New Netflix films: August 30, 2024 replace
Tom Power, senior leisure reporter
This week’s replace – the ultimate one for August 2024 – sees two new films added to this Netflix information: The Deliverance, a horror thriller flick, and R-rated teen comedy movie Incoming. We’ve eliminated Find Me Falling as we do not contemplate it to be new anymore and up to date our ‘coming quickly’ part with the most recent data accessible to us.
August is sort of over, however the regular stream of latest Netflix films is not. Indeed, we is likely to be waving goodbye to summer season shortly, however there are many new films set to reach on the streaming titan between now and the top of 2024.
So, what’s new this week? A horror-thriller known as The Deliverance is the most recent Netflix Original Movie to be launched. It joins R-rated teen comedy Incoming on this week’s replace, with the latter touchdown on the world’s finest streaming service final Friday (August 23).
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New Netflix films: August
The Deliverance
Release date: August 30
Runtime: 112 minutes
Age ranking: R (US) / 15 (UK)
Cast: Andra Day, Glenn Close, Mo’Nique, Anthony B. Jenkins, Miss Lawrence, Demi Singleton, Tasha Smith, Omar Epps, Caleb McLaughlin, and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor
Director: Lee Daniels
Rotten Tomatoes (RT) rating: 42% (critics); 75% (viewers)
The newest horror flick to land on Netflix, The Deliverance stars Day as Ebony, a single mother struggling to struggle off her private demons regardless of the promise of a recent begin by shifting into a brand new dwelling along with her three youngsters. It is not lengthy earlier than, in The Exorcist-like trend, supernatural occurrences threaten the household’s newfound peace and endanger Ebony’s youngsters.
Critics have not responded kindly to Daniels’ newest cinematic effort, with many suggesting it isn’t as terrifying or thematically impactful correctly. General viewers appear to love it, although, so possibly the final of August’s new Netflix films will briefly scratch that paranormal horror itch you’ve got obtained.
Watch the Deliverance on Netflix.
Incoming
Release date: August 23
Runtime: 91 minutes
Age ranking: R (US) / 15 (UK)
Cast: Mason Thames, Ramon Reed, Raphael Alejandro, Isabella Ferreira, Bardia Seiri, Loren Gray, Ali Gallo, Scott MacArthur, Kaitlin Olson, and Bobby Cannavale
Director: Dave and John Chernin
RT rating: 26% (critics); 61% (viewers)
Clocking in at a breezy one hour and 31 minutes, this raunchy teen comedy – one very a lot within the mould of comparable early 2000s choices like Superbad – makes an attempt to reinvigorate its style with awkward high-school humor aplenty.
Unfortunately, Incoming does not get an A grade for it endeavor. The flick, which see 4 freshmen face their best problem but, i.e. attending their first highschool occasion, is not as humorous or risqué as we would hoped. Sure, it has its moments, however its unexpectedly short-ish runtime means you’ll be able to escape the dirge on supply earlier than you actually lose the need to reside.
Watch Incoming on Netflix.
The Union
Release date: August 16
Runtime: 109 minutes
Age ranking: PG-13 (US) / 12 (UK)
Cast: Mark Walhberg, Halle Berry, Mike Colter, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jessica De Gouw, Alice Lee, Jackie Earle Haley, and J.Ok. Simmons
Director: Julian Farino
RT rating: 37% (critics); 23% (viewers)
Action-oriented flicks have turn out to be a staple of each Wahlberg and Berry’s again catalogs in current occasions, however I think about that only a few of them have been as trampled upon by followers and critics alike as The Union.
That’s not a shock, both, contemplating how generic it appears and sounds. Wahlberg performs Mike, an unassuming New York development employee who, sooner or later, serendipitously crosses paths together with his former high-school sweetheart Roxanne (Berry). Unbeknownst to Mike, although, Roxanne is not right here to rekindle their romance – as a substitute, she recruits him for a harmful, cross-continental covert mission that, for some purpose, solely he can assist her with. Another star-studded Netflix Original to instantly consign to the scrap heap.
Watch The Union on Netflix.
Rebel Moon – The Director’s Cut
Release date: August 2
Runtime: 204 minutes (Part One); 173 minutes (Part Two)
Age ranking: R (US) / 18 (UK)
Cast: Sofia Boutella, Ed Skrein, Djimon Hounsou, Michiel Huisman, Doona Bae, Ray Fisher, Charlie Hunnam, and Sir Anthony Hopkins
Director: Zack Snyder
RT rating: 53% (critics) and 73% (viewers) for Part One; 64% (critics) and 78% (viewers) for Part Two
Almost eight months after Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire and 4 months after Part Two: The Scargiver debuted on Netflix, Zack Snyder’s “true imaginative and prescient” for each movies have been launched on the service. Gone are the PG-13 rankings of that aforementioned duo and, of their place, R-rated director’s cuts of the pair, full with an absurd quantity of latest footage, have surfaced to present diehard Snyder followers the flicks that they wished all alongside.
The vital reception to Rebel Moon‘s two director’s cuts, which have been renamed Chalice of Blood and Curse of Forgiveness, has been blended, however basic viewers appear to take pleasure in them. With a mixed runtime of six hours and 16 minutes – a complete that Rebel Moon‘s solid could not even imagine after they heard the information – although, you will not wish to stream them back-to-back.
Watch Rebel Moon – The Director’s Cut Part One on Netflix.
Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie
Release date: August 2
Runtime: 86 minutes
Age ranking: U (US and UK)
Cast: Carolyn Lawrence, Tom Kenny, Wanda Sykes, Clancy Brown, Bill Fagerbakke, Mr. Lawrence, Rodger Bumpass, Johnny Knoxville, Craig Robinson, Grey DeLisle, Ilia Isorelýs Paulino, and Matty Cardarople
Director: Liza Johnson
RT rating: 56% (critics); 22% (viewers)
Set on the earth of the well-known SpongeBob SquarePants franchise, Saving Bikini Bottom is the primary of many deliberate SpongeBob spin-off initiatives that’ll shine a lightweight on its eccentric however beloved solid of characters. In the primary of these productions, Sandy Cheeks (Lawrence) and SpongeBob (Tom Kenny) embark on a quest to avoid wasting the titular underwater city when it is out of the blue scooped out of the Pacific Ocean by an unknown adversary.
Early critiques prompt this may very well be one other animated film hit for Netflix, with critics suggesting it hits the entire proper nostalgia-based notes, however diehard SpongeBob followers have slammed it for its “horrible performing” and “nightmare” plot. Younger viewers who’re new to the franchise would possibly get a kick out of it, thoughts you…
Watch Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie on Netflix.
New Netflix films: what’s coming in 2024?
Here’s a whole record of the entire new Netflix films that’ll launch on the service this yr (NB: we’ll be including to this record as new bulletins are made):
- Apollo 13: Survival (September 5)
- Rebel Ridge (September 6)
- Uglies (September 13)
- His Three Daughters (September 20)
- Rez Ball (September 27)
- Will & Harper (September 27)
- It’s What’s Inside (October 4)
- The Platform 2 (October 4)
- Lonely Planet (October 11)
- The Shadow Strays (October 17)
- Woman of the Hour (October 18)
- Family Pack (October 23)
- Don’t Move (October 25)
- Time Cut (October 30)
- Meet Me Next Christmas (November 6)
- Hot Frosty (November 13)
- Emilia Perez (November 13)
- The Merry Gentlemen (November 20)
- Spellbound (November 22)
- The Piano Lesson (November 22)
- Joy (November 22)
- Our Little Secret (November 27)
- That Christmas (December 4)
- Carry-On (December 13)
- The Six Triple Eight (December 20)
- The Electric State (anticipated 2024)
- Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (anticipated 2024)
- The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep (anticipated 2024)
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