10 Best Movies and TV Shows to Stream in November
It is a truth universally acknowledged that, while streaming services make it incredibly easy to see movies and television shows, they also make it impossibly difficult to watch one. There are thousands upon thousands of titles available at your fingertips (and more being added every month), but the sheer number of things to choose from is so paralyzing that every night inevitably ends the same way: with that episode of Friends where Ross’ loses his monkey.
Fortunately for you, Rolling Stone is here to help. Every month, we sift through streaming services to bring you the 10 best new items on that seemingly infinite menu of media in the clouds. And given that November’s new offerings run the gamut from devastating French autobiographies to old-school Bond movies to Marvel’s first truly adult superhero story, it’s the perfect time to get started.
Abuse of Weakness (Hulu, 11/5)
Catherine Breillat (Fat Girl) has long been compelled by the failings of the human body — so when the French filmmaker suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage that paralyzed the left side of her body, she was uniquely well prepared to mine the trauma for newfound creativity. In this lightly fictionalized and fascinatingly thorny reenactment of the years following her illness, a director (played by Isabelle Huppert) recounts how she forfeited much of her money to a con man who took advantage of her helplessness. The film’s title hints at the ugliness of what’s to come, but it’s never less than compelling to watch an artist of Breillat’s caliber so acutely grapple with her own loss of control.
Anna Karenina (Netflix, 11/2)
It’s impressive when any film coherently wrangles Leo Tolstoy’s epic novel of love and death into a manageable running time — so it’s something of a minor miracle that Joe Wright’s (Atonement) adaptation is able to do so while also imbuing the tale with a uniquely modern, self-conscious spirit. Originally slated to be straightforward adaptation, the filmmaker was afflicted with an idea too intoxicating to shake out of his head: turn the literary totem as a glittery Prussian snow globe and treat the aristocracy feels like a single organism. Keira Knightley makes for a marvelously entitled Anna, Aaron Taylor-Johnson is perfectly loathsome as her mustached lover, and future stars Alicia Vikander and Domhnall Gleeson shine as the gooey center of a story that has never been told so concisely yet felt so grand.
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