You wait weeks for new Netflix movies to launch on the service and, like London buses, two arrive at once.
Indeed, after The Old Guard 2 ended the new movies drought on Netflix, the streaming titan has given us a pair of original films to check out this weekend (July 11 to 13). The movies in question? German thriller Brick and US comedy Madea's Destination Wedding.
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New Netflix movies: July
Madea's Destination Wedding
Release date: July 11
Runtime: 102 minutes
Age rating: PG-13 (US); 12A (UK)
Cast: Tyler Perry, Cassi Davis Patton, David Mann, Tamela Mann, Taja V. Simpson, Diamond White, Jermaine Harris, Xavier Smalls
Director: Tyler Perry
RT score: TBC (critics); TBC (audience)
It seems Tyler Perry can do no wrong in the eyes of Netflix executives. Just weeks after his latest Netflix film Straw pulled in million of viewers, the latest entry in his Madea-fronted corny comedy movie series has now landed on the platform. This time, the titular matriarch and her family travel to the Bahamas for a shotgun wedding involving her grand-niece Tiffany. Critics and fans alike are yet to offer their thoughts on Perry's latest slapstick flick, so it remains to be seen if it'll be warmly received or slammed by all and sundry.
Brick
Release date: July 10
Runtime: 99 minutes
Age rating: R (US); 15 (UK)
Cast: Matthias Schweighöfer, Ruby O. Fee, Frederick Lau, Murathan Muslu, Josef Berousek, and Alexander Boyer
Director: Philip Koch
RT score: 29% (critics); TBC (audience)
A movie that feels like it would've been more appropriate to release amid the pandemic because we weren't allowed to leave our homes, German thriller flick Brick sounds like a claustrophobic's nightmare scenario. In it, Schweighofer and Fee play Tim and Olivia, who wake one morning to find a mysterious black brick wall is blocking their front door. They can't break through or circumnavigate it, either – so, like any good neighbor, they smash through their fellow apartment dwellers' ceilings to unite and find a way out together. Sadly, based on its early critical reception, Brick's intriguing premise sounds like it was dreamt up without the narrative cement to bind it together. A movie that'll crumble before your very eyes, then...
The Old Guard 2
Release date: July 2
Runtime: 106 minutes
Age rating: 16+ (US); 15 (UK)
Cast: Charlize Theron, KiKi Layne, Matthias Schoenaerts, Marwan Kenzari, Luca Marinelli, Veronica Ngô, Henry Golding, Uma Thurman, and Chiwetel Ejiofor
RT score: 23% (critics); 37% (audience)
I didn't mind The Old Guard. It was an easy action movie to stick on and enjoy for what it was. I'm also a sucker for Charlize Theron kicking ass, too – indeed, Mad Max: Fury Road and Atomic Blonde are among my favorite action movies. For whatever reason, though, I just can't get excited for The Old Guard 2. Maybe it's because five years have passed since the original was released. Maybe it's down to the fact that it largely covers the same old ground (albeit with Theron's Andy now being mortal and vulnerable to, you know, dying) as its predecessor did. Or maybe I've just read too much into its abject critical and audiences scores on Rotten Tomatoes. In short: I'll be giving this a miss and I think you should, too.
New Netflix movies: June
Kpop Demon Hunters
Release date: June 20
Runtime: 99 minutes
Age rating: PG-13 (US); PG (UK)
Cast: Arden Cho, Ahn Hyo-seop, May Hong, Ji-young Yoo, Yunjin Kim, Joel Kim Booster, Liza Koshy, with Daniel Dae Kim, Ken Jeong, and Byung Hun Lee
Directors: Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans
RT score: 95% (critics); 90% (audience)
From Sony Pictures Animation and Netflix, this animated flick is a blast from start to finish. In it, Rumi, Mira, and Zoey are one of the world's biggest Kpop groups by day. At night, though, they masquerade as – surprise surprise – demon hunters. However, when a group of demonic entities take the fight to the titular team under the guise of a new Kpop boyband, Rumi, Mira, and Zoey must thwart their foes' plan for world domination on and off the stage. With laugh-out-louds jokes, a gorgeous animation style inspired by the Spider-Verse movies, a great story, and earworm-style original songs performed by a whole host of artists including real-life Kpop outfit TWICE, Kpop Demon Hunters is another feather in the cap of Netflix's ever-strong animated film contingent.
What new Netflix movies will be released throughout 2025?
Want to know which new Netflix movies are due to arrive before the year ends? Check out the list below:
- Wall to Wall (July 18)
- A Normal Woman (July 24)
- Happy Gilmore 2 (July 25)
- My Oxford Year (August 1)
- Fixed (August 13)
- The Thursday Murder Club (August 28)
- The Wrong Paris (September 12)
- She Said Maybe (September 19)
- Steve (October 3)
- Nouvelle Vague (October 10)
- She Walks in Darkness (October 17)
- A House of Dynamite (October 24)
- In Your Dreams (November 14)
- Train Dreams (November 21)
- Frankenstein (November 2025, date TBC)
- Troll 2 (December 1)
- Jay Kelly (December 5)
- Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (December 12)
- 10Dance (December 2025, date TBC)
- A Merry Little Ex-Mas (TBC)
- Night Always Comes (TBC)
- R&B (TBC)
- The Ballad of a Small Player (TBC)
- The Twits (TBC)
- The Woman in Cabin 10 (TBC)
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