December 2012 Movies

Assembles four perfect strangers to pull off the perfect crime. But when their botched robbery reveals a police informant among them, their simple robbery explodes into a bloody ambush.

Steve Buscemi, Tim Roth, Quentin Tarantino, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn

Thriller Crime

57% WILL SEE

3 / 5

Released Thursday, December 6th

65%

4.7 / 5

(18)

Tarantino XX: Pulp Fiction E...

Set in the basking sun of L.A., the film follows a burger-loving hit man (John Travolta), his philosophical partner (Samuel L. Jackson), a drug-addled gangster's moll (Uma Thurman) and a washed-up boxer (Bruce Willis), as their four tales converge in a story of violence and redemption.

Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta, Ving Rhames, Amanda Plummer, Uma Thurman, Tim Roth, Rosanna Arquette

R Thriller Crime 2 hrs, 34 mins

65% WILL SEE

4.7 / 5

Released Friday, December 7th

59%

3.2 / 5

(12)

Playing for Keeps

A father with a dubious past brought in to coach his son’s Little League baseball (or soccer) team.

Gerard Butler, Dennis Quaid, Jessica Biel, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Alan Siegel, Uma Thurman, Gabriele Muccino, Stuart Blumberg

PG-13 Comedy Romance

59% WILL SEE

3.2 / 5

74%

4.4 / 5

(41)

End of Watch

A gritty drama that follows the friendship between longtime LAPD partners.

David Ayer, Natalie Martinez, Jake Gyllenhaal, Frank Grillo, Anna Kendrick, John Lesher, Michael Peña, Cody Horn

R Drama Crime

74% WILL SEE

4.4 / 5

76%

Lay the Favorite

A woman falls into the world of professional gambling in Vegas, where she starts working as a cocktail waitress in hopes of making fast cash. Her gambling leads her to New York and the Caribbean, with gamblers soon becoming her second family. But when she falls in love, she had to re-evaluate her life.

Bruce Willis, Frank Grillo, Stephen Frears, Rebecca Hall, Catherine Zeta-Jones, D.V. DeVincentis, Vince Vaughn, Laura Prepon

R Drama Comedy 1 hr, 40 mins

76% WILL SEE

51%

3.7 / 5

(9)

Bad Kids Go to Hell

Six private school high school kids find themselves stuck in detention on a frightfully dark and stormy Saturday afternoon. During their 8 hour incarceration, each of the six kids falls victim to a horrible "accident" until only one of them remains. And as each of these spoiled rich kids bites the dust, the story takes on a series of humorous and frantic twists and turns. Is one of the kids secretly evening the school's social playing field? Or have the ghosts of prestigious Crestview Academy finally come to punish the school's worst (and seemingly untouchable) brats? One thing is for sure...Daddy's money can't save them now.

Barry Wernick, Augie Duke, Ali Faulkner, Cameron Deane Stewart, Jeffrey Schmidt, Matthew Spradlin, Amanda Alch, Marc Donato

R Comedy Thriller 1 hr, 31 mins

51% WILL SEE

3.7 / 5

74%

3.4 / 5

(13)

Dino Time

There’s nothing Ernie loves more than an excellent adventure, whether he’s zooming around town on his rocket-powered skateboard or stealing an early peek at the coolest new fossil exhibit at the Dinosaur Museum. It’s not always easy under the strict rule of his mom Sue (Jane Lynch) - especially with his sister Julia following him around and trying to get him into trouble every chance she gets - bu t he still manages to stir up some fun. One day, however, Ernie’s daredevil nature takes him on a journey with potentially irreversible consequences. After sneaking over to his best friend Max’s house, Ernie discovers Max’s dad’s latest invention: a sleek, egg-shaped time machine. Suddenly, Julia bursts in to bust the two boys, and in the ensuing chaos, the time machine whirs to life and closes its doors on the three arguing kids.

When the hydraulic doors hiss open, the kids find themselves in a lush jungle untouched by mankind, with a living, breathing T-Rex named Tyra (Melanie Griffith) standing over them. Tyra nuzzles them softly, and Ernie realizes that they’re not going to end up dinosaur food – they’re family! The egg-shaped time machine has landed in Tyra’s nest, and the she thinks the human children are hers, new siblings to her hyperactive dinosaur son Dodger (Rob Schneider).

Ernie’s ready to seize the opportunity to have his most incredible escapade yet – but there’s still the little problem of how to eventually get home, what with the time machine having lost a vital component in its crash landing. Throw in some creepy dinosaur rivals of Tyra’s (William Baldwin and Stephen Baldwin) who plan to take the time machine 'egg' to lure her into their lair, and the road back to the present is paved with obstacles. It’s going to take a lot of teamwork, and maybe even some surprising help from Sue, to reunite Ernie, Julia and Max with their human families and get them out of 'Dino Time.'

Rob Schneider, Jane Lynch, Pamela Adlon, Stephen Baldwin, John Kafka, Tara Strong, Melanie Griffith, William Baldwin

PG Family Animation

74% WILL SEE

3.4 / 5

41%

2.4 / 5

(11)

Deadfall

Two desperate sibling fugitives on the run collide with the holiday homecoming of a troubled ex-boxer.

Charlie Hunnam, Eric Bana, Stefan Ruzowitzky, Gary Levinsohn, Olivia Wilde, Todd Wagner, Zach Dean, Shelly Clippard

R Thriller Crime

41% WILL SEE

2.4 / 5

56%

3 / 5

(1)

The Fitzgerald Family Christ...

With The Fitzgerald Family Christmas, Ed Burns returns to the working-class, Irish-American roots of The Brothers McMullen. Reuniting with McMullen co-stars Connie Britton, and Mike McGlone, along with Noah Emmerich and Kerry Bishe, Burns weaves an ensemble story of adult siblings dealing with the desire of their estranged father (Ed Lauter) to return home for Christmas for the first time since he walked out on his family 20 years ago. Family rifts emerge, and like with any family, Christmas brings a mixed bag of complicated emotions and dynamics. Alliances form, old wounds are reopened or glossed over, and the possibility for a new hope and forgiveness emerges.

Edward Burns, Kerry Bishé, Connie Britton, Heather Burns, Dara Coleman

PG-13 Drama Comedy 1 hr, 43 mins

56% WILL SEE

3 / 5

38%

4.1 / 5

(7)

Hyde Park on Hudson

Set in 1939 and follows the weekend visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to President Roosevelt's upstate New York home, called Hyde Park on Hudson. Over the course of the visit, details of FDR's private life begin to unfold, including his affair with his distant cousin Daisy.

Laura Linney, Olivia Williams, Olivia Colman, Roger Michell, Kevin Loader, Bill Murray, David Aukin, Richard Nelson

R Drama Historical

38% WILL SEE

4.1 / 5

38%

2.3 / 5

(3)

Cheerful Weather for the Wed...

NYC Only

England, 1932. Today is Dolly Thatcham's wedding day, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the cheerfulness, chaos and grievances that bubble to the surface at such gatherings. Trouble soon appears in the shape of Joseph, Dolly's lover from the previous summer, who throws her feelings into turmoil. Dolly's mother will not allow her carefully laid plans for her daughter's future to be threatened, and as the clock ticks the bride can't decide whether to run away with Joseph or start a new life in Argentina with her husband-to-be.

Felicity Jones, James Norton, Luke Treadaway, Mackenzie Crook, Elizabeth McGovern, Donald Rice, Julian Wadham, Zoe Tapper

PG Drama Comedy 1 hr, 33 mins

38% WILL SEE

2.3 / 5

44%

Only the Young

Only the Young is the story of the children that inhabit a small desert town in Southern California – a town dominated by foreclosed homes and underpasses, unfilled swimming pools and skate parks. The three teenagers of focus must find things to do in a place that offers nothing – but in observing their day-to-day lives, we see them discover friendship, first love, heartbreak, and what it means to be young.

Elizabeth Mims

NR Documentary 1 hr, 10 mins

44% WILL SEE

69%

4 / 5

(4)

Flying Lessons

With her life at a crossroads, 25 year old Sophie Conway returns home to the small town she always wanted to forget. Once home, she is faced with the friends and lovers she left behind, a tangled relationship with her Mother, and Harry Pleasant, an Alzheimer's Disease patient who, in an opposing way, shares Sophie's struggle to remember.

Natalie Dormer, Cary Elwes, Maggie Grace, Kate Mara, Hal Holbrook, Christine Lahti, Gideon Raff, Alan Loayza

R Drama

69% WILL SEE

4 / 5

76%

2.7 / 5

(20)

Delhi Safari

Delhi Safari is the story of a journey undertaken by a cub leopard Yuvi, his mother Begam (Vanessa Williams), a monkey Barjrangi, Bagga (Brad Garrett) the lovable bear and Alex the parrot when the forest they live in is on the verge of destruction. Along the way they meet a motley crew of jungle friends from the Bee Commander (Cary Elwes), the Pigeon (Christopher Lloyd), to the singing Flamingos (Jane Lynch and Jason Alexander). Their mission is simple, once in Delhi they will ask the government some very simple questions - why has man become the most dangerous animal? Doesn't man understand that if the forests and the animals don't exist, man will cease to exist?

Cary Elwes, Vanessa Williams, Jason Alexander, Christopher Lloyd, Jane Lynch, Nikhil Advani, Brad Garrett

PG Comedy Animation

76% WILL SEE

2.7 / 5

30%

Heleno

Gifted with incredible athletic talent, Brazilian-born Heleno de Freitas conquered the soccer world in the 1940s. As his fame and fortune grew to new heights, his passion for a decadent life of women and nightclubs would threaten his career.

Rodrigo Santoro, Aline Moraes, Jose Henrique Fonseca, Angie Cepeda

R Drama Biography 1 hr, 56 mins

30% WILL SEE

22%

In Our Nature

A portrait of two couples at a crossroads. What was supposed to be a romantic getaway for two young lovers, turns into an uncomfortable confrontation when the young man's estranged father shows up ... with his own girlfriend. As their collisions mount, the weekend transforms into a major turning point for each of them.

Gabrielle Union, Jena Malone, John Slattery, Zach Gilford, Brian Savelson

Drama

22% WILL SEE

60%

Honor Flight

Volunteers race against the clock to fly thousands of WWII veterans to Washington, DC to see the memorial constructed for them in 2005, nearly 60 years after the War. The trips are called "Honor Flights" and for the veterans, who are in their late 80s and early 90s, it's often the first time they've been thanked and the last trip of their lives.

The 24-hour journey is full of surprises that deep ly move all who are involved. It’s uncommon for World War II veterans to talk about the War, but the Honor Flight experience brings their stories out. Many veterans say, with the exception of their wedding day and the birth of their children, the trip is the best day of their life.

Dan Hayes

PG War Documentary

60% WILL SEE

19%

1 / 5

(1)

Waiting for Lightning

This documentary follows skateboarding legend and action sports pioneer Danny Way on his journey to jump China’s Great Wall, and reveals the passion, grit, determination and psyche behind one of the world’s athletes.

Crystal Ackley, Hana Ripperger-Suhler, Jacob Rosenberg, Max Leitman, Darryl Franklin, Bret Anthony Johnston, Mike Blabc, Ken Block

Sports Documentary

19% WILL SEE

1 / 5

The Man Who Shook the Hand of Vicente Fernandez Poster

33%

2.5 / 5

(2)

The Man Who Shook the Hand o...

LA Only

Retired radio DJ, Rex Page (Ernest Borgnine), always dreamed of being a Western movie cowboy — After suffering a back injury, Rex finds himself recovering at Rancho Park nursing home, a facility held in the villainous grip of local businessman Mr. Walker (Barry Corbin) and his evil henchman, Dr. Dominguez (Tony Plana).

At first, Rex is helpless in this lawless world, but when the Latino staff realizes that Rex once met their icon, Vicente Fernandez, Rex becomes a local celebrity. And like the cowboys from his dreams, Rex discovers the love and respect of his family and the staff when he faces down the tyrannical owners of Rancho Park this homage to the Spaghetti Westerns of yore.

Ernest Borgnine, Elia Petridis

Comedy Family 1 hr, 39 mins

33% WILL SEE

2.5 / 5

Released Friday, December 14th

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Poster

82%

4.5 / 5

(248)

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Jo...

The story centers on Hobbit Bilbo Baggins and the scary adventure he makes with thirteen dwarves.

Luke Evans, Cate Blanchett, Benedict Cumberbatch, Peter Jackson, Aidan Turner, Martin Freeman, Bret McKenzie, Philippa Boyens

PG-13 Drama Adventure 2 hrs, 50 mins

82% WILL SEE

4.5 / 5

48%

3 / 5

(5)

Save the Date

Sarah begins to confront her shortcomings after she rejects her boyfriend's hasty proposal and soon finds herself in a rebound romance. Meanwhile, her sister Beth is immersed in the details of her wedding.

Martin Starr, Lizzy Caplan, Alison Brie, Jeffrey Brown, Mike Mohan, Neal H. Moritz, Toby Ascher, Egan Reich

R Comedy Romance 1 hr, 38 mins

48% WILL SEE

3 / 5

52%

2.7 / 5

(3)

Any Day Now

When a teenager with Down syndrome is abandoned by his mother, a gay couple (Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt) takes him in and becomes the loving family he's never had. But when their unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men are forced to fight a biased legal system to save the life of the child they have come to love as their own.

Gregg Henry, Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, Frances Fisher, Travis Fine, Isaac Leyva

R Drama LGBTQIA+

52% WILL SEE

2.7 / 5

13%

2.5 / 5

(2)

Let Fury Have The Hour

Chronicles how a generation of artists, thinkers, and activists channeled their creativity into an organized response and resistance to the reactionary politics that increasingly defined American culture in the 1980s.

Antonino D'Ambrosio

Documentary

13% WILL SEE

2.5 / 5

38%

2.3 / 5

(3)

Cheerful Weather for the Wed...

LA Only

Felicity Jones, James Norton, Luke Treadaway, Mackenzie Crook, Elizabeth McGovern, Donald Rice, Julian Wadham, Zoe Tapper

PG Drama Comedy 1 hr, 33 mins

38% WILL SEE

2.3 / 5

Released Wednesday, December 19th

86%

4.7 / 5

(106)

Monsters, Inc. 3D

A comedy set in a surreal realm, where chaos ensues after a hapless monster lets a human child into the secret world by mistake.

John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Pete Docter, Steve Buscemi, Jill Culton, David Silverman, Jeff Pidgeon, Mary Gibbs

G Comedy Family

86% WILL SEE

4.7 / 5

66%

3.6 / 5

(22)

The Guilt Trip

An inventor and his mom hit the road together so he can sell his latest invention.

Seth Rogen, David Ellison, Anne Fletcher, Evan Goldberg, Barbra Streisand, Colin Hanks, Lorne Michaels, John Goldwyn

PG-13 Comedy 1 hr, 35 mins

66% WILL SEE

3.6 / 5

56%

3.9 / 5

(128)

Zero Dark Thirty

NYC/LA

A U.S. military black ops mission causes ramifications which are felt around the world.

Mark Strong, Edgar Ramirez, Chris Pratt, Jennifer Ehle, Mike Colter, Joel Edgerton, Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke

R Drama War 2 hrs, 40 mins

56% WILL SEE

3.9 / 5

21%

3.7 / 5

(6)

Amour (Love)

NYC/LA

In the film, Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) are in their 80's. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter (Isabelle Huppert), who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has an attack. The couple's bond of love is severely tested.

Isabelle Huppert, Michael Haneke, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva

PG-13 Drama

21% WILL SEE

3.7 / 5

Released Friday, December 21st

51%

3.9 / 5

(51)

Jack Reacher

A homicide investigator seeks the truth behind what seems an open-and-shut murder case after a trained military sniper is arrested for shooting five random victims.

Tom Cruise, Dana Goldberg, Rosamund Pike, David Ellison, Gary Levinsohn, Robert Duvall, Werner Herzog, Christopher McQuarrie

PG-13 Drama Suspense

51% WILL SEE

3.9 / 5

75%

3 / 5

(43)

THIS IS 40

A spin-off of Knocked Up that focuses on Pete and Debbie, who where played by Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann. Additional plot details are unavailable.

Megan Fox, Paul Rudd, Annie Mumolo, Chris O'Dowd, Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Mann, Barry Mendel, Clayton Townsend

R Comedy

75% WILL SEE

3 / 5

72%

4.2 / 5

(46)

The Impossible

Based on the true story of events that occurred following the 2004 tsunami in Thailand.

Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Juan Antonio Bayona, Sergio G. Sanchez, Tom Hollander, Geraldine Chaplin, Marta Etura

PG-13 Drama Action

72% WILL SEE

4.2 / 5

52%

2.5 / 5

(11)

On the Road

Recounts Jack Kerouac's defining hitchhiking journey across the U.S. with Neal Cassady.

Kristen Stewart, Francis Ford Coppola, Walter Salles, Kirsten Dunst, Rebecca Yeldham, John H. Williams, Amy Adams, Charles Gillibert

R Drama Adaptation

52% WILL SEE

2.5 / 5

74%

3.9 / 5

(53)

Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Awa...

Inspired by the unique creative universe of Cirque du Soleil. The film is based on the following premise: "There are worlds beyond dreams, illusion and imagination, where human beings are capable of anything. Where love rules, and everything your heart yearns for is beautifully, incredibly real."

James Cameron, Aron Warner, Andrew Adamson, Erica Linz, Matt Gillanders, Jason Berrent, Lutz Halbhubner

PG Fantasy 3D

74% WILL SEE

3.9 / 5

31%

3.4 / 5

(5)

Barbara

East Germany, 1980. Barbara is a talented young doctor who has applied for an exit visa from the GDR and, as punishment, has been transferred from her prestigious post in Berlin to a small pediatric hospital in the country. Even though she is constantly aware of the very real shadowy presence of, and overwhelming numbers of, Stasi officers chronicling her every move, every waking hour, she arrives at her new post having already planned a series of dangerous assignations with her lover, with whom she plans to escape to the West, to Poland.

Christian Petzold, Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock

PG-13 1 hr, 45 mins

31% WILL SEE

3.4 / 5

57%

3.4 / 5

(5)

Not Fade Away

Set on the East Coast during the 1960s, a coming of age story that follows the lives of Douglas, Wells and Ronny, members of a young rock n’ roll band trying to make it.

John Magaro, Christopher McDonald, Mark Johnson, David Chase, Jack Huston, Bella Heathcote, Will Brill, James Gandolfini

R Drama Music

57% WILL SEE

3.4 / 5

Released Tuesday, December 25th

64%

4.4 / 5

(54)

Les Misérables

A film adaptation of the popular stage play, which chronicles the lives of five characters through nearly two decades in France. Ex-con Jean Valjean tries to outrun his relentless pursuer Javert.

Amanda Seyfried, Anne Hathaway, Eddie Redmayne, Tom Hooper, Tim Bevan, Hugh Jackman, Samantha Barks, Eric Fellner

PG-13 Adaptation Musical 2 hrs, 39 mins

64% WILL SEE

4.4 / 5

82%

3.8 / 5

(65)

Parental Guidance

Billy Crystal will play a grandfather forced to take care of his three grandchildren by the 21st century rules of his daughter, their mother, who has gone on a weeklong work vacation. In the process, he is confronted with what seems to him an absurd world of negotiating with kids, Little League games where everyone gets a hit, tailored meals and "feelings." Ultimately, he reverts to an old-school-justice style of discipline.

Billy Crystal, Bette Midler, Marisa Tomei, Andy Fickman, Peter Chernin, Lisa Addario, Bailee Madison, Tom Everett Scott

PG Drama Comedy

82% WILL SEE

3.8 / 5

62%

4.2 / 5

(80)

Django Unchained

Django is a freed slave, who, under the tutelage of a German bounty hunter, becomes a bad-ass bounty hunter himself. After taking down some bad guys for profit, they track down Django's slave wife and liberate her from an evil plantation owner.

Samuel L. Jackson, James Remar, Kerry Washington, Leonardo DiCaprio, Walton Goggins, Jamie Foxx, RZA, Christoph Waltz

Drama Western 2 hrs, 21 mins

62% WILL SEE

4.2 / 5

62%

3 / 5

(2)

West of Memphis

Starting with a searing examination of the police investigation into the 1993 murders of three, eight year old boys Christopher Byers, Steven Branch and Michael Moore in the small town of West Memphis, Arkansas, the film reveals the story from the inside. West of Memphis uncovers new evidence surrounding the arrest and conviction of the other three victims of this shocking crime – Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley; all three of whom were teenagers at the time of their arrests and all three of whom were imprisoned for crimes they did not commit.

Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Amy Berg, Ken Kamins, Damien Echols

Documentary

62% WILL SEE

3 / 5

Released Wednesday, December 26th

42%

3.4 / 5

(8)

TABU

NYC Only

A two-part tale centered on Aurora, shown first as an impulsive, cantankerous elderly woman in present-day Lisbon. When Aurora is hospitalized, she sends her neighbor, Pilar, to pass word of her grave condition to Gian Luca, a man of which no one has ever heard her speak. Pilar’s quest to fulfill her friend’s wish transports us to Africa fifty years earlier, before the start of the Portuguese Colonial War. We see Aurora again, this time as the gorgeous, smoldering wife of a wealthy young farmer, involved in a forbidden love affair with Gian Luca, her husband’s best friend.

Miguel Gomes, Teresa Madruga, Laura Soveral, Ana Moreira

Drama

42% WILL SEE

3.4 / 5

Released Friday, December 28th

68%

3.1 / 5

(21)

Promised Land

NYC/LA

A sales executive arrives in a small town only to have his whole life called into question.

Gus Van Sant, Matt Damon, John Krasinski, Scoot McNairy, Frances McDormand, Rosemarie DeWitt, Chris Moore, Dave Eggers

R Drama

68% WILL SEE

3.1 / 5

66%

3.7 / 5

(60)

Quartet

The story of three elderly, former opera-singers living in a retirement home for musicians, who suddenly find themselves invited to a "reunion event."

Dustin Hoffman, Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Ronald Harwood, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly, Stewart Mackinnon

PG-13 Drama Comedy 1 hr, 38 mins

66% WILL SEE

3.7 / 5