Greetings, Polygon readers!
We’ve successfully made it through yet another spooktacular season of delightful frights and chilling thrills. Regular thrills, however, are perennial, which means we have a whole new list of recommendations for audiences looking for a great movie to keep them on their toes this month.
This month’s top picks include the latest film from director David Fincher and starring Michael Fassbender, an extravagant Bollywood blockbuster that’s best summed up as “Robin Hood meets Charlie’s Angels,” and a gripping psychological thriller courtesy of Yorgos Lanthimos, the cerebral filmmaker behind 2015’s The Lobster and the upcoming Poor Things. Here’s our list of the best thrillers to watch on Netflix in November.
Director: David Fincher
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Arliss Howard, Charles Parnell
Netflix’s newest thriller is also already one of his best. David Fincher’s The Killer, released this week, is one of The Social Network director’s best movies and easily the most fun you’ll have with an assassin all year.
The Killer follows a character simply known as the killer, played excellently by Michael Fassbender. He’s mechanical and methodical, and his inner monologue, which Fassbender delivers with a tremendous deadpan, is hilariously detached and full of incredible non sequiturs. We see the character go through the careful planning of a hit, only for it to go wrong and set off a chain reaction of revenge, murder, fistfights, and Amazon orders.
The Killer is Fincher at his most refined, a casual exercise in moviemaking excellence that’s more stylish in its quietest scenes than most directors could ever dream of at their most flamboyant. The Killer has all the efficiency of a high-class assassin, and still
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