Deadpool & Wolverine, Speak No Evil, Netflix’s The Platform 2, and every movie new to streaming this week

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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.

Evil is in question this week, as Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist and James Watkins’ 2024 remake of Speak No Evil come to streaming on Criterion Channel and VOD, respectively. If you want more than evil on the mind, however, you’re in luck; there are tons of new exciting releases to choose from on streaming and VOD this week. We’ve got the highly anticipated VOD premiere of Deadpool & Wolverine, the dystopian thriller The Platform 2 on Netflix, Gary Dauberman’s adaptation of Stephen King’s ’Salem’s Lot on Max, and a whole lot more where that came from!

Here’s everything new that’s available to watch this weekend!

Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix

Genre: Dystopian sci-fi
Run time: 1h 39m
Director: Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia
Cast: Milena Smit, Natalia Tena, Óscar Jaenada, Hovik Keuchkerian

The Platform 2 is the follow-up to the 2019 Spanish dystopian thriller (which is called — you guessed it! — The Platform). Like the first movie, this one takes place in a futuristic, multi-leveled prison where the inmates are fed via a floating platform that descends from the top level to the bottom throughout the day. But this leads to a lot of conflict, as the inmates at the top get to eat more than the ones at the bottom. In the sequel, a new resident rises against this method.

Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix

Genre: Horror comedy
Run time: 1h 43m
Director: Greg Jardin
Cast: Brittany O’Grady, James Morosini, Gavin Leatherwood

A group of college friends gather for a pre-wedding reunion, which should be all fun and games. But one of the guests shows up with a mysterious high-tech gadget and hooks all the guests up to some sort of strange brain-melding machine. All their thoughts and minds blur together, and the weekend takes a turn from a fun reunion into a living nightmare.

Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix

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Genre: Drama
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: Minhal Baig
Cast: Blake Cameron James, Gian Knight Ramirez, S. Epatha Merkerson

Set in Chicago in the early ’90s, We Grown Now centers on the story of Malik and Eric, two young boys growing up in a housing complex who survive the mundanity of school life and the perils of their environment through the strength of their friendship. When a sudden tragedy threatens to strain their bond, Malik and Eric will have to grow up fast and make a choice between what to hold onto and what to let go of.

Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu

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Genre: Horror thriller
Run time: 1h 34m
Directors: Karrie Crouse, Will Joines
Cast: Sarah Paulson, Amiah Miller, Alona Jane Robbins

This psychological thriller takes place in Depression-era Oklahoma, right in the middle of the Dust Bowl. A young single mother becomes increasingly convinced that something in the dust storms is stalking her family — is it a serial killer hunting nearby families, or some kind of supernatural presence that takes control of people?

Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu

Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 49m
Director: Pamela Adlon
Cast: Ilana Glazer, Michelle Buteau, John Carroll Lynch

A hilarious raunchy comedy that follows two best friends: one has two kids, and the other is newly pregnant from a one-night stand. Babes is unflinching about the grossness (and hilarity) of pregnancy, but it also dives into the nitty-gritty of adult friendships and shifting priorities. Ilana Glazer and Michelle Buteau have amazing banter and really connect in a way that feels achingly authentic.

Where to watch: Available to stream on Max

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Genre: Horror
Run time: 1h 53m
Director: Gary Dauberman
Cast: Lewis Pullman, Pilou Asbæk, Alfre Woodard

Director Gary Dauberman (Annabelle Comes Home) is back — this time with a new adaptation of Stephen King’s classic 1975 horror novel! Lewis Pullman (Outer Range) stars as Ben Mears, a writer who returns to his hometown of Jerusalem’s Lot, Maine, in search of inspiration for his next book. What he finds, however, is a town besieged by an otherworldly creature that threatens to kill and subjugate everyone around him.

Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video

Genre: Horror
Run time: 1h 41m
Directors: Bridget Savage Cole, Danielle Krudy
Cast: Ariana DeBose, Barbie Ferreira, Marton Csokas

A chef opens up her first restaurant and must conquer her own self-doubt, typical kitchen chaos, and the turmoil of starting a new business. Oh, and also the old estate that she picks as a location may be haunted, and the previous owner was rumored to be a local witch who grew suspicious plants in her garden, among other things. Just fine culinary hijinks!

Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock

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Genre: Coming-of-age drama
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: Sean Wang
Cast: Izaac Wang, Joan Chen, Shirley Chen

Set in the late 2000s, this coming-of-age drama follows Chris Wang (Izaac Wang), a 13-year-old boy enjoying his last summer vacation before entering high school. As he’s simultaneously enticed and intimidated by the opportunities and challenges that come with adolescence, will Chris find a way to grow up on his own terms? If you enjoyed Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade or Jonah Hill’s Mid90s, Dìdi should be right up your alley.

Where to watch: Available to stream on Tubi

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Genre: Slapstick comedy
Run time: 1h 48m
Director: Mike Cheslik
Cast: Ryland Brickson Cole Tews, Olivia Graves

One of the year’s most exciting, innovative, and entertaining movies, Hundreds of Beavers is a black-and-white silent comedy that is deliriously funny and a genuinely new cinematic experience.

You don’t need to be a cinema scholar or even a fan of silent comedy to appreciate Hundreds of Beavers. That’s the goofy joy of this project — while its foundation is firmly set in the classics of the genre and the medium, at its heart, it’s a laugh-a-minute thrill ride about a very silly person on a very silly quest. Sometimes, that’s just what the doctor ordered.

Where to watch: Available to stream on Starz

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

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.

New on Metrograph at Home

Where to watch: Available to stream on Metrograph at Home

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Genre: Crime drama
Run time: 1h 51m
Director: Lee Chang-dong
Cast: Han Suk-kyu, Shim Hye-jin, Moon Sung-keun

In April, Metrograph theatrically debuted restorations of Lee Chang-dong’s (Burning) first three directed features. Now, all three restorations will be seeing their streaming debuts on the theater’s streaming platform, Metrograph at Home.

Green Fish, Lee’s directorial debut, is a neo-noir crime drama about a former soldier who falls in with a gang and starts an affair with his boss’s girlfriend.

Where to watch: Available to stream on Metrograph at Home

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Genre: Drama
Run time: 2h 10m
Director: Lee Chang-dong
Cast: Sul Kyung-gu, Moon So-ri, Kim Yeo-jin

Lee followed Green Fish with Peppermint Candy, a tragedy told in reverse chronological order, starting with the protagonist’s suicide and then moving back in time to show key moments in his life. The movie won five Grand Bell Awards, including Best Film, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.

Where to watch: Available to stream on Metrograph at Home

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Genre: Romantic drama
Run time: 2h 12m
Director: Lee Chang-dong
Cast: Sul Kyung-gu, Moon So-ri, Ahn Nae-sang

Lee reunited with the two stars of Peppermint Candy for his third feature, a romantic drama about two young disabled people who find love in a society that would rather shun them. The movie was a big hit on the festival circuit, especially at the 2002 Venice Film Festival, where it won a Silver Lion for Best Direction, won the Marcello Mastroianni Award for an emerging actor (given to Moon So-ri), and was nominated for the Golden Lion.

Where to watch: Available to stream on Metrograph at Home

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Genre: Drama
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Daisuke Miyazaki
Cast: Takuma Fujie, An Ogawa, Kyoko Koizumi

This coming-of-age romance follows Jun (Takuma Fujie), an aspiring guitarist who moves to Nagoya after his shot at a recording deal falls through. While performing songs by his favorite glam rock band, Jun meets Ibuki (An Ogawa), a young woman who shares his love for the same band. The pair eventually become an item, but can their relationship withstand the pressures and mounting responsibilities that come with young adulthood?

Where to watch: Available to stream on Shudder

Genre: Horror anthology
Run time: 1h 54m
Directors: Various
Cast: Dane DiLiegro, Alanah Pearce

The latest installment in the V/H/S horror anthology franchise, V/H/S/Beyond features segments from Justin Long and the married duo Mike Flanagan and Kate Siegel, among others. Like the other V/H/S films (and spinoffs), all of the short segments are in a found-footage style. V/H/S/Beyond’s shorts include (and are certainly not limited to): a sinister taxidermist, a UFO crashing into skydivers, and two paparazzi sneaking into the set of a Bollywood movie.

Where to watch: Available to stream on Criterion Channel

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Genre: Drama
Run time: 1h 46m
Director: Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Cast: Hitoshi Omika, Ryo Nishikawa, Ryuji Kosaka

Ryusuke Hamaguchi returns with a follow-up to his Oscar-nominated 2021 drama Drive My Car. His latest film, Evil Does Not Exist, follows the story of a widower and his 8-year-old daughter living in a remote village whose way of life is threatened by the arrival of a company that plans to build a glamorous camping resort in the nearby area. Does evil exist, and if it does, in what ways does it take shape in our everyday life?

Evil Does Not Exist leans toward a folk-horror tradition, as Hamaguchi slowly pivots away from dispassionate naturalism, building to an impressionistic, opaque finale. The provocation of the film’s title echoes through the woods, which the film begins and ends by regarding from below. Maybe that’s what the title is getting at. Maybe it’s a whisper echoing through and from the ground itself, about how foolish it is to believe that the earth, even in its stillness and beauty, has any regard for our moral attitude toward it. Maybe we ought to tread more carefully, and be fearful in our taking. Maybe evil only matters because we’re here to think about it, and when we’re gone, it will be too.