11 movies to check out on Prime Video in February

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Red Rocket, and Jennifer Lopez's This Is Me... Now lead the offerings from Amazon

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11 movies to check out on Prime Video in February
Clockwise from top left: This Is Me… Now: A Love Story (Prime Video), Red Rocket (A24), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Paramount) Image: The A.V. Club

Amazon’s Prime Video kicks off February with a summer blockbuster, a new “narrative-driven cinematic odyssey” from Jennifer Lopez, and a bunch of indie offerings that are worth a peek. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem serves as a reboot of the franchise and features heavily stylized animation that is anything but run-of-the-mill. The Amazon original This Is Me… Now: A Love Story coincides with J.Lo’s new album. The dark comedy-drama Red Rocket features a career-best performance by Simon Rex. Other new arrivals in the Prime Video film library this February include Strays, Get Out, Life, The Elephant Man, Bottoms, Surrounded, Upgraded, and Dark Harvest.

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LIFE - Official Trailer (HD)

Road House star Jake Gyllenhaal seems to be everywhere at the moment, including in the underseen sci-fi thriller , which visits Prime Video this month. The film, directed by Daniel Espinosa, is about the crew of the International Space Station who are trapped inside with a dangerous Martian life form. The cast also includes Ryan Reynolds, Rebecca Ferguson, Hiroyuki Sanada, Ariyon Bakare, and Olga Dihovichnaya. The A.V. Club’s , “The film has a nasty edge, a visceral mean streak, that’s genuinely bracing. We don’t see much, but we don’t need to, because lord, the sounds. In space, no one can hear you scream. In space movies, every dying gurgle comes through loud and clear.”

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