Got a pen?
Save the Date
Pencil in Michael Mohan’s modern take on an old tradition. Sure, you’re accustomed to the conjugal comedy by now, but this Sundancer starring Lizzy Caplan and Alison Brie as sisters with opposing viewpoints on marriage merges refreshing rom com (500 Days of Summer) with classic filmmaking (Woody Allen, Mike Nichols) and a divine sound track (Nick Waterhouse, Wilco).
It’s like: Reality Bites in a Lola Versus age.
Take: The community and party down.
Premieres: December 14 (on demand now)
Zero Dark Thirty
Not a doc, not fiction. Behold: the reported movie. One Hollywood didn’t want to touch. Leave it to indie financing to get lady lenser Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal’s gripping manhunt that makes Homeland look like Disneyland (no offense) off the ground. Already securing Best Picture and Director via the New York Film Critics Circle, the film starring a foulmouthed Jessica Chastain requires a very specific tactic on your part: the hurry-up.
It’s like: Body of Lies in a Hurt Locker.
Take: The A-gang on a 96er.
Premieres: December 19
The Impossible
It swallowed a country. And somehow with tanks of dirty water and real-life tsunami survivors, Orphanage director J.A. Bayona re-created its wrath for the big screen. The Christmas story belongs to a Spanish family but unfolds through English actors Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor as they cling to trees and rack up open wounds. Start to finish, it’s a tidal wave that hits you, moves through you, and will stay with you.
It’s like: Horror without the tricks, drama without the melo.
Take: A shoulder to weep on.
Premieres: December 21
Collect yourself, and then flip through the rest of December’s must-see movies.
Photos: Elisha Christian / Courtesy of IFC Films; Jonathan Olley / Courtesy of Columbia Pictures; Jose Haro / Courtesy of Summit Entertainment
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