The penultimate month of 2018 brings with it a healthy dose of fantasy, fiction, adventure and magic in the theatres. Of them, here’s our top pick of the best November movies that should definitely be watched on big screens.
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
The second installment of the “Fantastic Beasts” series set in J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World features the adventures of magizoologist Newt Scamander, as he, along with much-loved professor Albus Dumbledore, tries to thwart Grindelwald’s plans of raising pure-blood wizards to rule over all the world.
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
A silver-screen retelling of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker, here Young Clara needs to travel across parallel worlds, strike strange friendships with soldiers and mice to retrieve a key that will unlock a box containing a priceless gift.
Robin Hood
Robin of Loxley, a war-hardened Crusader, and his Moorish commander revolt against the corrupt practices of the English monarchy in an action-adventure packed with gritty battlefield exploits, mind-blowing fight scenes and a timeless romance.
The Girl in the Spider’s Web
A sequel to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, it follows the story of young computer hacker Lisbeth Salander as she continues in her crusade against sexual abusers and finds herself caught in a web of spies, cyber-criminals and corrupt government officials.
Text: Suchetana Mukhopadhyay