Movies Released December 23, 2016

Released Friday, December 23rd

Why Him?

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.

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

Comedy

83% WILL SEE

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A Monster Calls

Limited

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.

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

Adventure Adaptation

53% WILL SEE

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Silence

Limited

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.

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

Drama Historical

26% WILL SEE

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I, Daniel Blake

Limited

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.

Hayley Squires, Ken Loach, Dave Johns

Drama

52% WILL SEE

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The Bad Kids

NYC Only

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.”

Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe

Documentary 1 hr, 31 mins

81% WILL SEE

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