11 Best New Movies for Netflix, Amazon, HBO Max, and Hulu – October 2021

It’s finally October, and you know what that means: Halloween and pumpkin spice season. We’re finally in peak fall weather, with crisp leaves, weather coats, hot drinks, and appropriately spooky decorations. We also have a new batch of movies to stream this month on Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, and the Criterion Channel.

We’ve got some creepy new movies to watch in October with the legendary 1931 Spanish version of Dracula and Jennifer’s body coming to Criterion Channel, 1990s Flatliners on Hulu, and the The invisible man remake on HBO Max. If you’re in the mood for something less seasonal, we’ve got plenty of other great options to fill in the blind spots of 2020. Emma for From Russia with love.

Read on for 11 of the best new movies on streaming services in October.

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a gentlemen’s tale

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a gentlemen’s tale It was a bit of a flop in theaters, but it has become a cult classic. Heath Ledger propels the narrative, opposite a fiery Shannyn Sossamon, both backed by a curiously modern soundtrack. For my money, all eyes should be on Paul Bettany, who just freaks out in every scene like a pathological version of Geoffrey Chaucer. —Charlie Hall

a gentlemen’s tale is broadcasting on Netflix.

Dracula (Spanish version)

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Polygon’s Chris Plante wrote about Bram Stoker’s 1931 Spanish adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula for last year’s Halloween Advent Calendar – a sexier, faster-paced version shot on the same sets as Tod’s original movie. Browning with an impressive lead performance courtesy of Carlos Villarías as the Count. the same. The film has been notoriously difficult to find in the years since its release and only recently became available for purchase on home video. As part of your October Streaming Options Announced List, Criterion Channel has added the Spanish version of Dracula along with several other classic Universal horror films, such as the 1933 one The invisible man, From 1935 Bride of frankensteinand 1954 Creature from the Black Lagoon. If you haven’t seen this horror film masterpiece early, you owe it to yourself to make time to see it this month!

Dracula (Spanish version) is broadcasting on Criterion channel.

Emma

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The 2020 version of Emma isn’t just decadent pastel dresses and curls of hair, it’s also an adaptation that really questions Emma about being the bad girl she is by right. The Queen’s Gambit Star Anya Taylor-Joy does a masterful job of portraying the antihero, a bored rich girl who likes to play matchmaker with everyone in her community and is well aware of social dynamics. It gives this adaptation an edge that some lose, but still has the sizzling chemistry between Emma and Mr. Knightley as they go head-to-head. Emma grows as a character, but not before some delicious misunderstandings. —Petrana Radulovic

Emma is broadcasting on HBO Max.

Flatliners

The strange and boring failure of 2017 Flatliners It was just a pale shadow of the 1990 original, about a group of ambitious medical students (the all-star team of Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin, and Oliver Platt) who kill and revive each other to study “close to Death Experiences “, with horror movie results. Directed by Joel Schumacher in the heyday of his” colored lighting filters equals drama “setting, Flatliners it’s classy and edgy in a way that elevates it above its cheesy premise and equally cheesy execution – everything from concept to acting is over the top, in a way that makes for a gleefully ridiculous watch. It’s also genuinely spooky! —Tasha Robinson

Flatliners is broadcasting on Hulu.

From Russia with love

James Bond may be an old-fashioned spy with outdated morals, but Sean Connery’s piercing stares and disarming charm really make this 58-year-old action flick work in 2021. Based on Ian Fleming’s novel of the same name, the film finds 007 going face to face with SPECTER and helping the West to a SMERSH operational flaw. But Bond ends up trapped in a conspiracy and makes his way through trains, ship chases, and helicopter attacks as he and Tatiana Romanova take down SPECTER. A movie bigger and full of tropes than the true beginning of the franchise, Dr. No, From Russia with love is an excellent example of how people of the time fell in love with the character of Fleming, and why everyone from Roger Moore to Pierce Brosnan to Daniel Craig looked at Connery in this film as an example of a perfectly calibrated action performance. —Matt Patches

From Russia with love is broadcasting on Hulu.

Rushmore

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If you’re speeding to see Wes Anderson’s The French office later this fall, watch or rewatch Rushmore – a true modern classic. The strange character study that is somehow upset and poignant at the same time. It’s the title role of Jason Schwartzman, and perhaps one of the best Bill Murray performances of all time. It’s also on our list of the most pumpkin spice movies of all time. —CH

Rushmore is broadcasting on Hulu.

Jennifer’s body

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Bloody without being gratuitous, sexy without being degrading, empowering without being complacent, Jennifer’s body it’s a hell (ha ha) of a good time and somehow just the movie Me, as someone who went to high school around that time and is still unpacking all the mixed messages about female friendships and empowerment that comes to me. They packed up then, I needed to see this weekend. —PR

Jennifer’s body is broadcasting on Criterion channel.

Kagemusha

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Akira Kurosawa’s epic samurai Kagemusha is a beautiful and heartbreaking story of a humble thief who is saved from execution and is hired to play the double body of a dying lord of a great clan. As the titular kagemusha (“warrior of the shadows”), the thief must convince Daimyo Takeda Shingen’s allies and enemies that his clan still has a capable leader and preserve the clan’s deception. (You may notice some similarities to Ivan Reitman’s 1993 political comedy Dave starring Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver, but Kagemusha is a much more serious matter). Kagemusha features some of Kurosawa’s most impressive military battles, which are worth following in its three-hour runtime. —Michael McWhertor

Kagemusha is broadcasting on Criterion channel.

Kill bill

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Kill Bill: Volume 1 it’s 100 different movies united into a brilliant, messy, and highly entertaining whole, united by a bottomless pit of borrowed style and an unstoppable sense of forward momentum. Every cut, flashback and tangent is at the service of leading us to the final conflict: O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu) versus Uma Thurman’s unnamed girlfriend. While this is going Volume 2 Loaded with all the loads of plot and character development, it frees the first half for Tarantino to work at the height of his stylistic powers.

All the clever tricks that Tarantino has noticed in a movie, or the fight scene he loves, or the strange choices he wonders if he could get away with, are on display at. Kill Bill: Volume 1. It’s like flipping through the movie channels at midnight – a Jackie Chan-style brawl, where glass explodes on contact and cast-iron pans hitting guns and knives at all times, is followed by a hospital scene covered in grindhouse grime. , and crowned by the anime of the antagonist. origin story (produced by leading anime studio IG Productions). Then, in a climax that tries to overcome everything that came before, the film’s final fight changes from color to black and white, to shadows cut out against a blue background, and back to color for a snowy showdown. It’s dizzying, disorienting, and perfect. –Austen goslin

Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and 2 is broadcasting on HBO Max.

The Untouchables

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Brian de Palma The Untouchables starring Kevin Costner as Eliot Ness, a federal agent tasked with taking down the notorious smuggler Al Capone and his criminal empire. With several offers to the police force secretly on Capone’s payroll, Ness must recruit police apprentice George Stone (Andy Garcia), accountant Oscar Wallace (Charles Martin Smith) and veteran officer Jimmy Malone (Sean Connery) into a group. special job to take the fight directly with Capone and his cronies. The action is exceptional, with a fantastic and memorable shootout filmed at Chicago’s Union Station and scene-stealing performances from Costner, Connery and Robert De Niro as Al Capone himself chewing on cigars and taunting. -TO

The Untouchables is broadcasting on Hulu.

The invisible man

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Update director Leigh Whannell’s contemporary remake of The invisible man stars Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale) as Cecilia Kass, a woman who escapes from her abusive and wealthy ex-boyfriend Adrian (Oliver Jackson-Cohen), only to discover two weeks later that she has apparently taken her own life. With $ 5 million, Cecilia tries to rebuild her life, but doubts that Adrian is really dead. Harassed by an unknown presence, Cecilia’s demeanor begins to unravel as she becomes increasingly paranoid and terrified. Is someone really taking advantage of Cecilia, or is it all just in her head? Whannell augments the psychological aspect of the original story before showing genuinely creepy and impressive physical horror in the second half of the film. -TO

The Invisible Man is broadcasting HBO Max.