“Train Dreams”
Clint Bentley adapts Denis Johnson’s novella into a quietly sweeping frontier portrait: railroad laborer Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton) lays track across the early-1900s Pacific Northwest as love, loss, and a changing America reshape his life with wife Gladys (Felicity Jones). Kerry Condon, William H. Macy, Clifton Collins Jr., and Nathaniel Arcand round out the ensemble, with Will Patton narrating.
Release Date: Select theaters November 7; streams November 21 via Netflix.
“Peter Hujar’s Day”
Filmmaker Ira Sachs distills a single 24 hours into a downtown reverie, threading a 1974 conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and Linda Rosenkrantz through city soundscapes and archival images, with Rebecca Hall and Ben Whishaw in the leads.
Release Date: November 7 via Janus Films/Sideshow.
“The Running Man”
Writer/director Edgar Wright’s more faithful Stephen King take sends a fugitive through a state-run game show engineered for spectacle and control, with Glen Powell leading an ensemble that includes Lee Pace, Emilia Jones, Michael Cera, William H. Macy, Colman Domingo, and Josh Brolin.
Release Date: November 14 via Paramount Pictures.
“Now You See Me: Now You Don’t”
Director Ruben Fleischer reunites the Four Horsemen—Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Isla Fisher—against a rival illusionist crew and a ruthless matriarch (Rosamund Pike), with Morgan Freeman, Justice Smith, Dominic Sessa, and Ariana Greenblatt in the mix.
Release Date: November 14 via Lionsgate.
“Keeper”
Osgood Perkins follows “Longlegs” with a tight, wintry chamber chiller: a caregiver’s devotion curdles into control during an off-grid retreat, anchored by Tatiana Maslany and Rossif Sutherland.
Release Date: November 14 via NEON.
“Eternity”
David Freyne’s fantastical afterlife romance follows two souls forced to decide where to spend eternity. Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) is faced with the impossible choice between the man she spent her life with (Miles Teller) and her first love (Callum Turner), who died young and has waited decades for her to arrive. John Early, Olga Merediz and Da’Vine Joy Randolph co-star.
Release Date: November 26 (nationwide) via A24.
“Jay Kelly”
Noah Baumbach—co-writing with Emily Mortimer—pairs George Clooney’s aging movie star with Adam Sandler’s loyal manager for a rueful European odyssey that blurs memory, fantasy, and industry self-mythologizing as the two revisit old sets, old flames, and old mistakes. The stacked ensemble includes Laura Dern, Billy Crudup, Riley Keough, Greta Gerwig, Patrick Wilson, Eve Hewson, Jim Broadbent, Emily Mortimer, Alba Rohrwacher, Stacy Keach, Grace Edwards, Josh Hamilton, Lenny Henry, Nicôle Lecky, Thaddea Graham, and Isla Fisher.
Release Date: Select theaters November 14; streams December 5 via Netflix.
“Wicked: For Good”
Part two of Jon M. Chu’s Oz saga sends Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) and Glinda (Ariana Grande) toward their fated split, with Jonathan Bailey, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum, and Ethan Slater rounding out a bigger, darker back half.
Release Date: November 21 via Universal Pictures.
“Rental Family”
Hikari’s Tokyo-set dramedy follows a lonely American actor (Brendan Fraser) who takes work with a “rental family” agency, playing stand-in roles—father, husband, friend—for clients who need them, only to find the performances bleeding into real life. As jobs stack up, he navigates culture clashes, moral gray areas, and unexpected bonds with the people he’s hired to help. Takehiro Hira, Mari Yamamoto, Shannon Gorman, and Akira Emoto co-star.
Release Date: November 21 via Searchlight Pictures.
“Zootopia 2”
Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) and Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman) dive into a new case that tests Zootopia’s uneasy balance—nudging at prejudice, policing, and politics beneath the buddy-cop fizz. Returning voices include Idris Elba (Chief Bogo), Nate Torrence (Clawhauser), Bonnie Hunt and Don Lake (Judy’s parents), Alan Tudyk (Duke Weaselton), and Shakira (Gazelle), as fresh faces and factions complicate the city’s fragile peace.
Release Date: November 26 via Disney.
