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New movies streaming this weekend: ‘Flight Risk’ and ‘Better Man’ are now available at home; Nicolas Cage’s ‘Longlegs’ hits Hulu
Five new theatrical movies are available to stream.
Longlegs, which grossed over $100 million worldwide on a less than $10 million budget, was the box office success story of 2024. By the end of its theatrical run, it was the highest-grossing independent movie of last year.
If you were waiting for Longlegs to hit a streaming service you’re already paying for, your patience has finally been rewarded. Beginning Feb. 14, it’s on Hulu. And if you’re looking for even more recent horror after checking out Longlegs, another indie darling in the horror genre makes its way to streaming after a stellar box office run: Terrifier 3.
There’s more to watch at home than just the scary stuff though. The new Mel Gibson-directed Mark Wahlberg action flick Flight Risk lands on digital this weekend, as does Better Man, a biopic about British pop star Robbie Williams that, for reasons we’ll get into later, stars a CGI monkey. And Flow, a delightful, dialogue-free film that earned a Best Animated Feature Oscar nomination, makes its streaming debut on Max.
Here’s what to know about the theatrical movies newly available to stream as of this week and where you can find them.
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Longlegs
The marketing for Longlegs often evoked Silence of the Lambs, and for good reason — it’s an apt comparison, as the film plays exactly like one of the many copycats that cropped up in the mid- to late- ’90s to the ’00s in the aftermath of Lambs’s Best Picture win. These movies practically became their own subgenre: think Se7en, The Bone Collector, Taking Lives. Longlegs sits comfortably among them.
It’s about, you guessed it, an FBI agent (Maika Monroe) investigating a serial killer, uncovering occult connections in the process. Nicolas Cage plays the titular Longlegs, and his standout performance and creepy presence really elevate all his scenes. The movie is familiar until it isn’t, as the third act goes full gonzo horror. Still, the performances from Cage and Monroe, and the incredibly creepy atmosphere conjured up by director Osgood Perkins, make it worthy of your time.
How to watch: Longlegs is now streaming on Hulu.
Terrifier 3
Every review of a Terrifier movie needs to come with a warning right up top: These movies are insanely gory and not for everyone. The franchise is for horror diehards only, as the appeal is almost entirely in watching people get dismembered, or otherwise brutally murdered, in the craziest ways imaginable.
If you’re unfamiliar, they’re slasher movies with a clown who kills people in increasingly vicious and over-the-top ways, and these deaths are always achieved with practical effects. David Howard Thornton stars as newly minted horror icon Art the Clown, and the third entry leans into Christmas vibes, a tried-and-true horror subgenre. What else do you need to know? If you’re into blood and guts and don’t mind your horror tongue-in-cheek, you’ll have almost as good a time watching this as Art the Clown does killing people. And he really loves killing people.
How to watch: Terrifier 3 is now streaming on Screambox and available to rent or buy on Amazon.
Flight Risk
Oscar-winning director Mel Gibson may seem like an odd fit for a chintzy action film starring Mark Wahlberg, but that didn’t stop him from taking the job! It certainly stands out on his résumé; the last film he directed was 2016’s Hacksaw Ridge, which was showered with Oscar nominations, and every other film he's directed has been nominated for an Oscar as well. For Braveheart, he even won!
Flight Risk may likely bring this streak to an end. It’s a movie about a fugitive witness (Topher Grace) being transferred via plane to a trial, and that plane getting hijacked by a bad guy (Mark Wahlberg) there to kill the witness and stop him from testifying.
It’s fitting that the movie is available at home mere weeks after premiering in theaters. It probably was a better fit for streaming, with its awkward cuts, cheap visual effects and lack of momentum any time Mark Wahlberg isn’t up to something. It’s still worth a watch for Wahlberg's return to a pure villain role for the first time since 1995’s Fear, and to see what he looks like with his head shaved. No, it’s not a bald cap!
How to watch: Flight Risk is now available to rent or purchase on Prime Video and other video on demand platforms.
Better Man
You don’t need to know who Robbie Williams is to appreciate Better Man, but would some name recognition have helped stop it from being one of the biggest bombs of the year so far? How do you sell audiences on a biopic of a figure they’re unfamiliar with? In this case, you cast a CGI monkey made by the people behind Planet of the Apes and Gollum in Lord of the Rings instead of an A-lister, of course!
The pitch here is so audience-unfriendly, it’s a miracle that it got made, but it's that ambition that helps set it apart. The film, a musical, tells the life story of British singer Robbie Williams, who you may know from the pop group Take That or from his solo career, who is portrayed as a CGI-animated anthropomorphic chimpanzee because, as he puts it, he always felt "less evolved than other people." No other character, all played by humans, comments on his appearance throughout the movie.
It’s a bold conceit that allows Better Man to transcend its traditional biopic boundaries. It racks up genre clichés, for example, about the parasitic nature of fame on those around Williams, just as readily as it knocks down others, like how the movie playfully shows the singer doesn’t think too highly of himself as an artist.
It’s an extremely high-concept, ambitious and expensive movie, and surprisingly poignant if you’re willing to go where the film takes you.
How to watch: Better Man is now available to rent or purchase on Prime Video and other video on demand platforms.
Flow
Flow proves that you can make a climate change parable that doesn’t beat you over the head with its messaging. It’s a beautifully designed, uniquely animated movie that so expertly captures the way animals — specifically the lead cat — move, you might wrongly assume motion-capture tech was used.
Imagine a typical American movie-studio-made children’s animated film about a bunch of talking animals on an adventure, except here they don’t speak at all, and the “adventure” is merely a group of various creatures trying to survive in the aftermath of a great flood, working together to adapt to their new world.
Kids will enjoy the cute animals, and for parents, the display of hope in the face of extremelyrelevant adversity will resonate.
How to watch: Flow is now streaming on Max.