The 15 best movies leaving Netflix, HBO, and Prime in November to watch now

We’re approaching the top of 2022 with a quickness, Polygon readers. On the finish of each month, there are a litany of films leaving streaming companies, and that’s by no means extra true than the top of the yr.

Because the calendars flip to 2023, the streaming companies are overhauling their libraries for the brand new yr, and there are many nice films you must make amends for earlier than they go away their present platform.

There are too many films leaving streaming to meet up with all of them (and even all the good ones). That’s the place we are available! We’ve picked out the very best of the very best throughout quite a lot of genres and streaming companies, so yow will discover the one (or ones!) best for you.

Leaving Netflix

On line casino Royale

Picture: Sony Footage

Style: Spy
Yr: 2006
Run time: 2h 24m
Director: Martin Campbell
Solid: Daniel Craig, Eva Inexperienced, Mads Mikkelsen

Each James Bond film is a time capsule of when it was made. For On line casino Royale (technically the third adaptation of Ian Fleming’s first James Bond e book, however the first severe one), it’s also a glimpse again at first of a brand new period for the long-lasting character.

Daniel Craig’s James Bond is in contrast to any of the others that got here earlier than him. He’s drained and worn down, cynical and bitter, however Craig’s distinctive display presence means the character by no means loses his signature allure. Maybe a very powerful factor of Craig as Bond is his physicality — he’s an underrated display fighter who did quite a lot of of his personal stunts all through the franchise, and Bond as a fighter has by no means regarded fairly so good as in his films.

Craig just isn’t the one purpose to love On line casino Royale — Mads Mikkelsen was principally created in a lab to play a Bond villain, and Jeffrey Wright’s Felix Leiter has electrical buddy chemistry with Craig’s Bond. The film revitalized a stale franchise and was the primary of many stellar entries with Craig within the 007 moniker. —Pete Volk

On line casino Royale leaves Netflix Jan. 1.

Eyes Vast Shut

Picture: Warner Bros. Footage

Style: Erotic thriller
Yr: 1999
Run time: 2h 39m
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Solid: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Todd Discipline

Stanley Kubrick’s final movie, and considered one of his most exacting, exact, and claustrophobic. Eyes Vast Shut follows a younger physician named Invoice Harford (Tom Cruise) who slowly drifts into the chaos of New York’s highest and most secretive society after fears that his spouse, performed by Nicole Kidman, is falling out of affection with him. However as Invoice glimpses larger into the clouds surrounding the actually highly effective folks on the planet, he additionally slips farther from his spouse, as if figuring out the key movers of the world and figuring out the true depths of a single particular person’s coronary heart are each unimaginable desires. That the film was filmed amid the fraying of Kidman and Cruise’s real-life marriage simply provides one other layer to Kubrick’s fascinating, dreamlike, and eerily stunning labyrinth of emotions and thriller. —Austen Goslin

Eyes Vast Shut leaves Netflix Jan. 1.

Hell or Excessive Water

Picture: Lionsgate

Style: Crime
Yr: 2016
Run time: 1h 42m
Director: David Mackenzie
Solid: Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Jeff Bridges

In recent times, Taylor Sheridan has made fairly the title for himself within the tv Westerns, creating the extraordinarily standard Yellowstone and its spinoff prequel 1883. However earlier than all that, he wrote the wonderful neo-Western crime thriller Hell or Excessive Water.

Nominated for 4 Oscars (together with Finest Image and for Sheridan’s screenplay), the film follows two bank-robbing brothers and the Texas Rangers despatched to hunt them down. The brothers, performed with completely antagonistic sibling chemistry by Chris Pine and Ben Foster, are good foils for one another — Pine’s Toby is calm and picked up, whereas Foster’s Tanner is uncontrolled (an ideal match for Foster’s pure depth). Jeff Bridges (nominated for an Oscar for this) and the wonderful Gil Birmingham (who reunited with Sheridan on Yellowstone and was additionally just lately one of many major solid members in Underneath the Banner of Heaven) co-star because the growing old Texas Rangers. Preserve your eyes peeled for a short look by future Prey star Amber Midthunder, too. —PV

Hell or Excessive Water leaves Netflix Jan. 1.

Leaving Hulu

The Blade Trilogy

Picture: New Line Dwelling Leisure

Style: Supernatural superhero
Yr: 1998, 2002, 2004
Run time: 2h, 1h 57m, 1h 53m
Administrators: Stephen Norrington, Guillermo del Toro, David S. Goyer
Solid: Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson

Ten years earlier than Robert Downey Jr.’s debut as Tony Stark in 2008’s Iron Man, Wesley Snipes delivered Marvel its first real hit film via his career-defining function as Blade, the half-vampire, half-human vampire hunter. Pressured to wage a battle in opposition to an underground society of vampires led by Deacon Frost (Stephen Dorff), a megalomaniacal vampire with world-ending ambitions, Blade should on the similar time work alongside his mentor Abraham Whistler (Kris Kristofferson) and hematologist Karen Jenson (N’Bushe Wright) to handle his personal horrible, suppressed thirst for human blood. Come for the blood rave, keep for the kickass motion sequences.

If that weren’t sufficient, March marked the 20th anniversary of Guillermo del Toro’s follow-up, Blade 2, which noticed the Daywalker dealing with off in opposition to a monstrous horde of split-chinned hybrids manufactured by an unscrupulous sect of vampire nobles. Each movies are greater than price your time, and with plans afoot for Marvel’s reboot starring Mahershala Ali, what higher time than now to pay respects to the OG? —Toussaint Egan

All three Blade films are leaving Hulu Dec. 31.

On line casino

Picture: Common Footage Dwelling Leisure

Style: Crime
Yr: 1995
Run time: 2h 58m
Director: Martin Scorsese
Solid: Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci

Martin Scorsese’s Las Vegas drama is a excessive mark in his famend gangster image oeuvre. Ace Rothstein (Robert De Niro), a star sports activities playing handicapper, is requested by the Italian mob to run the brand new Tangiers On line casino in Las Vegas. When his hothead previous good friend Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci) exhibits up on the town and Rothstein falls for native hustler Ginger McKenna (Sharon Stone), issues get difficult. Impressed by the lives of actual folks, On line casino is one other enthralling research by Scorsese on the attract and risks of energy, and the place main such a life will go away you. —PV

On line casino is leaving Hulu Dec. 31.

Looper

Picture: Sony Footage Dwelling Leisure

Style: Sci-fi
Yr: 2012
Run time: 1h 59m
Director: Rian Johnson
Solid: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt

Rian Johnson’s sci-fi motion thriller Looper follows the story of Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a hitman working for a criminal offense syndicate within the yr 2044 who focuses on killing folks his employers ship again in time from the longer term. In alternate for his companies, Joe is obtainable the chance to retire supplied that he shut his personal “loop” by executing his future self (Bruce Willis). When his future self overpowers him and units off on his personal mysterious mission, Joe should monitor himself down and shut his loop earlier than his employers decide to kill each of them to cowl the entire mess up. From there, it solely will get extra difficult. Crammed with thrilling chase sequences, exhilarating gunfights, a memorable rating by composer Nathan Johnson, and a few frankly weird make-up designed to make Gordon-Levitt seem like a youthful Willis, Looper is an enchanting and totally entertaining motion film with a coronary heart as large because the concepts that energy it. —TE

Looper is leaving Hulu Dec. 31.

Leaving Prime Video

10 Issues I Hate About You

Picture: Touchstone Footage, Buena Vista Footage

Style: Rom-com
Yr: 1999
Run time: 1h 37m
Director: Gil Junger
Solid: Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Of all of the teen-movie variations of basic literature on the market, 10 Issues I Hate About You might be essentially the most romantic. It’s a very unfastened adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew: Standard lady Bianca (Larisa Oleynik) just isn’t allowed up to now till her headstrong older sister Kat (Julia Stiles) does, so Cameron (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), the brand new child with a giant crush on Bianca, pays unhealthy boy Patrick (Heath Ledger) to woo Kat. It’s the type of romantic comedy the place a lot of the strain comes from the leads butting heads and realizing they’re not so completely different in spite of everything — with an additional dose of two vastly completely different sisters studying to know one another. Kat and Patrick undoubtedly take middle stage right here, however Cameron and Bianca’s romance isn’t half-bad both. —Petrana Radulovic

10 Issues I Hate About You is leaving Prime Video Dec. 31.

Cosmopolis

Picture: Leisure One

Style: Drama
Yr: 2012
Run time: 1h 49m
Director: David Cronenberg
Solid: Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Sarah Gadon

David Cronenberg ditched the physique horror with this charming story of a billionaire (Robert Pattinson) who travels throughout Manhattan in his luxurious limo as his life collapses round him. Cronenberg immerses you on this world as solely he can, and brings out considered one of Pattinson’s best-ever performances on this entrancing story of wealth and isolation. —PV

Cosmopolis is leaving Prime Video Dec. 30.

Unbelievable Mr. Fox

Picture: 20th Century Fox

Style: Comedy journey
Yr: 2009
Run time: 1h 27m
Director: Wes Anderson
Solid: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Invoice Murray

Primarily based on Roald Dahl’s basic kids’s e book, Wes Anderson’s 2009 stop-motion animated comedy Unbelievable Mr. Fox follows a classy Fox (George Clooney) who, resorting to his former thief methods, incurs the wrath of three villainous farmers who will cease at nothing to punish him and his household. Crammed with stunning, intricate animation, whimsical dance numbers, and Anderson’s idiosyncratic humor and elegance, Unbelievable Mr. Fox is usually hailed as among the finest animated movies of the early aughts and a must-see for followers of youngsters’s movies and extremely crafted cinema alike. —TE

Unbelievable Mr. Fox is leaving Prime Video Dec. 31.

Man on Hearth

Picture: 20th Century Fox Dwelling Leisure

Style: Crime
Yr: 2004
Run time: 2h 26m
Director: Tony Scott
Solid: Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Christopher Walken

Tony Scott was at his apex when he made Man on Hearth. The 2004 motion thriller stars Denzel Washington as John Creasy, a suicidal former CIA agent and bodyguard for Lupita (Dakota Fanning), a 9-year-old lady dwelling together with her rich dad and mom in Mexico Metropolis. Regardless of his reserved, antagonistic nature and troubled previous, Creasy unexpectedly types an nearly familial bond along with his shopper that’s put to the last word take a look at when she is kidnapped by criminals demanding a ransom for her launch. Waging an asymmetrical battle of vigilante violence in opposition to her captors, Creasy stops at nothing to avoid wasting Lupita in a bid to redeem his personal soul. With intense gunfights, teeth-gnashing violence, sensible cinematography, and a stupendous rating composed by Harry Gregson-Williams and Lisa Gerrard, Man on Hearth ranks among the many highest of Scott’s oeuvre. —TE

Man on Hearth is leaving Prime Video Dec. 31.

The Ring

Picture: DreamWorks Footage

Style: Horror
Yr: 2002
Run time: 1h 55m
Director: Gore Verbinski
Solid: Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, Brian Cox

The early 2000s have been an enchanting time when studios have been spending tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} on horror blockbusters. Among the many finest of those is the American remake of Ringu, a Japanese film a couple of haunted videotape that kills the viewer seven days after they watch its unusual montage of photographs. Whereas the remake lacks the empathy and scares of the unique, The Ring is an entirely distinctive and worthwhile expertise by itself and feels fully completely different from the horror films of every other period. With its blockbuster price range and beautiful course from Gore Verbinski, this remake is someplace between a ghost story and a thriller thriller and depends extra on its world’s wonderful sense of haunting dread than direct scares. —AG

The Ring is leaving Prime Video Dec. 31.

Thief

Picture: Warner Dwelling Video

Style: Crime
Yr: 1981
Run time: 2h 3m
Director: Michael Mann
Solid: James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Robert Prosky

Michael Mann’s 1981 neo-noir crime thriller is outstanding. The late, nice James Caan (The Godfather) stars as Frank, an skilled safecracker and ex-convict with desires of retiring from his lifetime of crime to pursue a standard life and lift a household. After dropping out on the cash from his final large heist, Frank agrees to signal on for yet one more heist with a big-time gangster who, unbeknownst to him, plans on dishonest him out of his reduce as soon as once more. Even when you’ve by no means seen the movie earlier than, you possibly can in all probability put two and two collectively and guess how properly that goes for the gangster. With gorgeous nighttime cinematography by Donald Thorin and a pulsating synth rating by Tangerine Dream, Thief is a bona fide surprise anchored by an inimitable lead efficiency. Finish of blurb. —Toussaint Egan

Thief is leaving Prime Video Dec. 31.

Leaving HBO Max

The Counselor

Picture: 20th Century Fox

Style: Crime thriller
Yr: 2013
Run time: 1h 57m
Director: Ridley Scott
Solid: Michael Fassbender, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem

Probably Ridley Scott’s strangest film, this crime thriller was written by Cormac McCarthy and follows a lawyer (Michael Fassbender) who will get concerned in a significant drug deal. A wonderful fashionable noir that mixes the philosophical writing of McCarthy with the sharp directorial eye of Scott, The Counselor just isn’t for everyone (Cameron Diaz has intercourse with a automobile, years earlier than Titane). However with a superb ensemble solid, a director working exterior of his consolation zone, and a tangible feeling of the whole lot being simply barely off-kilter, it’s considered one of my favourite Ridley Scott films. —PV

The Counselor is leaving HBO Max Dec. 31.

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