(Updated 09/25/2023)
Thanksgiving is one of the best holidays for watching new movies in theatres. Some of the year's biggest films are released when families have time off and plenty of opportunities to go to the movies.
We're looking forward to all the things Thanksgiving represents — being able to be with our families, loved ones, and friends for a good meal and a trip to the movies — more than usual this year, even if we have to achieve all those things in different ways than normal. Movies, however, will be the constant. Here are the new movies to watch in theatres over the long weekend, too!
New Movies In Theatres on Thanksgiving 2023
Dream Scenario
Don't movie fans all dream of Nicolas Cage at least once? Hapless family man Paul Matthews (Cage) finds his life turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams. But when his nighttime appearances take a nightmarish turn, Paul is forced to navigate his newfound stardom, in this wickedly entertaining comedy from writer-director Kristoffer Borgli (SICK OF MYSELF) and producer Ari Aster (MIDSOMMAR).
Napoleon
Ridley Scott reunites with his GLADIATOR star Joaquin Phoenix. The epic NAPOLEON details the checkered rise and fall of the iconic French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (Phoenix). Against a stunning backdrop of large-scale filmmaking, the movie captures Bonaparte's relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his one true love, Josephine, showcasing his visionary military and political tactics against some of the most dynamic practical battle sequences ever filmed.
Wish
Disney's new animated feature pays tribute to one hundred years of Disney history. Sharp-witted idealist Asha, makes a wish so powerful that it is answered by a cosmic force—a little ball of boundless energy called Star. Together, Asha and Star confront a most formidable foe—the ruler of Rosas, King Magnifico—to save her community and prove that when the will of one courageous human connects with the magic of the stars, wondrous things can happen.
Movies Still in Theatres on Thanksgiving
In addition to the new Thanksgiving movie releases for 2023, many movies from earlier in November will still be in theatres. Here are just a few.
Thanksgiving
Eli Roth goes back to his horror roots with a movie based on the trailer concept he created for GRINDHOUSE. After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts – the birthplace of the infamous holiday.
Trolls Band Together
After two films of true friendship and relentless flirting, Poppy (Anna Kendrick) and Branch (Justin Timberlake) are now officially, finally, a couple! As they grow closer, Poppy discovers that Branch has a secret past. He was once part of her favorite boyband phenomenon, BroZone, with his four brothers. BroZone disbanded when Branch was still a baby, as did the family, and Branch hasn’t seen his brothers since. But when Branch’s bro Floyd is kidnapped for his musical talents by a pair of nefarious pop-star villains Branch and Poppy embark on a harrowing and emotional journey to reunite the other brothers and rescue Floyd from a fate even worse than pop-culture obscurity.
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Return to the world of The Hunger Games. Years before he would become the tyrannical President of Panem, 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth) is the last hope for his fading lineage, a once-proud family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. With the 10th annual Hunger Games fast approaching, the young Snow is alarmed when he is assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler), the girl tribute from impoverished District 12. But, after Lucy Gray commands all of Panem’s attention by defiantly singing during the reaping ceremony, Snow thinks he might be able to turn the odds in their favor. Uniting their instincts for showmanship and newfound political savvy, Snow and Lucy Gray’s race against time to survive will ultimately reveal who is a songbird, and who is a snake.
Next Goal Wins
Directed by Taika Waititi (JOJO RABBIT, THOR: RAGNAROK) and based on a true story, NEXT GOAL WINS follows the American Samoa soccer team, infamous for their brutal 31-0 FIFA loss in 2001. With the World Cup Qualifiers approaching, the team hires down-on-his-luck, maverick coach Thomas Rongen (Michael Fassbender) hoping he will turn the world’s worst soccer team into winners.
The Marvels
The cosmic side of the Marvel Cinematic Universe expands. Captain Marvel has reclaimed her identity from the tyrannical Kree and taken revenge on the Supreme Intelligence. But unintended consequences see Carol shouldering the burden of a destabilized universe. When her duties send her to an anomalous wormhole linked to a Kree revolutionary, her powers become entangled with that of Jersey City super-fan, Kamala Khan, and Carol’s estranged niece, now S.A.B.E.R. astronaut Captain Monica Rambeau. Together, this unlikely trio must team-up and learn to work in concert to save the universe.
The Holdovers
Alexander Payne (ELECTION, NEBRASKA) returns with a new dramedy that stars his SIDEWAYS lead Paul Giamatti. Nobody likes teacher Paul Hunham (Giamatti) -- not his students, not his fellow faculty, not the headmaster, who all find his pomposity and rigidity exasperating. With no family and nowhere to go over Christmas holiday in 1970, Paul remains at school to supervise students unable to journey home. After a few days, only one student holdover remains -- a trouble-making 15-year-old named Angus, a good student whose bad behavior always threatens to get him expelled. Joining Paul and Angus is head cook Mary (Randolph)-an African American woman who caters to sons of privilege and whose own son was recently lost in Vietnam. These three very different shipwrecked people form an unlikely Christmas family sharing comic misadventures during two very snowy weeks in New England.
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