U.S. Release Date: 2024-12-20
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Animated/Adventure
Director: Barry Jenkins
Cast: Aaron Pierre, Thandiwe Newton, Mads Mikkelson, Donald Glover, Tiffany Boone, Billy Eichner, Seth Rogen, John Kani, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Blue Ivy Carter
A movie absolutely no one in the general public was clamoring for and, although many will see it, the well-earned “unnecessary” label should stick.
U.S. Release Date: 2024-12-20
MPAA Rating: "R" (Explicit Sexual Content, Nudity, Profanity, Drugs)
Genre: Drama
Director: Brady Corbet
Cast: Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, ...
Rewards patience not only in the way it crafts its central character but develops the era in which it transpires.
U.S. Release Date: 2024-12-20
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Halina Reijn
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson, Antonio Banderas, ...
Perhaps not as gloriously, guiltily entertaining as some of the films writer/director Halina Reijn used as models but it offers its own pleasures.
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U.S. Release Date: 2024-12-13
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Director: J.C. Chandor
Cast: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ariana DeBose, Fred Hechinger, Alessandro Nivola, Christopher Abbott, Russell Crowe, Levi Miller
The advance word-of-mouth has oversold its badness; instead of being truly awful, it is simply mediocre.
U.S. Release Date: 2024-12-13
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Drama
Director: RaMell Ross
Cast: Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger
The extensive usage of shaky cam-enhanced first-person storytelling distracts from a strong gut-punch of a narrative.
U.S. Release Date: 2024-12-13
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: Animated/Fantasy
Director: Kenji Kamiyama
Cast: Brian Cox, Gaia Wise, Luke Pasqualino, Lorraine Ashbourne, Yazdan Qafouri, Bejamin Wainwright, Laurence Ubong Williams, Shaun Dooley, Miranda Otto
Anime and "Lord of the Rings" die-hards will enjoy it. Others, maybe not so much.
U.S. Release Date: 2024-12-13
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Tim Fehlbaum
Cast: Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin, Leonie Benesch, Zinedine Soulalem, Corey Johnson, Benjamin Walker, Jim McKay
"September 5" finds a new angle for this story, thereby justifying its existence and putting it near the top of the group of motion pictures inspired by the Munich Massacre.
U.S. Release Date: 2024-12-06
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Gore, Sexual Content, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: Horror/Comedy
Director: Kyle Mooney
Cast: Jaeden Martell, Rachel Zegler, Julian Dennison, Daniel Zolghadri, Lachlan Watson, Fred Durst, Kyle Mooney
The goal with "Y2K" appears to be to make a film that falls into the "so bad it is good" category, but one cannot plan a cult classic.
U.S. Release Date: 2024-12-06
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Justin Kurzel
Cast: Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan, Jurnee Smollett, Alison Oliver, Marc Maron, Odessa Young, Victor Slezak
With its obvious allegorical implications, "The Order" emphasizes that the dangers of extremism and domestic terrorism are not new and the passage of time has not caused them to fade away.
U.S. Release Date: 2024-12-06
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Disturbing Images, Sexual Content)
Genre: Comedy/Fantasy
Director: Marielle Heller
Cast: Amy Adams, Scoot McNairy, Arleigh and Emmett Snowden, Zoe Chao, Mary Holland, Ella Thomas, Archana Rajan, Jessica Harper
Although "Nightbitch" self-proclaims itself to be a comedy, there are a few too many times when viewers laugh at the movie rather than with it.