Top 11 New Movies Available This Week on Netflix, Prime Video and More (Nov. 28-Dec. 4)

Top 11 New Movies Available This Week on Netflix, Prime Video and More (Nov. 28-Dec. 4)

November is coming to an end, but the entertainment flow continues unabated. New movies continue to roll out this week on Netflix, Prime Video, Peacock, and other major streaming services.

New releases this week include "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Doom," a Disney Plus first, and "The Exorcist," a Peacock first: both were previously available on demand. Holiday-themed family comedies will make their streaming premieres: "Candy Cane Lane," starring Eddie Murphy, and "Family Switch," starring Jennifer Garner and Ed Helms.

Some titles are newly available via digital release, so you can purchase them at premium prices, while for others all you need is a proper streaming subscription. Here are the top new movies available for streaming this week. Plus, check out what's new on TV and streaming this week.

John Cena's film credits continue to grow at an exponential rate. In this action-comedy, he plays a former Special Forces operative who can't get out of his desk job. One day, Mason reluctantly accepts a freelance job as private security for failed journalist Claire Wellington (Alison Brie), who interviews ruthless dictator Juan Venegas (Juan Pablo Raba). Just as she is about to get the scoop of a lifetime, a military coup erupts and the unlikely trio must figure out how to survive in the jungle and each other.

Available on Amazon or Apple beginning November 28

Almost 20 years after Sideways, director Alexander Payne teams up again with Paul Giamatti for this drama set in a New England boarding school in 1970. Paul Hanham is a well-heeled classics teacher who is disliked by both his students and the principal. He is forced to stay on campus during Christmas break to supervise the boys who have nowhere else to go. As the days pass, he forms an unlikely bond with the smart but troubled Angus Tully (Dominic Cessa) and the grieving school cook (Davine Joy Randolph). Paul will never forget this holiday.

Available on Amazon or Apple from November 28

Meg Ryan returns to the familiar romantic comedy scene she left years ago. The director-turned-director and star in this sweet tale of two ex-lovers who meet again by chance at a local airport and end up spending a night together in the snow.

Willa (Ryan) is a magical thinker and Bill (David Duchovny) is a doomed man; the two are just as annoyed and attracted to each other as they were decades ago. But as they talk about the past and the dreams they once shared, they begin to wonder if their reunion is more than a coincidence.

Available on Amazon or Apple beginning November 28

Imagine "Freaky Friday," but with twice the trouble. Jennifer Garner and Ed Helms play Jess Walker and Bill Walker in this ruckus about parents who do their best to connect with their increasingly independent and distant teenagers, CC (Emma Myers) and Wyatt (Brady Noon). If only the parents could really understand their children's problems. ...... And vice versa.

Then a chance encounter with an astrologer triggers the family to wake up with a full-body switch on a critically important day in each of their lives. They will have to work together to get a promotion, a college interview, a record contract, and a successful soccer tryout.

Streaming on Netflix starting November 30

It is quite surprising that Eddie Murphy has not made a holiday comedy before. He plays Chris, a man on a mission to win the annual Christmas decorating contest. To increase his chances of winning, he makes a deal with the mischievous elf Pepper (Jillian Bell).

Pepper then casts a magical spell that brings the 12 days of Christmas to life, wreaking havoc throughout the town. Chris, his wife Carol (Tracee Ellis Ross), and their three children race against time to break Pepper's spell.

Available on Prime Video beginning in December. 1

Director David Gordon Green, who rebooted the "Halloween" series, now takes on the "Exorcist" series. The film is a sequel to the 1973 film "The Exorcist" and the first film in a new trilogy.

Leslie Odom Jr. plays Victor Fielding, a photographer who, along with his pregnant wife, is caught in an earthquake in Haiti. He is forced to choose saving his unborn child over his wife; 13 years later, his teenage daughter Angela (Lydia Jewett) and her friend (Olivia Markham) disappear into the woods. When evil begins to occur, Victor seeks out the only survivor who has witnessed something similar before: Chris McNeil (Ellen Burstyn).

Available on Peacock starting December 1

The fifth Indiana Jones film was the last to feature Harrison Ford as the whip-wielding, fedora-wearing archaeologist. You're not the only one who missed it in theaters; according to TG's Rory Mellon, "Indiana Jones 5" is "definitely a movie that can wait to be streamed."

"The Dial of Doom" is set in two eras: in 1944, Indy and archaeology colleague Basil Shaw (Toby Jones) recover a time travel device called the Archimedes Dial, stolen by the Nazis from scientist Jurgen Voller (Mats Mikkelson). In 1969, Voller is working for NASA, trying to get the dial again. Jones teams up with Shaw's daughter Helena (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) to stop him for good.

Available on Disney Plus on December 1

Featuring four Asian American women, this road trip comedy is everything I've wanted for years. Adele Lim, writer of "Crazy Rich Asians" and "Raya and the Last Dragon," makes her directorial debut. Her cast includes some of the brightest rising stars in film, led by Oscar nominees Stephanie Hew and Ashley Park.

When Audrey (Park) decides to go to China to find her birth mother, she enlists the help of her best friends. Rollo (Shelly Cora), an irreverent hothead; Kat (Xu), a Chinese soap star; and Rollo's eccentric cousin Deidai (Sabrina Wu). Their journey is filled with hilarious and touching moments as their American upbringing and Asian heritage collide.

Streaming on Starz starting December 1

Liam Neeson's films range from action-adventure to romance to thriller. His latest film with director Neil Jordan is the latter, with noir undertones, set in 1939 Los Angeles, where hard-boiled, down-on-his-luck detective Philip Marlowe is hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress (Diane Kruger). She is the daughter of famous movie star Dorothy Quincannon (Jessica Lange). The disappearance is only the first in a series of inexplicable developments, and Marlowe becomes entangled in a web of deception and betrayal.

Available December 1 on MGM Plus

Remember Mary Kay Letourneau, the sixth grade teacher who had sex with her 12-year-old student, was convicted of rape, and had a child in prison? Todd Haynes' latest melodrama is loosely based on that true story. Twenty years after their infamous romance, Gracie Atherton Yu (Julianne Moore) and her husband Joe (Charles Melton), 23 years her junior, are preparing their twins for high school graduation. Hollywood actress Elizabeth Berry (Natalie Portman) visits to better understand her controversial role in the film. As he gets to know her better, the family dynamics begin to fray under the outsider's gaze.

Available on Netflix December 1

This quirky, heartwarming comedy references Wes Anderson in unfolding the story of a father and daughter who must figure out how to live together. Georgie (Laura Campbell) is a 12-year-old girl living quietly alone in a London apartment after the death of her mother. He steals a motorcycle with his best friend to make money and makes up an uncle to keep the social workers at bay. Suddenly, her estranged father Jason (Harris Dickinson) shows up. He is completely at a loss for parenting, and Georgie doesn't want to help.

Available December 1 on Paramount Plus

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