With Thanksgiving upon us and Hanukkah and Christmas right around the corner, you might find yourself with a bit more time on your hands. Maybe you’d like to sit back with family and friends and enjoy some escapist entertainment. Or maybe you’d like to evade family and friends and enjoy some escapist entertainment.

Either way, there’s a lot to choose from on Netflix at the moment, whether seasonally appropriate material, classics to revisit, new stuff to catch up on, or movies and series for everyone—kids included.

Here are our picks for what to watch on Netflix over the Thanksgiving break.

Klaus

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Director: Sergio Pablos

Writers: Zach Lewis, Jim Mahoney

Cast: Jason Schwartzman, Rashida Jones, Joan Cusack, J.K. Simmons, Norm MacDonald, Will Sasso

A beautiful feat of animation, Klaus is a Christmas tale with a fresh spin. Jason Schwartzman voices Jesper, a privileged and lazy son of a postal academy’s dean. Jesper is the academy’s most disastrous student, and he’s okay with that. To teach Jesper a lesson, his father sends him off to the town of Smeerensberg to be its postman for a year. Smeerensberg, it turns out, is above the arctic circle. It’s an ominous and icy place where the residents are always at war with one another. Out of place and scared to death, Jesper has a terrifying run-in with a reclusive carpenter/toymaker named Klaus. You can probably guess who he is. Through this relationship, the town begins to change. Aside from its artistic brilliance, the movie is quite funny and especially odd. Some jokes will go over the heads of young ones, but the macabre sight gags should please just about everyone. Though its number of streams may never be made known, Klaus has the makings of a modern animated Christmas classic.

Rocky

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Director: John G. Avildsen

Writer: Sylvester Stallone

Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith

The first one was the best one in this franchise. It’s also among the greatest sports dramas ever made, capturing a raw, gritty Philadelphia in the 1970s and its hard-luck residents. What’s it doing on this list? Well, much of the film is set during the holiday season. It’s got a Thanksgiving scene and a Christmas scene, though neither is particularly uplifting. The original Rocky plays like an indie romantic drama with boxing as the backdrop. And it’s the Rocky/Adrian mismatched duo that makes the film work so well. There’s an affable innocence to it, which is likely why the film has appealed to all demographics over a 43-year lifespan that has spawned numerous sequels, including the recent Creed films. The authentic performances, highlighted by Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, and Burgess Meredith’s Mickey still resonate all these years later. Between the movie’s iconic training sequence (thanks to Bill Conti’s score) and the big Rocky vs. Creed finale, the film endures as an all-time inspirational classic.

Living with Yourself

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Creator: Timothy Greenberg

Cast: Paul Rudd, Aisling Bea, Desmin Borges, Karen Pittman, Zoe Chao, Alia Shawkat, James Seol

If it’s lighter fare you’re on the hunt for, this new dramedy series starring Paul Rudd and Paul Rudd is a binge-worthy option. With brief episodes running under thirty minutes, Living with Yourself tells the tale of Miles, a man stuck in a rut trying to better himself. So he does what any clear-headed 40-something guy does: he pays $50,000 to a massage parlor in the hopes of lifting his spirits—because a guy he works with did it, and it helped him. Unfortunately, the result is a bit more complicated when Miles is cloned and now has to, as the title suggests, live with himself when the clone version has nowhere else to go. And this clone is better than Miles in every way. Funny, and sometimes even a little dark, this is one that will suck you in and tempt you to finish it in one weekend (it’s only eight episodes). It’s also got something to say about marriage and what makes us who we are.

The Star

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Director: Timothy Reckart

Writer: Carlos Kotkin

Cast: Steven Yeun, Keegan-Michael Key, Aidy Bryant, Gina Rodriguez, Zachary Levi, Christopher Plummer, Ving Rhames, Gabriel Iglesias, Kelly Clarkson, Anthony Anderson, Oprah Winfrey, Tyler Perry, Tracy Morgan

As the lone animated movie about the birth of Christ from the perspective of the animals that may have been present, The Star shines as a wholesome Christmas movie that’s as funny as it is sweet. With a tremendous cast lending their voice talents to this picture, the movie tells the story of Bo (Steven Yeun), a donkey who becomes involved in helping Mary and Joseph reach Bethlehem, where Jesus will be born. Bo is joined on the trek from Nazareth by a sarcastic pigeon (Keegan-Michael Key) and a dimwitted sheep (Aidy Bryant). Simultaneously, three camels, voiced by Oprah Winfrey, Tracy Morgan, and Tyler Perry transport the three Magi, who are following the star leading to Bethlehem. Despite its silliness, the movie is still a reverent one, and not the worst way to teach the Biblical nativity story to kids. Fortunately, it’s funny enough to keep adults laughing as well.

About Time

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Director/Writer: Richard Curtis

Cast: Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy, Lydia Wilson, Lindsay Duncan, Tom Hollander, Margot Robbie, Joshua McGuire, Will Merrick, Vanessa Kirby

For most folks, the holidays means the gathering of the family. And family is at the heart of About Time. Fans of Love Actually and Four Weddings and a Funeral know and adore the work of Richard Curtis, but this one, his third directed feature, is his most poignant project to date. The movie stars Domhnall Gleeson as Tim, a young law student who is told on his twenty-first birthday by his father (Bill Nighy), that he—and all the other men in the family—are time travelers. All it takes is squeezing one’s eyes shut in a dark room and imagining a time and place in the past. Once there, things can be changed, affecting the present. A romantic, Tim chooses to use his gift for love—Rachel McAdams’ Mary the object of his affections. What begins as a British rom-com evolves into much more. Curtis’ musings on life, love, and loss, as seen through the eyes of Tim, are potent reminders of the most important things. It’s a small, sweet movie that will make you laugh as often as it makes your heart ache. And you’ll want to see it again and again.

Nailed It! Holiday!

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Director: Steve Hryniewicz

Cast: Nicole Byer, Jacques Torres

Maybe reality TV is your guilty pleasure. And beyond that, perhaps it’s cooking shows that really do it for you. But you’re bored by the same old competitions and high drama as chefs battle anxiety in an effort to please surly judges. Fortunately, not all cooking shows are equal. Nailed It! proves that. It’s a competition show, yes, but one that throws three unskilled bakers into the mix and forces them to create things—cakes, usually—they’re sure to fail at. The result is a schadenfreude fest wherein hosts Nicole Byer and Jacques Torres, as well as the celebrity guest judges, get their yucks at the expense of these “pastry chefs.” Thanks to the series’ popularity, Netflix has produced two seasons of a yuletide version, called Nailed It! Holiday!, where contestants create repulsive desserts and hideous crafts for a cash prize. It’s among the lowest stakes programs available, though that could be a good thing depending on the kind of weekend you’re having (or the kind of people you’re hosting).

Just Friends

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Director: Roger Kumble

Writer: Adam 'Tex' Davis

Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Amy Smart, Anna Faris, Chris Klein, Chris Marquette

Before he was the infallible, unceasingly sarcastic action star/heartthrob that he is today, Ryan Reynolds stuck mostly to comedy in the early goings. His Jim Carrey-esque character in the sitcom Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place led to a movie career that has since blossomed. In 2005, after Blade Trinity but before all the big stuff, came Just Friends. In it, Reynolds plays Chris, a former overweight loser who makes a Christmas return to his hometown a decade after high school. The last he’d seen Jamie (Amy Smart), the girl of his dreams, she’d rejected him. They were just friends, in her eyes. The tables have turned, however. Now Chris is a successful record producer with a wealth of experience with the ladies. Jamie works at a bar and lives with her parents. And yet, this reunion is anything but smooth for Chris. The movie is a fun holiday rom-com that features a healthy dose of slapstick and Reynolds in a ludicrous fat suit. What’s not to like?

Green Eggs and Ham

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Creator: Jared Stern

Cast: Michael Douglas, Adam Devine, Jillian Bell, Ilana Glazer, Eddie Izzard, Diane Keaton, Keegan-Michael Key, Daveed Diggs, Tracy Morgan, John Turturro

A new series fit for the whole family, Green Eggs and Ham is an adaptation of the Dr. Seuss classic of the same name takes the children’s book and expands it a lot bigger than it was ever intended. The author famously wrote the book on a dare (that he could do it using only fifty different words). What would he think of the series? Well, aside from the animation, he probably wouldn’t recognize it. There’s precious little in this thing resembling the original Green Eggs and Ham. It is, however, a colorful, witty story about a grumpy failed inventor named Guy Am I (Michael Douglas), who one day runs into Sam I Am (Adam Devine), the largest proponent of the titular dish. Both of these characters are lonely and sympathetic, but their chance meeting changes both of their worlds thanks to a briefcase mix-up. This thing has a bevy of new animal species, a loathsome villain (voiced by Eddie Izzard), and clever, rhyming narration from Keegan-Michael Key. It’s certainly aimed at kids, but it’s smart enough for adults to get a kick out of as well. And it’s food-based, like Thanksgiving.

Lincoln

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Director: Steven Spielberg

Writer: Tony Kushner

Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, Tommy Lee Jones, John Hawkes, Hal Holbrook, Tim Blake Nelson, Jackie Earle Haley

It’s an unorthodox entry to a Thanksgiving/holiday list, but Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln belongs here, as the film’s subject has an intimate connection to this weekend’s festivities. It was the sixteenth president who, on October 3, 1863, said this in a proclamation: “I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.” As a result, we now celebrate Thanksgiving as a national holiday. The film itself, about Lincoln’s fight to both end slavery by procuring enough votes to pass a constitutional amendment, and end the war, is a handsomely made, historically accurate drama. It will be remembered for the spellbinding performance of Daniel Day-Lewis, who conjures Lincoln in a fashion that is equal parts regal and accessible. John Williams’ stirring score complements a cinematic history lesson that confronts the past and holds out hope for the future.

Between Two Ferns: The Movie

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Director/Writer: Scott Aukerman

Cast: Zach Galifianakis, Lauren Lapkus, Ryan Gaul, Jiavani Linayao, Will Ferrell, Keanu Reeves, Matthew McConaughey, Paul Rudd

Sometimes you don’t want your entertainment to require much thought. If you’re looking for a new shut-your-brain-off comedy, Between Two Ferns: The Movie is a sketch-turned motion picture that’s eighty-two minutes worth of just that. Starring Zach Galifianakis as the host of a cable access interview program whose celebrity sit-down videos have gone viral, he gets the opportunity for a legitimate late-night show. After flooding his studio, he appears to have blown his chance, but Will Ferrell extends him an offer if Zach and his amateur crew can deliver a series of interviews during a cross-country road trip in a short period of time. The story here is certainly lacking, but the interviews themselves, which are not rehearsed, make up for that. And the best part is the end credits, which reveals how these things really go down. As it turns out, both Zach and his guests have a great deal of trouble getting through his offensive line of questioning without busting a gut. No, it’s not memorable, but that’s not always the requirement when you need to tune out the world.

Dolemite is My Name

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Director: Craig Brewer

Writers: Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski

Cast: Eddie Murphy, Keegan-Michael Key, Mike Epps, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Craig Robinson, Titus Burgess, Snoop Dogg, Wesley Snipes,

As far as new releases go, Dolemite Is My Name is just a treat in every sense. The story of Rudy Ray Moore, portrayed here by Eddie Murphy in his best performance in a very long time, is a strange blend of hysterical comedy and heartrending pathos. Rudy, a failed emcee and record store manager, is inspired by a local bum in 1970s Los Angeles to reinvent himself. Stealing and polishing this poor sap’s material, Rudy becomes Dolemite, a pimp who spits crass rhymes and owns the stage. Becoming a hit, he parlays this into a movie career, making (self-aware?) Blaxploitation flicks that have endured as cherished pieces of ‘70s cinema. But the film focuses on the making of the first one: Dolemite. Craig Brewer’s entire cast is superb (Wesley Snipes and Da'Vine Joy Randolph are standouts), but the movie is Murphy’s through and through. It’s a reminder of the actor’s otherworldly comic chops that have been in short supply over the past two decades thanks to some curious choices he’s made. He’s so perfectly cast here, however, as a larger than life individual as funny as he is sympathetic.

Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse

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Directors: Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman

Writers: Phil Lord, Rodney Rothman

Cast: Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld, Mahershala Ali, Brian Tyree Henry, Zoë Kravitz, Nicolas Cage, Kathryn Hahn, Live Schreiber, Chris Pine

With superhero movies all the rage, and Disney+ owning most of the lot of them, there’s still a few left on Netflix. The best one available? Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse. Even if you’re not into animated movies, this one will blow you away. Combining an original story—about teenage Miles Morales who becomes the Spider-Man of his universe, later joining together with other Spider-Men (Spider-Entities, really) of other universes to stop a threat to them all from Wilson Fisk—with groundbreaking animation, the movie is riveting. Its visually arresting style, which blends 2D and 3D animation, is stunning in every frame. Add depth of character and the consistent wit of the script and it’s no wonder this thing took home the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film. So if you’re in the mood for a comic book movie this holiday weekend, this is your best bet. What’s more, you can watch it with the whole family.

National Treasure

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Director: Jon Turteltaub

Writers: Jim Kouf, Cormac Wibberley, Marianne Wibberley

Cast: Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha, Jon Voight, Sean Bean, Harvey Keitel

One of the great things about Thanksgiving is how uniquely American it is. When considering the holiday’s tradition—from its first one back in 1621 (read Nathaniel Philbrick’s Mayflower for a riveting and enlightening historical treatise) to President Lincoln’s 1863 proclamation making it a federal holiday—reflecting on our freedoms here is a recommended exercise. One film that so appreciates American history and its liberties, is the 2004 hit National Treasure. A thoroughly entertaining action thriller in the spirit of Indiana Jones, the film follows a treasure hunter (Nicolas Cage) who must steal the Declaration of Independence in order to discover a bounty of ancient riches. Following clues from the arctic to Washington D.C. to Philadelphia and New York, all while in a race against the typically villainous Sean Bean, who also wants the treasure, the movie holds our young nation in high regard as it invents swashbuckling lore. It’s also a flick for the whole family, which is rare in this genre.

The Longest Yard

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Director: Robert Aldrich

Writer: Tracy Keenan Wynn

Cast: Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Michael Conrad, Harry Caesar, John Steadman, Bernadette Peters

From Thanksgiving through the first week of February, football reigns supreme in America. There’s the Thanksgiving day games, bowl games arriving around Christmas, and then the NFL playoffs. But if the drama on the field isn’t enough for you, you can always turn on a football movie. And what better football movie to revisit than The Longest Yard? The Burt Reynolds R-rated classic, about a drunk, disorderly, brawling former pro-football MVP quarterback who goes to prison and is tasked with assembling a team of inmates to play against the guards in a game on the gridiron, is a rough and tumble sports comedy for the ages. Reynolds, who was at the top of the A-list in 1974, is a smart-mouthed rebel you can’t help but root for. The football action is a little stiff at times, and the prisoners vs. guards finale takes up about thirty-five minutes of screen time, but there’s enough high stakes drama behind it to keep you engaged.

Mean Streets

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Director: Martin Scorsese

Writer: Martin Scorsese, Mardik Martin

Cast: Harvey Keitel, Robert De Niro, David Proval, Richard Romanus, Amy Robinson, Victor Argo, Cesare Danova

With The Irishman now streaming on Netflix, why not go back in time and re-watch Martin Scorsese’s first foray into the New York mob? Mean Streets was the director’s breakout picture—one that established him as a filmmaker with a unique voice who could capture the essence of New York’s grit better than just about anyone else. With Scorsese staples Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro, in one of his most charismatic roles, the film tells the story of Charlie (Keitel), who works as a debt collector for his uncle Giovanni (Cesare Danova)—a man with mob ties. But Charlie is torn between his work, romancing a young woman (Amy Robinson) Giovanni doesn’t care for, and keeping his audacious friend Johnny (De Niro) in line. As is the case with much cinema of the decade, things don’t go too well for these folks. So many of Scorsese’s frequent themes are on display here: crime, loyalties, guilt, Catholicism. It’s fascinating to go back at watch this one all these years later knowing how Scorsese would evolve in his craft.