Netflix’s wild new thriller movie will leave your heart pounding

If you like your protagonists in movies to be chased, hunted, poisoned and besieged by bad guys, Netflix had you plenty covered on that front with its Friday film releases. Indeed, two big new movies the streamer released -- Kate, starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, as well as a German language thriller, the Netflix movie Prey -- will have viewers rooting for protagonists who get put through the ringer, and then some.

In the case of the former, the end seems preordained. No spoilers, but Netflix makes one thing pretty clear in the promotional material. That the titular hero in this one is an assassin who the bad guys have poisoned. Which sends her on a revenge rampage over her very imminent death. Meanwhile, Prey similarly strips everything down to the existential minimum, to the point where you've got a group of friends on a hike. There's a mysterious shooter. And this shooter has decided that the friends are -- what else? You guessed it. It's right there in the title.