November falls under the time of the year when studios push their Oscar-potential films into theatres, but this year, audiences can look forward to AMC Artisan Films and their favorite superheroes returning to the big screen. Let's take a look at the best movies to look forward to this month.
One Piece Film Red
Uta--the most beloved singer in the world whose voice has been described as 'otherworldly'--is renowned for concealing her own identity when performing. Now, for the first time ever, she will reveal herself to the world at a live concert. With the Navy watching closely, the venue fills with Uta's fans--including excited pirates and the Straw Hats led by Luffy, who simply came to enjoy her sonorous performance--all eagerly awaiting the voice that the whole world has been waiting for to resound. The story begins with the shocking revelation that she is the enigmatic Shanks' daughter.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
In Marvel Studios’ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M’Baku, Okoye and the Dora Milaje fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T’Challa’s death. As the Wakandans strive to embrace their next chapter, the heroes must band together with the help of War Dog Nakia and Everett Ross, and forge a new path for the kingdom of Wakanda. Filmmaker Ryan Cooler returns directing an ensemble cast that includes Angela Basset, Letitia Wright, Windston Duke, Danai Gurira, Lupita Nyong’o, Martin Freeman and introducing Tenoch Huerta as Namor, king of Talokan.
For MCU fans, get tickets and be among the first to see BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER during the BLACK PANTHER Double Feature on November 10th. Fans will receive an exclusive double-sided coin commemorating both films.
The Fabelmans
Opening at select AMC Theatres November 11th, THE FABELMANS is a beautiful film, loosely based on Steven Spielberg’s childhood, starring Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Paul Dano and Gabriel LaBelle. Steven Spielberg co-wrote the script alongside Tony Kushner, with Spielberg, Kushner and Kristie Macosko Krieger are producing. We were able to screen the film at the Toronto International Film Festival, which it was honored with the People’s Choice Award. Read our reaction from TIFF, which we describe as Steven Spielberg's Warmest, Most Heartfelt Film
The Menu
Fittingly, THE MENU arrives at AMC Theatres just in time for Thanksgiving dinner. On November 18th, audiences will be treated to a deliciously dark feast starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult and Ralph Fiennes. The dramatic thriller begins when a couple travel to a coastal island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.
She Said
Two-time Academy Award nominee Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan star as New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, who together broke one of the most important stories in a generation -- a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement, shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood and altered American culture forever. The AMC Artisan Film, SHE SAID is based on the New York Times bestseller, 'She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement.'
The Inspection
In Elegance Bratton's deeply moving film, THE INSPECTION is inspired by his own story, a young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother and with few options for his future, decides to join the Marines, doing whatever it takes to succeed in a system that would cast him aside. But even as he battles deep-seated prejudice and the grueling routines of basic training, he finds unexpected camaraderie, strength, and support in this new community, giving him a hard-earned sense of belonging that will shape his identity and forever change his life.
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
On November, 23rd, for one week only - Benoit Blanc returns to the big screen to peel back the layers to the 2019 sequel, KNIVES OUT. Be the first to see GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY in advance of its Netflix release in December. Here is your guide to Rian Johnson's whodunit. This fresh adventure finds the intrepid detective at a lavish private estate on a Greek island, but how and why he comes to be there is only the first of many puzzles. Returning to the franchise he began, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Rian Johnson writes and directs GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY and assembles another all-star cast that includes a returning Daniel Craig alongside Edward Norton, Janelle Monae, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline with Kate Hudson and Dave Bautista.
Strange World
One of the most anticipated family-friendly movies on the horizon, Walt Disney Animation Studios’ STRANGE WORLD will open in AMC Theatres starting November 23rd, when it will take audiences on a wild and dangerous adventure on an alien planet. The movie will center on the Clades, a family who sets out to traverse uncharted lands no one has ever seen or imagined. Directed by Don Hall, who won an Oscar® for his work on BIG HERO 6, the animated adventure film stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Gabrielle Union, Lucy Liu, Jaboukie Young-White, and Dennis Quaid.
Devotion
DEVOTION, an aerial war epic based on the bestselling book of the same name, tells the inspirational true story of two elite US Navy fighter pilots who helped turn the tide in the most brutal battle in the Korean War: Jesse Brown, the first Black aviator in Navy history and his fellow fighter pilot and friend, Tom Hudner. Their heroic sacrifices and enduring friendship would ultimately make them the Navy's most celebrated wingmen. Learn more about the rise of Jonathan Majors, who portrays Jesse Brown and will be seen next in CREED III and ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA soon.
Bones and All
A story of first love between Maren, a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee, an intense and disenfranchised drifter. BONES AND ALL explores their relationship as they meet and join together for a thousand-mile odyssey which takes them through the back roads, hidden passages and trap doors of Ronald Reagan's America. Starring Timothee Chalamet and Taylor Russell, the young couple must come to terms with their past, as all roads lead to a final stand that will determine whether their love can survive their otherness.
