Despicable Me 4, Netflix’s Mission: Cross, and every new movie to watch

Each week on Polygon, we round up the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies for you to watch at home.

This week, Despicable Me 4, the latest Minions movie starring Steve Carell, comes to VOD following its theatrical premiere earlier this year. That’s not all, though, as we’ve got several exciting streaming premieres this weekend as well like The Bikeriders on Peacock, La Chimera on Hulu, The Instigators on Apple TV Plus, and more.

Here’s everything new that’s available to watch this weekend!

New on Netflix

Mission: Cross

Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu

Genre: Action comedy
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Lee Myung-hoon
Cast: Hwang Jung-min, Yum Jung-Ah, Jeon Hye-jin

A retired secret agent (Hwang Jung-min) finds himself unexpectedly thrown back into the fray of international espionage when he becomes involved in a mission involving his wife (Yum Jung-ah), a detective who knows absolutely nothing about her husband’s former life.

New on Hulu

La Chimera

Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu

Image: Neon

Genre: Period comedy-drama
Run time: 2h 13m
Director: Alice Rohrwacher
Cast: Josh O’Connor, Carol Duarte, Isabella Rossellini

The latest from masterful Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher (Happy as Lazzaro, Le Pupille) stars one of the Challengers boys as a British archaeologist in a story of stolen historical artifacts. La Chimera was a Palme d’Or nominee at Cannes 2023.

New on Prime Video

One Fast Move

Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video

Genre: Action drama
Run time: 1h 58m
Director: Kelly Blatz
Cast: K.J. Apa, Eric Dane, Maia Reficco

K.J. Apa (Riverdale) stars in this sports drama as Wes, a troubled young man who attempts to convince his estranged father Dean (Eric Dane) to teach him how to become a professional motorcycle racer. Taking him under his wing, Dean and Wes are forced to work through their troubled relationship as they attempt to create a new future for themselves.

New on Apple TV Plus

The Instigators

Where to watch: Available to stream on Apple TV Plus

Image: Apple

Genre: Heist comedy
Run time: 1h 41m
Director: Doug Liman
Cast: Matt Damon, Casey Affleck, Hong Chau

Matt Damon and director Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity) reunite for this irreverent crime comedy co-starring Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea) and Hong Chau (The Whale). Damon stars as Rory, an ex-Marine who agrees to work alongside an ex-con (Affleck) to rob a mayoral fundraiser. When the botched robbery incites a city-wide manhunt by the police and the vengeful crime boss behind the plot, the pair “consensually kidnap” Rory’s therapist (Chau) in their desperate bid to escape and survive.

New on Peacock

The Bikeriders

Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock

Image: 20th Century Studios

Genre: Crime drama
Run time: 1h 56m
Director: Jeff Nichols
Cast: Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, Tom Hardy

The Bikeriders follows a motorcycle club over the course of a decade, as they go from a simple gathering of enthusiasts to a hardened gang. Jodie Comer plays Kathy, a young woman who gets swept up in the biker gang world after meeting hotheaded Benny (Austin Butler).

From our review:

The Bikeriders is a film of old-fashioned, simple pleasures: great tunes, perfect costumes, myth-making shots, and a cast of great character actors really going for it. (Including, but not limited to, Michael Shannon, West Side Story’s Mike Faist, Justified’s Damon Herriman, and a completely unrecognizable Norman Reedus as a shaggy Californian wildman biker.) It’s a film about looking at the gorgeous, unknowable people on the screen — and that one gorgeous, unknowable person in particular — just as Hardy’s character does at one point with Marlon Brando in The Wild One, and thinking: What would it be like to be them?

New to rent

Despicable Me 4

Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Image: Illumination

Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 34m
Directors: Chris Renaud
Cast: Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Pierre Coffin

Formed supervillain-turned-secret agent Gru is back with an all-new adventure! Despicable Me 4 sees Gru relocate his family when his former rival Maxime Le Mal (Will Ferrell) re-emerges seeking revenge. As Gru’s family attempt to adjust to their new home, Gru’s teenage neighbor attempts to follow in his villainous footsteps, while Gru’s minions decide to become superheroes. That’s a lot, I know!

From our review:

Despicable Me 4 is full of good ideas, with lots of them specifically appealing to what people like about these movies: Minion antics, Gru’s villain-ness versus his normal family life, and over-the-top Big Bad Guy theatrics among them. But all these bits and pieces are jumbled together and not cohesive enough to make sense as a story. The movie is discordant, like a bunch of musicians playing unfamiliar instruments (or a bunch of — dare I say — Minions given instruments) and trying to make a coherent song. But amid that chaos, sometimes the music starts sounding good — a cool jazzy saxophone solo soars briefly above the cacophony. You just have to grit your teeth and ignore the clanging drums and out-of-tune oboes around it.

Dandelion

Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Image: IFC Films

Genre: Drama
Run time: 1h 53m
Director: Nicole Riegel
Cast: KiKi Layne, Thomas Doherty, Melanie Nicholls-King

KiKi Layne (If Beale Street Could Talk) stars in this musical drama as Dandelion, a struggling singer-songwriter who travels the country performing gigs, all the while yearning for a career breakthrough she fears will never happen. After striking up a romance with Casey (Thomas Doherty), a fellow disgruntled musician, their love proves to be the inadvertent catalyst for Dandelion’s discovery of an authentic artistic voice all her own.

Widow Clicquot

Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Image: Vertical Entertainment

Genre: Drama
Run time: 1h 30m
Director: Thomas Napper
Cast: Haley Bennett, Leo Suter, Natasha O’Keeffe

This period drama stars Haley Bennett (Swallow) as Barbe-Nicole Clicquot, the widow of an 18th century vigneron who becomes the head of their fledgling vineyard after his untimely passing. Weathering financial difficulty and political turmoil, Barbe-Nicole must struggle to make a name for herself and nurture the company to fruition.