Oppenheimer, Netflix’s Thanksgiving, The Iron Claw, and every new movie to watch

Hello, Polygon readers! Every week, we round up the most notable new releases on streaming and VOD, highlighting the best new movies in the blockbusters you can watch at home.

this week, oppenheimerThe Oscar-nominated biopic directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Cillian Murphy, which debuted on VOD last November, is finally coming to Peacock. That’s not all this week’s content. Tons of new and exciting releases are available for streaming and on his VOD.

iron clawSean Durkin’s wrestling biopic about the Von Erich brothers, finally hits VOD this weekend alongside French murder farce The Crime is Mine (Southern Gothic drama) mirrors girlPedro Almodóvar’s bizarre western short film strange way of life Starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal.Also available: Works by Eli Roth Thanksgiving Currently streaming on Netflix, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is now available to stream on Prime Video.

Introducing all the new releases this weekend!

New on Netflix

Thanksgiving

Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix

Photo: Piehu Wayman/Sony Pictures

Genre: slasher horror
Execution time: 1 hour 46 minutes
director: Eli Roth
cast: Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, Gina Gershon

Eli Roth is back with a new holiday-themed slasher. After the tragic Black Friday Riots, the quiet town of Plymouth, Massachusetts is terrorized by a murderer wearing a brutal, Thanksgiving-inspired John Carver mask.

From our review:

Among the funniest works in the genre, it’s rare to find a comedy-slasher that both complement each other.movies like totally killer or happy death day Too funny and light-hearted to really scare you, movies like house of a thousand corpses It’s so dark and gory that it’s hard to see the humor in it when you see it for the first time. Few films have struck that balance better than Craven’s four Scream films. Thanksgiving It doesn’t reach the meteoric heights of the Scream series, but it comes much closer than anything else in recent years, including the Scream series itself.

player

Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix

Photo: KC Bailey/Netflix

Genre: Love comedy
Execution time: 1 hour 45 minutes
director: trish yu
cast: Gina Rodriguez, Damon Wayans Jr., Tom Ellis

This new romantic comedy stars Gina Rodriguez as a New York City sportswriter who helps her best friend Adam (Damon Wayans Jr.) carry out various cheating schemes. After meeting her handsome, single co-worker Nick (Tom Ellis), she has to make a difficult decision: settle down or continue dating.

New on Hulu

generation of pods

Where to watch: Available for streaming on Hulu

Image: Quad Production/Roadside Attraction

Genre: science fiction romance
Execution time: 1 hour 49 minutes
director: Sophie Barthes
cast: Emilia Clarke, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rosalie Craig

If Gattaca Was it a quirky sci-fi romance starring Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor instead of a dystopian retro-future drama starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman? This is essentially what director Sophie Barthes’s latest film is all about. A couple is given the chance to conceive a child through an artificial womb (or pod), only to discover that parenthood and life are even more unpredictable than they imagined.

next goal victory

Where to watch: Available for streaming on Hulu

Image: Searchlight Photography

Genre: sports comedy drama
Execution time: 1 hour 44 minutes
director: taika waititi
cast: Michael Fassbender, Oscar Kitely, Kaimana

Michael Fassbender (killer) stars in Taika Waititi’s sports film based on the real-life American Samoa national soccer team and their bid to qualify for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Fassbender plays Thomas Rongen, a Dutch-American coach who agrees to help a once-infamous team to a competitive qualification spot.

From our review:

next goal victoryIn trying to make the film too universal, Samoa fails to properly capture what made the story of the American Samoa national soccer team so compelling, and instead makes the sport itself important. It is dismissed as something that is not. It may be so in that it allows the audience to relate to the team as individuals. But the movie is such a conventional underdog story that it rarely goes beyond the most superficial “this movie tells you to be careful, so be careful” level.

New features in Max

the color purple

Where to watch: Available for streaming on Max

Image: Warner Bros. Photos

Genre: youth musical
Execution time: 2 hours 21 minutes
director: Blitz Bazar
cast: Taraji P. Henson, Daniel Brooks, Coleman Domingo

Based on Alice Walker’s 1982 novel, this musical version follows the story of Celie (Fantasia Barrino), a woman in an abusive marriage that is torn apart from her sister and children. She finds her strength through her friendship with shagging girlfriend Avery (Taraji P. Henson). She is a singer with an indomitable spirit.

new releases on prime video

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video

Image: Paramount

Genre: animated superhero action comedy
Execution time: 1 hour 39 minutes
director: Jeff Lowe
cast: Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicholas Cantu, Brady Noone

Produced by Seth Rogen, this animated reboot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reimagines the origin story of four turtles, Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Leonardo, who are mutated by a mysterious ooze. He grows up under the guidance of his adoptive father Splinter (Jackie Chan). The Turtle brothers meet April O’Neil (Ayo Edebiri), an aspiring high school journalist, and decide to help uncover a shadowy crime syndicate led by a mysterious crime boss known as “Superfly.”

dark harvest

Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video

Image: MGM/United Artists Release

Genre: fantasy horror
Execution time: 1 hour 33 minutes
director: david slade
cast: Casey Lykes, Emily Crutchfield, Dustin Seasummer

Director David Slade (30 days of nights) returns with an all-new fantasy horror film based on Norman Partridge’s 2006 novel. In a sleepy, nameless hamlet in the Midwest, teenage boys gather every October for an annual ritual. The mission is to hunt down Sawtooth Jack, a vicious pumpkin-headed creature, and kill him before midnight to ensure the town is free of pests. Unfortunate. Will they be able to succeed this year, and what other dark secrets lurk behind this strange tradition?

This Is Me…Now: A Love Story

Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video

Image: Amazon Prime Video

Genre: musical movie
Execution time: 1 hour 5 minutes
director: dave myers
cast: Sofia Vergara, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez

This feature-length companion music video from Jennifer Lopez’s first album in more than a decade tells the story of star-crossed lovers from rival tribes who are reborn as red flowers and blue hummingbirds. Starring actress and songwriter Jennifer Lopez. Ben Affleck also appears!

Peacock’s latest information

oppenheimer

Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock

Photo: Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures

Genre: historical biopic
Execution time: 3 hours
director: christopher nolan
cast: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon

Cillian Murphy stars as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb,” in director Christopher Nolan’s biopic about the scientist’s tenure at a top-secret research facility in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and his post-world release. It depicts the conflict between his reputation and public shame over several years. Second World War.

From our review:

At that final stage, oppenheimer used a political campaign to discredit the physicist, dispossess him of his legacy, and use it as a way to skin a man whose stance on his horrific creations remained contradictory and mysterious. There is. After an overwhelming bomb sequence, this is a surprisingly subtle and complex technique for director Nolan, but it works because the story is driven by historical record and characters rather than dogma, and the terrifying moral This is because the consequences emerge naturally from the details. Director Nolan is a person who doesn’t let anyone in the audience miss his point, and the final scene of the film gives a strong impression of this. But first he builds a web of ambition, compromise, dreams, politics, jealousy, and inspiration—humanity—that unleashes the forces he awes.in oppenheimerhumans are the most terrifying machines of all.

Newly rented person

iron claw

Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Photo: Brian Rodel/A24

Genre: biographical sports drama
Execution time: 2 hours 12 minutes
director: Sean Durkin
cast: Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson

Zac Efron (hair spray), Jeremy Allen White (bear), Harris Dickinson (love triangle of sadness) stars in this thrilling dramatization of the lives of the Von Erich brothers, a trio of professional wrestlers whose larger-than-life careers and successes are marred by tragedy and struggle in the 1980s.

From our review:

A biopic of such a horrific series of personal tragedies may sound lame to some. But Durkin doesn’t dilute Von Erich’s story into straight-to-cable fluff. He performs a balancing act by recognizing that sad stories are only useful if people have the desire (and fortitude) to stick around until the end credits.

mirrors girl

Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Image: Lionsgate Films

Genre: black comedy drama
Execution time: 1 hour 33 minutes
director: jade harry bartlett
cast: Martin Freeman, Jenna Ortega, Dagmara Dominczyk

Martin Freeman (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey) and Jenna Ortega (Wednesday) stars in the thriller about a high school writing teacher who is seduced by a wealthy, bored, and manipulative young student. Clearly things are going very badly.

crime is mine

Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Image: Music box film

Genre: crime comedy
Execution time: 1 hour 44 minutes
director: François Ozon
cast: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Rebecca Marder, Isabelle Huppert

Director François Ozon’s latest film tells the story of actress Madeleine Verdier (Nadia Tereszkiewicz), who is imprisoned for the murder of an amorous producer but is acquitted in self-defense. With the help of her lawyer friend Pauline (Rebecca Marder), Madeleine gives the performance of her life and gains more notoriety and notoriety than she has ever experienced.

strange way of life

Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Image: El Deseo/Saint Laurent Productions

Genre: Western
Execution time: 31m
director: Pedro Almodovar
cast: Ethan Hawke, Pedro Pascal

This western short film directed by Pedro Almodovar (please talk to her) tells the story of two gunslingers (and ex-lovers) who reunite after 25 years.