Tom Power, senior entertainment reporter
This week’s update – the final one for August 2024 – sees two new movies added to this Netflix guide: The Deliverance, a horror thriller flick, and R-rated teen comedy film Incoming. We’ve removed Find Me Falling as we don’t consider it to be new anymore and updated our ‘coming soon’ section with the latest information available to us.
August is nearly over, but the steady stream of new Netflix movies isn’t. Indeed, we might be waving goodbye to summer shortly, but there are plenty of new movies set to arrive on the streaming titan between now and the end of 2024.
So, what’s new this week? A horror-thriller called The Deliverance is the latest Netflix Original Movie to be released. It joins R-rated teen comedy Incoming in this week’s update, with the latter landing on the world’s best streaming service last Friday (August 23).
Want even more recommendations? Try our best Netflix movies guide for a plethora of fantastic films, or get the lowdown on everything new on Netflix in September for all of your movie, TV, and documentary needs. For now, though, read on to learn more about the latest Netflix movies to join its back catalog.
New Netflix movies: August
The Deliverance
Release date: August 30
Runtime: 112 minutes
Age rating: 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) score: 42% (critics); 75% (audience)
The latest horror flick to land on Netflix, The Deliverance stars Day as Ebony, a single mom struggling to fight off her personal demons despite the promise of a fresh start by moving into a new home with her three kids. It isn’t long before, in The Exorcist-like fashion, supernatural occurrences threaten the family’s newfound peace and endanger Ebony’s children.
Critics haven’t responded kindly to Daniels’ latest cinematic effort, with many suggesting it’s not as terrifying or thematically impactful as it should be. General viewers seem to like it, though, so maybe the last of August’s new Netflix movies will briefly scratch that paranormal horror itch you’ve got.
Watch the Deliverance on Netflix.
Incoming
Release date: August 23
Runtime: 91 minutes
Age rating: 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 score: 26% (critics); 61% (audience)
Clocking in at a breezy one hour and 31 minutes, this raunchy teen comedy – one very much in the mould of similar early 2000s offerings like Superbad – attempts to reinvigorate its genre with awkward high-school humor aplenty.
Unfortunately, Incoming doesn’t get an A grade for it endeavor. The flick, which see four freshmen face their greatest challenge yet, i.e. attending their first high school party, isn’t as funny or risqué as we’d hoped. Sure, it has its moments, but its unexpectedly short-ish runtime means you can escape the dirge on offer before you truly lose the will to live.
The Union
Release date: August 16
Runtime: 109 minutes
Age rating: 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.K. Simmons
Director: Julian Farino
RT score: 37% (critics); 23% (audience)
Action-oriented flicks have become a staple of both Wahlberg and Berry’s back catalogs in recent times, but I imagine that very few of them have been as trampled upon by fans and critics alike as The Union.
That’s not a surprise, either, considering how generic it looks and sounds. Wahlberg plays Mike, an unassuming New York construction worker who, one day, serendipitously crosses paths with his former high-school sweetheart Roxanne (Berry). Unbeknownst to Mike, though, Roxanne isn’t here to rekindle their romance – instead, she recruits him for a dangerous, cross-continental covert mission that, for some reason, only he can help her with. Another star-studded Netflix Original to immediately consign to the scrap heap.
Rebel Moon – The Director’s Cut
Release date: August 2
Runtime: 204 minutes (Part One); 173 minutes (Part Two)
Age rating: 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 score: 53% (critics) and 73% (audience) for Part One; 64% (critics) and 78% (audience) for Part Two
Almost eight months after Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire and four months after Part Two: The Scargiver debuted on Netflix, Zack Snyder’s “true vision” for both films have been released on the service. Gone are the PG-13 ratings of that aforementioned duo and, in their place, R-rated director’s cuts of the pair, complete with an absurd amount of new footage, have surfaced to give diehard Snyder fans the movies that they wanted all along.
The critical reception to Rebel Moon‘s two director’s cuts, which have been renamed Chalice of Blood and Curse of Forgiveness, has been mixed, but general viewers seem to enjoy them. With a combined runtime of six hours and 16 minutes – a total that Rebel Moon‘s cast couldn’t even believe when they heard the news – though, you won’t want 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 rating: 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 score: 56% (critics); 22% (audience)
Set in the world of the famous SpongeBob SquarePants franchise, Saving Bikini Bottom is the first of many planned SpongeBob spin-off projects that’ll shine a light on its eccentric but beloved cast of characters. In the first of those productions, Sandy Cheeks (Lawrence) and SpongeBob (Tom Kenny) embark on a quest to save the titular underwater town when it’s suddenly scooped out of the Pacific Ocean by an unknown adversary.
Early reviews suggested this could be another animated movie hit for Netflix, with critics suggesting it hits all of the right nostalgia-based notes, but diehard SpongeBob fans have slammed it for its “horrible acting” and “nightmare” plot. Younger viewers who are new to the franchise might get a kick out of it, mind you…
Watch Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie on Netflix.
New Netflix movies: what’s coming in 2024?
His Three Daughters will debut on Netflix in late September (Image credit: Netflix)
Here’s a complete list of all of the new Netflix movies that’ll launch on the service this year (NB: we’ll be adding to this list as new announcements 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 (expected 2024)Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (expected 2024)The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep (expected 2024)
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