December 2011 Movies

Set in Hawaii, a wealthy landowner takes his two daughters on a search for his wife's lover in the hopes of keeping his family together.

Beau Bridges, George Clooney, Judy Greer, Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Shailene Woodley, Jim Burke, Jim Thomas

R Comedy Family

73% WILL SEE

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The Lady

A biopic of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Luc Besson, David Thewlis, Michelle Yeoh

R Drama Political 2 hrs, 7 mins

65% WILL SEE

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A haunting erotic fairy tale about a student who drifts into prostitution and finds her niche as a woman who sleeps, drugged, in a ‘Sleeping Beauty chamber’ while men do to her what she can‘t remember the next morning.

Emily Browning, Julia Leigh, Jessica Brentnall

Drama Thriller

72% WILL SEE

Answers to Nothing

Lost souls throughout Los Angeles search for meaning and redemption and affect each other in ways they don’t always see.

Dane Cook, Miranda Bailey, Amanda Marshall, Gillian Vigman, Matt Leutwyler, Elizabeth Mitchell, Julie Benz, Kali Hawk

R Drama

80% WILL SEE

Shame

Michael Fassbender will play Brandon, a 30-something man living in New York, who is unable to manage his sex life.

Steve McQueen, James Badge Dale, Abi Morgan, Michael Fassbender, Ian Canning, Emile Sherman, Carey Mulligan, Nicole Beharie

NC-17 Drama Comedy

81% WILL SEE

Redline

Follows the biggest and most deadly racing tournament in the universe. Only held once every five years, everyone wants to stake their claim to fame, including JP, a reckless dare-devil driver oblivious to speed limits with his ultra-customized car - all the while, organized crime and militaristic governments want to leverage the race to their own ends. Amongst the other elite rival drivers in the tournament, JP falls for the alluring Sonoshee - but will she prove his undoing, or can a high speed romance survive a mass destruction race?

Takeshi Koike

Animation 1 hr, 42 mins

80% WILL SEE

Pastorela

Chucho has always played the Devil in his town's Nativity Play, but the new pastor gives the role to someone else and the two men engage in a battle between good and evil.

Emilio Portes

R Comedy

38% WILL SEE

Outrage

The boss of a major crime syndicate orders his lieutenant to bring a gang in line, a job which gets passed on to a long-suffering subordinate.

Kippei Shiina, Takeshi Kitano

R Crime

33% WILL SEE

A Warrior's Heart

In shock and denial over his Marine father's death in combat, high school lacrosse star Conor Sullivan (Kellan Lutz) starts acting out in self destructive ways until he's kicked off the team and sent to a wilderness lacrosse camp run by his dad's combat buddy (Adam Beach). Strengthened by the support and understanding of his new found love (Ashley Greene) and though a deep understanding of the game and its Native American roots, he opens his eyes to the true meaning of sportsmanship, love and life.

Ashley Greene, Michael F. Sears, Martin Dugard, Kellan Lutz, Chord Overstreet, Gabrielle Anwar, William Mapother, Adam Beach

PG Drama Action 1 hr, 26 mins

81% WILL SEE

Released Friday, December 9th

New Year's Eve

A New York-set relationship ensemble story.

Jessica Biel, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sofia Vergara, Zac Efron, Josh Duhamel, Abigail Breslin, Robert De Niro, Sienna Miller

PG-13 Comedy Sequel

83% WILL SEE

The Sitter

Described as a cross between "Superbad" and "Adventures in Babysitting."

Jonah Hill, David Gordon Green, Josh Bratman, Ari Graynor, Michael De Luca, Brian Gatewood, Alessandro Tanaka, Landry Bender

R Comedy Teen

80% WILL SEE

Young Adult

A thirtysomething, divorced, young-adult fiction writer in Minneapolis returns to her hometown to chase the ex-boyfriend, who’s now married with a kid, that got away.

John Malkovich, Mary Lee, Russell Smith, Diablo Cody, Charlize Theron, Patrick Wilson, Jason Reitman, Mason Novick

R Drama Comedy

76% WILL SEE

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

The story of a spy-hunt within the highest echelons of the British Secret Intelligence Service.

Benedict Cumberbatch, Mark Strong, Ralph Fiennes, Toby Jones, Liza Chasin, Eric Fellner, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth

R Action Thriller

86% WILL SEE

W.E.

Oscar Run

A biopic about the affair between King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson.

Oscar Isaac, Natalie Dormer, Abbie Cornish, Madonna, Scott Franklin, Colin Vaines, David Parfitt, Kris Thykier

R Drama Biography

43% WILL SEE

I Melt With You

An intense character drama about four men who look within themselves and find emptiness.

Mark Pellington, Christian McKay, Carla Gugino, Norman Reiss, Thomas Jane, Rob Lowe, Sasha Grey, Rob Cowan

R Drama

64% WILL SEE

We Need to Talk About Kevin

The movie, based on Lionel Shriver's novel, tells the story of a smart, educated New York mother who does her best to raise a son she never wanted in the first place. He turns out to be extremely difficult and is at the center of the woman's marital breakdown before going on a killing spree at his high school with a crossbow.

John C. Reilly, Tilda Swinton, Ezra Miller, Steven Soderbergh, Lynne Ramsay, Jennifer Fox, Robert Salerno, Luc Roeg

R Drama

72% WILL SEE

In Darkness

Oscar Run

In Nazi-occupied Poland, a sewer worker and petty thief begin sheltering Jews in underground tunnels for profit.

Agnieszka Holland

R Drama

64% WILL SEE

Catch .44

Three women are thrust into an extraordinary situation involving a psychopathic hitman, a grizzled trucker and a delusional line cook.

Bruce Willis, Malin Akerman, Randall Emmett, Kate Mara, Aaron Harvey, Megan Ellison, Forest Whitaker, Nikki Reed

R Drama Thriller

79% WILL SEE

A Warrior's Heart

Ashley Greene, Michael F. Sears, Martin Dugard, Kellan Lutz, Chord Overstreet, Gabrielle Anwar, William Mapother, Adam Beach

PG Drama Action 1 hr, 26 mins

81% WILL SEE

Ladies vs. Ricky Bahl

A charismatic ladies-man cons women for a living until he finally meets his match when some of his former conquests develop a crafty plan.

Maneesh Sharma

Comedy 2 hrs, 20 mins

95% WILL SEE

Released Wednesday, December 14th

Addiction Incorporated

New York

A documentary made over the course of 15 years telling the story of Victor DeNoble's journey from research scientist to star informant against the tobacco industry.

Charles Evans Jr

PG Documentary

68% WILL SEE

Released Friday, December 16th

Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwre...

More adventures with Alvin and the Chimpunks. And this time in 3-D!

Justin Long, Jason Lee, Jesse McCartney, Matthew Gray Gubler, Amy Poehler, Jenny Slate, Mike Mitchell, Karen Rosenfelt

G Comedy Sequel

73% WILL SEE

Young Adult

A thirtysomething, divorced, young-adult fiction writer in Minneapolis returns to her hometown to chase the ex-boyfriend, who’s now married with a kid, that got away.

John Malkovich, Mary Lee, Russell Smith, Diablo Cody, Charlize Theron, Patrick Wilson, Jason Reitman, Mason Novick

R Drama Comedy

76% WILL SEE

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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shado...

Robert Downey stars as Sherlock Holmes; Jude Law plays protege Watson, and Rachel McAdams stars as love interest Irene Adler.

Jude Law, Joel Silver, Robert Downey Jr., Noomi Rapace, Michele Mulroney, Kelly Reilly, Lionel Wigram, Kieran Mulroney

PG-13 Action Adventure

88% WILL SEE

Mission: Impossible Ghost Protoc...

The return of Ethan Hunt. Plot details are being kept under a lid of secrecy. Said to be a globe-trotting adventure, as production is scheduled to take place in Prague, Dubai and Vancouver.

Tom Cruise, Brad Bird, Jeremy Renner, J.J. Abrams, Ving Rhames, Paula Patton, Léa Seydoux, Paula Wagner

PG-13 Action Adventure

82% WILL SEE

Carnage

Two sets of parents meet after their sons are involved in a schoolyard fight. The meeting goes disastrously wrong when each pair attacks the other’s parenting skills before turning on each other about problems in their own marriages.

John C. Reilly, Roman Polanski, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, Jodie Foster, Matt Dillon

R Drama

62% WILL SEE

Cook County

An absentee father returns home to a small town in East Texas and discovers a household of crystal meth addicts.

David Pomes, Anson Mount, Xander Berkeley, Ryan Donowho

Drama

72% WILL SEE

Corman's World's: Exploits of a ...

This documentary chronicles how Hollywood writer-director producer Roger Corman created his cult film empire, one low-budget success at a time, capitalizing on undiscovered talent, and pushing the boundaries of independent filmmaking.

Alex Stapleton

Documentary 1 hr, 30 mins

55% WILL SEE

Released Tuesday, December 20th

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

A journalist-investigator and a precocious computer hacker become embroiled in life-threatening mysteries as they attempt to expose institutions that pull the strings behind the scenes.

David Fincher, Rooney Mara, Stellan Skarsgard, Robin Wright, Daniel Craig, Joely Richardson, Ole Sondberg, Elodie Yung

R Drama Crime

79% WILL SEE

Released Wednesday, December 21st

Mission: Impossible Ghost Protoc...

The return of Ethan Hunt. Plot details are being kept under a lid of secrecy. Said to be a globe-trotting adventure, as production is scheduled to take place in Prague, Dubai and Vancouver.

Tom Cruise, Brad Bird, Jeremy Renner, J.J. Abrams, Ving Rhames, Paula Patton, Léa Seydoux, Paula Wagner

PG-13 Action Adventure

82% WILL SEE

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The Adventures of Tintin

A junior reporter follow stories to the ends of the earth, even though he often finds his own life in jeopardy. His able assistants include a white dog named Snowy, the lunatic Captain Haddock, the muddled genius Professor Calculus and the Thompson Twins.

Andy Serkis, Kathleen Kennedy, Toby Jones, Peter Jackson, Jamie Bell, Steven Spielberg, Edgar Wright, Daniel Craig

PG Drama Action

85% WILL SEE

Albert Nobbs

Set in a luxury hotel in Dublin, "Albert Nobbs" is a Gosford Park-style “below stairs” drama featuring Glenn Close as a woman in Nineteenth Century Ireland who disguises herself as a man in order to survive.

Mia Wasikowska, Bonnie Curtis, Alan Moloney, Glenn Close, Aaron Johnson, Rodrigo Garcia, Julie Lynn, John Banville

R Drama

90% WILL SEE

Released Friday, December 23rd

We Bought a Zoo

A family uses their life savings to buy a dilapidated zoo with 200 exotic animals facing destruction.

Scarlett Johansson, Elle Fanning, Matt Damon, Julie Yorn, John Michael Higgins, Cameron Crowe, Colin Ford, Marc Gordon

PG Drama Comedy

88% WILL SEE

Don 2

Having conquered the Asian underworld, Don sets his sights set on Europe.

Farhan Akhtar

Sequel Crime

79% WILL SEE

In the Land of Blood and Honey

A love story about a man and a woman meeting on the brink of the Bosnian war in 1992.

Angelina Jolie, Tim Headington, Graham King, Rade Serbedzija, Zana Marjanovic

R Drama Romance 2 hrs, 7 mins

69% WILL SEE

Pina

"Dance, dance, or we are lost." Pina Bausch's final words summarize her life and provide the inspiration for director Wim Wenders' (WINGS tribute to the legendary choreographer. The documentary features interviews with and performances by Bausch's beloved original company members, and offers an indelible image of an artist who went the full distance in her uncommonly rich creative life.

Wim Wenders

PG Documentary Dance 1 hr, 46 mins

60% WILL SEE

Released Sunday, December 25th

The Darkest Hour

"The Darkest Hour" is a "28 Days"-like thriller about a group of kids struggling to survive in Russia after an alien invasion.

Rachael Taylor, Les Bohem, Olivia Thirlby, Max Minghella, Chris Gorak, Tom Jacobson, Timur Bekmambetov, M.T. Ahern

PG-13 Action Thriller

73% WILL SEE

War Horse

Set against the sweeping backdrop of the Great War, storyline charts the extraordinary friendship between a boy and a horse who are separated but whose fates continue to intertwine over the course of WWI.

Tom Hiddleston, Benedict Cumberbatch, Frank Marshall, Emily Watson, Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg, Lee Hall, David Thewlis

PG-13 Drama Adventure

63% WILL SEE

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Cl...

Oskar Schell, a nine-year-old amateur inventor, jewelry designer, astrophysicist, tambourine player and pacifist, searches New York for the lock that matches a mysterious key left by his father when he was killed in the September 11 attacks.

Sandra Bullock, Eric Roth, Tom Hanks, Thomas Horn, Viola Davis, James Gandolfini, Stephen Daldry, Scott Rudin

PG-13 Drama Adaptation

86% WILL SEE

Released Monday, December 26th

Newlyweds

Buzzy and Katie are a newly married couple when Buzzy's impulsive half-sister Linda arrives at their doorstep expecting to stay for an indefinite period in their Tribeca loft.

Edward Burns

Drama

36% WILL SEE

Released Wednesday, December 28th

Pariah

A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.

Dee Rees

Drama

72% WILL SEE

Released Friday, December 30th

Angels Crest

The small working-class town of Angels Crest is a tight-knit community resting quietly in one of the vast and stunningly beautiful valleys of the Rocky Mountains. Ethan (Thomas Dekker), one of the town's residents, is a young father but not much more than a kid himself. He has no choice but to look after his three-year-old son Nate, since mom Cindy (Lynn Collins) is an alcoholic. But one snowy day, Ethan's good intentions are thwarted by a moment of thoughtlessness, resulting in tragedy. A local prosecutor (Jeremy Piven) haunted by his past goes after Ethan, and the ensuing confusion and casting of blame begins to tear the town apart.

Lynn Collins, Gaby Dellal, Chris Ippolito, Kate Walsh, Thomas Dekker, Colin A. Campbell, Rachel Clentworth, Julian Domingues

R Drama 1 hr, 32 mins

64% WILL SEE

The Iron Lady

Story will focus on British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the 17 days before the Falklands War in 1982.

Meryl Streep, Phyllida Lloyd, Abi Morgan, Anthony Head, Richard E. Grant, Damian Jones, Michael Hirst, Jim Broadbent

PG-13 Drama Biography 1 hr, 45 mins

68% WILL SEE

A Separation

Set in Contemporary Iran, Nader And Simin, A Separation is a compelling drama about the dissolution of a marriage. Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader and daughter Termeh. Simin sues for divorce when Nader refuses to leave behind his Alzheimer-suffering father. Her request having failed, Simin goes back to her parents’, but Termeh decides to stay with Nader…

Asghar Farhadi

PG-13 Drama 2 hrs, 3 mins

54% WILL SEE