New Thor, Morbius on Netflix, and every new movie to watch at home

There are many new films premiering this week for home viewing. These movies are among the most anticipated. Thor: Love and Thunder, Morbius morbin’ its way to Netflix, and one of the three upcoming Pinocchio adaptations.

Look beyond those big-ticket items, however, and you’ll find some great under-the-radar gems. This is a mixup of Senegalese music and poetry SaloumShudder presents a new series called. Beloved anime series Odd TaxiCrunchyroll has a film adaptation of this movie (which is one of my favorite OPs, by the side) and it has been highly acclaimed recent releases Marcel the Shell with Shoes And Petite Maman They are now available at your home.

Here’s everything new you can watch at home this weekend.

Thor: Love and Thunder

You should be watching:Disney Plus is available to stream

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After the success of Thor, Taika Waititi is back to Thor. Thor: RagnarokThis time, she is writing and directing. Chris Hemsworth (with Tessa Thompson) and Natalie Portman (who makes her long-awaited comeback to the MCU), all return to their original roles. Christian Bale, Russell Crowe, and Russell Crowe are also part of the action.

Following our review:

Unfortunately, what might have been a terrific road-trip film is undercut by characters who somehow lost their entire personalities after Thanos’ snap. Thor is strangely inconsistent throughout the film — the Thor at the beginning of the movie is different from the Thor who appears 20 minutes later, who is also different from the Thor we say goodbye to again when the credits roll. Jane Foster, largely absent from the franchise for the better part of a decade, has a lot of fun relishing her new godlike powers, but there’s a tension between her newfound superhuman life and her dire normal one, and the film is too glib to sustain the tonal whiplash between the two.

Morbius

You should be watching: Netflix is available to stream

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Morbius Summer will continue into Morbius Fall. This is the movie that has been the most watched this year. Jared Leto plays the role of Dr. Michael Morbius, an antihero vampire doctor (please call his father Michael Morbius Doctor Mister). House of the Dragon’s Matt Smith is the villainous Loxias crown.

Our review:

Clearly shot with only a few scenes and a score that is shamelessly goofy. Batman Begins, MorbiusIt appears to be a well-planned blockbuster movie, and is therefore very smooth. The action of the film is dull and repetitive, with long slow-mo pauses. Its violence is toned down and defanged, even though it’s about, y’know, vampires. In spite of direction from Daniel Espinosa, who previously made 2017’s surprisingly creepy The Best of Life, MorbiusThis film doesn’t portray any authentic atmosphere. If Instagram had a “blockbuster” filter, this film would use it the whole time.

Pinocchio

You should be watching:Disney Plus is available to stream

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Disney’s latest live-action adaptation of a beloved animated property comes via Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump) and stars Tom Hanks as Geppetto.

Our review:

The story’s outline will still be extremely recognizable to anyone with a passing familiarity with the animated film or Collodi’s Pinocchio and the Adventures of Pinocchio. The film is modern, but someone decided that it needed to laugh at its own fancy because this film was modern. When Pinocchio, stuck in a cage by the evil Stromboli, begins to tell a lie and his wooden nose grows, Jiminy says, “A bit on the nose, I’d say.” When Pinocchio rattles off his various adventures late in the film, a bemused character asks, “You did all that in one day?” Simultaneously copycatting a classic and smugly mocking it comes across as crass, as if Zemeckis and company are afraid of real emotion, and determined to safeguard audiences against any sense of authenticity or sincerity.

Saloum

You should be watching:Shudder is available to stream

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It’s quite difficult to describe Saloum It is hard to say what it does, but here’s what I can tell you: This Senegalese Western spaghetti action thriller has a refreshing genre mix with beautiful scenery and expressive characterization. The film runs for a mere 84 minutes.

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In the village where they arrive, something isn’t quite right. [director]The 84 minute run time is a great opportunity to build tension with Herbulot and the rest of the cast. That tension explodes into a series of Western-style gunfights with revolvers, all with a beautiful score reminiscent of Ennio Morricone’s work on Sergio Leone’s movies. I will leave the rest for you to discover for yourself, but I will say there’s a reason this movie is on a horror-centric streaming service.

Odd Taxi: In The Woods

You should be watching:Crunchyroll is available to stream

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A feature film adaption of one of the greatest anime of 2021 shows the adventures of a walrus-taxi driver, who gets embroiled into a mystery that results in the disappearance of a little girl.

Marcel the Shell with Shoes

You should be watching:Amazon, Apple and Vudu are available for purchase at $19.99

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It is an adaptation of YouTube’s popular YouTube series. The story follows a little shell that wears shoes and waxes philosophical. Jenny Slate voices the character.

Our review:

Saying casually profound things in a charmingly direct way is kind of Marcel’s thing. Marcel the Shell and Shoes OnMarcel makes simple and off-kilter observations on the people, places, and events around him. This gives Marcel a tremendous amount of mileage. Considering that the original Marcel videos clocked in at less than 12 minutes total, it’s a testament to the script’s strengths that the feature-length version of his schtick never gets old. The film runs 89 minutes, which is still quite short. The dramatic arc of this magical-realist comedy is gentle: Dean’s YouTube videos about Marcel bring them viral fame, which excites and frightens them both. These jokes are warm and funny.

Petite Maman

You should be watching:Hulu is available to stream

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Céline Sciamma is one of the great modern filmmakers — her films have been pretty universally praised, and Girlhood is a stone-cold masterpiece (I’ve heard the same about Portrait of Lady on Fire, but I haven’t had the chance to watch it myself yet).

The 72-minute film she just finished is her latest time-travel fantasia about a young girl that bonds with her mother after her grandmother’s death.

Our review:

This is the most beautiful thing about Portrait of Lady on Fire The way they look at one another. It’s like that movie. Petite MamanLove is expressed through small gestures and meaningful glances. It’s just that the type of affection being explored in this film is the love between mothers and daughters, a bond that can be extremely close and unknowably distant at the same time. Petite Maman is the work of an unusually sensitive filmmaker, and it speaks to Sciamma’s skill as a director that she’s able to express the nuances of this complicated dynamic through such simple actions and words.

Moonfall

You should be watching:You can stream HBO Max on your computer.

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Roland Emmerich’s latest big disaster movie takes to space, with an ensemble cast featuring Patrick Wilson, Halle Berry, Donald Sutherland, and more.

Our review:

But Moonfall’s script buries its lede, committing the storyteller’s sin of not opening with the most interesting stuff first. Instead, the film spends its first half on Brian’s fractured family, his troubled son, his wife’s asshole new husband, that sort of thing. These digressions continue to be a distraction throughout, as Harper’s family is the Earthbound half of Moonfall, the eyes through which we see the tides overwhelm dry land and skyscrapers uprooted by the Moon’s gravity. Unfortunately for the audience, the devastation is only a small part of the cast’s struggle. Their concerns, while more important than the alien shenanigans of orbit like theft and avalanches are much less significant. And The cast’s performances — even from Wilson, who always fully commits to his roles — cannot make much of a script that feels algorithmic.

Flight/Risk

You should be watching:Prime Video is available to stream

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Family members and whistleblowers are filmed as they try to uncover the truth after two fatal plane crashes.

Paris Destination

You should be watching:Paramount Plus is available to stream

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The documentary follows the preparations for the 2021-22 Champions League and shows the players’ journeys.

Burial

You should be watching:Amazon, Apple, Vudu and Vudu are all available for rent at $6.99

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Do not confuse this with U.K.-defying dubstep musician, Burial is a 2022 horror mystery-thriller that centers on a small band of Russian soldiers who are charged with retrieving Adolf Hitler’s newly discovered remains and taking them back to Moscow. When the group comes under attack by an elite squad of German “Werewolf” soldiers, Russian intelligence officer Brana Vasilyeva (Charlotte Vega) must fight to preserve and transport the body at all costs.

The Fate

You should be watching:Amazon and Vudu offer $6.99 rentals

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This romantic comedy stars Emma Roberts and Thomas Mann as two people who seem perfect for each other… if only they weren’t both already engaged. Lewis Tan, Madelaine and Petsch are their partners.

End of the Road

You should be watching:Netflix is available to stream

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With the TV show, Queen Latifah is establishing herself as an action superstar. The EqualizerThis road thriller thriller is about a family that is being hunted down by an unknown killer. Millicent, an experienced TV director (the movie)30 Rock,Unsecure, Titans).

There is no limit

You should be watching:Netflix is available to stream

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This French romantic drama is about a “deep, destructive love” (per Netflix’s official synopsis) between a young woman and her diving instructor.