Movie stars, Oscar winners, and some of the best New Movies to Stream in 2024 are travelling to streaming platforms as the fall movie season starts this month. See the list below for a full analysis of the top current films accessible for September 2024 streaming.
Civil War
Release Date: September 13
Streaming Platform: Max
Alex Garland’s “Civil War” is now available for streaming on Max earning great reviews from critics earlier this year and making a reasonable $122 million at the worldwide box office. Kirsten Dunst plays a war reporter in the movie who has gone jaded and travels over a war-torn America to interview the US president one more time. The supporting cast members include Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Nick Offerman, and Stephen McKinley Henderson. “In Alex Garland’s virtuoso ‘Civil War,’ a startling ground-level account of what a near-future disunification of the United States might look like, the press are the good guys, but also kind of the bad guys,” Variety’s review adds.
Wolfs
Release Date: September 27
Streaming Platform: Apple TV+
Helmed by Jon Watts, director of Tom Holland’s “Spider-Man trilogy,” the action comedy-drama “Wolfs” brings Brad Pitt and George Clooney together once more. Originally set for September 27 on Apple TV+, the film will receive a one-week theatrical release commencing on September 20 following its Venice Film Festival premiere. Pitt and Clooney play competitive fixers who, upon realizing they have been recruited for the same job, are compelled to work together.
The Boy and The Heron
Release Date: September 6
Streaming Platform: Max
Hayao Miyazaki’s “The Boy and the Heron” finally turns up in the United States via streaming on Max this month, where it adds to the enormous collection of Studio Ghibli movies on the network. With an Oscar for Best Animated Picture, Miyazaki’s most recent movie made approximately $300 million worldwide. Mohito, a young child, is the primary character of the film; he goes out on a journey around a mythical realm where the living and the dead mix to deal with his sadness of losing his mother.
I Saw the TV Glow
Release Date: September 20
Streaming Platform: Max
Among A24’s most memorable Sundance premieres, “I Saw the TV Glow” by Jane Schoenbrun raked nearly $5 million at the domestic box office this summer. Justice Smith and Brigette Lundy-Paine represent unhappy high school students falling in love with one another over a cult TV show in the film. But the program and mysterious incidents in their daily life start them to question their reality and identity. Based on Variety’s review, “I Saw the TV Glow” is most successful in its character-centred approach, which is anchored by the tense, implicit link between two very guarded people and electrified by Lundy-Paine’s erratic, fragile performance as someone certain there is no accepting place for them outside the TV set’s rectangular confines.
Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos
Release Date: September 7
Streaming Platform: Max
For lovers of “The Sopranos,” Alex Gibney’s two-part documentary “Wise Guy” is certainly a must-stream this month. The HBO blurb claims, “Gibney turns the script on ‘The Sopranos’ creator David Chase, diving into and analyzing the show’s inception, his creative process, and the strong linkages between his personal life and many of his characters on a mock-up of Dr. Melfi’s psychiatrist’s office. The documentary provides insight and inspiration combined with an extraordinary collection of show excerpts, early audition videos from several of the cast members, and behind-the-scenes footage to wrap the audience in the colourful realm of “Sopranos.” Attending are showwriters, producers, executives, and actresses like Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, and Michael Imperioli.
Rebel Ridge
Release Date: September 6
Streaming Platform: Netflix
Director Jeremy Saulnier of “Green Room” and “Blue Ruin” returns this month via the Netflix original series “Rebel Ridge.” The official synopsis supplied by the streaming behemoth states, ” Aaron Pierre’s character, Terry Richmond, arrives in Shelby Springs with the urgent task of posting bail for his cousin and rescuing him from grave danger.” After his life funds are illegally stolen by law authorities, Terry, however, finds himself in close contact with local police chief Sandy Burnne (Don Johnson) and his combat-ready officers. Terry befriends Anna Sophia Robb’s unusual ally, Summer McBride, a court clerk, and the two are ensnared in a massive conspiracy in the distant township.
Uglies
Release Date: September 13
Streaming Platform: Netflix
Thanks to the freshly published “A Family Affair” and the Netflix original series “The Kissing Booth,” Joey King has become somewhat well-known. Based on Scott Westerfeld’s book of the same name, she is now back on the screen in “Uglies.” The official summary reads that Tally is pleased for her opportunity to fit into society in a futuristic setting where she is pushed to undertake cosmetic surgery at sixteen years old. But Tally rushes out to retrieve a buddy who has gone, ultimately contradicting all she has ever wanted.
His Three Daughters
Release Date: September 20
Streaming Platform: Netflix
Among the best newly released streaming movies this month is probably Azazel Jacobs’s critically loved family drama “His Three Daughters.” Three sisters—Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen, and Natasha Lyonne—come together in an apartment in New York City in this family drama to tend to their father’s illness and reconcile their shattered past. From the Variety review: “It’s a real, humorous, and tragic narrative. Three adult sisters who have joined together to care for their father, who is nearing the end of his life from cancer, have masterly observed, remarkably unsentimental memory play in the film. It’s like “Cries and Whispers” portrayed as a conversational narrative of sibling rivalry.
Will & Harper
Release Date: September 27
Streaming Platform: Netflix
“Will & Harper,” one of the most debated films that debuted at Sundance earlier this year, examines the friendship between Will Ferrell and his closest friend Harper Steele as they travel together. Harper’s writing for “Saturday Night Live” from 1995 to 2008 brought the two together. Harper turned transgender in 2022. From the Variety review: “‘Barb and Star Go to Del Mar’ director Josh Greenbaum follows Ferrell and Steele on an eye-opening (entry-level) road trip that will make you laugh and cry.” With its format like an on-camera road ride between two longtime friends, “Will & Harper” lets the greater world get to know this extraordinary woman via humour, tears, and the rare “Borat”-style prank. Ferrell is in a manner also meeting her for the first time.
Boy Kills World
Release Date: September 13
Streaming Platform: Hulu
Should you be let down by the reboot of “The Crow,” you may catch up on Bill Skarsgård’s much better action thriller “Boy Kills World” on Hulu this month. Raised by his instructor Yayan Ruhian to kill the cruel Hilda Van Der Koy (Famke Janssen) and exact payback for the death of his family, Boy is a chaos machine. Boy kills his way to Hilda and finds one discovery after another owing to the ghost of his little sister. Variety stated of the movie, “so ultra-violent that it’s like ‘John Wick’ gone ‘Clockwork Orange'” Combining aspects from video games and “The Hunger Games,” Moritz Mohr’s first feature film builds a universe wholly on its own.
Babes
Release Date: September 30
Streaming Platform: Hulu
Pamela Adlon’s “Babes” highlights Michelle Buteau and Ilana Glazer as lifelong friends tested by pregnancy. Adlon gives a true and honest homage to motherhood, depicting it as the wonderful process by which a woman delivers a kid inside of her own body, per Variety’s review. You might find it hard to believe how simple something so beautiful might be. Except for tears, co-writers Glazer and Josh Rabinowitz, who also serves as a vet on “Broad City,” disclose as many prenatal secrets—and secretions—as they can, focused on nearly every physiological fluid that women make.
Parallel
Release Date: September 1
Streaming Platform: Paramount+
According to the official synopsis of “Parallel,” “Vanessa (Danielle Deadwyler) finds comfort at her family’s lake property to help her mourn the loss of a child. Vanessa strives to get her sense of normalcy back following the disaster with her husband, Alex (Aldis Hodge), and brother, Martel (Edwin Hodge). But not long after they arrive, she runs into an anomaly when her reflection from a parallel universe attacks her. She had to face the reality that multiverses exist and that these parallel gates might either be the means of escape from her anguish or keep her imprisoned always.
Apartment 7A
Release Date: September 27
Streaming Platform: Prime+
Roman Polanski’s renowned horror film “Rosemary’s Baby” is a prequel to the Paramount+ original film “Apartment 7A.” Julia Garner plays teenage dancer Terry Gionoffrio in the movie, whose career is in peril because of a terrible injury. She is taken in by affluent senior couple Dianne Wiest and Kevin McNally, who dwell in the haunted house Bramford and are surrounded by dark secrets. Unsettling developments prompt Terry to immediately reevaluate the sacrifices she is ready to make to resume her dancing career.
We Will Dance Again
Release Date: September 7
Streaming Platform: Paramount+’s
The documentary “We Will Dance Again,” which covers the October 7th Hamas terror attack at the Nova Music Festival resulting in over 400 deaths and scores of kidnappings, will first be accessible on Paramount+. Originally slated as a celebration of life, love, and music for thousands of young people, the Nova Music Festival became one of the first targets as Hamas initiated the largest terror attack in Israel’s history, by official accounts. Over a dozen survivors, many of whom captured their experiences on camera as the tragedy occurred, help to tell the story of “We Will Dance Again”. The movie merges footage recorded by Hamas and the victims with first-hand memories from nearly a dozen survivors.
The American Society of Magical Negroes
Release Date: September 3
Streaming Platform: Prime Video
Originally aired on Peacock earlier this year, “The American Society of Magical Negroes” is now available for Prime Video customers. Drawing from the Variety review: “A young artist is pulled into a secret society whose goal is to appease white people in Kobi Libii’s bold comedy.” The puckish bravado of the movie is its audacious assumption that this is a good thing. Though it’s a comedy of racial images, this picture is equally as creative and controversial as “American Fiction,” but it goes all the way with the indignation. Writer-director Kobi Libii wants us to simultaneously scratch our heads and chuckle. He does it brilliantly. The American Society of Magical Negroes is a sharply perceptive piece that respects its irreverence.
Killer Heat
Release Date: September 26
Streaming Platform: Netflix
Prime Video’s adaptation of Jo Nesbø’s 2021 short story “The Jealousy Man,” under the direction of Philippe Lacôte, “Night of the Kings,” The film revolves around Richard Madden, a favourite character on “Game of Thrones,” and brings in injured detective Joseph Gordon-Levitt, also nicknamed as “The Jealousy Man,” to investigate a violent love triangle involving twin brothers. Shailene Woodley stars also.