What to Watch This Weekend: New Releases Worth Your Time

A fast-mutating virus gets loose at a biotech conference, the building is sealed, and a professor and a handful of survivors have to fight their way through the people who used to be their colleagues. This Korean outbreak thriller has the strongest early score of the new releases here, from more than a thousand TMDB votes.

Watch it if: you want a full-on outbreak thriller and don’t mind subtitles.

After years of rockets, anvils and catapults that backfire, Wile E. Coyote does the only sensible thing: he hires a billboard lawyer and sues the Acme Corporation. It mixes live action with animation and gives a mixed-age room something everyone can watch together.

Watch it if: you need one film that works for kids and adults.

A courier delivering medical supplies is caught in a night that collapses into chaos, and has to fight to survive it. At 95 minutes it’s the shortest film on this list, and it doesn’t hang around.

Watch it if: you want a short, sharp horror night.

Cole Reed watches his billionaire employer get killed, takes the blame for it, and goes after the truth alone on a cargo ship, where the trail leads to an international conspiracy. A lean action setup that runs just over an hour and a half.

Watch it if: you want straightforward action with no homework.

Gemma, a young mother raising her daughter in the house she grew up in, discovers she can step into the Further, the realm of lost souls at the center of this series, and that she can bring things back with her. The story centers on a new character.

Watch it if: you like supernatural horror with a familiar universe behind it.

After a pandemic has emptied the world, a pilot lives in a Colorado airplane hangar with his dog and one heavily armed neighbor. Then a radio transmission comes through while he is flying his old Cessna, and he sets out to find where it came from. Early audience scores are more mixed than for the films above.

Watch it if: you enjoy post-apocalyptic survival stories.

A police chief and an officer are sent to the remote South Korean village of Hope Harbor to investigate a mysterious creature. What starts as a misunderstanding among the locals grows into a disaster on a far larger scale. At more than two and a half hours it’s the longest film here, so plan the evening around it.

Watch it if: you want something ambitious and have time to spare.

The Owens sisters return, this time facing a dark curse that threatens to pull their family apart for good. It has the lowest early score on this list, but if you love the 1998 original, it may be the one you were always going to watch anyway.

Watch it if: you have fond memories of the first film.

Peter Parker is now a full-time Spider-Man in a city that no longer remembers who he is. His friends are moving on without him, and a powerful new threat is taking shape. Released in late July, it still holds an 8.3 from more than four thousand TMDB votes.

Watch it if: you haven’t caught up with the summer’s Spider-Man release yet.

After the Trojan War, Odysseus faces a long and dangerous journey home to Ithaca, with gods, monsters and tests of his own cleverness standing in the way. Christopher Nolan’s take on Homer’s epic has held an 8.0 from more than four thousand votes since its July release.

Watch it if: you want an epic on the largest screen you can find.