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/Thriller | Directed by Sebastián Lelio
Opens in theaters November 2 and streams on Netflix November 16
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Sebastián Lelio (Gloria, A Fantastic Woman, Disobedience) adapts Room author Emma Donoghue’s novel about Lib (Florence Pugh in a performance praise by many critics), an English nurse who travels to the Irish Midlands in1862 (13 years after the Great Famine) to observe an eleven-year-old girl (Kíla Lord Cassidy) who has survived months without food, making her a saint to many in her tiny village. Co-written with Alice Birch, who penned Pugh’s breakout, Lady Macbeth, this psychological thriller features supporting turns by Ciarán Hinds as the local priest, Toby Jones as the village doctor, and Tom Burke as an English journalist and one of Lib’s only allies.