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4 of the best films to watch this November

1. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Knives Out was so ingenious, and its central character was so delightful, that Rian Johnson has written and directed another murder mystery in the same gloriously complicated vein. Daniel Craig returns as Benoit Blanc, the brilliant detective with an extravagant vocabulary and an even more extravagant Southern drawl. As in Knives Out, he's sniffing out a killer among a group of wealthy, entitled Americans, but this time the setting is a private Greek island and the suspects (played by Ed Norton, Dave Bautista, Kate Hudson, Janelle Monáe and others) have made their millions from tech and social media. BBC Culture's Caryn James says that "this hugely entertaining follow-up [is] filled with delicious cameos and loaded with more comic moments than the previous film".

Released in UK and US cinemas on 23 November, and on Netflix internationally on 23 December

2. The Menu

The Menu features Ralph Fiennes as a devilish celebrity chef who presides over one of the world's most exclusive restaurants. Nicholas Hoult and Anya Taylor-Joy play two of the gourmands who have signed up for the $1250-a-head fine-dining experience. But they soon find that while the chef's "molecular gastronomy" (including a rock covered in bits of seaweed) is not exactly lip-smacking, the way he treats his customers is even worse.

Released internationally on 18 November

3. Aftersun

Charlotte Wells' debut as a writer-director is one of the most acclaimed films of the year. Essentially a two-hander, the wistful, intimate Aftersun stars Francesca Corio and Paul Mescal (Normal People) as an 11-year-old girl on a rare holiday with her 30-year-old father in the late 1990s: she still lives with her mother in Scotland while he has moved to England, with no intention of returning. They tour the discos, amusement arcades and karaoke bars of a fading Turkish resort, but it becomes clear that Calum isn't quite the happy dad he is struggling to be. "Deftly constructed and utterly heartbreaking," says Pat Brown at Slant Magazine, "Aftersun announces Wells as an eminent storyteller of prodigious powers."

Released on 18 November in the UK and Ireland

4. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Chadwick Boseman was so revered as King T'Challa of Wakanda, aka Black Panther, that when he died of cancer in August 2020, executives at Marvel Studios knew that they couldn't recast the part. Instead, Ryan Coogler, the film's director, made a sequel which pays tribute to Boseman. In part, the film is about T'Challa's Wakandan friends and relatives battling the aquatic armies of Namor, the Sub-Mariner (Tenoch Huerta). But it is also about a nation grieving for its lost king.

Released internationally on 11 November