No Hard Feelings on Netflix, Saw X, and the new movies to watch

Polygon’s readers, happy Friday! Every week we highlight the most noteworthy releases on streaming services and video rentals, and the best movies to rent at home.

There are no hard feelingsThis week, Netflix will release the sexy coming-of age comedy featuring Jennifer Lawrence. Old DadsBill Burr makes his directorial début. This action-comedy is a must see. Polite SocietyThe Chinese World War II thriller comes to Prime Hidden BladeThe horror thriller, starring Tony Leung Cobweb featuring Antony Starr (The Boys) lands on Hulu. There’s plenty of new films available to rent as well this week, like The Saw XTobin Bell stars in this latest chapter of the long-running horror series.

Here’s everything new to watch this weekend!

Netflix Has New Content

There are no hard feelings

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Genre: Enjoy the Comedy
Run time: 1h 43m
Director: Gene Stupnitsky
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Andrew Barth Feldman, Laura Benanti

Jennifer Lawrence is Maddie, the young woman struggling to make ends meet between working as an Uber driver while also bartending part time in order to pay back her house which she inherited when her mother died. Maddie, whose car was towed away, is offered the chance of a life time: Seduce Percy – the college-bound child of an affluent couple – on their behalf in exchange of a new set of tires. Right? Yeah, that’s what Maddie thought too.

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The best funny stories are usually the most improbable. There are no hard feelings It seems a terrible idea at first. It’s a movie in which Jennifer Lawrence, in her first lead role in a full-on comedy, spends approximately 103 minutes trying to seduce a socially awkward 19-year-old for financial gain. It’s also wildly funny, and a great reminder of how good J-Law is at lighting up a screen.

Old Dads

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Genre:Funny
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Bill Burr
Cast: Bill Burr Bokeem woodbine Bobby Cannavale

Three friends, who were once close to each other as children, become parents later in their lives. However they are faced with generational issues when dealing with those born or created after the 1980s. Old Dads is Bill Burr’s directorial feature debut and shares a co-writing credit with writer-producer Ben Tishler.

Hulu has launched a new service

Cobweb

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Genre:Horror movie
Run time: 1h 28m
Director: Samuel Bodin
Cast: Lizzy Caplan, Woody Norman, Antony Starr

This horror-thriller from the creator of the scariest show on Netflix follows Peter (Woody Norman), a troubled young boy who — after hearing mysterious knocking sounds coming from the walls of his home — attempts to seek help in unearthing a terrible secret hidden from him by his parents.

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Bodin attempts to invoke dread with long shots of the film’s few distinctive set elements — the aforementioned pumpkin patch, or an old grandfather clock and icebox that each hide a hidden passage — but he doesn’t do much to render those images as something powerful or sinister. It’s as if Cobweb is set in a haunted house where nothing actually happened long ago, even as it hides a girl’s voice in its walls.

Prime Video has New Content

Polite Society

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Genre: Action-comedy drama
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Nida Manzoor
Cast: Priya Kansara, Ritu Arya

She suspects both the mother of the man who has betrothed her sister and that he is up to something. She does what she can to try and sabotage this relationship, beating the guy up in the process.

Polite Society sounds like an uproarious fun time, and it’s one of the movies I’ve most looked forward to catching on streaming after a brief limited U.S. run. You can read the interview here with the director after you’ve seen it. Polite Society’s Different influences.

Hidden Blade

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Genre:Period spy thriller
Run time: 2h 8m
Director: Cheng Er
Cast: Tony Leung Wang Yibo Zhou Xun

This Chinese World War II thriller stars the incredible Tony Leung as the Director of Shanghai’s Political Security Department, who finds himself in the middle of a time of great upheaval. The Japanese occupation is in its dying embers, China’s Communist Party is on the rise, and Leung’s character finds himself caught in the middle of it all. It’s a tense, gorgeous, occasionally opaque thriller with a great leading performance by one of the finest actors of his generation.

Silver Dollar Road

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Genre:Documentary
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Raoul Peck
Cast: John C. Barnett, Classie Curley, Melvin Davis

You are not my Negro Raoul Peck’s new documentary tells the tale of Reels Family. Following the plight of the family’s fight to preserve their claim to their waterfront property in North Carolina from predatorial developers, Silver Dollar RoadThe story is told using archival material and family interviews.

Surround

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MGM

Genre: Western
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Anthony Mandler
Cast: Letitia Wright, Jamie Bell, Michael K. Williams

Letitia WrightBlack Panther: Wakanda forever, Small AxeIn this Western, starred as a woman who pretends to be a man and plots to steal a goldmine. She meets the legendary outlaw Tommy Walsh, played by Jamie Bell. Her stagecoach was ambushed and her captive is taken hostage.Surrounded Michael K. Williams also performs his final scene, which he completed before his passing in 2021.

Apple TV Plus: New Features

Pigeon Tunnel

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Genre:Documentary
Run time: 1h 32m
Director: Errol Morris
Cast: John le Carré

John le Carré is a personal favorite author for me. His spy novels are notable for their groundedness — as a former spy himself, he had a lot to draw from — but also for their cynicism towards the heartlessness of that particular trade. Errol Morris, a renowned documentary filmmaker (The Thin Blue Line) turns his camera towards the life of the late, great le Carré, one of the finest and most important authors of the 20th century.

Peacock has a new look

Ruby Gillman and the Teenage Kraken

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Genre: Action-comedy
Run time: 1h 31m
Director: Kirk DeMicco
Cast: Lana Condor, Toni Collette, Annie Murphy

This animated comedy follows an awkward high schooler who discovers that she’s descended from a long line of warrior Kraken monsters. Destined to inherit her grandmother’s throne and defend the seas from tyrannical mermaids, Ruby must master her newfound powers and choose her own path as she prepares to embrace her destiny.

Rent a New Home

The Saw X

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Genre:You can also read about Horror
Run time: 1h 58m
Director: Kevin Greutert
Cast: Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Synnøve Macody Lund

Tobin Bell returns as Jigsaw, the murderous killer from the Saw franchise. A prequel set between the events of the original film and 2005’s Saw IISaw X is about John Kramer, who travels to Mexico in an attempt to get a cancer cure. When he realizes that the entire program is a total scam, John enlists the help of his apprentice Amanda Young (Shawnee Smith) to orchestrate a series of elaborate “games” in order to exact his own twisted brand of justice.

Lynch/Oz

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Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 48m
Director: Alexandre O. Philippe
Cast: Amy Nicholson, Rodney Ascher, John Waters

David Lynch is the subject of this documentary, which aims to shed light on his career as one of most experimental and original storytellers. It also reveals his love of 1939’s film. The Wizard of OzThe work of his father has inspired him. The film is divided into six chapters and features narration from several directors including Karynkusama Rodyn Ascher David Lowery.