Netflix reveals release dates for its entire Fall and Winter slate including ‘Don’t Look Up,’ ‘The Unforgivable,’ ‘The Power of the Dog’ and more

Erik Anderson August 23, 2021

Netflix has revealed the release dates of its entire Fall and Winter slate of films including which ones will receive a one-week Oscar-qualifying release in theaters.

September will star with Worth, about an attorney (Academy Award nominee Michael Keaton) who learns a lesson in empathy when he’s faced with the near-impossible task of determining how to compensate families who suffered incalculable losses as a result of the September 11th attacks. Based on true events.

October moves into The Guilty, set over the course of a single morning in a 911 dispatch call center, as call operator Joe Baylor (Academy Award nominee Jake Gyllenhaal) tries to save a caller in grave danger. In select theaters 9/24, on Netflix 10/1.

November brings in the big guns with The Harder They Fall, a western directed by Jeymes Samuel, where outlaw Nat Love (Jonathan Majors) discovers that his enemy, Rufus Buck (Idris Elba), is being released from prison, so he reunites his gang to track Rufus down and seek revenge. In select theaters 10/22, on Netflix 11/3. Passing, from Rebecca Hall and based on the novel by Nella Larsen, follows two black women (Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga) who can pass as white and choose to live on opposite sides of the color line in 1929 New York. In select theaters 10/27, on Netflix 11/10. In tick, tick…BOOM!, promising young theater composer Jonathan Larson (Andrew Garfield), on the cusp of his 30th birthday, navigates love, friendship, and the pressures of life as an artist in New York City in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s feature directorial debut. 12, on Netflix 11/19.

December is all about auteurs and star power with Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, starring Academy Award nominee Benedict Cumberbatch as a Montana cattle rancher in 1925 with a secret. Co-starring Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons and Kodi Smit-McPhee. In select theaters 11/17, on Netflix 12/1. Academy Award winners Sandra Bullock and Viola Davis star in (now titled) The Unforgivable from NoraFingscheidt about a woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past. In select theaters 11/24, on Netflix 12/10. Academy Award winner Adam McKay(The Big Short) brings the biggest collection of Oscar-winning and nominated stars with the end of the world dark comedy Don’t Look Up, which stars Academy Award winners Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep and Cate Blanchett with Oscar nominees Jonah Hill and Timothée Chalamet.

Here is the full lineup of films and dates from Netflix for the rest of 2021.

September

Afterlife of the Party (9/2)
Worth (9/3)
Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali (9/9)
Kate (In select theaters and on Netflix 9/10)
Nightbooks (9/15)
Schumacher (9/15)
Intrusion (9/22)
The Starling (In select theaters 9/17, on Netflix 9/24)
My Little Pony: A New Generation (9/24)
Sounds Like Love (9/29)
No One Gets Out Alive (9/29)

October

The Guilty (In select theaters 9/24, on Netflix 10/1)
Diana: The Musical (10/1)
There’s Someone Inside Your House (10/6)
Found (10/20)
Night Teeth (10/20)
Stuck Together (10/20)
Army of Thieves (10/29)
Hypnotic (October)
Fever Dream (In select theaters and on Netflix this October)

November

The Harder They Fall (In select theaters 10/22, on Netflix 11/3)
Love Hard (11/5)
Passing (In select theaters 10/27, on Netflix 11/10)
Red Notice (11/12)
tick, tick…BOOM! (In select theaters 11/12, on Netflix 11/19)
Bruised (In select theaters 11/12, on Netflix 11/19)
Robin Robin (11/24)
14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible (11/29)
7 Prisoners (In select theaters and on Netflix this November)
A Boy Called Christmas (November)
A Castle For Christmas (November)
The Princess Switch 3 (November)

December

The Power of the Dog (In select theaters 11/17, on Netflix 12/1)
Shaun The Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas (12/3)
The Unforgivable (In select theaters 11/24, on Netflix 12/10)
The Hand of God (In select theaters 12/3, on Netflix 12/15)
Don’t Look Up (In select theaters 12/10, on Netflix 12/24)
The Lost Daughter (In select theaters 12/17, on Netflix 12/31)
Back to the Outback (December)
Mixtape (December)
Single All The Way (December)

The following films will be shown at The Paris theater in New York City:

Worth (8/27)
Kate (9/3)
The Starling (9/17)
The Guilty (9/24)
Fever Dream (October)
Found (10/13)
The Harder They Fall (10/20)
Passing (10/27)
tick…tick, BOOM! (11/10)
The Power of the Dog (11/17)
The Unforgiven (11/24)
The Hand of God (12/1)
Don’t Look Up (12/10)
The Lost Daughter (12/17)

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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.