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Holiday season means movie season as much as it means balsam firs and hot chocolate. Hollywood rolls out the big flicks it’s betting the ranch on, so there’s more than a Santa’s sackful of promising films with great stars and directors between now and New Year’s Day, including Spielberg’s autobiographical Oscar front-runner The Fabelmans, the Knives Out and Black Panther sequels, and Tom Hanks’ A Man Called Otto. Mark your calendars and settle in!
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Coming in November
The Wonder (in theaters Nov. 2, on Netflix Nov. 16)
Florence Pugh stars as a nurse investigating the case in an 1862 Irish village of a girl who doesn’t eat, yet mysteriously remains alive and well.
Good Night Oppy (in theaters Nov. 4, on Prime Video Nov. 23)
Who needs Wall-E or the Energizer Bunny when you’ve got the real thing — NASA’s plucky little robot Opportunity, sent to Mars (brr!) on a 90-day mission? And Oppy kept going for 15 years, sending back pictures to humans who loved it as much as you will.
Black Panther 2: Wakanda Forever (in theaters Nov. 11)
Audiences went wild after the Oct. 26 prerelease screening of the most eagerly anticipated superhero movie of all, the tale of Queen Ramonda (Angela Bassett), Shuri (Letitia Wright), War Dog Nakia (Lupita Nyong’o) and Everett Ross (Martin Freeman) and their fight to protect Africa’s best-kept-secret kingdom. Instead of recasting the first film’s central role of King T’Challa after beloved star Chadwick Boseman died of cancer, the sequel makes the character’s death an emotional engine driving the plot. Nyong’o said this “put our grief to good use.”
The English (on Prime Video Nov. 11)
Emily Blunt plays proper Englishwoman Cornelia Locke, who decamps for Wyoming, circa 1890, to track down the villain she suspects slayed her son. Chaske Spencer (The Twilight Saga) is Eli Whipp, an irascible Pawnee scout on a mission to reclaim lost territory. After the two meet cute, it’s off to the (horse) races in a six-episode buddy action-Western coproduced by Amazon and the BBC.
The Inspection (in theaters Nov. 18)
In Elegance Bratton’s movie inspired by his own story, a young, gay Black man (Hollywood’s breakout star Jeremy Pope) rejected by his mother (Bring It On’s Gabrielle Union) joins the Marines and finds prejudice and a sadistic drill sergeant (Fargo’s Bokeem Woodbine) — but also the last thing he expected, the camaraderie of a new community that changed his life forever.
The People We Hate at the Wedding (on Prime Video Nov. 18)
Siblings (Kristen Bell and Ben Platt) jet to London to reluctantly attend the wedding of their wealthy and beautiful half sister (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) and cross wits with their equally dysfunctional mom (Allison Janney). Mayhem and maybe even a bit of hilarity ensue.
She Said (in theaters Nov. 18)
The greatest film about investigative journalists since Spotlight stars Zoe Kazan and Carey Mulligan as the real-life New York Times reporters whose astounding reporting exposed the crimes of movie mogul and convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein. It packs an emotional wallop, and Gold Derby’s expert Oscar predictors rank it the ninth-likeliest best picture nominee and the second-likeliest best adapted screenplay nominee (after Women Talking and ahead of The Whale).
The Menu (in theaters Nov. 18)
In a comedy for those with a taste for the ghoulish, Ralph Fiennes plays a chef who serves the meal of a lifetime to a couple of gastronomes (Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult). But since he’s also a psycho, it might be their last.
Devotion (in theaters Nov. 23)
Liked Top Gun: Maverick? Try a true buddy picture about heroic Korean War fighter pilots Jesse Brown (Da 5 Bloods’ Jonathan Majors), the Navy aviator Variety calls “the Jackie Robinson of the skies,” and his white wingman Tom Hudner (Glen Powell, Top Gun: Maverick’s “Hangman” Seresin). The old-fashioned epic won the Middleburg Film Festival Audience Award — seven of the last nine winners won best picture nominations.
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