ASHEVILLE, N.C. (828newsNOW) — Looking for something new to watch? From a black comedy about alien abduction to a new biopic about the Nuremberg trials, check out our list of five new movies to see, stream or skip this November.

You should see…

“BUGONIA” (2025, 188 min., directed by Yorgos Lanthimos)

“Bugonia” is Yorgos Lanthimos’ fourth consecutive feature film starring Emma Stone, previously guiding her to Oscar gold in “Poor Things,” an Oscar nomination for “The Favourite” and critical acclaim in “Kinds of Kindness.” Nonetheless, their dynamic is fresh as its ever been. Stone’s turn in “Bugonia” might be her best Lanthimos performance yet.

Stone stars in “Bugonia” as a powerful pharmaceutical executive kidnapped by two conspiracy-obsessed men, played by Stone’s “Kinds of Kindness” costar Jesse Plemons and newcomer Aidan Delbis, convinced that she is an alien.

Stone is awesome as the stone-cold CEO, whether sternly espousing corporate platitudes or soullessly singing along to “Good Luck, Babe!” She is matched blow-for-blow by Plemons, who continues to be the best part of every movie he appears in. The tension between the bristling desperation of Plemons and the detached irritation of Stone is a joy to behold.

Like so many Lanthimos movies, underneath the tinfoil hats of black comedy and zany surrealism, “Bugonia” is deeply sad and horribly violent. The film viciously satires corporate dialogue and internet radicalization, embodied by Stone and Plemons, respectively, but it itches at deeper societal sores with an even more feverish relish. The movie is at its best when Lanthimos leans into the abyss of real world anxieties, which makes its more bombastic elements feel more like frustrating diversions than they should.

Rating: 3.5/5

“Bugonia” is now playing in theaters nationwide.

“DIE MY LOVE” (2025, 119 min., directed by Lynne Ramsay)

It may be called “Die My Love,” but my love for this JLaw performance will never die.

Lynne Ramsay’s new movie is adapted from Argentine author Ariana Harwicz’s “Die, My Love,” a beautiful nightmare of a novel. For a book written entirely in stream-of-consciousness, Ramsay nails the adaptation, largely thanks to Jennifer Lawrence in the driver’s seat as Grace, a young mother dealing with psychosis after moving to the countryside with her husband and infant child.

Lawrence is spectacular in the part. The actor is like an erratic storm inside of the provincial farmhouse – and married life – she finds herself restrained by. In one scene, Grace is a beam of sunshine, loving, manic and doting. In the next, she’s a tornado of chaotic rage, destroying anything in sight emotionally or physically.

Robert Pattinson stars opposite Lawrence as Jackson, Grace’s husband, and Sissy Spacek makes a welcome appearance as his mother. The two are both famous for freak-out performances – “The Lighthouse” and “Carrie,” for two – but here, the pair blaze only when Lawrence ignites them.

“Die My Love” is lovely, surreal and cyclical. The film lacks a puzzle piece narrative to click into place, but if its emotions, imagery and music click with you, Lawrence will lead the rest of the way.

Rating: 4/5

“Die My Love” is now playing in theaters nationwide.

You should stream…

“HEDDA” (2025, 107 min., directed by Nia DaCosta)

Speaking of strong female lead performances in films by talented female directors, Tessa Thompson is a-Hedda the curve in Nia DaCosta’s latest.

“Hedda” is DaCosta’s foray back into smaller budget cinema after directing a strange “Candyman” sequel in 2021 and “The Marvels,” a mangled, poorly-received “Captain Marvel” sequel, in 2023. The film is an updated version of “Hedda Gabler,” an 1891 play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, substituting in queer and Black characters while retaining the core thrust of the story. Thompson stars as the titular Hedda, hostess of a lavish party with a penchant for starting drama among the guests.

Thompson is ravishing in the part, virtually bleeding chemistry with each of her screen partners – though Nina Hoss, in particular – as Hedda shirks karma and wiles the night away.

“Hedda Gabler” is a beloved play in dramaturgical circles, but with the amount of style and skill DaCosta exhibits behind the camera, “Hedda” makes a strong bid for the best staging of the story to date. The movie is smart, sophisticated and, above all else, a ton of fun, making for a delightful rejuvenation of material over a hundred years old.

It’s good that DaCosta is getting some practice with resurrecting things from the dead: her next film will be “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple,” the sequel to this year’s zombie hit, due in theaters Jan. 16, 2026.

Rating: 4/5

“Hedda” is now streaming on Amazon Prime.

You should skip…

“CHRISTY” (2025, 135 min., directed by David Michôd)

The best thing I can say about “Christy” is that Sydney Sweeney does solid work bringing boxing legend Christy Martin to the silver screen.

The film around her, meanwhile, is overlong and wrought with biopic clichés. The script, written by director David Michôd with Mirrah Foulkes, is a mess of time jumps, leaping decades forward in the story without deeply examining anything but the horrible abuse Martin suffered at the hands of her husband and trainer, James V. Martin. At times, the film feels almost equally interested in James Martin’s story, making Christy Martin’s trailblazing career a subplot in the process.

The result is the antithesis of what a good biopic should be.

More fun than watching “Christy” is the elaborate connection between this column’s films:

In the ring, the West Virginia-born Martin was nicknamed “the Coal Miner’s Daughter,” a reference to the country music singer Loretta Lynn. Lynn was portrayed by Sissy Spacek, who has already made an appearance in this column thanks to her role in “Die My Love,” in her 1980 biopic, “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” another broad, decades-spanning portrait of an American icon.

If you sub out boxing gloves for the guitar, what Spacek and Sweeney are tasked with in these films is not dissimilar. However, while “Coal Miner’s Daughter” would ultimately transcend its biopic trappings, becoming a smash box office success and scoring seven nominations at the Academy Awards, including a Best Actress win for Spacek, “Christy” is far from a total knockout, commercially or critically.

Rating: 2.5/5

“Christy” is now playing in theaters nationwide.

“NUREMBERG” (2025, 148 min., directed by James Vanderbilt)

James Vanderbilt is the writer-director of “Nuremberg,” the quippiest movie you are ever likely to see about the Holocaust this side of “Jojo Rabbit.” Unlike that film, which was loudly and clearly satirical, “Nuremberg” portends to be a deep, serious examination of the prosecutors and prisoners of the Nuremberg trials, the legal battle to convict the Nazis for crimes against humanity following the end of WWII.

Instead, Vanderbilt, whose CV includes the likes of “The Amazing Spider-Man,” made a film that uses actual Holocaust footage and features a hammy Michael Shannon joking about “blackmailing the Pope.” A family forcibly ousted from their homes in one scene might be followed by Richard E. Grant jauntily downing Irish coffee in another. Suicide takes center stage with silliness. “Nuremberg” feels like a blend between a Marvel movie and a made-for-TV history drama, which is an off-putting tonal whiplash. 

But more than that, it’s just gross.

Though most of the film is dedicated to the relationship between Douglas Kelley, a psychiatrist, and Hitler’s immediate successor, Nazi leader Hermann Göring – played by a smarmy Rami Malek and a dedicated Russell Crowe, respectively – “Nuremberg” is too kaleidoscopic to get at anything truly interesting in their dynamic. Vanderbilt may have adapted his screenplay from Jack El-Hai’s book “The Nazi and the Psychiatrist,” but “Nuremberg” includes an obscene number of side characters and subplots, nearly all of whom are written to be as snarky and quick-witted as Robert Downey Jr. in “Iron Man.” “Nuremberg” may as well have been called “The Nazi and the Psychiatrist and the Lawyer and the Other Nazi and the Nazi’s Daughter Who Plays Piano and the Personality-less Female Journalist Given No Personality Other Than Being Rami Malek’s Sorta Love Interest and…”

Rather than spending your time on “Nuremberg,” maybe try “Judgment at Nuremberg,” the lauded 1961 legal drama. Personally, one of the most affecting films I’ve ever seen in my life is “Night and Fog,” a 32 minute documentary made 10 years after the liberation of Auschwitz. “Judgment at Nuremberg” is streaming for free on Tubi and Pluto TV, while “Night and Fog” is available on HBO Max.

Rating: 1.5/5

“Nuremberg” is now playing in theaters nationwide.