Best new movies available to rent on demand this month: November 2024

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The holiday season has shifted from Halloween to Thanksgiving, but horror films that dominated the box office during the spooky season are now making their way to premium video-on-demand, including iconic monsters like the Smile Demon, Art the Clown and Donald J. Trump. There’s something for everyone on PVOD this November, and everyone could use an escape this November for, well, reasons. These are the best new movies coming to your living room this month.

Directed by Ali Abbasi, 122 minutes

It’s no coincidence that this one comes home just four days before the most important election of your life. It is the controversial story of Donald J. Trump, charting his rise from ordinary real estate mogul in the 1970s to King of New York in the 1980s. It’s actually a riff Frankenstein with Jeremy Strong’s Roy Cohn playing the good doctor to Sebastian Stan’s monster. Abbasi’s film shows how Trump took Cohn’s philosophies and built his entire personality on them, including elements like refusing to admit defeat and fighting long after you’ve lost.

Directed by Aaron Schimberg, 112 minutes

Double the Stan! Even better here than he is here The studentplays a very different Sebastian Stan, a man with neurofibromatosis who undergoes a radical procedure to make him look like the Winter Soldier. Of course, he learns that our inner character does not change with our appearance, a truth evident in the arrival of the phenomenal Adam Pearson as someone so charming and comfortable in his own skin that he drives home all the themes of the film. Pearson just landed a Gotham Award nomination this week, hopefully kicking off an awards season that will bring him the attention he deserves.

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, 138 minutes

One of the most beloved directors of all time finally brought his dream project to the screen in 2024… and it totally scared people. Coppola’s vision, who spent more than a hundred million dollars of his own money to create it, is that of a future where an architect (Adam Driver) can stop time and change reality – much like a filmmaker. The themes of Megapolis are undeniably muddled, and some of the acting is laughable, but you have to admire the dedication to craftsmanship of everyone involved. Coppola takes wild, huge swings in the film, and he often misses, but it’s nice to know that there are performers still willing to swing for the fences.

Directed by Jason Reitman, 109 minutes

The director of In the air Loosely describes the 100 or so minutes before the premiere episode of the most influential TV show in history: Saturday evening live. Gabriel La Belle (The Fabelmans) plays a concerned Lorne Michaels, who tries to knit his cast of players who aren’t yet ready for primetime into a cohesive whole before the cameras go live. Cory Michael Smith, Lamorne Morris, Nicholas Braun, Cooper Hoffman, Willem Dafoe, Matthew Rhys and many more form a huge ensemble of people playing some of the most famous comedic personalities of all time.

Directed by Parker Finn, 127 minutes

The rare horror sequel that’s better than the original, Parker Finn’s follow-up to his surprise hit is more ambitious, scarier and more successful. One reason for this is Naomi Scott’s stunning work as a pop singer terrorized by what is essentially an emotional parasite, a supernatural force that feeds on fear, trauma, anxiety and mental illness. Playing with deeper themes about the ownership people feel over pop stars, Finn not only repeats the beats of the first film but also finds new avenues to explore. And Scott is fearless through it all, giving one of the most effective horror performances of the decade.

Directed by Damien Leone, 125 minutes

Bring Art the Clown to your Thanksgiving party! He has rats! The third film about the sociopathic clown largely repeats the pros and cons of the previous film – great makeup effects and a great performance buried in a repetitive film with a story you couldn’t care less about – but that’s more than enough for fans of this increasingly popular film. franchise. The More frightening films have been an interesting counterpoint to “elevated horror,” an exploration of pure gore that strikes a chord with people who just want to see crazy things in the genre. It certainly scratches the itch.

Directed by John Crowley, 118 minutes

Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh star in this moving romantic drama with a twist. The trick here is that their love story is told chronologically, from the early days of their relationship, through starting a family, to her cancer diagnosis, in an order that could be called emotional rather than traditional. The shuffling makes some clichés easier to put into words, but the real reason this is worth a PVOD rental is simple: Garfield and Pugh’s reign. Notably, the man who played Spider-Man three times (for now) has one of the most effective “sad faces” in the history of cinema.