White Noise, Black Phone, and every new movie you can watch at home

Polygon readers, happy new year! After the flurry of new movies arriving at home for the Christmas season, we’re in a bit of a slower season of new movie releases at home.

That doesn’t mean there aren’t any to watch, however! Noah Baumbach (The Story of Marriage) has a new movie out — his adaptation of Don DeLillo’s We have white noiseNetflix gets it. You can find new documentary on Prime Video or HBO Max as well as the Scott Derrickson horror movie. Black PhoneEthan Hawke and ‘The Countdown to Prime Video’ are also available.

Let’s get into it!

Netflix

We have white noise

You should be watching:Netflix is available to stream

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Genre:Comedy
Run time: 2h 15m
Director: Noah Baumbach
Cast: Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle

Noah Baumbach adapts Don DeLillo’s famed postmodern novel for Netflix, with a star-studded cast including his partner Greta Gerwig (with whom he is writing the upcoming Barbie), Adam Driver, and André Benjamin. It’s the first time Baumbach has directed a full-length feature adaptation of someone else’s writing.

Our review:

The thing that most annoys DeLillo purists about Baumbach’s film might be the thing that makes it most pleasurable to watch for everyone else: It’s fun. It’s a messy movie that can’t quite find the thread to make sense of DeLillo’s vision or the reality of his characters — particularly during its bewildering final third, after the Airborne Toxic Event dissipates and Jack becomes obsessed with Babette’s place in a kind of pharmaceutical conspiracy. However, it is filled with humor and infectious delight. Baumbach, who is always successful in securing laughs and scary moments, splashes the screen full of color and dance. DeLillo’s pretentious characters and Baumbach stage a dance routine in the supermarket aisles. Do you think Baumbach is still trying to make a point or are they just taking it easy? It’s the former, which I believe, so more power to Baumbach. He took Netflix’s money and ran.

You are stuck

You should be watching:Netflix is available to stream

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Genre:Romantic comedy
Run time: 59m
Director: Frank Bellocq
Cast: Kev Adams, Camille Lellouche

Two people get stuck in an elevator on their way to a New Year’s Eve party and forge a connection in this short French rom-com.

Prime Video

Wildcat

Image: Prime Video

You should be watching:Prime Video available for streaming

Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 45m
Director: Melissa Lesh, Trevor Beck Frost
Cast: N/A

WildcatThe story follows a war veteran’s young son who goes to Brazil with his father and forms bonds with scientists and orphaned ocelots.

Black Phone

You should be watching:Prime Video available for streaming

Universal Pictures

Genre: Horror
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: Scott Derrickson
Cast: Mason Thames, Ethan Hawke

ThiYou can find it here isn’t The Black Phone’s streaming debut — the Ethan Hawke-led horror first landed on Peacock a few months back. Now, Prime Video is available to a wider audience. Black Phone now. Whether that’s a good thing is up to you!

These are our findings:

Despite the sense of morbid certainty, however Black Phone The result is messy. Performances are the problem. Jeremy Davies is especially bad as Finney and Gwen’s drunk dad, whose slurring and screaming doesn’t register as authentically patheticOr threatening. Hawke can also be too scattered to make it crediblely frightening. We first meet The Grabber when his face was painted white. His voice is high and affective, reminding us of The Grabber. Atlanta’s Teddy Perkins. Weird, right? What’s he trying to signify, and how does it fit into his psychosis? Doesn’t matter — that’s the first and last time that character detail will crop up in the film.

HBO Max

The Rules of this Place

You should be watching:On HBO Max, you can watch it live.

Warner Media

Genre:Documentary
Run time: Unknown
Director: Andrew Callaghan
Cast: Andrew Callaghan

This documentary is produced by Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, and Jonah Hill, among others, in collaboration with A24, and follows “gonzo journalist” Andrew Callaghan as he documents the events that led to January 6 Capitol Riot.

Shake

Burial

You should be watching:Shudder is available to stream

Image: Shudder

Genre: It’s a thrill
Run time: 1h 35m
Director: Ben Parker
Cast: Tom Felton, Harriet Walter, Charlotte Vega

Tom Felton stars in this thriller about a group of soldiers bringing Hitler’s dead body from Germany to Russia who are ambushed by Nazi soldiers.