5 Best New Movies and Shows to Stream This Weekend on Netflix, Prime Video, HBO Max and More (November 13-15)

Can you believe it’s mid-November? Savage. 2026 is passing alarmingly quickly and we’re about to shift into holiday mode as Thanksgiving approaches… but you don’t need to pull your turkey and stuffing recipes out of storage just yet. We still have some time left, and you should consider using this time to watch a whole bunch of stuff.

Yes, it’s time to round up the hottest, best, and biggest streaming releases for the weekend of Friday, November 13 through Sunday, November 15, which also includes releases from earlier this week. As always, the list is limited to new releases from major streamers. entirely (case in point: Although Colleen Hoover’s hit film adaptation “Reminders of Him” ​​just came to Netflix, it was already available on Peacock, so it’s not a starter here), but between a dinosaur-killing movie, a new thriller starring an Oscar winner, a drama with an innovative structure, a new literary adaptation, and the sequel to a huge fantasy series, you have a lot of options.

If you haven’t gotten enough of Jessica Chastain in this year’s admittedly silly horror film “Another Mom,” you’re in luck: She has a new movie coming to Netflix this weekend. Written and directed by Shana Feste (the filmmaker behind “Country Strong,” “Run Sweetheart Run” and “Boundaries,” to name a few), “Heartland” stars Academy Award winner Chastain as Misty Jones, a country singer who has retired from show business but must break out of her self-imposed loneliness to find her niece Charlie Heart (real-life country singer Carter Faith), who has gone missing. As Misty attempts to locate Charlie, more family secrets are revealed, and she runs afoul of a criminal underbelly in Nashville in the process…and the fact that Misty is notoriously prickly and was nicknamed the “Queen of Mean” back in her country star days certainly doesn’t help matters.

“Heartland” also stars John Hawkes, Garrett Hedlund, Jennifer Nettles and Ross Lynch in supporting roles, but Chastain is the real draw here, and whether or not you’ve seen or liked “Other Mommy,” you should check out this selection. “Heartland” comes out on Netflix on November 13, so stick around this Friday and have a movie night.

If, like me, you like dark and twisted thrillers, you probably know the name Karin Slaughter. (Incredibly, I’m pretty sure it’s her real name.) Even casual TV fans know her, even if they think they don’t. Indeed, ABC’s hit procedural “Will Trent” is adapted from Slaughter’s series of novels about an Atlanta detective (although it tones down some of the more depraved things found in the books), and in 2022, Netflix released a series adaptation of Slaughter’s novel “Pieces of Her” with Toni Collette and Bella Heathcote in its lead roles. Now, Slaughter’s book “The Good Daughter” is getting an adaptation from Peacock, and it stars two of the most talented female actresses today: Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy.

The premise of “The Good Daughter” is appealing in its own right: Decades after a brutal and violent incident in the Quinn family, sisters Samantha and Charlotte (Byrne and Fahy) still reside in their hometown of Pikeville, Georgia, and Charlotte works in law enforcement. So when she begins to investigate a particularly violent crime, Charlotte is struck by her own experiences, as is Samantha – and new family secrets come to light. Both Byrne and Fahy are excellent in the series, and they are joined by Brendan Gleeson, Harper Steele and Paula Malcomson, to name a few. So whether or not you’re already a fan of Slaughter’s work, you’ll definitely want to familiarize yourself with “The Good Daughter,” which released all of its episodes on Peacock on Thursday, November 12.

Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” film trilogy was a cinematic triumph when it was released over a three-year period in the early 2000s, and it stands the test of time (although the same can’t really be said of its interminable three-part prequel “Hobbit”). So if you’ve already watched the extended versions of every “Lord of the Rings” movie thousands of times, I have great news: Amazon Prime Video has a “Lord of the Rings” TV show and it’s entering its third season.

“The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power”, broadcast since 2022, draws its origins from the appendices to the enormous fantasy volumes of JRR Tolkien (but notably not Tolkien’s “The Silmarillion” due to rights issues, so it has not yet been fully adapted). There are a few “familiar” faces here from Jackson’s film trilogy, like Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) and Elrond (Robert Aramayo), but “The Rings of Power” admirably expands Tolkien’s world during the second era of Middle-earth. This is also, incidentally, where the Rings of Power (that’s the title) were forged, leading to the ascension of the Dark Lord Sauron (Charlie Vickers). As such, there is a lot to explore like this series forges in front.

The first four episodes of season 3 of “The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power” were released on Amazon Prime Video on November 11. Two more will arrive on November 18 and the season will end a week later on November 25.

I really can’t believe that a film as delightfully strange and ambitious as “The End of Oak Street” was made in the first place, but I’m really glad that it did. David Robert Mitchell (“It Follows,” “Under the Silver Lake”) directed this ode to dinosaur movies, summer blockbusters and 1980s Steven Spielberg classics, which stars Ewan McGregor as Greg Platt, Anne Hathaway as his wife and aspiring writer Denise, Maisy Stella as Audrey, the couple’s eldest, and Christian Convery as their younger son Brian. (There’s also a family dog, Starbuck, and don’t worry – nothing bad happens to him. This is as close to a spoiler as you can get.) The Platts are an everyday family with everyday problems – Greg secretly works as a pizza delivery boy after losing his job, while Denise is increasingly dissatisfied with their suburban life – but one night a storm hits and traps them all in a strange prehistoric playground filled with dinosaurs. It seems almost magical, but here it is: these dinosaurs are hungry.

In some ways, “The End of Oak Street” is the only film in existence, to my knowledge, where you can see Anne Hathaway wreaking havoc on dinosaurs with a shotgun. On another level, it’s a treatise on the importance of family, and on another level, it’s a daring science fiction story with a bit of time travel and a lot of unexplained things. But what “The End of Oak Street” is above all else is amusing …and it’s streaming on HBO Max starting November 13.

In the 2000s, “24” broke new ground in a new style of episodic television using a real-time conceit as a spy tries to save the world. Decades later, “The Pitt” used this same structure to good effect for its real-time experiment of working 15 hours in the emergency room. Apple TV’s new drama series “12 12 12” is even stranger. Created by creative partners Jim Keeble and Dudi Appleton, “12 12 12” stars Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan as Jack Strickland and Bobby Galvin, two men involved in a high-risk heist in Zurich.

So how does “12 12 12” tell its story? While former FBI agent Strickland and master criminal Galvin circle each other in Europe, it is during the Zurich heist that they end up…