November 5
All movies are 2012/13 releases unless otherwise noted. Availability: 
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Computer Chess 74 Add to Netflix Queue Watch Trailer
Writer/director Andrew Bujalski’s follow-up to 2009’s Beeswax uses vintage 1980s-era video equipment to lend a realistic period feel to a story of a weekend chess tournament that pits man against machine. The comedy originally divided critics when it premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, but reviewers eventually warmed to the film's oddball charms.
Grown Ups 2 19 Add to Netflix Queue Watch Trailer
Adam Sandler's first-ever sequel reunites the star with director Dennis Dugan and co-stars Chris Rock, Kevin James, and David Spade. The results: predictably awful, and predictably successful at the box office. It's actually one of Sandler's lowest-scoring films to date, which means that a third Razzie worst picture nomination in three years is not out of the question.
White House Down 52 Add to Netflix Queue Watch Trailer
So who was the winner of this year's battle of the terrorists-invade-the-White House thrillers? Olympus Has Fallen is the one getting a sequel (and the one that made more money in the U.S.), while White House Down scored slightly better with critics and earned more money worldwide. This one comes from disaster master Roland Emmerich, and stars Channing Tatum as a cop who wants to be a Secret Service agent. While touring the White House with his daughter (Joey King), an attack occurs, and Tatum must become his daughter's bodyguard as well as the president’s (Jamie Foxx). Jason Clarke, Maggie Gyllenhaal, James Woods, and Richard Jenkins play supporting roles.
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| The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) Drama / Myrna Loy, Fredric March |
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| The Bishop's Wife (1947) Comedy / Cary Grant, Loretta Young |
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| 53 | Broken Drama / Tim Roth, Cillian Murphy |
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| East of Eden (1955) Drama / James Dean, Julie Harris |
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| 62 | The Fitzgerald Family Christmas Drama / Edward Burns, Connie Britton |
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| Giant (1956) Drama / Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean |
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| 37 | Girl Most Likely Comedy / Kristen Wiig, Annette Bening |
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| 59 | Hava Nagila: The Movie Documentary |
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| 58 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Extended Edition (adds 13 minutes) |
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| Intolerance (1916) Drama / Lillian Gish |
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| 51 | Lovelace Drama / Amanda Seyfried |
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| 69 | Out in the Dark Foreign drama |
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| 51 | Parkland Drama / Zac Efron, Marcia Gay Harden, Paul Giamatti |
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| 52 | Passion Thriller / Rachel McAdams, Noomi Rapace |
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| Rebel Without a Cause (1956) Drama / James Dean, Natalie Wood |
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| 64 | Renoir Foreign drama |
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| The Right Stuff (1983) 30th Anniversary Edition |
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| 38 | Scrooged (1988) 25th Anniversary Edition |
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| Syrup Comedy / Amber Heard, Shiloh Fernandez |
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| Twilight Forever: The Complete Saga Box set |
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| Absolutely Fabulous "Absolutely All of It" complete series box set |
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| Bat Masterson Season 3 |
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| Boy Meets World Complete series |
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| 69 | Clear History HBO movie |
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| Doctor Who Series 1-7 box set |
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| Farscape Complete series |
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| Hell's Kitchen Seasons 1-10 box set |
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| Ice Road Truckers Season 7 |
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| Law & Order Season 13 |
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| 87 | Mad Men Season 6 |
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| 64 | Magic City Season 2 |
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| Naked City Complete series |
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| Robotech Complete series |
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| Saved by the Bell Complete series |
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| 72 | Under the Dome Season 1 |
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| Weeds Complete series |
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November 12
Frances Ha 82 Add to Netflix Queue Watch Trailer
A no-budget, black-and-white collaboration between writer/director Noah Baumbach and writer/star Greta Gerwig (who previously worked together on the Los Angeles-set Greenberg), Frances Ha finds Baumbach returning to his native New York, where he found success with 2005’s coming-of-age tale The Squid and the Whale. This one's a coming-of-age tale of a different sort, exploring what it feels like to be out of college and fumbling through life. Gerwig’s Frances, an apprentice dancer, is our guide as she moves between apartments (Girls’ Adam Driver is one of her roommates) and tries to maintain a relationship with her best friend, played by Mickey Sumner. This Criterion Collection release adds a conversation between Baumbach and Peter Bogdanovich, another between Gerwig and Sarah Polley, and more bonus content.
Man of Steel 55 Add to Netflix Queue Watch Trailer
When producer Christopher Nolan announced that Zack Snyder would direct Man of Steel, Superman fans expressed their trepidation. The director’s work has been spotty, with his first film, Dawn of the Dead, holding his highest Metascore and his last film, Sucker Punch, possessing his lowest. The resulting film wasn't a hit with critics (who found it "overlong" and "businesslike"), but grosses of over $660 million worldwide mean that we'll be seeing Superman again soon (on July 17, 2015, to be exact, when Superman meets up with Ben Affleck's Batman). Henry Cavill dons the cape and tights, joined in the cast by Diane Lane and Kevin Costner as Ma and Pa Kent, Russell Crowe as Jor-El, Michael Shannon as General Zod, Amy Adams as Lois Lane, and Laurence Fishburne as Perry White.
Prince Avalanche 73 Add to Netflix Queue Watch Trailer
Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch spend a summer painting traffic lines on burned-out Texas roads in this remake of the Icelandic film Either Way by David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express). This low-budget (and secretly made) dramedy earned mostly positive notices upon its Sundance premiere, and if you don't expect a lot of action or plot, you, too, could enjoy spending an hour and a half in the company of the two stars.
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| Akira (1988) 25th Anniversary Edition |
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| 74 | The Attack Foreign drama |
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| 86 | Barbara Foreign drama |
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| 83 | Blackfish Documentary |
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| City Lights (1931) Criterion Collection |
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| 62 | Grabbers Horror, comedy |
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| 65 | Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation Documentary, music |
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| 59 | I Declare War Comedy, drama |
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| 35 | Paradise Comedy / Directed by Diablo Cody |
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| 67 | Thirteen Days (2000) Drama / Kevin Costner |
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| 58 | Turbo Animation / Ryan Reynolds, Paul Giamatti, Maya Rudolph |
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| Combat! Complete series |
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| Dance Moms Best-of |
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| Deadliest Catch Season 8 |
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| 71 | Dexter Season 8 |
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| Dexter Complete series |
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| Diagnosis Murder Season 6 / also: Complete Collection |
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| Family Ties Complete series |
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| 78 | Last Tango in Halifax BBC/PBS series |
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| MADtv Season 4 |
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| Merlin Complete series |
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| The Mod Squad Complete series |
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| 71 | The Paradise Season 1 |
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| Silk Season 1 |
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| Stan Lee's Superhumans Season 2 |
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November 19
The To Do List 61 Add to Netflix Queue Watch Trailer
Set in 1993, this raunchy R-rated comedy stars Parks and Recreation's Aubrey Plaza as Brandy Clark, an overachiever who has underachieved in the sexual realm. To remedy that, she puts together a to-do list of exploits she wants to complete before college. Aiding her in this pursuit are Donald Glover, Bill Hader, Andy Samberg, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Scott Porter, Rachel Bilson, and Alia Shawkat, while Clark Gregg and Connie Britton play her parents. Fairly decent reviews met this feature writing and directing debut for Maggie Carey (a frequent Funny or Die contributor and wife of SNL's Bill Hader).
We're the Millers 44 Add to Netflix Queue Watch Trailer
This fairly successful late-summer comedy stars Jason Sudeikis as an in-over-his-head drug dealer. He enlists a stripper (Jennifer Aniston), a homeless woman (Emma Roberts), and a neighbor kid (Will Poulter) to pose as his family and head off with him on an RV road trip to transport a huge shipment of marijuana across the Mexican border. Critics liked the cast, but found the material given them rather bland and forgettable.
The World's End 81 Add to Netflix Queue Watch Trailer
Edgar Wright’s Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy (aka The Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy)—which began with Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz— draws to its conclusion at The World’s End. (The films aren't actually related story-wise, so seeing the first two is not a prerequisite to enjoying this one). As with the previous films, The World’s End was written by Wright and Simon Pegg and stars Pegg and Nick Frost. This installment is a sci-fi comedy that follows five friends (Pegg, Frost, Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine, and Eddie Marsan) as they try to repeat an epic 12-pub crawl they first attempted 20 years prior. This time, their obstacles are a bit more otherworldly.
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| 55 | 2 Guns Action / Denzel Washington, Mark Wahlberg |
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| 54 | All Is Bright Dramedy / Paul Rudd, Paul Giamatti |
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| 46 | And While We Were Here Drama / Kate Bosworth |
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| The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) Drama / Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman |
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| 42 | Breaking the Girls Thriller / Agnes Bruckner, Madeline Zima |
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| 85 | Bridegroom Documentary |
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| 60 | C.O.G. Dramedy / David Sedaris adaptation |
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| 67 | Crystal Fairy Comedy / Michael Cera, Gaby Hoffmann |
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| 67 | Hannah Arendt Drama / Janet McTeer |
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| 32 | Paranoia Thriller / Gary Oldman, Harrison Ford, Liam Hemsworth |
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| 39 | Planes Animation / Dane Cook |
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| 49 | Thérèse Foreign drama / Audrey Tautou |
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| Tokyo Story (1953) Criterion Collection |
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| 43 | Violet & Daisy Thriller / Alexis Bledel, Danny Trejo, James Gandolfini, Saoirse Ronan |
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| 62 | Lilyhammer Season 1 |
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| Lost Girl Season 3 |
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| 65 | Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight HBO movie |
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| Peter Gunn Season 3 |
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| Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5 |
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| Touched by an Angel Season 9 |
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| 77 | Treme Season 3 |
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November 26
Breaking Bad: The Complete Series
You won't want to bury this barrel in the desert. This one's filled with two copies of Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium every episode of what just may be TV's all-time greatest drama series—and one that definitely stands up to re-watching. The Blu-ray-only set includes the 55 hours of special features that were available on the individual season sets (including a three-minute alternate ending that is also on the final season DVD/Blu-ray set, which is also out today) and adds a new two-hour documentary and a 16-page booklet, as well as a Los Pollos Hermanos apron.
The Canyons 36 Add to Netflix Queue Watch Trailer
If you were going to watch an erotic thriller starring Lindsay Lohan as a troubled actress, you'd want it to be a trainwreck. Mission accomplished. The script comes from novelist Bret Easton Ellis, the direction from Paul Schrader, and the story revolves around an L.A. trust fund kid (played by porn star James Deen) who discovers that his girlfriend is cheating on him with her co-star on a movie he's producing. A few critics actually praised Lohan's performance, but they were in the minority, with most reviewers turned off by Schrader's tedious, overly artsy eroticism.
Jobs 44 Add to Netflix Queue Watch Trailer
This week's other trainwreck features star Ashton Kutcher completely transforming himself into the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Or ... maybe not. Kutcher's performance was singled out by many reviewers as one of the chief problems with the film, though it wasn't the only fault; Jobs offered little insight on the man of the same name, resulting in a by-the-numbers biopic with no depth or revelations.
RED 2 47 Add to Netflix Queue Watch Trailer
2010 action-comedy RED was a surprise success for Summit, making almost $200 million worldwide, so naturally the sequel system started churning. Out came this story about Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) and his motley crew of retirees getting back together for yet another one last time, this time in Europe. Mary-Louise Parker, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, and Brian Cox also return, as do the original film’s screenwriters, Erich and Jon Hoeber. Dean Parisot (Galaxy Quest) takes over as director for Robert Schwentke, and he’s brought along new cast members Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Byung Hun Lee, David Thewlis, and Neal McDonough. Unfortunately, he forgot to bring along a decent script, and the result was a bit of a flop.
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| 69 | Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me Documentary, music |
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| 22 | Getaway Action / Ethan Hawke, Selena Gomez |
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| 72 | The Grandmaster Action / Directed by Wong Kar Wai |
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| 68 | Red Obsession Documentary |
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| 71 | Wolf Children Animation |
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| Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman (1962-73) Criterion Collection; 25-film box set |
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| 30 for 30 Volume 3 |
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| Bill Cosby... Far From Finished Comedy Central stand-up special |
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| Breaking Bad Final season |
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| Impractical Jokers Season 1 |
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| Murdoch Mysteries Season 6 |
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| Mystery Science Theater 3000 Vol. XXVIII |
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| Poirot Series 10 |
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