10 films that you need to see this November

Paul Moore

Some of the year’s most critically acclaimed films are in your cinema this month.

Cold outside? Pfft. Feck it, a trip to the cinema will sort that out. Here’s what’s on the big screen over the next few weeks.

Nocturnal Animals

Release date: November 4th

Plot: An art gallery owner is haunted by her ex-husband’s novel, a violent thriller she interprets as a veiled threat and a symbolic revenge tale.

Go see it because: We’ve had our eye on Jake Gyllenhaal’s new thriller for a while now because it has been earning some magnificent reviews. The cast reads like a director’s dream with Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Isla Fisher, Laura Linney, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Michael Sheen all starring.

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The Accountant

Release date: November 4th

Plot: As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities and the body count starts to rise.

Go see it because: When he’s not busy donning a cowl and cape to become the Caped Crusader, Ben Affleck is balancing bank accounts and beating up badguys. JOE’s own Eoghan (hey that rhymes) Doherty met the man himself, and here’s why you should check it out.

The Light Between Oceans

Release date: November 4th

Plot: A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.

Go see it because: Michael Fassbender is in it. We would watch him reading out the phonebook…he does more than that in this film though. Oscar winner Alicia Vikander is also in this one.

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Arrival

Release date: 10th November

Plot: A linguist is recruited by the military to assist in translating alien communications.

Go see it because: It’s already one of the best reviewed films of the year and Denis Villeneuve is easily one of the most interesting directors that’s currently working in Hollywood – Sicario, Prisoners, Incindies and the upcoming Blade Runner 2049 are all from the visionary filmmaker.

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The Innocents

Release date: 11th November.

Plot: In 1945 Poland, a young French Red Cross doctor who is sent to assist the survivors of the German camps discovers several nuns in advanced states of pregnancy during a visit to a nearby convent.

Go see it because: The powerful drama currently has a 78% rating on the highly-reputable Metacritic. In fact, Variety have described it as ” restrained but cumulatively powerful” while The New York Times simple call it “blistering”.

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Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them

Release date: November 16th

Plot: The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York’s secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school.

Go see it because: You know why. Wizards, witches, spells, beasts, adventure, an Oscar winner and Colin ‘bleeding’ Farrell. Magic.

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Bad Santa 2

Release date: November 25th

Plot: Fueled by cheap whiskey, greed and hatred, Willie teams up once again with his angry little sidekick, Marcus, to knock off a Chicago charity on Christmas Eve.

Go see it because: In the immortal words of the first film “why don’t you wish in one hand, and shit in the other. See which one fills up first”. Get the sandwiches ready because this is going to be great.

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Allied

Release date: November 25th

Plot: The story of intelligence officer Max Vatan (Brad Pitt), who in 1942 North Africa encounters French Resistance fighter Marianne Beausejour (Marion Cotillard) on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Reunited in London, their relationship is threatened by the extreme pressures of the war.

Go see it because: Brad, Marrion and Robert Zemeckis – director of Back to the Future, Forrest Gump, Cast Away and many more. Curious?