With the holidays just around the corner, this week brings a slew of new movies streaming on Netflix, Max, Hulu, and other major streaming services.
New releases this week include the dystopian AI thriller "The Creator" and "Blue Beetle," the first Latino superhero in the DC Universe. There is also the holiday film "Best.Christmas.Ever," starring Brandi and Heather Graham.
Some titles are available via new digital releases so you can buy them at premium prices, but for others all you need is a proper streaming subscription. Here are the top new movies available for streaming this week. Also, be sure to check out our roundup of new releases we recommend streaming on Netflix.
This sci-fi action epic from director Gareth Edwards (Rogue One, Godzilla Godzilla) is the first film to be released on Netflix. Set in a future war between humanity and artificial intelligence, the film follows Joshua (John David Washington), a former Special Forces operative who is grieving for his missing wife (Gemma Chan). He is tasked with hunting down and killing the creator, the designer of an elusive artificial intelligence, who has developed a weapon that can end the war by eliminating humanity. Joshua and his team break through enemy lines to destroy the weapon, which turns out to be an AI in the form of a young child (Madeleine Una Voiles).
Available on Amazon or Apple beginning November 14
Life is great for Jackie (Brandy). She seems to have it all - a handsome husband, a beautiful home - and she details it in her annual holiday newsletter. It makes her old college friend Charlotte (Heather Graham) seem like a lump of coal. When Charlotte "accidentally" shows up at Jackie's house a few days before Christmas with her husband (Jason Biggs) and children, Charlotte learns the truth behind the perfect charade. But Charlotte soon learns that the holly tree is not always greener on the other side.
Watch on Netflix starting November 16
This sci-fi buddy comedy has a wacky premise and gets even weirder as it goes along. Buddy (Mark Duplass) and Ray (Sterling K. Brown) are childhood friends. Now they are the last two people on a post-apocalyptic Earth. They have survived in the dome Ray built, eating the fish and vegetables they grew. But when the last female fish dies, their food supply seems hopeless. What happened next was something the two never expected.
Watch on AMC Plus starting November 17
This award-winning documentary exposes the history of racism in field hockey through the untold stories of past and present black field hockey players in the predominantly white sport. It chronicles the challenges and triumphs faced by black, indigenous, and other athletes of color, including the National Hockey League's first black player, Willie O'Ree. Current star players P.K. Subban and Wayne Simmons also share their own experiences. The film traces the BIPOC roots of the game of field hockey back to 1865 and the Maritimes' Colored Hockey League that shaped the game of field hockey today.
Watch on Hulu starting November 17
The first Latino superhero in DC movies is Jaime Reyes (Zorro MaridueƱa), a recent college graduate with big dreams. His future takes an unexpected turn when he acquires an ancient relic of alien biotechnology called a scarab. The scarab chooses him as its symbiotic host and gives him exoskeletal armor with extraordinary (but unpredictable) powers. He becomes a superhero, and his family supports him. However, an unscrupulous businesswoman (Susan Sarandon) plots to take the scarab away from him.
Watch Max from November 17
The "Please Don't Destroy" trio of Martin Herlihy, John Higgins, and Ben Marshall, known for their outlandish Saturday Night Live sketches, have expanded into film. They are childhood friends and live and work together in an outdoor supply store. In this story narrated by John Goodman, they go on a treasure hunt using a mysterious compass. The compass may lead them to a golden bust of Marie Antoinette, rumored to be buried in the woods. Along the way, they must fight off park rangers (Meg Stalter and X. Mayo) and a cult leader (Bowen Yang).
Watch at the Peacock from November 17
The biopic centers on Bayard Rustin, a leading figure in the 1963 March on Washington, when Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech. Rustin, however, has been relegated to a footnote in history, mostly because he was a homosexual. Colman Domingo's impassioned performance as this activist will garner much praise during awards season. The film shows how Rustin, joining forces with civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King (Amr Ameen), A. Philip Randolph (Glynn Turman), and Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (Jeffrey Wright), conceived and planned the largest nonviolent protest movement in the United States
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Watch it on Netflix starting November 17
The next entry in Netflix's thriving YA category is this film based on Victoria Vinuesa's debut novel of the same name. Mia (Virginia Gardner) convinces her friend Kyle (Alex Iono) to accompany her on a trip to Spain. Upon arriving in Spain, she reveals that she is looking for her birth mother. As they travel through the picturesque cities of Andalusia, they begin to fall in love and discover that what matters is not who gave them life, but what they do with it.
Watch on Netflix starting November 17
Directed by Nick Bloomfield, who has made music documentaries about Whitney Houston, Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love, Tupac Shakur, Biggie Smalls, and more, spotlights the tragic story of Brian Jones, co-founder of the Rolling Stones. To reveal how Jones was responsible for bringing together Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, and Bill Wyman in 1962, but was ultimately fired from the band as he battled his inner demons and died prematurely at the young age of 27, Bloomfield pieced together archival footage and interviews pieced together.
Rent/buy on Apple starting November 17
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