What to Watch

Your time is precious, and your options are endless. The good news: We watch it all so you don’t have to. Polygon’s What to Watch highlights the best, the funniest, the scariest, and the most exciting in movies, TV, and everything in between. Stop scrolling, start watching!

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how to train your dragon
Before it leaves Netflix, revisit the movie that made Celtic fantasy cool again

You only have a few days to watch How to Train Your Dragon and its sequel

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One of the best fight scenes in anime history confirms Kagurabachi will be amazing

Takeuchi's animation style should make the Kagurabachi anime truly one-of-a-kind

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Sydney Sweeney in Night Teeth from Netflix. Sweeney plays vampire boss Grace, and wears a studded vambrace with a black dress and spiked earrings.
Remember when Sydney Sweeney starred as a vampire mob boss in this Netflix thriller?

Night Teeth is far more compelling than it appears

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Sir Michael Caine in Dressed to Kill
The provocative thriller that made me reevaluate a director Tarantino likes more than Scorsese

Quentin Tarantino has described Brian De Palma as "one of the finest directors of his generation". A lesser-seen slasher shows what makes him great.

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Clayface from Feat of Clay, Batman the Animated Series
5 Batman stories you need before Clayface’s horror movie arrives

What to watch and read before this October's least expected comic book movie

In a scene from the Sam Raimi film Crimewave, Bruce Campbell, a bowtie and with slicked-back hair, smirks at the camera, playing a character known as
40 years ago, Sam Raimi and the Coen brothers teamed up to make a movie hardly anyone saw or liked

Here's the thing, though: Crimewave is actually pretty fun, and it's streaming for free!

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a zombie chases rebels in Train to Busan Presents Peninsula
One of the century's best zombie movies (and its lesser-known sequel) are leaving Netflix in 7 days

Watch while you can

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A young nun (Cecilia) holds a candle inside the convent in Immaculate
Sydney Sweeney's exploitation horror-thriller remains the best thing she's ever done

Immaculate is a tense, moody nunsploitation horror

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A Sukuna-possessed Yuji Itadori aiming an arrow made of fiery energy in Jujutsu Kaisen.
5 anime coming to Netflix this May you don’t want to miss

There’s a whole lot of ani-May to sink your teeth into on Netflix next month

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A cute dog (Indy) with brown fur looks off in the distance in Good Boy
The most unexpected horror movie of 2025 redefines a classic genre trope

Ben Leonberg's Good Boy is an atmospheric treat

Timothee Chalamet holds a table tennis bat and points in Marty Supreme
Marty Supreme, Netflix's brutal new thriller, and everything else new to streaming this weekend

Watch the latest from Oldboy's Park Chan-wook on Hulu

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No Other Choice
A brutal new thriller 16 years in the making is finally streaming, and it couldn't be more relevant

The movie has been in the works for years and it still feels up-to-the-minute

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The core cast of 2004’s Battlestar Galactica pose together, all looking at the camera confrontationally
The Battlestar Galactica reboot is finally returning to streaming

On May 1, you can watch Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell tear each other apart in space again

Liu Kang and Kung Lao make a dramatic entrance in 2021's Mortal Kombat
2021's best video game movie might not be a flawless victory, but it packs a mean punch

Winning Mortal Kombat cannot be left to chance

Dorohedoro Season 2
Dorohedoro season 2 is finally here and somehow wilder than ever

This anime makes chaos feel strangely lived in

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Kit Connor's Elden Ring casting makes perfect sense if you've seen his underrated war movie

Alex Garland may be completing an surprising trilogy with Elden Ring

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Still from Blade Runner 2049 featuring K and a blown up hologram of the fictional Joi AI.
5 atmospheric, psychological sci-fi movies to watch after you play Pragmata

Jack in for a ride into the future, where advanced AI, lunar bases, and androids await.

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nippon sangoku
I watched Prime Video’s most stylish new anime, but not because Hideo Kojima recommended it

Nippon Sangoku will amaze you through its bold visual storytelling and subversion of tropes

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The title card from the Mummies Alive! TV series, featuring a bas-relief pharaoh in a traditional headdress above the series title
If Lee Cronin’s The Mummy looks too gross for you, try this lighter animated Mummy fare from the 1990s

Mummies Alive! was a solid late-1990s cartoon that's mostly been forgotten

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Wonder Woman holds her arms up, wrists protected by silver bracelets, in a defensive pose
50 years ago, the Wonder Woman TV show rescued DC's most important female hero

The show reflected both a new and old direction for the comics

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