The Substance, Joker: Folie à Deux, and every new movie to streaming

Every week on Polygon, we spherical up essentially the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the largest and greatest new motion pictures so that you can watch at dwelling.

This week, The Substance, the brand new body-horror thriller from director Coralie Fargeat (Revenge) starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley, is accessible to stream on Mubi U.S. (and for rental) following its profitable theatrical run. That’s not all, although, as there are tons of recent titles to look at on streaming and VOD this week. Time Lower, the brand new sci-fi slasher movie starring Madison Bailey (Outer Banks), involves Netflix; Despicable Me 4 arrives on Peacock; and Joker: Folie à Deux, the extremely anticipated sequel to Todd Phillips’ 2019 movie Joker starring Joaquin Phoenix, lands on VOD this weekend, together with a number of different new titles.

Right here’s the whole lot new that’s out there to look at this weekend!

The place to look at: Obtainable to stream on Netflix

Photograph: Allen Fraser/Netflix

Style: Sci-fi slasherRun time: 1h 30mDirector: Hannah MacphersonCast: Madison Bailey, Antonia Gentry, Griffin Gluck

This sci-fi slasher movie from Netflix entails some time-wimey shenanigans. A highschool senior (Madison Bailey) finds a time machine and travels again to 2003 in an try to save lots of the older sister she by no means met from a serial killer. There’s slasher horror, massive time-travel ripple impact questions, and in addition a complete lot of early aughts throwbacks (like Heelys!). Additionally, boy that trailer isn’t doing any favors for these of us on the market who’re a bit afraid of being eaten by an escalator.

Harold and the Purple Crayon

The place to look at: Obtainable to stream on Netflix

Picture: Sony Photos Releasing

Style: Comedy adventureRun time: 1h 30mDirector: Carlos SaldanhaCast: Zachary Levi, Lil Rel Howery, Benjamin Bottani

Based mostly on the traditional kids’s image e-book of the identical identify, Harold and the Purple Crayon follows an grownup Harold, who decides to depart the pages of his e-book and enter the true world. Because it seems, his magical purple crayon has the identical powers in the true world. Cue havoc — and in addition a nefarious librarian attempting to make use of the crayon for his personal egocentric functions.

The place to look at: Obtainable to stream on Max

In Janet Planet, Julianne Nicholson and Zoe Ziegler sit together and look off-camera

Picture: A24

Style: DramaRun time: 1h 53mDirector: Annie BakerCast: Zoe Ziegler, Julianne Nicholson, June Walker Grossman

Janet Planet is a quaint and quiet film that follows the peculiar relationship between a lonely 11-year-old lady named Lacy and her free-spirited mom, Janet, over the course of 1 melancholy summer time. By means of Lacy’s eyes, we study extra about Janet and the shut however virtually codependent connection between mom and daughter. It’s a film that captures a particular feeling of meditative loneliness throughout muggy summer time days.

The place to look at: Obtainable to stream on Disney Plus

Style: DocumentaryRun time: 1h 45mDirector: Laurent Bouzereau

This documentary follows the life and profession of John Williams, the legendary composer liable for penning the rating for such iconic movies as Raiders of the Misplaced Ark, Schindler’s Record, Jaws, and Star Wars.

The place to look at: Obtainable to stream on Paramount Plus

A man with a moustache wearing a cowboy hat and a tan suit sitting beside a smiling woman under the shade of a tree in The Dead Don’t Hurt.

Picture: Shout! Studios

Style: WesternRun time: 2h 9mDirector: Viggo MortensenCast: Vicky Krieps, Viggo Mortensen, Solly McLeod

Kevin Costner isn’t the one one with a brand new Western out this 12 months, as Viggo Mortensen tries his hand on the style. The Lifeless Don’t Harm follows the story of Holger Olsen (Mortensen) and his lover Vivienne Le Coudy (Vicky Krieps), who try to construct a life collectively after the previous returns dwelling from combating within the Civil Conflict. Irrevocably modified by his expertise, Holger should confront the methods each he and Vivienne have grown in a ruthless world the place violence and wealth are the legislation of the land.

The place to look at: Obtainable to stream on Peacock

Bald, pointy-nosed former supervillain Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) stands at a crowded gathering wearing a “Hello, my name is” nametag and scowls at former classmate Maxime Le Mal (voiced by Will Ferrell), a skinny man with a gigantic poof of hair and a shiny gold-and-green puffy coat in Despicable Me 4

Picture: Common Photos / Everett Assortment

Style: ComedyRun time: 1h 34mDirectors: Chris RenaudCast: Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Pierre Coffin

Reformed supervillain turned undercover agent Gru is again with an all-new journey! Despicable Me 4 sees Gru relocate his household when his former rival Maxime Le Mal (Will Ferrell) reemerges, searching for revenge. As Gru’s household makes an attempt to regulate to their new dwelling, Gru’s teenage neighbor makes an attempt to comply with in his villainous footsteps, whereas Gru’s Minions resolve to develop into superheroes. That’s lots, I do know!

Despicable Me 4 is stuffed with good concepts, with a number of them particularly interesting to what individuals like about these motion pictures: Minion antics, Gru’s villain-ness versus his regular household life, and over-the-top Large Dangerous Man theatrics amongst them. However all these bits and items are jumbled in and never cohesive sufficient to make sense as a narrative. The film is discordant, like a bunch of musicians taking part in unfamiliar devices (or a bunch of — dare I say — Minions given devices) and attempting to make a coherent tune. However amid that chaos, typically the music begins sounding good — a cool jazzy saxophone solo soars briefly above the cacophony. You simply must grit your enamel and ignore the clanging drums and out-of-tune oboes round it.

The place to look at: Obtainable to stream on Mubi U.S.

Sue doing the splits in front of a portrait of Elisabeth in The Substance

Style: Physique horrorRun time: 2h 20mDirector: Coralie FargeatCast: Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid

Have you ever ever dreamt of a greater model of your self? Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore) has. As soon as a celebrated Hollywood film star turned aerobics TV present host, Elisabeth has been pushed out of her longtime job by her producer, Harvey (Dennis Quaid), who is keen to fill the slot with somebody youthful and warmer. Determined to regain her sense of price, she seizes the chance to make use of a black market drug that creates a youthful model of herself named Sue (Margaret Qualley). When the symbiotic relationship between the pair begins to pressure, the 2 genetic twins develop into trapped in a combat for supremacy.

The place to look at: Obtainable to stream on Shudder

Russell Crowe dressed in a priest’s frock in The Exorcism.

Style: Supernatural horrorRun time: 1h 35mDirector: Joshua John MillerCast: Russell Crowe, Ryan Simpkins, Sam Worthington

I do know what you’re considering, and no: This isn’t The Pope’s Exorcist. This the opposite supernatural horror thriller starring Russell Crowe wearing a priest’s vestments. Crowe stars in The Exorcism as a troubled actor who’s tapped to play a priest in a supernatural horror movie after his predecessor is discovered useless as a result of mysterious circumstances. It’s solely after accepting the job that he realizes that he’s signed on for greater than he bargained for.

The place to look at: Obtainable to stream on Shudder

Style: DocumentaryDirector: Thommy HutsonCast: Brad Dourif, Chris Sarandon, Jennifer Tilly

Few horror franchises are as iconic and enduring because the Little one’s Play sequence. That includes behind-the-scenes footage of the making of the movies, in addition to interviews with the solid and crew alongside critics and historians, Thommy Hutson’s documentary touts itself as the last word account of the Little one’s Play movie franchise.