10 New Movies to Watch This Weekend on Netflix, Prime Video, and VOD (September 18-20)

Happy weekend! Before you check out what’s new in streaming and rentals this weekend, have a look at our Fall Preview coverage, teasing some of the best movies and shows in the coming months. Now, on to the column.

The End of Oak Street is available to rent. The film follows a family plucked right out of an Amblin movie, whose neighborhood is mysteriously thrown thousands of years into the past, populated with dinosaurs and terrifying creatures from the Mesozoic Era. It Ends is also available to rent, following a group of recent grads who head out for a joyride that appears to have no end in sight.

1 The End of Oak Street

• Available on VOD
• Genre: Fantasy
• Run time: 1h 39m
• Director: David Robert Mitchell
• Cast: Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor, Maisy Stella

The End of Oak Street follows a couple at a very low point in their relationship. Denise (Anne Hathaway) is frustrated. Greg (Ewan McGregor) is clueless. Their kids can feel the tension in the house but don’t know what to do. Suddenly, their whole neighborhood is thrown thousands of years into the past, back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. The result is one of the scariest dinosaur movies ever made.

Per our Polygon review:

David Robert Mitchell’s The End of Oak Street takes an absurd premise of a suburban neighborhood suddenly warped into prehistoric times and turns it into the sort of classic Amblin romp you’d stumble across while channel surfing and wind up watching through to the end. The End of Oak Street more than makes up for a summer without an actual Jurassic World sequel.

2 It Ends

Image: Neon

• Available on VOD
• Genre: Horror
• Run time: 1h 29m
• Director: Alexander Ullom
• Cast: Phinehas Yoon, Akira Jackson, Noah Toth

Four friends and recent college grads decide to go for a drive together before their paths diverge. After missing a turn on the road, they board a two-lane highway that seemingly has no end.

From our Polygon interview with director Alexander Ullom:

More generally, he sees It Ends as a reflection of the many issues facing Gen Z as they graduate from college and stumble into a world that seemingly no longer works the way it once did. At this point, he says, young people are just looking for any viable path to follow. The film's endless road turns that desire into something surreal and sinister.

3 Hellcat

Image: Shudder

• Available on Shudder
• Genre: Horror
• Run time: 1h 31m
• Director: Brock Bodell
• Cast: Dakota Gorman, Todd Terry, James Austin Johnson

Lena (Dakota Gorman) wakes up in a locked camper that’s being towed by a stranger claiming he wants to save her life. She has an infection, with the driver speaking to her through an intercom and telling her that he’s taking her to a doctor.

4 Tony

Image: A24

• Available on VOD
• Genre: Drama
• Run time: 1h 46m
• Director: Matt Johnson
• Cast: Dominic Sessa, Antonio Banderas, Emilia Jones

Tony is an Anthony Bourdain biopic, following the beloved cook and food writer (Dominic Sessa) as an aimless teen who ends up working in a kitchen by chance, discovering his passion and life’s calling.

5 Best of the Best

Image: Netflix

• Available on Netflix
• Genre: Comedy
• Run time: 1h 52m
• Director: Lena Khan
• Cast: Maitreyi Ramakrishna, Priyanka Kedia

Lifelong best friends Maya (Maitreyi Ramakrishna) and Anjali (Priyanka Kedia) are beginning college together. As the two enroll in UCLA, they join a Bollywood dance team, getting sucked into a competitive and cutthroat world that they weren’t expecting.

6 Finding Emily

Image: Focus Features

• Available on VOD
• Genre: Romantic comedy
• Run time: 1h 50m
• Director: Alice MacDonald
• Cast: Angourie Rice, Spike Fearn, Minnie Driver

A lovesick college student (Spike Fearn) meets the girl of his dreams at a party. He only knows that her name is Emily, and decides to send a mass email to the school to find her. A second Emily gets his email and tags along to document it all for her psychology dissertation.

7 The Napa Boys

Image: Magnolia Pictures

• Available on Prime Video
• Genre: Comedy
• Run time: 1h 32m
• Director: Nick Corirossi
• Cast: Kevin Smith, Nick Corirossi, Sarah Ramos

Following an ensemble cast, The Napa Boys is a parody exploring Hollywood’s current franchise culture. The film is framed as the fourth entry into an established franchise, following a wine-drinking troupe through an adventure in the Napa Valley.

8 The Rivals of Amziah King

Image: Black Bear

• Available on VOD
• Genre: Western
• Run time: 2h 11m
• Director: Andrew Patterson
• Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Angelina LookingGlass, Kurt Russell

Set in rural Oklahoma, the film follows the reunion between Amziah King (Matthew McConaughey), a charismatic musician and beekeeper, and his estranged daughter (Angelina LookingGlass). As the two reconnect, Amziah hopes to introduce her to the family business, which proves to be more dangerous than she expected.

9 Goody Goody

Image: Shudder

• Available on Shudder
• Genre: Horror
• Run time: 1h 20m
• Director: Raymond Creamer
• Cast: Samantha Robinson, Colby Hollman, Colleen Foy

Goody Goody follows a couple expecting their first child. Goody (Samantha Robinson) and Jayson (Colby Hollman) want to have full control of their home birth, renting a remote cabin and heading there with a doula. As Goody goes into labor while a storm rages on, they realize that there might be an evil force staying in their cabin with them, and that it might be connected to their unborn baby.

10 Stop! That! Train!

Image: Bleecker Street

• Available on Netflix
• Genre: Comedy
• Run time: 1h 35m
• Director: Adam Shankman
• Cast: RuPaul, Marcia Marcia Marcia, Jujubee

Parodying disaster movies and featuring an ensemble cast of drag performers, Stop! That! Train! follows two bored train stewardesses who find new jobs on a luxury train company. When a massive storm threatens to derail their train, the two have to work with the other passengers and crew members to stay alive.