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The holiday season has moved from Halloween to Thanksgiving, but the horror movies that dominated the box office during the spooky season are now finding their way to premium video on demand, including iconic monsters like Smile Demon, Art the Clown, and Donald J. Trump. . There’s something for everyone this November on PVOD, and everyone could use an escape this November in particular for, well, reasons. Here are the best new movies coming to your living room this month.

Directed by Ali Abbasi, 122 minutes

It is no coincidence that he returns home just four days before the most important election of his life. It’s the controversial story of Donald J. Trump, charting his rise from run-of-the-mill real estate mogul in the ’70s to king of New York in the ’80s. It’s basically a riff on frankenstein with Jeremy Strong’s Roy Cohn playing the good doctor to Sebastian Stan’s monster. Abbasi’s film reveals how Trump took Cohn’s philosophies and built his entire personality on them, including elements like refusing to admit defeat and fighting long after he lost.

Directed by Aaron Schimberg, 112 minutes

Double the Stan! Even better here than he was in The apprenticea very different Sebastian Stan plays a man with neurofibromatosis who undergoes a radical procedure to look like the Winter Soldier. Of course, he learns that our inner character does not change with our appearance, a truth shown with the arrival of the phenomenal Adam Pearson as someone so charming and comfortable with himself that he brings all of the film’s themes home. Pearson just scored a Gotham Award nomination this week, hopefully kicking off an awards season that will give him the attention he deserves.

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, 138 minutes

One of the most beloved directors of all time finally brought his dream project to the screen in 2024… and it completely scared people. Spending more than $100 million of his own money to achieve it, Coppola’s vision is of a future in which an architect (Adam Driver) can stop time and change reality, not unlike a filmmaker. the themes of Megalopolis They’re undeniably confusing and some of the acting is ridiculous, but you have to admire the commitment to the craftsmanship on the part of everyone involved. Coppola takes big, wild swings with the film, and fails often, but it’s good to know that there are artists who are still willing to jump for the fences.

Directed by Jason Reitman, 109 minutes

the director of In the air freely narrates the approximately 100 minutes leading up to the premiere episode of the most influential television show in history: Saturday night live. Gabriel LaBelle (The Fabelmans) plays an anxious Lorne Michaels, who tries to assemble his cast of not-ready-for-prime-time players into a cohesive whole before the cameras roll. Cory Michael Smith, Lamorne Morris, Nicholas Braun, Cooper Hoffman, Willem Dafoe, Matthew Rhys and many more round out a huge ensemble of people playing some of the most famous comedic personalities of all time.

Directed by Parker Finn, 127 minutes

The rare horror sequel that’s better than the original, Parker Finn’s follow-up to his surprise hit is more ambitious, scarier, and more successful. One reason is Naomi Scott’s impressive work as a pop singer terrorized by what is basically an emotional parasite, a supernatural force that feeds on fear, trauma, anxiety and mental illness. Playing with deeper themes about the ownership people feel about pop stars, Finn doesn’t just repeat the beats of the first film, but finds new avenues to explore. And Scott is fearless throughout, delivering one of the most effective horror performances of the decade.

Directed by Damien Leone, 125 minutes

Bring Art the Clown to your Thanksgiving party! It has rats! The third film about the sociopathic clown largely repeats the pros and cons of the last film: killer makeup effects and great acting buried in a repetitive movie with a story that is impossible to care about, but that’s more than enough for fans of this increasingly popular film. franchise. He terrifying The films have been an interesting counterpart to “elevated horror,” a thoroughbred study that is striking a chord with people who just want to see craziness in the genre. It definitely eliminates that itch.

Directed by John Crowley, 118 minutes

Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh star in this heartwarming romantic comedy with a twist. The trick here is that their love story is told out of chronological order, going back and forth through the early days of their relationship, from starting a family to her cancer diagnosis, in an order that could be called emotional. more than traditional. The mix allows some of the clichés to fall more easily, but the real reason this is worth the PVOD rental price is simple: Garfield and Pugh rule. In particular, the man who played Spider-Man three times (for now) has one of the most effective “sad faces” in film history.