The best movies leaving Netflix, Hulu, Prime, and Max at the end of November 2023
November has come and nearly gone, which means we have just one more month left in the year to look forward to before 2024 is upon. There’s still exciting new releases on the horizon, including the North American theatrical premiere of Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and The Heron, Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon Part 1: A Child of Fire, and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom starring Jason Momoa and Patrick Wilson.
In the meantime, there’s still plenty of great movies to watch before they leave streaming at the end of the month. The best picks this November include a cult classic dystopian drama for fans of The Hunger Games, a laugh-out-loud comedy starring Emma Stone, an iconic non-narrative documentary, and more.
Here’s what you should watch this weekend before these titles leave their streaming services.
Enjoy!
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Cast: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Tarō Yamamoto
Leaving: Nov. 30 on Criterion Channel
With the recent debut of The Hunger Games prequel The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, the fifth installment in the dystopian action series, now’s as good a time as any to look back at a spiritual predecessor to the series. Immensely controversial when it premiered in 2000, Kinji Fukasaku’s action thriller based on Koushun Takami’s novel is one of the most shocking and indelible Japanese films of its era.
Set in a future where an economic recession and a resulting surge in crime has transformed Japan’s government into a totalitarian regime, Battle Royale follows a class of junior high school students who are selected to fight to the death in order to strike fear in the heart of the country’s populace. Shackled with explosive collars, the children are sent out into the forest of a deserted island in search of weapons and
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