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.
Drama/Comedy | Directed by Noah Baumbach
Opens in theaters November 25 and streams on Netflix December 30
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Perhaps Don DeLillo's best-known novel, 1985's darkly comedic White Noise has long had the reputation of being "unfilmable." So has writer-director Noah Baumbach pulled off the impossible for his latest Netflix feature and follow-up to 2019's Marriage Story? Some critics say no, but others, at least, seemed to enjoy the film when it premiered on the festival circuit a few months ago.
White Noise reunites Baumbach with two of his frequent collaborators: Adam Driver (here, playing Jack Gladney, the midwestern college professor of Hitler studies who serves as the protagonist of book and film) and Greta Gerwig (who plays Jack's wife, Babette). Together with their children, they are forced to flee their home after an “airborne toxic event” and grapple with the possibility of happiness in the midst of death, drug addiction, infidelity, and consumerism. Don Cheadle, André 3000, Alessandro Nivola, and Jodie Turner-Smith also star in the 1980s-set film, which features a new song by LCD Soundsystem and will stream on Netflix at the end of the year after an awards-qualifying theatrical run begins at Thanksgiving.