32 Films to See in November
and Keith Kimbell, Metacritic Film Editor – October 31, 2022
If you think 2022 has given you all too few reasons to venture out to a movie theater—well, November is a different story. The month ahead will bring a massive haul of intriguing new titles, from potential blockbusters like Black Panther: Wakanda Forever to likely Oscar contenders including Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmans. There's also a chance to catch the new Knives Out sequel and a terrific new Guillermo Del Toro film on the big screen before they head to streaming.
In the gallery on this page, our editors have selected the most interesting films debuting in theaters (or on streaming services) this month, listed in alphabetical order.
Animation/Fantasy/Musical | Directed by Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson
Opens in theaters November 9 and streams on Netflix December 9
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The second Pinocchio remake of 2022 is fully animated, unlike Disney's somewhat live-action version that arrived in September. It's also one of the best films of the year. Directed by Guillermo del Toro (making his animation debut) along with Mark Gustafson (whose level of fame, apparently, doesn't merit inclusion in the title), this decade-in-the-making stop-motion musical transports the story to Mussolini-led Italy during WWII and features the voices of Ewan McGregor, Gregory Mann, Christoph Waltz, David Bradley, Tilda Swinton, Finn Wolfhard, Ron Perlman, Tim Blake Nelson, and Cate Blanchett. Critics had nothing but praise for del Toro's darker, inventive, and more complex take on the Pinocchio story—yes, it's still fundamentally for children, albeit not the youngest of them—when it debuted at the London Film Festival a few weeks ago.