12 of the best movies you can watch in November

It was released on November 26 in the United States, November 28 in Turkey and Taiwan, and December 12 in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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11. Dead Man’s Wake: A Knives Mystery

Daniel Craig dons his tailored suit and extravagant Southern accent once again in Rian Johnson’s Knives Out Whodunits III. The setting this time is a country church in upstate New York. The new vicar (Josh O’Connor) clashes with a fire-and-brimstone preacher (Josh Brolin) and several hostile parishioners, including a church caretaker (Glenn Close), a loyal groundskeeper (Thomas Haden Church) and a struggling author (Andrew Scott). When their differences culminate in a mysterious, locked-room murder, it’s clear that this is the job of the world’s best detective, Benoit Blanc. But will Blanc’s strong rationality be challenged by the secrets of the miraculous story? “With its gothic atmosphere and deeper themes, Wake Up Dead Man has a darker tone than previous Knives Out films,” says the BBC’s Karen James. “Yet it’s also the funniest and most fun yet… with greater assurance than ever before, [Johnson] It walks a perfectly balanced line where it borrows and adapts old tropes.”

Releases November 26 in US cinemas, November 28 in UK cinemas, and December 12 on Netflix globally

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12. Hamnet

William Shakespeare’s son, Hamnet, died at the age of 11 in 1596. Shortly thereafter, Shakespeare wrote Hamlet, a powerful exploration of grief with a title that echoes his son’s name. Did the poet pour his deepest feelings into the play? This is the premise of Maggie O’Farrell’s extraordinary novel, Hamnet, which has now been adapted into a drama by Chloe Zhao, the Oscar-winning director of Nomadland. Jess Buckley plays Agnes – Shakespeare’s wife Anne Hathaway is also addressed in the film – and Paul Mescal plays the ambitious Will. “Hamnet” is an “emotionally moving drama,” says David Ehrlich at IndieWire. “Yet the violent beauty of this film, which rips your soul out of your chest so completely that its earth-shattering sadness is akin to falling in love or becoming a parent, is that it is as much about the experience of having a child as it is about the experience of losing one.”

It was released on November 26 in the United States

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