12 best movies new to Netflix, Amazon, HBO Max & Hulu: November 2021

Somehow it’s November. Didn’t 2021 just start? This is Halloween, it’s colder and the frost is beginning to bite at our necks. As we prepare to settle in for feasts aplenty and the last big theatrical releases of the years, there’s all new assortment of movies coming to streaming this month on Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, Shudder, and Criterion Channel to keep us entertained until December rolls around.

Start at Babadook director Jennifer Kent’s under-seen revenge drama The NightingaleTo the ever more relevant Children of Men to what might just be Christopher Nolan’s best movie, November offers a veritable smorgasbord of cinema to choose from on streaming.

Continue reading to see 12 top movies that have been added to streaming services for November.

Families Values of Addams

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We once described Families Values of Addams as, “The Borscht belt comedy version of Fatal Attraction,” and truthfully, that’s a perfectly succinct and accurate description of Barry Sonnenfeld’s 1993 follow-up to his 1991 black comedy film The Addams Family. The Addams have welcomed an adorable new addition to the family in the form of baby Pubert, and Uncle Fester has been romantically ensnared in the machinations of the baby’s new nanny (Joan Cusack). It is full of hilariously morbid one-liners and comedic performances as well as more bizarre gags. Families Values of Addams is a hilariously mischievous film and worthy follow-up to Sonnenfeld’s original. —Toussaint Egan

Families Values of AddamsYou can stream it on Netflix Paramount Plus

The Bourne Identity

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Based on Robert Ludlum’s 1980 novel of the same name, Doug Liman’s The Bourne Identity is an action spy thriller par excellence, hailed as one of the best examples of the drama for its deft direction, intense fight scenes, and a phenomenal lead performance by Matt Damon as the assassin-turn-amnesiac fugitive Jason Bourne. This is the first and most acclaimed entry in the Bourne trilogy. The Bourne IdentityThis is a must-see. Don’t fret the shakeycam, which only became the franchise’s defining in the sequels. —TE

The Bourne IdentityYou can stream it on HBO Max

Children of Men

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Alfonso Cuarón’s dystopian sci-fi drama Children of MenIn recent years, it has been called a remarkablely accurate portrayal of current global conflict and strife since its theatrical debut back in 2006. Set in 2027, almost two decades after the last human child due to inexplicable worldwide infertility, Cuarón’s follows bureaucrat Theo Faron (Clive Owen) who is unexpectedly entrusted with ensuring the safe passage of Kee (Clare-Hope Ashitey), an asylum seeker and the first woman to become pregnant in over 18 years. Children of MenThis is a gripping, dark, convincing and compelling portrayal of the future. It’s a dramatic drama in which humanity has lost any hope. —TE

Men are the children of menYou can stream it on Amazon Prime Video

Fargo

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The Coen Brothers’ black comedy crime film FargoFrances McDormand plays Marge Gunderson as a pregnant police chief who investigates the death of a trooper. She is accidentally set on the trail a plot to kidnap a salesman for insurance (William H. Macy). You can find humor in both tragicomic awkwardness, and true crime-adjacent excitement. Fargo is an essential work in the Coen Brothers’ long and illustrious oeuvre that’s as entertaining now as it was back in 1996. —TE

FargoYou can stream it on Hulu

Amazing Mr. Fox

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Based on Roald Dahl’s classic children’s book, Wes Anderson’s 2009 stop-motion animated comedy Amazing Mr. FoxThe story follows George Clooney’s sophisticated Fox, who resorts to old thieves to escape the fate of his three evil farmers. They will do anything to get rid of him and his family. Filled with beautiful intricate animation, whimsical dance numbers, and Anderson’s idiosyncratic humor and style, Amazing Mr. Fox is regularly hailed as one of the best animated films of the early aughts and must-see for fans of children’s films and highly-crafted cinema alike. —TE

Amazing Mr. FoxYou can stream it on Amazon Prime Video

The Fifth Element

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Luc Besson’s cult sci-fi action thriller The Fifth Element stars Bruce Willis as Korben Dallas, a former special forces commando-turned-cab driver in 23rd century New York City, who finds himself smack dab in the middle of a century’s long conflict between the forces of good and evil. Leeloo, a mysterious and powerful woman played by Milla Jovovich crashes into Korben’s taxi. Vito Cornelius (Ian Holm), a wise space-priest, is sent to guard Leeloo from the intrigues of Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg (“Gary Oldman), who thinks Leeloo has an ancient weapon with untold powers. Features creatures, costumes, and designs by legendary French comic artists Jean “Moebius” Giraud and Jean-Claude Mézières, The Fifth ElementThis action movie is brimming with personality and outlandishly memorable. —TE

The Fifth ElementYou can stream it on Hulu Paramount Plus

The Great White

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In the proud tradition of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, Jaume Collet-Serra’s The Shallows, and Jon Turteltaub’s The Meg, Martin Wilson offers his own spin on humanity’s never-ending feud with all large things of the ocean that possess teeth in his survival thriller debut The Great White. When five seaplane passengers find themselves stranded miles from shore, they’ll have to attempt to make it to back to land before they are overtaken by a relentless cadre of man-eating sharks. The trailer for the film makes it very apparent that not everyone makes it out alive in this situation, and while there’s no clue as to what the supposed “supernatural” twist of the film’s premise might be, it still looks like an enthralling horror experience all the same. —TE

The Great WhiteYou can stream it on Shake

It follows

David Robert Mitchell’s breakout supernatural horror film It follows Jay Monroe, a teenage girl, is the focus of this story. She finds herself being stalked and threatened by Maika Monroe, a terrifying nightmarish entity she can’t see. Jay and her friends have to stay one step ahead to stop the evil creature from threatening Jay’s death. They also need to discover a way to defeat the entity. Or else, Jay will be forced to take the curse upon another unfortunate victim. A fantastic score was provided by Hyper Light Drifter composer Richard Vreeland (aka Disasterpeace), It follows is a memorable, unique, and entertaining teen horror drama that flips the script on the genre’s traditionally puritanical framing of sexuality with terrific results. —TE

It FollowsYou can stream it on Netflix

The Nightingale

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Set in 1825 during the British colonization of Australia, Director Jennifer Kent’s (Babadook(period drama The Nightingale stars Aisling Franciosi (FallClare (a young Irish convict) is portrayed by Sam Claflin. She serves her seven-year sentence for the abuse of Lt. Hawkins (Sam Claflin). Clare is subjected to horrific acts of sexual violence by her master and his staff. With no chance of justice being served against the British authorities, Clare sets out on a relentless pursuit through Tasmanian wilderness in order to exact revenge on Hawkins, who leaves for a Captain position higher up. This book is known for being a historical accurate portrayal of the rape, murder and racism perpetrated by British settlers in Australia against native Australians. The NightingaleIt is visually arresting and emotionally riveting tale of revenge told through skilled performances, stunning cinematography and unflinching brutality. —TE

The Nightingale The stream is now available Netflix

Once Upon a Time, West

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Sergio Leone defined the genre of Spaghetti Westerns throughout the 1960s with his legendary “Dollars” Trilogy starring Clint Eastwood. Despite announcing his retirement from Westerns following his work on 1966’s The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, Paramount Pictures offered Leone a job. Once Upon a Time, WestThe following is the. Charles Bronson plays a strange gun-toting stranger who uses a harmonica to play a role. He teams up with Jason Robards, a well-known desperado, in order to save a widow of the cruel machinations by Henry Fonda (an assassin working for a railroad line). This film is considered to be the best Western ever made and has been preserved in the United States Nation Film Registry (Library of Congress) in 2009. —TE

Once Upon a Time, WestThis stream is now available Hulu Paramount Plus

The Prestige

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Nolan’s 2006 The PrestigeLike a magician’s magic trick, exposition is composed roughly of three parts or acts. The first part is exposition, where we’re introduced to the film’s protagonists in the form of two rival illusionists played by Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale vie to become the greatest living magician of their time. Second is the premise. The film’s second half includes the story of how things turn bad after an on-stage tragedy that leads to the pair being forced into a deadly blood feud. The film’s third and final part, which is where everything comes together for the film, is the climax. Know about these characters and turns those assumptions on their head to pull off the single greatest cinematic twist of Christopher Nolan’s career. David Bowie here, looking like Nikola Tesla. Do you keep an eye on your surroundings? —TE

The Prestige You can stream it on Hulu

Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation

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Love Cecil director Lisa Immordino Vreeland’s 2021 documentary Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation traces the history of novelist Truman Capote and playwright Tennessee Williams’ correspondence, friendship, and contentious public fallout. Composed entirely of the two men’s words read by Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto, as well as archival footage of the pair’s televised interviews on the subject, Vreeland’s film attempt to examine the relationship between these titans of American literary culture and shed a lot on where and what exactly went so horribly wrong between the two. —TE

Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation You can stream the video on Criterion Channel