The best movies new to Netflix, Max, Prime and Hulu this November

Halloween is over and you know what that means. That’s right, we only have… *checks calendar* 363 days until next Halloween! In the meantime, while we wait, there are still a number of exciting new releases on the horizon to look forward to, including: Gladiator II And Evil! However, if you’re looking for the best movies new to stream in November, you’ve come to the right place.

This month we have a smorgasbord of great films to watch from the comfort of your own home, including a previously unseen Coen Brothers classic, a beautiful sci-fi drama starring Brad Pitt and Tommy Lee Jones, and a… Oscar-winning psychological drama Miles Teller and JK Simmons. Not to mention gladiator – Yes, it really is The Good, and you should Check it out even if you already have!

Here are the movies new to streaming services that you should watch this month.

Editor’s Choice: Barton Fink

Where to see: Criterion channel
Genre: Black comedy
Director: Joel Cohen
Pour: John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis

The Coen brothers have built a long, successful career with irreverent tragicomedies and pseudo-historical pieces full of troubled protagonists and strange characters. Barton Fink is both and something more: a satire on the artificiality of studio-era filmmaking and a sharp condemnation of artistic self-deception.

Playwright Barton Fink (John Turturro) travels to Los Angeles to write scripts for a Hollywood film studio. What he experiences there shakes him to the core and forces him to confront not only the limitations of his chosen profession, but also those of his worldview and self-image. Supported by powerful supporting performances from John Goodman and Judy Davis, not to mention a phenomenal climax sequence that has to be seen to be believed, Barton Fink is one of the strangest and most extraordinary films in the Coen brothers’ oeuvre, and that’s really saying something. –Toussaint Egan

Genre: Psychodrama
Director: Damien Chazelle
Pour: Miles Teller, JK Simmons, Paul Reiser

Is Damien Chazelle’s 2014 psychological drama a film about an abusive music teacher who molds an impressionable student into his ideal musician, or a story about what it takes to be the best in his chosen field? ? Wherever you end up at the end of the film, one thing is clear Whiplash is one of the most flawless films of the 2010s. Miles Teller plays Andrew Neiman, an aspiring jazz drummer who is terrorized by Terence Fletcher (JK Simmons), a ruthless and highly respected lecturer at a prestigious conservatory in New York City.

The dynamic between the two is the driving force behind the film’s story and emotional arc, as Fletcher’s increasingly underhanded and psychologically manipulative tactics continually push Andrew to his breaking point, forcing him to abandon all considerations other than his drive to get better. to give up being a drummer and eventually win the approval of his mentor. Justin Hurwitz’s music is dazzling, the cinematography is electrifying, and the performances are some of the best of Simmons and Teller’s careers to date. Whiplash is a cinematic masterpiece that grabs you by the collar and won’t let go, right up to the rousing crescendo of the climactic finale. —THE

Genre: Science fiction drama
Director: James Grey
Pour: Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga

Ad Astra never got the respect it deserved. This sci-fi masterpiece from director James Gray follows astronaut Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) as he is sent to a distant solar system in search of his missing father, who made the same journey 30 years earlier and is now closing the world seems to threaten the universe.

While it was originally touted as a mix between a sci-fi epic and a sci-fi epic Apocalypse now In space, that’s the truth Ad Astra is a much quieter, more thoughtful film than that description suggests. It’s more about the relationships between fathers and sons in adulthood than it is about laser shooting or the human heart of darkness, although both are certainly in there too. With the right expectations, it’s easy to see how incredible it is Ad Astra it really is. —Austen Goslin

Genre: Gangster drama
Director: Martin Scorsese
Pour: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci

One of Martin Scorsese’s most famous and memorable films and possibly his last indisputable classic. Goodfellas chronicles the rise and fall of a would-be gangster who fights his way into the Mafia in 1950s Brooklyn, only to find the organization’s focus and fortunes radically change in the decades that follow.

Packed with narrative devices that Scorsese repeated again and again – particularly the monologue voice-over introduction of a whole group of colorful gangster characters who don’t play a major role – Goodfellas is full of indelible dialogue and familiar comic bits (“I’m funny, eh? I mean funny, like I’m a clown? I amuse you?”). It’s the sprawling saga of a criminal who watches the world around him change until he no longer recognizes it, made before these tropes, lines and devices became clichés because so many people imitated them Goodfellas. —Tasha Robinson

Genre: Historical epic
Director: Ridley Scott
Pour: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen

For more than two decades Gladiator II felt like a mirage; It was the distant promise of a sequel to a turn-of-the-century classic that we would never actually see. But then Paul Mescal happened and Ridley Scott, the most prolific 86-year-old director in history, decided that now was finally the right time to tell us the story of Lucius, son of Maximus. But we still have about three weeks until this film hits theaters, so it’s time for you to catch up or rewatch the original film.

It’s difficult to contextualize the original gladiator today, but the good news is that you don’t really have to. In the nearly 25 years since its release gladiator has wonderfully developed into an era-defining Hollywood epic. Scott beautifully captures the majesty and beauty of his cinematic Rome, and watching it, it’s easy to remember why Russell Crowe was the biggest movie star in the world in the early 2000s. So whether you’ve seen it or not, the sequel is the perfect excuse to return to the arena to experience Maximus’ glory. —AG