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What’s New to Stream on Hulu for September 2021

New movies, old movies, and the season premieres of TV favorites are all coming to Hulu this month.
Hulu Guide September
By  · Published on September 2nd, 2021

Crossing the Streams is our look at all the offerings hitting the big streaming services each month, and this time we’re checking out the new Hulu arrivals for September 2021 including new non-English movies worth your time, fun comedies, new shows, and more!


Hulu Pick of the Month for September 2021

New Order

You’d be hard-pressed to find a more horrifying, forward-looking dramatic thriller than Michel Franco’s New Order (2020) (premieres September 30th) — and you’d never find one that also manages to hit so damn hard while clocking in at under ninety minutes. The film opens with a lavish wedding as notes and nods to economic strife and class uprisings rest in the background, but very quickly the two worlds mesh as the downtrodden rebel in a bloody, wild, and cruel fashion. Everyone, rich or poor, has blood on their hands, and the film’s cynical and nihilistic take is the realization that given the opportunity far too many of us can become terrible people in an instant. And that ending! Hoo boy, buckle in people.


Laugh! Laugh! Laugh!

Election
Paramount Pictures

We may have lost John Cusack to political rants and direct-to-DVD action films, but for a while there he was a pretty damn reliable actor/writer. Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) stars Cusack as a hitman who returns to his hometown for a high school reunion despite being targeted by other killers. He rekindles a romance along the way and has doubts about his career choices, and the film delivers laughs and action thrills throughout. Alan Arkin, Dan Aykroyd, Joan Cusack, Hank Azaria, Jeremy Piven, and Benny ‘the Jet’ Urquidez co-star, and it’s a fun blast.

Election (1999) is a darkly comic masterpiece, top to bottom, and if you haven’t seen it in a while you’re overdue. Matthew Broderick plays a high school teacher beaten down by life who decides to exact minor revenge against overachievers, but unfortunately for him, his target (a pitch-perfect Reese Witherspoon) won’t go down easy. The supporting cast is equally strong including Chris Klein, Jessica Campbell, Colleen Camp, and more. Alexander Payne’s hilariously mean and honest comedy remains an all-timer, but don’t just take my word for it, read this too.

You’ve seen those two and should probably rewatch them, but now let me point you towards a comedy you may have missed. Flower (2017) (premieres September 4th) is as offbeat as either of them and a bit rude, but it’s also a terrific blend of heart and ribald humor. Key to its success is the great Zoey Deutch in the lead. We first meet her seducing a pervert in order to blackmail him — a girl’s gotta earn a living — and it just gets riskier from there. Adam Scott is fantastic in a darker supporting role than usual, and it’ll win you over well before the credits roll.


More Non-English Gems You May Have Missed

Riders Of Justice

I haven’t caught Undine (2020) (premieres September 3rd) myself yet, but those here at FSR who have are very vocal fans. Christian Petzold’s film is a lean and magical fairy tale of sorts about a woman who’s actually part of an ancient legend. Romance, betrayal, mystical obligation — Petzold reunites the leads of 2018’s Transit (Paula Beer, Franz Rogowski) for another affecting love story that seems doomed before it even begins. Is it lightweight and carefree entertainment? Sure doesn’t sound like it, but that’s okay!

By contrast, Riders of Justice (2020) (premieres September 16th) is almost deceptively light and fun, at least for a little while. Mads Mikkelsen stars as a soldier who returns home after his wife is killed in an accident, but when two disgraced scientists present evidence that it was actually an act of terror he sets out for revenge. Cause and effect, grief, coincidence, and more combine for a tale that boils down to a lesson in the universe’s desire to fuck with us on a daily basis. While the drama hits and lands with real effect, the film also manages some big laughs. Watch it. You’ll really like it.


New TV Premieres!

What We Do In The Shadows

I don’t typically cover television shows in these streaming columns, but it’s been a tough year and sometimes you just want to return to weekly comfort zones. Season three of What We Do in the Shadows (premieres September 3rd) promises to do just that as we once more get to spend time with a wildly dysfunctional quartet of vampires. Three are bloodsuckers, one’s a “life” eater, and all four are hilarious. I had my doubts before this series premiered that it could match the film’s creativity, wit, and oddly human heart, but I’ve already been proven wrong two seasons running.

Y: The Last Man (premieres September 13th) isn’t returning, but its debut has been a long-time coming for fans of Brian K. Vaughan’s and Pia Guerra’s original comic. The story is a post-apocalyptic tale set after males have suddenly died off around the globe — the women left behind scramble in their grief and shock to keep the world running, but even as they recover one truth hangs over humanity. No sperm means no babies, and that in turn means the end of human life is coming. Of course, that might change when they find the sole surviving man…

I’m the only one I know who cares about this, but screw it, season four of The Rookie (premieres September 27th) is its own comfort food. Nathan Fillion stars as an older guy who joins the LAPD, and while age jokes play a part here the focus is on what he brings to the uniform as a man who’s lived a full life before this. He arrives with fully formed ideas and moralities while most cops develop them behind the badge. It’s an interesting dynamic, and while the show is still a standard procedural in many ways it’s an entertaining one.


The Complete Hulu List for September 2021

Release DateTitleNote
9/150/50
Anaconda
Angel Unchained
The Apparition
At the Earth’s Core
Blue City
Bull Durham
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Cannon For Cordoba
Cellar Dweller
Cold Creek Manor
Count Yorga, Vampire
Crazy Heart
The Dunwich Horror
Edward Scissorhands
El Dorado
Election
Exterminator 2
A Fish Called Wanda
Free Willy
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home
Free Willy 3: The Rescue
Free Willy: Escape From Pirate’s Cove
Friday the 13th - Part III
Friday the 13th - Part IV: The Final Chapter
Fright Night (1985)
Gattaca
Girls! Girls! Girls!
The Glass House
Grosse Pointe Blank
Hitman: Agent 47
Hoosiers
I Spit On Your Grave
I Spit On Your Grave 2
I Spit On Your Grave 3
Internal Affairs
The Interview
Jacob’s Ladder
Just Between Friends
The Killer Elite
Kiss the Girls
The Last Castle
Magic Mike
The Manchurian Candidate
McLintock! (Producer’s Cut)
The Mexican
Miss You Already
Mommy Mosquito Squadron
Mr. North
Much Ado About Nothing
New Year’s Eve
Nixon
Office Space
The Omen
The Patsy
Phase IV
The Possession
Priest
Raising Arizona
The Ring
Road to Perdition
Salvador
Secret Admirer
Shaun The Sheep Movie
Slumdog Millionaire
Solace
Stephen King’s IT
Sucker Punch
Tears Of The Sun
The Tenant
Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys
Under Fire
Vantage Point
Volcano
The Wedding Plan
The Wrestler
The X-Files
9/2Death in Texas (2020)
Trolls: TrollsTopia: Complete Season 4
The Unthinkable (2018)
9/3Bolden (2019)
The D’Amelio Show: Complete Season 1
Undine (2020)
What We Do in the Shadows: Season 3 Premiere
9/4Flower (2017)
9/8La La Land (2016)
Wu-Tang: An American Saga: Season 2 Premiere
9/10The Killing of Two Lovers (2020)
Transporter 3 (2008)
9/11High Ground (2020)
9/13Colette (2018)
Y: The Last Man: Series Premiere
9/15Dark Side of the Ring: Season 3A
Joseph: King Of Dreams (2000)
Love, Simon (2018)
Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)
9/16On Chesil Beach (2017)
The Premise: Series Premiere
Riders of Justice (2020)
Stalker (1979)
9/18Dark Side of Football: Complete Season 1
9/20Grown Ups (2010)
9/219-1-1: Season 5 Premiere
The Big Leap: Series Premiere
Dancing with the Stars: Season 20 Premiere
Ordinary Joe: Series Premiere
The Voice: Season 21 Premiere
9/22New Amsterdam: Season 4 Premiere
Our Kind of People: Series Premiere
The Resident: Season 5 Premiere
9/23Alter Ego: Series Premiere
Chicago Fire: Season 10 Premiere
Chicago Med: Season 7 Premiere
Chicago P.D.: Season 9 Premiere
The Conners: Season 4 Premiere
The Eric Andre Show: Complete Season 5
Funhouse (2019)
The Goldbergs: Season 9 Premiere
Home Economics: Season 2 Premiere
The Masked Singer: Season 6 Premiere
A Million Little Things: Season 4 Premiere
The Wonder Years: Series Premiere
9/24An American Haunting (2005)
Law & Order: Organized Crime: Season 2 Premiere
Law & Order: SVU: Season 23 Premiere
9/25Gemini (2017)
9/27Bob’s Burgers: Season 12 Premiere
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune: Season 2 Premiere
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune: Season 2 Premiere
The Great North: Season 2 Premiere
The Rookie: Season 4 Premiere
The Simpsons: Season 33 Premiere
Supermarket Sweep: Season 2 Premiere
9/28Felix and the Hidden Treasure
The Good Doctor: Season 4 Premiere
Home Run (2013)
9/29La Brea: Series Premiere
Minor Premise (2020)
9/30New Order (2020)

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