What to watch this weekend: Ben Affleck in ‘Deep Water,’ Amazon’s ‘Master,’ Netflix’s ‘Windfall’

It’s starting to get warm outside, and streaming services are serving up some hot new film fare.

This weekend, Ben Affleck and his ex Ana de Armas play complicated lovers in a Hulu erotic thriller based on a Patricia Highsmith novel, while Lily Collins and Jesse Plemons are a couple hounded by Jason Segel in a Hitchcockian Netflix movie. Regina Hall headlines an Amazon Prime social horror film (and Sundance Film Festival highlight) that explores witchy history and systemic racism, and Oscar winner Mark Rylance headlines a period crime drama alongside Dylan O’Brien.

Here’s a guide to new movies that’ll satisfy every cinematic taste, plus some noteworthy theatrical films making their home video debut on demand: 

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If you want to see the movie that won’t be part of a Ben Affleck/JLo date night: ‘Deep Water’

“Flashdance” and “Fatal Attraction” filmmaker Adrian Lyne hasn’t directed a movie in 20 years but for some reason came back for this. This throwback to ludicrous ’90s thrillers stars Affleck and de Armas as a snail-loving rich guy and his boundary-pushing wife. They have an open relationship to keep their marriage together, she seduces dudes in front of him, and her lovers have a tendency to go missing and/or wind up dead. Let’s just say Affleck has better chemistry with the snails.

Where to watch: Hulu

If you enjoy terrific and thoughtful horror flicks: ‘Master’

Set at an elite New England college, director Mariama Diallo’s sinister, twisty and thought-provoking delight stars Hall as a new dean of students (aka “master”) who sees ghosts and terrifying images while Zoe Renee is a freshman placed in a supposedly haunted dorm room. Spooky things are afoot in the locale, which was the site of a Salem-era gallows, though the scariest matters are the microaggressions and non-supernatural obstacles both Black women face.

Where to watch: Amazon Prime

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If you dig old-school gangster films: ‘The Outfit’

Oscar-winning writer Graham Moore (“The Imitation Game”) makes his directorial debut with this intriguing and intimate 1950s-set crime story, starring Rylance as Leonard, an Englishman who runs a Chicago tailor shop frequented by gangsters. When young hoods (O’Brien and Johnny Flynn) seek shelter during a turf war, Leonard has to outwit a crew of mobsters hunting for a rat among them as his own secretive backstory is revealed. 

Where to watch: In theaters

If you like to watch rich people squirm: ‘Windfall’

Written and directed by Charlie McDowell (“The One I Love”), the quirky thriller stars Segel as a mysterious stranger who invites himself into the vacant desert getaway of a high-profile CEO (Plemons) and his wife (Collins, who is McDowell’s real-life spouse). When the couple suddenly shows up, however, the intruder is put into an awkward position and takes them hostage. The situation grows out of hand from there for all three, as repressed feelings bubble up, things turn bloody and escape begins to look different for each character.

Where to watch: Netflix

If you love old-school slasher movies: ‘X’

Next time you want to film porn at elderly couple’s place, just don’t. Director Ti West’s latest horror jam starts as a ’70s-era gore-fest, with Brittany Snow, Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi, Jenna Ortega and Mia Goth as members of a DIY adult-film crew who rent out a Texas farmhouse as a movie set and are forced into a killer scenario, but sneakily shifts into a well-crafted (and bloody) piece about lust, longing and growing old.

Where to watch: In theaters

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If you haven’t seen ‘Antebellum’ yet: ‘Alice’

The 2020 Janelle Monáe horror movie shares a key plot point with “Alice,” though here, the fact that an enslaved woman (Keke Palmer) working on an 18th-century Georgia plantation discovers it’s actually 1973 isn’t a spoiler – it’s where the disco-era thriller begins. Palmer’s Alice gets a crash course in culture and civil rights from a helpful truck driver (Common) and yearns for revenge on her sadistic keeper (Jonny Lee Miller) as she reclaims her identity in cathartic fashion. 

Where to watch: In theaters

Also on streaming

• For those who haven’t had the chance to see theatrical mega-hit “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” bask in the multiverse-spanning glory of not one but three Spideys – Tom Holland, Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield – now on Apple TV and other on-demand platforms. 
• Channing Tatum‘s directorial debut “Dog,” a buddy dramedy about an Army Ranger and a war-hero pooch on a road trip, is also on demand.
• And for those who need to catch up before the Oscars, best international film contender “The Worst Person in the World” is another on demand addition to check out – especially if you love unconventional rom-coms.