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Movies Released December 23, 2016

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Why Him? Poster
83%

Ratings

  • 3.6 / 5

out of 5 stars

The story centers on a Midwestern father who takes his family to visit his daughter — who is attending Stanford — at Christmas and subsequently gets into a competition with his daughter’s boyfriend, a young Internet billionaire.

Ben Stiller, Bryan Cranston, Dan Levine, Keegan-Michael Key, Shawn Levy, Jonah Hill, Zoey Deutch, Megan Mullally

Comedy
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Silence Poster
26%

Ratings

  • 3.9 / 5

out of 5 stars

The adaptation of a Japanese novel by Shusaku Endo is the martyrdom-themed tale of two 17th century Portuguese missionaries who return to Japan to minister to Christians, who've been outlawed.

Liam Neeson, Martin Scorsese, Andrew Garfield, Randall Emmett, Adam Driver, George Furla, Jay Cocks, Graham King

Drama Historical
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A Monster Calls Poster
53%

Ratings

  • 3.4 / 5

out of 5 stars

Concerns a young boy who attempts to deal with his mother’s illness and the bullying of his classmates by escaping into a fantastical world of monsters and fairy tales that deal with courage, loss and faith.

Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones, Liam Neeson, Belen Atienza, Patrick Ness, Juan Antonio Bayona, Toby Kebbell, Lewis MacDougall

Adventure Adaptation
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I, Daniel Blake Poster
52%

Ratings

  • 3.8 / 5

out of 5 stars

Daniel Blake has worked as a joiner most of his life in Newcastle. Now, for the first time ever, he needs help from the State. He crosses paths with a single mother Katie and her two young children, Daisy and Dylan. Katie’s only chance to escape a one-roomed homeless hostel in London has been to accept a flat in a city she doesn’t know, some 300 miles away. Daniel and Katie find themselves in no-man’s land, caught on the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy as played out against the rhetoric of ‘striver and skiver’ in modern day Britain.

Ken Loach, Dave Johns, Hayley Squires

Drama
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The Bad Kids Poster
81%

Ratings

  • 1 / 5

out of 5 stars

At a remote Mojave Desert high school extraordinary educators believe that empathy and life skills, more than academics, give at-risk students command of their own futures. This coming-of-age drama watches education combat the crippling effects of poverty in the lives of these so-called “bad kids.”

Louis Pepe, Keith Fulton

Documentary 1 hr, 31 mins
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Oh, The Places You’ll Go!

changed release date from TBA 2027 to March 17, 2028

Lifeline

changed release date from TBA to February 21, 2025

Invasion

changed release date from TBA to February 21, 2025

Jazzy

changed release date from TBA to February 7, 2025

Werwulf

changed release date from TBA to December 25, 2026

Mercy

changed release date from August 15, 2025 to January 23, 2026
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