Love Again is our decide of the week – Picture: Sony Pictures.
With the additional lengthy weekend for Labor Day within the US, there’s loads of time to dive into among the new releases on Netflix, and fortunately, there have been some nice ones. Here are our prime six picks of the very best new motion pictures and collection now streaming.
Thanks to over 80 titles being added to Netflix this week (65 of which had been added on September 1st), there’s a lot to observe. If you’ve missed any of the brand new releases from the previous seven days. You can discover roundups and the complete expanded listing of latest titles by way of our What’s New on Netflix hub.
Did you miss any of our recommendations from final week? We picked out our favourite eight new titles final Saturday, together with the biopic Big George Foreman.
Love Again (2023)
Rating: PG-13
Language: English
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Jim Strouse
Cast: Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Sam Heughan, Céline Dion
Hitting Netflix simply 120 days after its debuted in cinemas earlier this yr, this new 90s-inspired rom-com stars Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Sam Heughan.
As we’ve talked about within the run-up to the brand new rom-com hitting Netflix, when it was launched in theaters, it divided critics and audiences immensely. Case in level, because it stands, the RottenTomatoes rating from critics sits at 24%, whereas the viewers rating sits on the polar reverse with 91%.
If you’re wanting to enroll to Netflix to observe Love Again, you’ll must choose right into a premium tier with the film unavailable on Netflix’s ad-supported one.
Wind River (2017)
Rating: R
Language: English
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director: Taylor Sheridan
Cast: Elizabeth Olsen, Jeremy Renner, Graham Greene
Writer: Taylor Sheridan
Runtime: 107 min / 1h 47m
Taylor Sheridan has change into a pressure of nature in recent times, with the Yellowstone franchise changing into a juggernaut for Paramount. Given that the present and all of the spin-offs are locked away from Netflix, the very best you’ll get on the massive N is Wind River, which returned to Netflix on the primary of the month.
Featuring wonderful performances from each Olsen and Renner, the film follows a rookie FBI agent who’s being assisted by a Fish and Wildlife Service tracker wanting right into a teen’s homicide on a Wyoming reservation.
Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
Rating: R
Language: English
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Director: Mel Gibson
Cast: Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey
Writer: Robert Schenkkan, Andrew Knight
Runtime: 139 min / 2h 19m
There have been some improbable World War II motion pictures over the previous few a long time, however none left me in awe of the brutality of struggle fairly like Hacksaw Ridge did, which tells the story of a younger soldier changing into a hero regardless of by no means firing a weapon.
An excellent efficiency from Garfield and the visceral imagery all through landed the Lionsgate film a few Oscars and rightly so.
Fences (2016)
Rating: PG-13
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Director: Denzel Washington
Cast: Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Stephen McKinley Henderson
Writer: August Wilson
Runtime: 139 min / 2h 19m
Much like Hacksaw Ridge, Fences additionally netted an Oscar following its preliminary launch in 2016, thanks partly to 2 beautiful performances from Washington (presently topping the field workplace this weekend with The Equalizer 3) and Davis.
Here’s what you’ll be able to anticipate from the interval drama should you’ve by no means caught it earlier than:
“A once-promising baseball player who was denied a shot at the big leagues because of his race comes to terms with his life in 1950s Pittsburgh.”
Arrival (2016)
Rating: PG-13
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Cast: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker
Writer: Eric Heisserer, Ted Chiang
Runtime: 116 min / 1h 56m
One extra Oscar-winning film to function earlier than we transfer onto our TV decide for the week and one in all two Jeremy Renner motion pictures that’ll function on this listing.
The story revolves round a language knowledgeable who’s desperately recruited by the US army to try to talk with an alien ship that’s entered the Earth’s environment.
Denis Villeneuve, extra generally related to the Dune franchise this present day (sadly, Part 2 was not too long ago punted into 2024 – boo!), was the director behind this transferring and visually beautiful sci-fi basic.
One Piece (Season 1)
Number of episodes: 8
Rating: TV-14
Language: English
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Cast: Iñaki Godoy, Mackenyu, Emily Rudd
Writer: Steven Maeda, Matt Owens
Runtime: 64 minutes / 1h 4m
One final advice for One Piece from us, we promise. It’s been arduous to keep away from the brand new Netflix adaptation with the quantity of promoting and advertising completed for the present, but it surely appears to have paid off. Many opinions cite the present as breaking Netflix’s curse relating to live-action anime diversifications.
Now formally certified contemporary on RottenTomatoes, the critic’s consensus to date has been that “One Piece captures the essence of its beloved source material with a charmingly big-hearted adaptation that should entertain longtime fans as well as patient newcomers.”
We fairly agree, and all eyes are actually on its season 2 prospects.
What are you watching on Netflix this weekend?