Now streaming: ‘Free Guy,’ ‘The French Dispatch,’ ‘The 355,’ ‘House of Gucci’ and more

Here’s what’s new on Video on Demand, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu and other services.

Top streams of the week

The action comedy “Free Guy” (2021, PG-13) stars Ryan Reynolds as a wildly optimistic, utterly cheerful fellow who discovers he’s a background character in a violent video game, thanks to the intervention of a rebellious player (Jodie Comer) who prods him to self-awareness. (Disney+ and HBO Max)

Wes Anderson pays tribute to a vanishing breed of magazine journalism in “The French Dispatch“ (2021, R), a playfully comic anthology of stories from a fictional French city in the late 1960s. It’s an overstuffed bonbon with a magnificent cast that includes Jeffrey Wright, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and Bill Murray. (HBO Max)

Jessica Chastain, Diane Kruger,…