The upcoming Netflix month is jam-packed. The biggest highlights are David Fincher’s “The Killer” and “Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse.” “Squid Game: The Challenge,” meanwhile, will shorten the wait for Season 2 of Netflix’s most successful series.
Thanks to a special deal, it’s becoming increasingly common for Netflix to add theatrical films from Sony to its portfolio quite early. And after works like “65” and “The Pope’s Exorcist”, the streaming provider has an absolute highlight from 2023 right at the beginning of November: “Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse”. With 4.5 stars in the FILMSTARTS review, the visually exuberant, wonderfully crazy and wonderfully told sequel to the Oscar-winning “Spider-Man: A New Universe” is for us the best Marvel film of the year (just ahead of the equally highly rated “Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3”).
But Netflix also has a lot to offer in terms of in-house productions next month, especially the outstanding “The Killer,” with which “Seven” and “Fight Club” producer David Fincher returns to the thriller genre ten years after “Gone Girl. Also promising are Netflix’s Oscar hopeful “Nyad” and the star-studded World War II miniseries “All the Light We Don’t See,” for which “Peaky Blinders” creator Steven Knight and “Stranger Things” director Shawn Levy have teamed up.
Series fans can also look forward to “Completely Destroyed,” the new comedy series from the “Cobra Kai” creators, and an animated re-adaptation of the iconic “Scott Pilgrim” comics, with the cast from Edgar Wright’s 2010 film adaptation reprising their roles from back in the day as original voice actors. And the first part of the sixth season of “The Crown” also heralds the grand finale of one of the most popular Netflix series ever.
Meanwhile, all those impatiently awaiting the second season of “Squid Game,” which will be released in 2024, should make a note of “Squid Game: The Challenge,” which transports the concept of the mega-hit into the real world. The competition show pits 456 contestants against each other in games inspired by the series – without deadly consequences, of course, but with a record $4.56 million in prize money.
