Ready or Not 2 and every new movie on Netflix, HBO, and more this weekend
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Ready or Not 2 and every new movie on Netflix, HBO, and more this weekend

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Overview & Key Takeaways

Remarkably Bright Creatures plays on Netflix, Greenland 2: Migration lands on HBO Max, and We Bury the Dead comes to Hulu.

It’s a big week for sequels on streaming. You can find Ready or Not 2 on VOD and watch rich families seeking satanic power get murdered playing a twisted game. The end of the world was just the beginning in Greenland 2: Migration, where Gerard Butler and his family look for safety after a meteor strike. The film crashes onto HBO Max.

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Send Help, Sam Raimi’s twisted mash up of Cast Awayand Misery, has washed up on Hulu. You can also stream the moody Daisy Ridley zombie film We Bury the Dead.

Here's a rundown of the most notable new releases on streaming and VOD, including the biggest, best, and most popular new movies you can watch at home right now.

New on Netflix

  • Genre: Mystery
  • Run time: 1h 51m
  • Director: Olivia Newman
  • Cast: Sally Field, Lewis Pullman, Joan Chen, Alfred Molina

The giant Pacific octopus Marcellus (Alfred Molina) plays detective, trying to help two caretakers at the aquarium where he lives in this adaptation of Shelby Van Pelt’s novel. Tova (Sally Field) is still dealing with grief from the disappearance of her teenage son while Cameron (Lewis Pullman) is searching for the father he never knew.

New on HBO Max

Greenland 2: Migration

  • Genre: Post-apocalyptic
  • Run time: 1h 38m
  • Director: Ric Roman Waugh
  • Cast: Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, Roman Griffin Davis

Five years after a comet destroyed most of Earth, the Garrity family has to leave the safety of their Greenland bunker and find a new home. As they travel through a changed world in search of clean air and water, they face a gauntlet of threats including radiation storms, fireballs, rickety rope bridges, and hostile survivors.

New on Hulu

Send Help

  • Genre: Survival horror thriller
  • Run time: 1h 53m
  • Director: Sam Raimi
  • Cast: Rachel McAdams, Dylan O'Brien, Dennis Haysbert

Overworked middle manager Linda Liddle (Rachel McAdams) is denied a promotion by her new boss Bradley Preston (Dylan O'Brien), but given a chance to prove herself on a business trip to Bangkok. When their plane crashes over the Pacific Ocean, Linda takes charge of keeping them both alive.

We Bury the Dead

  • Genre: Zombie horror
  • Run time: 1h 35m
  • Director: Zak Hilditch
  • Cast: Daisy Ridley, Brenton Thwaites, Mark Coles Smith

After a U.S. military bomb detonates off the coast of Tasmania and kills all 500,000 people on the island, Ava (Daisy Ridley) volunteers for body recovery so she can find her husband. While she’s told there’s a possibility that the dead might have risen, her grief drives her to defy military guidance to navigate the desolate landscape searching for answers.

From our review:

We Bury the Dead isn’t as boldly stylized as either of Danny Boyle’s forays into zombieland, but it does benefit from location shooting, the steady clarity of Hilditch’s compositions, and Ridley’s haunted yet determined performance. Ridley has become a face of resilience in her Star Wars movies as well as more disparate films like Young Woman and the Sea and The Marsh King’s Daughter. Here, that resolve hardens into something more stubborn, while she lets slip hints of a greater vulnerability.

New on Shudder

  • Genre: Supernatural horror
  • Run time: 1h 40m
  • Director: Corin Hardy
  • Cast: Dafne Keen, Sophie Nélisse, Sky Yang

Corin Hardy (The Nun, The Hallow) uses a mix of practical and special effects to show teenagers being hunted by their future deaths after blowing an Aztec. They’ll have to figure out how to break the curse to end the horror. The film is filled with very gory kills, representing the emotional and traumatic ways death can come.

New to rent

The Drama

  • Genre: Romantic black comedy
  • Run time: 1h 45m
  • Director: Kristoffer Borgli
  • Cast: Zendaya, Robert Pattinson

Emma (Zendaya) and Charlie (Robert Pattinson) are about to get married, but their relationship breaks down after a dinner party game where they share the worst thing they have ever done. The two keep going through the wedding preparations despite Charlie’s horror at Emma’s past and the lies she’s told.

Ready or Not 2: Here I Come

  • Genre: Horror comedy
  • Run time: 1h 48m
  • Director: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett
  • Cast: Samara Weaving, Kathryn Newton, Sarah Michelle Gellar

Grace (Samara Weaving) survived her wedding night, but now she’s being hunted by a group of rich families competing to become the new leaders of a Satanic sect. Trapped in a golf resort with her estranged sister Faith (Kathryn Newton), Grace has to endure a gauntlet of attacks with archaic weaponry in this blood-soaked film.

From our review:

While there aren’t as many big laughs or surprises as the first film, Ready or Not 2 has some incredible moments. There’s an absolutely deranged fight scene set to “Total Eclipse of the Heart” and a Satanist ritual that evokes the goth excess of Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. But the payoff is spread a bit too thin amid characters who serve little purpose beyond adding to Grace’s kill count.

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