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Seven movies with over 90% on Rotten Tomatoes are the stand-outs on Paramount Plus this month – here's what I recommend streaming in November 2024.

On October 21 1964, the iconic and much-celebrated film My Fair Lady premiered in Hollywood. Sixty years later, the film remains an enjoyable rollick full of catchy songs, but is not a wholly accurate depiction of what linguists do – certainly not nowadays at least.

Katie Bird is an irresistible Eliza Doolittle in this inspired show, which takes its interrogation of social mobility seriously but with a sparkling lightness of touch

George Bernard Shaw famously observed that “it is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him.” That was in the preface to Pygmalion, whose hero, Professor Higgins, was a phoneticist who could identify which bit of London any individual Cockney came from —…