The best movies to stream on Disney Plus (November 2022)

Disney Plus has come a great distance since its launch three years in the past. Apart from serving as the house to the corporate’s large again catalog of traditional films, the service has since remodeled into the de facto streaming vacation spot for the corporate’s largest franchises and studios. Between Disney animation, DCOMs, Pixar, Star Wars, Marvel, and twentieth Century Studios, there’s one thing for everybody — and if there isn’t, there doubtless will probably be quickly sufficient.

We’ve plumbed the depths of Disney Plus’ library like Scrooge McDuck leaping from a diving board into his pool of questionably gotten riches, and we have now pulled collectively an inventory of the easiest movies you possibly can watch on the service. Listed below are the most effective films to observe on Disney Plus this month.

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Atlantis: The Misplaced Empire

A glowing, translucent blue woman walks forward along the surface of a pool of water, surrounded by gigantic fallen masks with carved faces.

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Atlantis: The Misplaced Empire was supposed to vary the face of Disney animation, but it surely ended up quietly disappearing. Following plucky educational Milo Thatch who dedicates his life to discovering the misplaced metropolis of Atlantis, Atlantis: The Misplaced Empire is a riveting journey with a enjoyable and colourful solid. It’s action-packed with a number of humor and coronary heart that simply operates by the rule of cool with its lumbering steampunk/dieselpunk aesthetic and gorgeously rendered historical civilization. This hidden gem mesmerized a era of children who grew up watching it on residence video, and now it’s proper right here on Disney Plus. —Petrana Radulovic

Cinderella

A woman in a white dress and a tiara (Brandy Norwood) and a man in a white suit (Paolo Montalban) smile in front of a background of flowers and statues.

Polygon has already gone on report about how this Cinderella (colloquially referred to as the Brandy Cinderella) is essentially the most Cinderella of all Cinderella films on the market. It’s an utter delight — the set design is lavish and colourful, the best mix of stage sensibilities for a TV display screen. The costumes are equally great. Cinderella and the Prince share a particular and really romantic connection. Jason Alexander performs a magnificently hilarious valet. And the songs are infectious, particularly with Brandy, Whitney Houston, and Bernadette Peters commanding the solid. —PR

Fantasia 2000

A green woman with yellow eyes smiles with butterflies nesting in her hair.

The Fantasia films are infamous for being large, beautiful artistic dangers that by no means actually financially paid off for Disney. However financial legacy be damned, Fantasia 2000 is an exuberant celebration of animation and music. Every of the shorts follows a unique piece of classical music, telling a selected story in a variation of animation types — generally wildly departing from what one would anticipate. As an example, “Pines of Rome” by Italian composer Ottorino Respighi turns into a story of flying whales, and commencement traditional “Pomp and Circumstance” is now Donald Duck as Noah herding animals onto an ark. However even the tales that don’t subvert expectations, like a wonderful tackle George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” are evocative and memorable. —PR

Free Solo

A man in a red t-shirt and blue shorts clings to a crevasse in the face of a steep mountain with a forest of trees visible below.

Free Solo, the winner of the 2018 Academy Award for greatest documentary, is unquestionably a film about scaling El Capitan in Yosemite Nationwide Park with out a rope. Nevertheless it’s additionally a film about love and fervour. The scenes of Alex Honnold, the principle topic, climbing mountains with nothing to cease him from falling off are dizzying and delightful. And the film cares simply as a lot in regards to the quiet components of climbing. We see Honnold fastidiously plan each step and handhold he’ll use on his climbs — no transfer is a guess. However the true brilliance of the documentary is available in the best way it handles Honnold as an individual, and questions what drives somebody to pursue a ardour that’s prone to kill them. —Austen Goslin

Holes

A low angle shot of a boy in a orange jumpsuit and green camouflage hat (Khleo Thomas) and another boy in a matching orange jumpsuit with a red-brimmed hat (Shia LeBouf) staring downward and looking incredulously.

Holes is without doubt one of the greatest book-to-film diversifications on the market. This off-kilter film follows a younger teenager named Stanley who’s falsely accused of against the law and serves his sentence at a piece camp, the place he and the remainder of the delinquents dig holes within the sprawling Texas desert. At first it simply sucks, however quickly Stanley realizes there’s a cause the domineering Warden is making them dig all these holes. Very like the guide, the film weaves in a number of tales, following a number of totally different time durations, and once they all come collectively on the finish, it’s simply satisfying. Younger Shia LaBeouf leads the solid, which additionally consists of Sigourney Weaver, Patricia Arquette, Eartha Kitt, and Dulé Hill. —PR

Lilo & Sew

lilo and stitch balancing on nani’s shoulders, while nani is balanced on david’s shoulders while surfing

By far one of many weirdest little films ever made by Disney animation, Lilo & Sew is a miracle. It’s about an alien who befriends slightly woman in Hawaii, but it surely’s additionally about two sisters grieving for his or her dad and mom and outsiders coming collectively. It’s gorgeously animated and simply the correct quantity of bizarre and heartwarming. And the music is phenomenal! With Sew being as in style a personality as he’s, it’s straightforward to neglect simply how offbeat and great the film is. Lilo & Sew continues to be a gem. —PR

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

OK, look, we get that Captain Jack Sparrow commanded the eye of audiences when the Pirates of the Caribbean films first got here out, however the true gem right here is Elizabeth Swann. Jack’s swagger is humorous, however Elizabeth drives the center of the flicks and on the finish of the day, they function one, large, pirate-zombie, seafaring, swashbuckling coming-of-age story for the governor’s daughter destined for extra. The principle trilogy, which focuses on Elizabeth and dreamy Will Turner, is stronger than the Jack-focused spinoffs for that reason. And the primary film, which tosses us into this lush world and its splendid mythos, is the strongest of all of them. —PR

The Princess Bride

The Princess Bride has all of it — swashbucklers, epic adventures, extremely quotable humor, Cary Elwes, and a beautiful romance that ties all of it collectively. It’s a fairy-tale fantasy that performs with acquainted tropes and breathes new life into them. The quantity of popular culture references and quotes birthed from this film is frankly inconceivable. Witty, humorous, and deeply romantic, The Princess Bride is a enjoyable fantasy romp with a really candy framing gadget of a grandfather studying his grandson a bedtime story, which preserves the narrative of the William Goldman guide slightly higher than an easy adaptation. —PR

WALL-E

two robots — one worn and one shiny — embrace

Andrew Stanton’s science fiction odyssey, set in 2185, is a triptych of disparate tales glued along with feels. There’s the dystopian story of a employee bot tidying up a busted, abandoned world that might simply stand alone as a brief; there’s the love story of two robots, a pure mix of Asimov and Disney; and there’s the rescue mission, a galactic journey that whisks WALL-E to the Axiom mothership for an encounter with a HAL 9000-like AI. Our li’l robotic pal, dropped at life by means of the beeps and boops of Star Wars sound designer Ben Burtt, beholds each narrative leap with binocular-eyed marvel. So will we.

Elegiac and eerie, WALL-E is a love letter to every part Stanton would miss about Earth (Howdy, Dolly! chief amongst them) and an impassioned plea for us slovenly earthlings to do what we will to reserve it earlier than it’s too late. We’ll see if humanity can get its act collectively, however even when we’re destined to decimate the planet and float round in hover chairs on a rocket-powered shopping center for the remainder of our days, we’ll at all times have WALL-E and EVE dancing among the many stars, an ode to the sweetness that after was. As is the continuing mission of Pixar, WALL-E conjures romantic reality. —Matt Patches