Dune 2, Fall Man, Netflix’s Atlas, and each new film to observe

Greetings, Polygon readers! Every week, we spherical up essentially the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the most important and finest new films so that you can watch at dwelling.

Dune: Half Two hits Max, so now you are able to do a double function proper at dwelling (popcorn bucket not included). However in the event you’re not a Dune-head, there’s additionally Jennifer Lopez mech flick Atlas on Netflix or the romantic comedy The Fall Man able to lease. There’s additionally Disney Plus’ Seashore Boys documentary and Prime Video’s Blue Angels documentary — an ideal double function to observe with Dad!

Right here’s every thing new obtainable to observe this weekend!

New on Netflix

Atlas

The place to observe: Accessible to stream on Netflix

Picture: Netflix

Style: Science fiction motion
Run time: 1h 58m
Director: Brad Peyton
Forged: Jennifer Lopez, Simu Liu, Sterling Ok. Brown

Jennifer Lopez stars as a pointy knowledge analyst with a deep mistrust of synthetic intelligence. However when her newest mission goes incorrect, she has to study to belief AI as a way to save humanity. It additionally type of seems to be like a Titanfall film within the mech design!

New on Disney Plus

The Seashore Boys

The place to observe: Accessible to stream on Disney Plus

Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Photographs

Style: Documentary
Run time: 1h 52m
Director: Frank Marshall and Thom Zimny

It’s the Seashore Boys! The brand new Disney Plus documentary follows the band from their inception and options some brand-new interviews and unseen footage. Count on a number of good vibrations.

New on Hulu

Ferrari

The place to observe: Accessible to stream on Hulu

Picture: Courtesy Everett Assortment

Style: Biographical sports activities drama
Run time: 2h 10m
Director: Michael Mann
Forged: Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz, Shailene Woodley

Adam Driver stars as Enzo Ferrari, the founding father of — you guessed it! — the Italian sports activities automobile producer of the identical identify. Ferrari takes place through the summer time of 1957, when Ferrari (the corporate, not the dude) plans to compete within the Mille Miglia (huge race).

The Seeding

The place to observe: Accessible to stream on Hulu

Picture: Magnolia Footage/Everett Assortment

Style: Horror thriller
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Barnaby Clay
Forged: Scott Haze, Kate Lyn Sheil, Alex Montaldo

This atmospheric horror thriller follows a person misplaced within the desert. Fortunately, he finds a lady residing off the grid! Unluckily, that lady is being held captive by a gaggle of sadistic youngsters.

New on Max

Dune: Half Two

The place to observe: Accessible to stream on Max

Picture: Warner Bros.

Style: Epic sci-fi
Run time: 2h 46m
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Forged: Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson

The follow-up to the 2021 sci-fi epic doesn’t disappoint. In actual fact, it surpasses all expectations and even makes the primary Dune film higher.

From our evaluation:

For individuals who cherished it, the promise of Half Two was that the conclusion of Paul’s journey can be much more thrilling, stunning, and poignant. For individuals who had been bored throughout Half One, the promise was that each one the sluggish, exposition-heavy pacing was in service of streamlining this subsequent installment. Dune: Half Two is precisely the film Half One promised it may very well be, the uncommon sequel that not solely outdoes its predecessor, however improves it looking back.

New on Prime Video

The Blue Angels

The place to observe: Accessible to stream on Prime Video

Picture: Amazon/Everett Assortment

Style: Documentary
Run time: 1h 32m
Director: Paul Crowder

This documentary follows a brand new class of Blue Angels, made up of Navy and Marine Corps pilots, as they grasp some intense aerial strategies. It’s juxtaposed with a gaggle of veteran pilots who will take to the air for the final time.

New on Criterion Channel

About Dry Grasses

The place to observe: Accessible to stream on Criterion Channel

Picture: Courtesy Everett Assortment

Style: Drama
Run time: 3h 17m
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Forged: Deniz Celiloğlu, Merve Dizdar, Musab Ekici

From acclaimed Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Winter Sleep), About Dry Grasses follows a instructor from Istanbul who’s assigned to work in a distant village. After being accused of acceptable conduct by two college students (one in every of them his protégée), he longs to maneuver again to Istanbul.

New to lease

The Fall Man

The place to observe: Accessible to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Picture: Common Footage

Style: Motion comedy
Run time: 2h 6m
Director: David Leitch
Forged: Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson

This Ryan Gosling/Emily Blunt action-comedy-romance, an enormous blockbuster journey film constructed round large feels and even larger sensible stunts, did so poorly in its opening weekend on the field workplace that it spawned a wave of panicked “Are theatrical blockbusters useless?!?” thinkpieces. (Spoiler: Perhaps? If that’s the case, that’s superb.) Now it’s hitting VOD simply three weeks after its theatrical debut.

However don’t let the hand-wringing fear about its flop standing put you off from watching it at dwelling. It’s a fairly charming film, a lot within the spirit of The Misplaced Metropolis, with huge stars bantering, flirting, and preventing in between ’splosions and a few actually enjoyable battle scenes. —Tasha Robinson

Civil Warfare

The place to observe: Accessible to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Photograph: Murray Shut/A24

Style: Dystopian thriller
Run time: 1h 49m
Director: Alex Garland
Forged: Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny

Alex Garland’s thriller stays away from present-day political themes to as a substitute deal with warfare correspondents and journalism.

From our evaluation:

All the movie is paced and deliberate with that dynamic concerned. It’s a very beautiful drama, shot with a loving heat that displays its perspective, by way of the eyes of two photographers used to conceiving of every thing round them by way of vivid, compelling photos. A late-film sequence shot because the group drives by way of a forest fireplace is very stunning, however the film usually appears designed to impress viewers on a visible degree.

Stress Positions

The place to observe: Accessible to lease on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Picture: Courtesy Everett Assortment

Style: Comedy drama
Run time: 1h 35m
Director: Theda Hammel
Forged: John Early, Qaher Harhash, Elizabeth Dement

Within the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, a Brooklyn man finally ends up taking good care of his nephew in his ex-husband’s condo whereas stated nephew recovers from a damaged leg. However apparently everybody he is aware of needs to fulfill his nephew. Cue the hilarity.