3 Best New to Netflix Movies to Watch This Weekend (November 14-16): ‘The Outfit’ and More

Does Netflix ever stop adding new movies?

This weekend alone will see the addition of new movies Nouvelle Vague and A Merry Little Ex-Mas to the popular platform’s already stacked library.

But Netflix also has a lot of great older titles it just added to its catalog in November.

Watch With Us has curated a list of three must-watch flicks you should stream this weekend: Back to the Future Part II with Michael J. Fox, the underrated horror sequel Doctor Sleep and the period thriller The Outfit.

‘Back to the Future Part II’ (1989)

Can I confess something? I’ve always preferred Back to the Future Part II over the original. It’s not that it’s better — it’s just more inventive with its sci-fi premise and willing to take bigger swings with its time-travel plot. Picking up right where the first one left off, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), his girlfriend Jennifer (Elisabeth Shue) and Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) travel to 2015 to prevent a dark future from happening. Marty’s mortal nemesis, Biff (Thomas F. Wilson), is a Trump-like real estate kingpin, and Marty and his kids all suffer because of it. Can Marty fix the future like he did with the past in the original?

What’s so cool about Part II when watching it right now is to compare its vision of 2015 with the actual reality. While hoverboards are sadly still not a reality, hologram advertisements are as well as endless sequels to Steven Spielberg movies. (I’m looking at you, Jurassic World Rebirth.) The original’s unique blend of action, comedy and sci-fi geekery remains intact, as does the indelible chemistry between Fox and Lloyd.

Back to the Future Part II is streaming on Netflix.

‘Doctor Sleep’ (2018)

OK, I know, I’m a little late with recommending the horror sequel Doctor Sleep, but blame Netflix — the streamer only added it on November 1. It’s always a good time to watch it, though, as it works as an effective drama about a recovering alcoholic who has to face his past inner demons. Danny Torrance (Ewan McGregor) is all grown up, but he is still haunted by what happened to him as a young boy at the Overlook Hotel all those years ago. When his still-active psychic bond senses another just like him, he gets pulled into a new mystery involving Rose the Hat (Rebecca Ferguson), a menacing presence who feeds off of psychics like him.

Written and directed by Mike Flanagan, Doctor Sleep is a sequel that shouldn’t work. After all, how can anyone follow up on The Shining, Stanley Kubrick’s chilly 1980 masterpiece? But somehow, Flanagan finds a way to honor both Kubrick’s film (which author Stephen King hated) and the book (which isn’t all that great). The result is a surprisingly moving film that’s also legitimately scary. There’s a disturbing scene involving the prolonged murder of a child that still haunts me, and it will haunt you, too.

Doctor Sleep is streaming on Netflix.

‘The Outfit’ (2022)

No, it’s not a The Devil Wears Prada spinoff — it’s actually a crazy-good period thriller about a tailor outsmarting the mob. Mark Rylance stars as the tailor, Leonard Burling, who lets the Irish mob use his shop to hide some stolen money. When the mob boss’ son, Richie (Dylan O’ Brien), is shot by a rival gun, he hides out at Leonard’s shop until help arrives. But what turns out to be a minor problem soon spirals into chaos as mutual distrust between Leonard, Richie and henchman Louis (Johnny Flynn) threatens to ignite an all-out gang war.

The Outfit is an elegant thriller that looks and sounds great. Directed by Oscar winner Graham Moore, it takes its time to set up the plot and establish all of the characters so you know just what’s at stake — and who could be a traitor hiding in plain view. In a rare lead role, Rylance shows why he’s one of the best English actors today. Leonard is as cool as a cucumber, but if you threaten the things he loves, he’s more vicious than any of the gun-toting mob goons he’s up against.

The Outfit is streaming on Netflix.