Best Movies Streaming November 2025: ‘Fantastic Four,’ ‘Materialists’

Marvel followers are certain to flock to Disney+ this month as “Incredible 4: First Steps” makes its streaming debut after grossing $521 million within the theaters worldwide over the summer time. Depicting the titular superhero household are Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards/Mr. Incredible, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/The Invisible Girl, Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm/The Human Torch and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm/The Factor. Julia Garner additionally stars as The Silver Surfer alongside Ralph Ineson as Galactus and Paul Walter Hauser as Harvey Elder/Mole Man.

Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” arrives on Netflix with robust opinions and Oscar buzz. A ardour challenge from the Oscar-winning filmmaker, del Toro adapts Mary Shelley’s iconic novel with Oscar Isaac because the eponymous mad scientist and Jacob Elordi as his misunderstood creature. At TIFF, the movie got here in because the runner-up for the fest’s coveted individuals’s selection award — an accolade that’s historically a key bellwether for the Oscar race. The supporting solid consists of Mia Goth and Christoph Waltz. 

A24 scored an indie field workplace hit with “Materialists,” Celine Track’s romance film that crossed the $100 million mark on the worldwide field workplace over the summer time. Headlined by Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal, the movie facilities on a New York Metropolis matchmaker caught in a love triangle between her deadbeat ex-flame and a millionaire new man. Selection gave the movie a constructive review, writing: “It’s a pointy and critical social romantic drama stuffed with telling observations about the way in which we stay now, and about how related that’s (or not) to the way in which we’ve all the time lived. And there’s a darkish aspect to it. It’s ‘Intercourse and the Metropolis’ filtered by a sobering actuality test.” 

Count on “Freakier Friday” to be a preferred streaming selection on Disney+ all vacation season lengthy. The sequel to the 2003 comedy traditional as soon as once more stars Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis as a daughter and mom who swap locations, however this time the ladies discover themselves swapping with the daughter and soon-to-be daughter in regulation of Lohan’s character. “The film winds up being slightly touching,” wrote Selection‘s movie critic Owen Gleiberman in his review. “It’s all about how Harper and Lily, in making an attempt to interrupt up their mother and father’ engagement, uncover that they actually do wish to be sisters.”

Ari Aster’s “Eddington” struggled on the field workplace with almost $14 million worldwide, however the darkish comedy is certain to realize extra traction when it debuts on HBO Max this month. Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone and Austin Butler, the film is about in a small New Mexico city come undone by politics, COVID and extra. “Simply whenever you assume you’ve acquired ‘Eddington’ pinned down as a coherent and even standard suspense story, the film wriggles out from beneath you and enters a terrain of stranger issues,” writes Selection’s chief movie critic Owen Gleiberman in his review. 

Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman lead Jay Roach’s reimagining of the 1989 black comedy “The Battle of the Roses.” The movie follows Ivy (Colman) and Theo (Cumberbatch), a seemingly excellent California couple with profitable careers, nice youngsters and a loving marriage. However when Theo’s profession begins to nosedive as Ivy’s ambitions take off, their perfect life crumbles and the couple’s hidden resentments bubble to the floor.

“Clint Bentley’s shifting adaptation of Denis Johnson’s Pulitzer Prize finalist novella has steadily emerged as one of the vital critically acclaimed movies of the 12 months — and a possible darkish horse greatest image contender,” Selection’s Clayton Davis recently wrote in regards to the Netflix unique “Practice Desires.” Set within the early Twentieth-century Pacific Northwest, the movie stars Joel Edgerton as Robert Grainier, a solitary railroad employee navigating profound private loss because the American frontier expands round him.

Directed by Oliver Hermanus (“Residing,” “Moffie”) and starring Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor, “The Historical past of Sound” follows two younger males, Lionel (Mescal) and David (O’Connor), within the shadows of WWI who’re decided to document the lives, voices and music of Individuals. As they start to log the occasions, the 2 fall in love. The movie was penned by Ben Shattuck, tailored from his personal award-winning quick story. The film additionally marks Mescal’s first challenge as an government producer. 

The “Downton Abbey” franchise involves an finish in “The Grand Finale,” which ought to delight followers on streaming forward of Thanksgiving because it launches on Peacock. The synopsis reads: “The Crawley household and their workers enter the Thirties, the place Mary finds herself on the heart of a public scandal and the household faces monetary hassle. The whole family is pressured to grapple with the specter of social shame and should embrace change because the workers prepares for a brand new chapter with the subsequent technology main Downton Abbey into the longer term.”

Bob Odenkirk returns because the overworked murderer Hutch in “No one 2,” a sequel to the 2021 motion film which additionally stars Connie Nelson, John Ortiz, Colin Hanks, RZA, Christopher Lloyd and Sharon Stone. After deciding to take his household to a vacationer city for a trip, Hutch unexpectedly finds himself coping with against the law boss after encountering her native bullies. The film grossed $41 million worldwide over the summer time.

DreamWorks Animation’s sequel “The Unhealthy Guys 2” options the voices of Sam Rockwell, Marc Maron, Awkwafina, Craig Robinson, Anthony Ramos, Zazie Beetz, Danielle Brooks, Natasha Lyonne and extra. The synopsis from Peacock reads: “Our now-reformed Unhealthy Guys are attempting (very, very arduous) to be good, however as a substitute discover themselves hijacked right into a high-stakes, globe-trotting heist, masterminded by a brand new workforce of criminals they by no means noticed coming: The Unhealthy Ladies.”

Richard Linklater’s Cannes darling “Nouvelle Obscure” is a valentine to the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s iconic 1959 “Breathless” and to the beginnings of the French new wave motion. Shot on 35mm movie in black-and-white, the movie stars Guillaume Marbeck as Jean-Luc Godard, Aubry Dullin as Jean-Paul Belmondo and Zoey Deutch as New Wave darling Jean Seberg. Linklater’s film depicts the younger Godard as a movie critic, as a good friend to different New Wave filmmakers akin to Francois Truffaut and Jacques Rivette and as a director whose relationships with Seberg and Belmondo gave delivery to one in every of cinema’s most iconic touchstones. 

The Netflix animated film “In Your Desires” options the voices of Craig Robinson, Simu Liu and Cristin Milioti. The official synopsis reads: “‘In Your Desires’ is a comedy journey about Stevie and her brother Elliot who journey into the absurd panorama of their very own goals. If the siblings can stand up to a snarky stuffed giraffe, zombie breakfast meals, and the queen of nightmares, the Sandman will grant them their final dream come true…the right household”

On August 30, 1972, John Lennon carried out on the “One to One” profit live performance at Madison Sq. Backyard. It was his solely full-length present after leaving The Beatles. This new HBO documentary consists of restored footage from the live performance and different never-before-seen materials from its manufacturing. Per HBO: “The documentary takes that legendary musical occasion and makes use of it as the start line to discover 18 defining months within the lives of John and Yoko.”

Shih-Ching Tsou’s “Left-Handed Woman” is Taiwan’s official Oscar entry this 12 months and was picked up by Netflix earlier this 12 months. Co-written and edited by “Anora” Oscar winner Sean Baker, the film follows a single mom and her two daughters as they relocate to Taipei to open an evening market stall. The solid consists of Janel Tsai, Nina Ye, Teng-Hui Huang and Shih-Yuan Ma.

“The Ugly Stepsister” freaked out the Sundance Movie Competition firstly of the 12 months and is now arriving on Hulu this month. From director Emilie Blichfeldt comes a body-horror reimagining of the traditional Cinderella story. “The Ugly Stepsister” follows Elvira as she prepares to earn the prince’s affection at any value. In a kingdom the place magnificence is a brutal enterprise, Elvira will compete with the gorgeous and enchanting Agnes to change into the belle of the ball. Lea Myren, Thea Sofie Loch Naess and Ane Dahl Torp star.

Nick Offerman provides a strong dramatic efficiency within the crime thriller “Sovereign,” written and directed by Christian Swegal in his characteristic movie debut. The film follows an anti-government fanatic and his son who enterprise throughout the nation whereas consistently discovering themselves on the unsuitable aspect of the regulation. It’s loosely primarily based on real-life occasions surrounding the West Memphis police shootings in 2020.

“The Worst Individual within the World” star Renate Reinsve is a protecting mom who comes beneath hearth in Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel’s “Armand,” which was shortlisted for final 12 months’s worldwide Oscar race after profitable the Caméra d’Or for greatest first characteristic on the 2024 Cannes Movie Competition.  “Armand” facilities on well-known actress Elisabeth, who’s abruptly known as right into a parent-teacher assembly at her 6-year-old son’s college. Right here she is offered with allegations that set off a tangled net of accusations between mother and father and school.

“Come See Me within the Good Mild” received Sundance’s 2025 Competition Favourite award. The synopsis explains the film is a “poignant and unexpectedly humorous love story about poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley, who face an incurable most cancers analysis with pleasure, wit, and an unshakable partnership. By laughter and unwavering love, they rework ache into objective, and mortality right into a shifting celebration of resilience.”

The Rebel Wilson-led motion comedy “Bride Laborious” begins streaming on Hulu this month. Wilson performs Sam, a maid of honor for her childhood greatest good friend. Out of her consolation zone, and with fellow bridesmaids judging her each transfer, she struggles to keep up her cowl. However when a workforce of mercenaries take the uber-wealthy visitors hostage, it’s as much as Sam to do what not one of the different bridesmaids can – wage conflict on anybody who would damage an important day of her greatest good friend’s life.

Mark Whalberg returns for the Apple sequel “The Household Plan 2.” The synopsis reads: “It’s the vacation season and Dan (Wahlberg) has deliberate the right trip for his spouse Jessica (Michelle Monaghan) and their youngsters to have fun abroad—till a mysterious determine from his previous (Package Harington) exhibits up with unfinished enterprise. A world sport of cat-and-mouse ensues as Dan and his household battle, bicker, and bond their manner by a sequence of financial institution heists, vacation hijinks, and automobile chases amid scenic European terrain.”

A ripped Orlando Bloom headlines “The Reduce” reverse Caitríona Balfe and John Turturro. He performs a journeyman boxer struggling to make weight forward of his last probability at profitable the title. Selection praised Bloom for giving “an all-time nice efficiency” in a rave review, including: “What separates Bloom’s efficiency from the pack is the way in which he carries himself. The Boxer is all the time rankled and all the time on guard, with eyes that appear to dart and seek for alternative. He has a suppressed starvation inside him, and tight facial muscle mass that talk to a tough upbringing.”

“Fireplace and Water: Making the Avatar Movies” will premiere Nov. 7 solely on the streaming service Disney+. The 2-part documentary will supply a deep-dive into the making of 2022’s “Avatar: The Method of Water” in addition to a glimpse on the upcoming “Avatar: Fireplace and Ash” with behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with solid and filmmakers. A few of the many names that seem within the movie embrace Cameron, the late producer Jon Landau, and stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña and Kate Winslet.

Joe, Nick and Kevin Jonas are giving Jonas Brothers followers the last word vacation present with their new Disney+ film “A Very Jonas Christmas,” which options cameos from Billie Lourd, Laverne Cox, KJ Apa, Andrew Barth Feldman, Andrea Martin, Kenny G, Justin Tranter, Randall Park and Jesse Tyler Ferguson. The plot synopsis reads: “Kevin, Joe and Nick Jonas face a sequence of escalating obstacles as they battle to make it from London to New York in time to spend Christmas with their households.”

Even with a handful of Oscar contenders launching on Netflix this month, from “Frankenstein” to “Practice Desires,” the streaming large will in all probability lure in probably the most viewers with its unique rom-com choices like “Champagne Issues.” The official synopsis reads: “Sydney Value (Minka Kelly) is a decided government who will get the possibility to guide a serious acquisition for Chateau Cassell, a beloved champagne home. She travels to France round Christmas as a part of the negotiations and has an enthralling run-in with Henri Cassell (Tom Wozniczka), a stranger who turns one easy night into one thing particular. However her plans for a whirlwind romance are rapidly upended when she discovers that this charming Parisian is the founder’s son of the very firm she is hoping to accumulate.”

Count on one other Netflix hit film with “Jingle Bell Heist.” The synopsis reads: “Sophia (Olivia Holt), a sharp-witted retail employee, and Nick (Connor Swindells), a down-on-his-luck repairman, are small-time thieves with their eyes on the identical Christmas Eve rating: robbing London’s most infamous division retailer. Pressured into an uneasy alliance, as secrets and techniques floor and emotions for one another deepen, Sophia and Nick put their relationship and the heist in jeopardy.”

With Celine Track’s “Materialists” making its streaming world premiere on HBO Max this month, it’s solely becoming the streamer can also be bringing Track’s rapturous debut “Previous Lives” to its library for November viewing. Nominated for 2 Oscars (greatest image and greatest unique screenplay), “Previous Lives” follows Greta Lee’s Nora as she reconnects together with her childhood sweetheart (Teo Yoo), confronting what her life might need been. The drama was named the fourth best movie of 2023 by Selection movie critic Peter Debruge.

The Blumhouse horror film “Drop” arrives on Prime Video this month at no further value to subscribers after making its streaming debut on Peacock over the summer time. Meghann Fahy stars as a widowed mom whose first date takes a nightmarish flip when she begins receiving threatening textual content messages. “Christopher Landon crafts a pulpy surveillance thriller that provides method to one thing giddy and thrilling,” reads Variety’s review. “The movie’s difficult setups are executed with a deft and succesful hand.”

Bong Joon Ho and Robert Pattinson’s “Mickey 17” turns into accessible on Prime Video at no further value to subscribers this month. Primarily based on the 2022 novel “Mickey7” by Edward Ashton, “Mickey 17” stars Robert Pattinson as an “expendable,” a clone that’s despatched on deadly missions colonizing an ice planet after which “reprinted” with most of his reminiscences intact each time he dies. The supporting solid consists of Mark Ruffalo, Steven Yeun, Naomi Ackie and Toni Collette.