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Movies Released December 17, 2021

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Dec. 7, 2022

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Tom Holland reprises his role as Peter Parker/Spider-man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Benedict Cumberbatch, Jon Favreau, Willem Dafoe, Kevin Feige, J.K. Simmons, Alfred Molina, Martin Starr, Tom Holland

PG-13 Action Adventure 2 hrs, 30 mins

95%

  • 4.5
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Based on the 1947 film about a corrupt con-man who teams up with a female psychiatrist to trick people into giving them money.

Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Willem Dafoe, Bradley Cooper, Toni Collette, David Strathairn, Mary Steenburgen, Guillermo del Toro

R Thriller Adaptation

79%

  • 4.2
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A maniacal criminal (Chad Michael Murray, left, with Jesse Metcalfe) hellbent on revenge infiltrates a retirement community for National Clandestine Service members in the action thriller.

Bruce Willis, Jesse Metcalfe, Chad Michael Murray, James Cullen Bressack, Shannen Doherty, Ser'Darius Blain, Kelly Greyson

R Action Thriller 1 hr, 40 mins

52%

  • 1.9
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A boy grows up without a father but is surrounded with unlikely surrogates: the patrons who haunt a pub in Manhasset, Long Island where his uncle tends bar. He eventually breaks into journalism as a copy-boy at "The New York Times" and goes on to win a Pulitzer for feature writing at the "L.A. Times."

Ben Affleck, Max Martini, George Clooney, Peter Chernin, Lily Rabe, Christopher Lloyd, Matthew Delamater, Grant Heslov

R Drama Biography 1 hr, 44 mins

89%

  • 3.9
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Set in the near future, Swan Song is a journey told through the eyes of Cameron (Mahershala Ali), a loving husband and father diagnosed with a terminal illness who is presented with an alternative solution by his doctor (Glenn Close) to shield his family from grief. As Cameron grapples with whether or not to alter his family’s fate, he learns more about life and love than he ever imagined.

Awkwafina, Glenn Close, Benjamin Cleary, Adam Shulman, Jacob Perlin, Jonathan King, Rebecca Bourke, Mimi Valdes

R Drama

83%

  • 2.7
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When a cash-strapped rancher takes an offer to help a movie star poach elk it seems like easy money, until a fatal run-in with the local authorities triggers a series of events that pits man against man in a bloody showdown.

Jared Bonner, Creed Garnick, Charlie Barnett, Allison Paige, Matthew Daddario, Brock Harris

NR Drama 1 hr, 26 mins

75%

  • 5
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While on a holiday by the sea, Leda experiences a seemingly meaningless event that causes her to be overwhelmed by memories of the difficult and unconventional choices she made as a mother and their consequences for herself and her family. What begins as an apparently serene tale of a woman’s pleasant rediscovery of herself soon becomes a ferocious psychological thriller about a confrontation with an unsettled past.

Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dakota Johnson, Osnat Handelsman-Keren, Olivia Colman, Peter Sarsgaard, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Ed Harris, Talia Kleinhendler

R Drama Thriller

76%

  • 2.2
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The story centers on 29-year-old Emma (Orrantia), whose 54-year-old father (Mulroney) begins dating her high school frenemy (Parrish) soon after his wife passes away. Emma embarks on a mission to break up the happy couple after her dad insists they spend the holidays together.

Dermot Mulroney, Prarthana Mohan, Sara Endsley, Hayley Orrantia, Janel Parrish, Larry Grimaldi, Neil Elman, Hannah Pillemer

R Comedy Holiday 1 hr, 35 mins

82%

  • 5
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The year is 1402. Margrete has achieved what no man has managed before. She has gathered Denmark, Norway and Sweden into a peace-oriented union, which she single-handedly rules through her young, adopted son, Erik. The union is beset by enemies, however, and Margrete is therefore planning a marriage between Erik and an English princess. An alliance with England should secure the union’s status as an emerging European power but a breathtaking conspiracy is under way that can tear Margrete and all she believes in apart.

Charlotte Sieling, Jesper Fink, Maya Ilsøe, Trine Dyrholm, Søren Malling, Jakob Oftebro, Morten Hee Andersen, Paul Blackthorne

Drama Historical 2 hrs, 0 mins

78%

  • 3
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A college freshman joins her university’s rowing team and undertakes an obsessive physical and psychological journey to make it to the top varsity boat, no matter the cost.

Isabelle Fuhrman, Jonathan Cherry, Charlotte Ubben, Lauren Hadaway, Amy Forsyth, Dilone Kate Drummond

NR Drama

63%

  • 5
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While out apartment hunting, college pals Noelle and Addie stumble upon the deal of a lifetime: a posh duplex on Manhattan's Upper East Side. But soon after moving in, a more sinister picture of the apartment emerges when a mysterious woman arrives and claims the property used to belong to the infamous and recently-deceased Jeffrey Epstein.

With this news, Noelle becomes obsessed with the visitor—to the point of infatuation. As the pair plunge deeper into the conspiracies of the Epstein case, Addie falls into her own bizarre state: a pseudo-possession complete with inexplicable fits of age-regressed sexual mania. As they peel back on these strange occurrences, the truth reveals itself to be more twisted than they could have ever imagined.

Betsey Brown, Dasha Nekrasova, Mark Rapaport, Madeline Quinn

NR Thriller 1 hr, 21 mins

22%

  • 2
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When Robert Mugabe was removed from power, Zimbabwe military leaders promised they would not seize control for themselves but would ensure democracy in a national election. Against a backdrop of economic crisis, food shortages, and political violence, the stakes could not be higher.Working to defeat the ruling party, which has controlled Zimbabwe since independence, is the young and charismatic Nelson Chamisa, who draws comparisons to a young Nelson Mandela in expressing the country’s utmost desire to be “led” and not “ruled”. After decades of a corrupt group clinging to power using any tool available—legal or not—can a free, fair, and transparent election be truly possible? As the follow-up to her widely acclaimed Democrats, Camilla Nielsson brings viewers into the heart of the struggle for power with stunningly close access and unhesitating courage, in a nation closely monitored by the entire world. President is a riveting and epic reminder that, while individuals and their specific ideals may differ, the fight for democracy is never-ending and of profound significance everywhere.

Camilla Nielsson

Documentary

60%

  • 3.3
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It is 2085. A young man, one of the few survivors of the human community of old, embarks on a long voyage to find others.

Stellan Skarsgard, Charlotte Rampling, Jonathan Nossiter, Nick Nolte

NR Drama 2 hrs, 6 mins

44%

  • 4.5
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Despite his family’s famed expertise on ancient relics, Xu Yuan makes a simple living as the owner of an electronics shop, eager to distinguish himself from a disgraced ancestor who was executed for treason after stealing a Chinese artifact for Japan. But when a descendant offers to return the relic to China, Xu Yuan uncovers a decades-old mystery and soon embarks on a journey that could finally restore his family’s reputation—and may also cost him his life.

Derek Kwok, Xin Zhilei, Ge You, Lei Jiayin, Li Xian

NR Thriller Suspense 2 hrs, 3 mins

67%

  • 4
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Set in the near future, Mother/Android follows Georgia (Chloë Grace Moretz) and her boyfriend Sam (Algee Smith) through their treacherous journey of escape as their country is caught in an unexpected war with artificial intelligence. Days away from the arrival of their first child, they must face No Man’s Land – a stronghold of the android uprising, in hopes of reaching safety before giving birth.

Chloë Grace Moretz, Raul Castillo, Matt Reeves, Rafi Crohn, Mattson Tomlin, Adam Kassan, Bill Block, Charles Miller

R Thriller Sci-Fi

72%

  • 3
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