Netflix’s Hit Man, The Strangers: Chapter 1, and every movie new to streaming this week (2024)

Greetings, Polygon readers! Each week, 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.

Kick off summer with two shark movies — one about a shark in Paris (un requin à Paris) and one about sharks circling a crashed airplane! There’s also Richard Linklater’s new romantic comedy, which stars Glen Powell as an undercover cop posing as a hitman who falls for a woman who hires him. And there’s The Strangers: Chapter 1, for anyone who wants to watch The Strangers, but slightly remixed.

Here’s everything new available to watch this weekend!

New on Netflix

Hit Man

Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix

Image: Netflix

Genre: Romantic black comedy
Run time: 1h 55m
Director: Richard Linklater
Cast: Glen Powell, Adria Arjona, Retta

Glen Powell leads this romantic comedy/crime thriller about a police officer posing as a hitman. While he usually arrests the people who hire him, he ends up persuading a woman who hired him to take a different path, rather than killing her husband... which leads to them becoming romantically entangled. And it’s based on a true story!

From our impressions after seeing it at the New York Film Festival:

Hit Man is somewhere between a rom-com and a police caper, and every second is a breezy joy. The movie is built entirely around Powell’s endless charisma, charm, and comedic chops, and no one else in a 2023 movie has been this much fun to watch. It’s rare these days to get movies that are this completely built around a star, but Hit Man is a perfect reminder of just how great it is when we do.

Under Paris

Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix

Image: Netflix

Genre: Creature-feature horror
Run time: 1h 41m
Director: Xavier Gens
Cast: Bérénice Bejo, Nassim Lyes, Anaïs Parello

It’s a movie about a giant shark roaming Paris, from the people who brought us Mayhem! What more do you need?!

New on Hulu

Perfect Days

Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu

Image: Neon/Everett Collection

Genre: Drama
Run time: 2h 4m
Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Koji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano

Japan’s Best International Feature Film entry at the Oscars, Perfect Days follows a public toilet cleaner in Tokyo as he goes about his life. The movie, from legendary director Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas) won the Prize of Ecumenical Jury at the 76th Cannes Film Festival.

New on Max

Am I OK?

Where to watch: Available to stream on Max

Image: Warner Bros/Everett Collection

Genre: Comedy drama
Run time: 1h 26m
Director: Tig Notaro
Cast: Dakota Johnson, Sonoya Mizuno, Jermaine Flower

Lucy (Dakota Johnson) realizes the reason she can’t find any romantic success with men is because she’s actually a lesbian! Cue a funny coming-out story as Lucy figures out how the heck to start dating women in her 30s.

New on Paramount Plus

I.S.S.

Where to watch: Available to stream on Paramount Plus w/ Showtime

Image: Bleecker Street Media/Everett Collection

Genre: Science fiction thriller
Run time: 1h 36m
Director: Gabriela Cowperthwaite
Cast: Ariana DeBose, Chris Messina, John Gallagher Jr.

This sci-fi thriller takes place in the near future aboard the International Space Station. A political conflict breaks out back on Earth, and the U.S. and Russian astronauts receive separate orders to take control of the station.

New on Peaco*ck

Housekeeping for Beginners

Where to watch: Available to stream on Peaco*ck

Image: Focus Features/Everett Collection

Genre: Drama
Run time: 1h 47m
Director: Goran Stolevski
Cast: Anamaria Marinca, Alina Serban, Samson Selim

The Macedonian entry for Best International Feature Film at last year’s Academy Awards is about a woman who begins to raise her girlfriend’s two daughters, despite never wanting to be a mother herself. It was the winner of the Queer Lion at the 80th Venice International Film Festival.

New on Mubi

Monster

Where to watch: Available to stream on Mubi

Image: Well Go USA Entertainment/Everett Collection

Genre: Mystery
Run time: 2h 5m
Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Cast: Sakura Andō, Eita Nagayama, Sōya Kurokawa

I cannot speak more highly of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s (Shoplifters) Monster. It’s a beguiling thriller about a mother trying to figure out what is going on with her son, who has been acting up recently and got into a conflict at school with his teacher. Kore-eda is an incredibly deliberate filmmaker, with every detail deeply considered, and uses the film’s complicated narrative to unspool one of the best mysteries in years. It’s an absolute gem. —Pete Volk

New on AMC Plus

No Way Up

Where to watch: Available to stream on AMC Plus

Image: RLJE Films/Everett Collection

Genre: Survival thriller
Run time: 1h 30m
Director: Claudio Fäh
Cast: Sophie McIntosh, Will Attenborough, Jeremias Amoore

Another shark movie! This one takes place in a plane that has crashed and is underwater, a tiny air pocket keeping the surviving passengers alive. Sharks circle the plane, and the remaining passengers must figure out how the hell to proceed. What a nightmare.

New on Metrograph at Home

All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White

Where to watch: Available to stream on Metrograph at Home

Image: Metrograph at Home

Genre: Romantic drama
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: Babatunde Apalowo
Cast: Tope Tedela, Riyo David, Martha Ehinom

This is a Nigerian film following the budding attraction between two men in Lagos, who cannot express their affections for one another due to societal pressure. All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White is Babatunde Apalowo’s directorial debut, and won the Teddy Award for best LGBTQ-themed feature film.

New to rent

The Strangers: Chapter 1

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

Image: Lionsgate Films/Everett Collection

Genre: Horror
Run time: 1h 31m
Director: Renny Harlin
Cast: Madelaine Petsch, Froy Gutierrez

Home invasion horror movies frankly terrify me to another level, but if that’s your thing, you’ll have a great time with The Strangers: Chapter 1. Especially since it pretty much follows the plot of the original.

Exhuma

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

Image: Well Go USA Entertainment/Everett Collection

Genre: Supernatural horror
Run time: 2h 14m
Director: Jang Jae-hyun
Cast: Choi Min-sik, Kim Go-eun, Yoo Hae-jin

The top movie at the Korean box office this year, Exhuma is a beguiling possession movie that follows a ragtag group of exorcists and sorcerers as they try and solve an ancient curse.

Back to Black

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

Image: Focus Features/Everett Collection

Genre: Biographical drama
Run time: 2h 2m
Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson
Cast: Marisa Abela, Jack O’Connell, Eddie Marsan

Back to Black follows the life of Amy Winehouse, specifically centered around her second album (Back to Black, hence the title) and her subsequent check-in to rehab. Marisa Abela stars as the iconic singer and rocks her signature beehive updo.

The Old Oak

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

Image: Zeitgeist Films/Everett Collection

Genre: Drama
Run time: 1h 52m
Director: Ken Loach
Cast: Dave Turner, Ebla Mari, Claire Rodgerson

A pub owner in Northern England struggles to keep his establishment afloat in a once vibrant mining community. When a group of Syrian refugees come to town, tensions rise — but the pub owner strikes up a friendship with one of the refugees.