Cast: Celeste Dalla Porta, Stefania Sandrelli, Gary Oldman
Parthenope (Celeste Dalla Porta) seduces everyone who encounters her, including a writer played by Gary Oldman, in this sultry A24 film from Oscar-winner Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty, The Hand of God). Spread over the decades from Parthenope’s Venus-like birth in the waters of Naples to her work as an anthropologist, the film is filled with sex and luscious scenery.
New on Hulu
Predator: Killer of Killers
Genre: Animated science fiction
Run time: 1h 30m
Director: Dan Trachtenberg and Joshua Wassung
Cast: Lindsay LaVanchy, Louis Ozawa Changchien, Rick Gonzalez
Predators hunt a Viking family bent on revenge, a ninja battling his samurai brother, and a World War II pilot in this era-hopping animated film from Prey director Dan Trachtenberg. While the disparate plots aren’t created equal, the animated action is impressive, and the film builds on series lore in a way that might invite a series return for Arnold Schwarzenegger. Trachtenberg presumably plans to further flesh out his lore expansions in Predator: Badlands later this year.
Presence
Genre: Supernatural horror
Run time: 1h 25m
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Lucy Liu, Julia Fox, Chris Sullivan
Ocean’s Eleven and Contagion director Steven Soderbergh plays with the found-footage horror genre with a tale of a fractured family who become convinced something is lurking in their new suburban home. It’s a far sleeker experience than The Blair Witch Project, eschewing shaky camera footage while providing the feeling of an alien perspective intruding on the family’s most intimate moments.
From our review:
Soderbergh’s approach taps into the found-footage horror idea of a story being experienced by whoever’s behind the camera, except in this case, the question of who’s behind the camera is part of the horror. From the start, Soderbergh and screenwriter David Koepp (who also wrote Soderbergh’s simple, efficient 2022 action-thriller Kimi) imply that the presence is a ghost — but until the action fully plays out, the audience is left to wonder whether it’s something else entirely, along with what it wants and how and whether it will eventually make its needs known. The filmmakers inevitably build in a few small jump scares, but for the most part, Presence is about low-key, slow-burn curiosity rather than lurking terror.
New on MUBI
Magic Farm
Genre: Absurdist comedy
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: Amalia Ulman
Cast: Chloë Sevigny, Alex Wolff, Joe Apollonio
The crew of a documentary show looking to profile a musician winds up in the wrong country in South America in Magic Farm, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January. Trying to make the best of the situation, the team — including Golden Globe winner Chloë Sevigny (Boys Don’t Cry, Big Love) — tries to find new subjects in rural Argentina while grappling with the exploitative nature of their work.
New on Peacock
The Ballad of Wallis Island
Genre: Comedy-drama
Run time: 1h 39m
Director: James Griffiths
Cast: Tom Basden, Tim Key, Carey Mulligan
A widower who won the lottery twice hatches a plan to reunite his favorite folk duo by hiring them for a concert on his private island, where he turns out to be the only audience. The scheme pushes the musicians, played by Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan (An Education, Promising Young Woman), and Tom Basden, to confront their shared professional and romantic history and decide how to move forward.
New on Prime
The Accountant 2
Genre: Crime thriller
Run time: 2h 4m
Director: Gavin O’Connor
Cast: Ben Affleck, Jon Bernthal, Cynthia Addai-Robinson
The sequel to Gavin O’Connor’s 2016 action movie The Accountant, which became a cult classic in spite of its unimpressive box office performance, sees Ben Affleck’s brilliant criminal bookkeeper teaming up with his estranged assassin brother, played by The Punisher’s Jon Bernthal. A third film in the series involving lots of gunfights and financial crimes is already in the works.
New to rent
Hurry Up Tomorrow
Genre: Psychological thriller
Run time: 1h 56m
Director: Trey Edward Shults
Cast: Abel Tesfaye, Jenna Ortega, Barry Keoghan
A companion piece to Abel “the Weeknd” Tesfaye’s 2025 album of the same name, the thriller written and directed by Trey Edwards Shults (It Comes at Night, Waves) follows a fictional version of Tesfaye as he struggles with insomnia and depression. Things get increasingly surreal when he encounters an obsessive fan played by Wednesday and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice star Jen Ortega.
Sinners
Genre: Supernatural horror
Run time: 2h 18m
Director: Ryan Coogler
Cast: Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton
Black Panther and Creed director Ryan Coogler reunites with Michael B. Jordan, who plays identical twin gangsters Smoke and Stack. Set in 1932, the movie follows the brothers as they return home to Mississippi with the goal of using their ill-gotten money and booze to open a juke joint. But more is waiting for them than old flames and the Ku Klux Klan. Their blues music attracts the attention of dark creatures, and the partygoers have to fight to survive until dawn.
From our review:
Coogler’s last three films have been part of major franchises — after the indie biopic Fruitvale Station, he directed the seventh Rocky movie, Creed, and the two Black Panthers. Here, though, he pivots toward a wholly original piece of pop-horror, with B-movie influences befitting of grindhouse cinemas (and with one particularly amusing nod to John Carpenter’s The Thing). It’s a spiritual splatter film, with intimate dilemmas concerning greed and temptation giving way to spurts of practical, orange-brown blood, the kind you’d likely find in a George Romero film. Sinners is a vampire movie, but it’s practically structured like a zombie feature, with a compact cast of characters trying to survive the night as ghouls overtly embodying deep societal malaise creep toward them.
The Surfer
Genre: Psychological thriller
Run time: 1h 39m
Director: Lorcan Finnegan
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Julian McMahon, Finn Little
Yet another film where Nicolas Cage portrays a character whose grasp on sanity is tenuous at best, The Surfer sees the Face/Off and Longlegs star playing a man who returns to his childhood home in Australia and finds his simple desire to go surfing with his son stymied by a group of locals who consider him an interloper. Unwilling to accept defeat, the surfer refuses to leave and loses almost everything.
