November film preview: Zootopia, Predator, and Wicked return for sequel-heavy Thanksgiving
As temperatures cool, awards season heats up with new movies from Lynne Ramsay, Chloé Zhao, and Noah Baumbach balancing out the franchises.
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With 2025 coming to an end, studios are setting the banquet table for awards season. They just have to get through Thanksgiving first. This year, they’re bringing new movies from directors like Lynne Ramsay and Chloé Zhao to the potluck. Still, there are plenty of delights for everyone outside the arthouse as well, with new installments of the Predator, Zootopia, and Wicked franchises squeezing into this month’s stuffed cinematic cornucopia. Feel free to indulge on side dishes, because the main course is surrounded by goodies in our November film preview.
Die, My Love (November 7)
After moving from New York City to rural Montana in search of a simpler life, Grace (Jennifer Lawrence) begins to feel the psychological effects of isolation, which take their toll on her marriage to Jackson (Robert Pattinson). Co-written and directed by Lynne Ramsay in her first feature since 2017’s You Were Never Really Here, Die, My Love tracks Grace’s spiral into psychosis with a little help from co-stars LaKeith Stanfield, Nick Nolte, and Sissy Spacek.
Nuremberg (November 7)
While there’s no bad time to remind people it’s possible to prosecute war criminals and Nazis, 2025 is an especially good one. Set from the perspective of American psychiatrist Douglas Kelley (Rami Malek), who is evaluating the Nazis before their day in court, James Vanderbilt’s Nuremberg tells of Kelley’s growing obsession with Nazi leader Hermann Göring (Russell Crowe). Also testifying are Michael Shannon, Richard E. Grant, Colin Hanks, Leo Woodall, Wrenn Schmidt, and John Slattery.
Predator: Badlands (November 7)
Prey director Dan Trachtenberg maintains his hold on the long-running sci-fi action franchise with Predator: Badlands, and after an animated aside, he’s putting the dreadlocked alien front and center…as well as brushing up against Alien. This time, the runt of the Predator litter teams up with a legless Weyland-Yutani synthetic (Elle Fanning) to find the perfect prey and prove his worth. Set on a distant planet, it’s a big swing for the typically Earth-bound series, but Trachtenberg has recently proved that we’ve been underestimating this series for decades.
Keeper (November 14)
With his second film of 2025, Longlegs director Osgood Perkins isn’t making horror fans wait long for his next nightmare, and it looks far more cerebral and surreal than his Final Destination riff The Monkey. In Keeper, Liz (Tatiana Maslany) and Malcolm (Rossif Sutherland) spend their anniversary weekend at a secluded and likely haunted cabin in the woods. After Malcolm heads back to the city, a mysterious entity attaches itself to Liz.
