A24 Floods Streaming With Two Films as 'Tony' Hits HBO Max and 'Misty Green' Lands on Netflix

November is shaping up to be an accidental A24 film festival, and you don't even have to leave your couch.

The indie studio has two films landing on two different streaming platforms this month, a split that tells you a lot about how complicated the platform economy has gotten even for a label that is supposed to have its streaming house in order. A24's output deal sends most of its films to HBO Max. But this November, the studio's work shows up on two rivals in the same week.

First comes Chris Rock's 'Misty Green,' which arrived on Netflix on November 9. According to a report in Deadline, the film bypassed HBO Max, where A24's output deal lives, because of Rock's longstanding relationship with Netflix through his comedy specials. The film, which Rock wrote and directed, is his first feature behind the camera since 'Top Five' in 2014. That's twelve years between directorial outings. The subject is rich: Rosalind Eleazar plays Misty, a once-celebrated actress grinding for a comeback, while Adam Driver, Daniel Kaluuya, Anna Kendrick, and Topher Grace fill out a cast that looks absurdly stacked on paper.

The critical reception, though, landed somewhere in the complicated middle. As reported by Yahoo Entertainment citing Rotten Tomatoes, 'Misty Green' sits at 61 percent on the Tomatometer based on 79 reviews, the kind of number that suggests real division rather than polite ambivalence. Any movie that sets its sights on Hollywood's mythology is going to earn that split, and Rock's film is no exception. The people who find insider showbiz stories as compelling introspection will defend it; the people who find them self-serving will not be moved. What appears to cut through the disagreement is Eleazar's performance. Deadline chief film critic Pete Hammond called her "mesmerizing in one of the best performances by an actress this year."

Then, on November 20, 'Tony' hits HBO Max. This one had a full theatrical run over the summer, earning nearly $20 million worldwide according to Variety, a modest but real number for an A24 biopic. Director Matt Johnson (best known for 'BlackBerry') and 'The Holdovers' breakout Dominic Sessa team up for a coming-of-age portrait of a 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain spending a formative summer working in a restaurant kitchen in Provincetown, Massachusetts. According to a Warner Bros. Discovery press release cited by Yahoo Entertainment, the story draws from Bourdain's 2000 memoir 'Kitchen Confidential.' Antonio Banderas plays the restaurateur who takes young Tony under his wing, and Variety's review heralded the movie for having "the enchanted spirit of discovery that recalls 'Adventureland' and the films of Richard Linklater."

That Variety quote is worth sitting with, because Linklater is a very specific reference. It signals a film interested in texture and drift, in the feeling of a summer that rewires you, more than it's interested in hitting biopic milestones. Sessa has the kind of loose, alert charisma that works for that mode. He proved it in 'The Holdovers' and apparently didn't squander it here.

The larger story here is structural. A24 is the dominant brand in prestige indie film right now, and both of these releases demonstrate how messily that brand's streaming life has become. The output deal with HBO Max is the official story; Rock's Netflix landing is the asterisk. Studios negotiate carve-outs, directors bring pre-existing platform relationships, and the audience ends up chasing films across two or three services it probably already pays for.

Both films are worth your time this month, though for very different reasons. 'Misty Green' is a conversation starter with an extraordinary lead performance at its center. 'Tony' sounds like the warmer, more assured film. November gave us a good problem.

Sources cited:
- Deadline (https://deadline.com/2026/10/chris-rock-mistry-green-netflix-date-1237169655/)
- Yahoo Entertainment (via Rotten Tomatoes data) (https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/movies/articles/chris-rock-adam-driver-a24-183053113.html)
- Variety (https://variety.com/lists/best-movies-streaming-november-2026/)
- Yahoo Entertainment / Warner Bros. Discovery press release (https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/hbo-max-november-watch-season-113000773.html)
- When To Stream (https://whentostream.com/anthony-bourdain-biopic-tony-sets-hbo-max-streaming-release-date/)