28 Movies We're Definitely Seeing This Holiday Season

Whether you need movies to see with your menage or by your lonesome as you escape from the pressure of socializing , Hollywood has you covered this holiday time of year . Here ’s what to follow out for in the last stretch of the year .

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Release escort : November 18thCast : Eddie Redmayne , Katherine Waterston , Dan Fogler , Colin FarrellDirector : David Yates ( Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)Reason to be excited : J.K. Rowling write this spinoff of the originalHarry Pottermovies herself , in hopes of preserving the tone while transfer the action mechanism to 1920s New York City . With Oscar - winner Redmayne as the wizarding world ’s leading magizoologist , and Yates , who direct many of the original series ' good installments , behind the camera , there ’s rationality to buy into this blockbuster ’s ballyhoo . observe the laggard

Bleed for This

freeing escort : November 18thCast : Miles Teller , Aaron Eckhart , Katey Sagal , Ciarán HindsDirector : Ben Younger ( Boiler Room)Reason to be excited : The twist of this class ’s see - it - with - your - dad fisticuffs movie is that Teller ’s persona , world champion Vinny Paz , should n’t even be expect at a boxing ring , let alone throwing puncher in one . After a life-threatening car stroke shatters his bulky inning , Paz decides to defy his doctors and civilise his path back to the top . Watch the trailer

The Edge of Seventeen

Release date : November 18thCast : Hailee Steinfeld , Haley Lu Richardson , Woody Harrelson , Kyra SedgwickDirector : Kelly Fremon CraigReason to be rouse : James L. Brooks , director ofBroadway NewsandTerms of Endearmentand cobalt - Divine ofThe Simpsons , shepherd this foul - mouthed teen comedy to existence because he was so taken by first - time music director Kelly Craig ’s unique perspective . We ’ve waited patiently for a movie to take over theMean Girlsmantle . This might be it . Watch the poke

Manchester by the Sea

Release engagement : November 18thCast : Casey Affleck , Michelle Williams , Gretchen Mol , Lucas HedgesDirector : Kenneth Lonergan ( Margaret)Reason to be excited : This seaside story of heartache is scraggy and intrusive , winding up all the anxieties of unremarkable life history around Affleck ’s gamy - collar Massachusettsian . Teasing why everyone in Manchester - by - the - Sea is so tortured would spoil the stroll , but the picture show does n’t miss a step . give himself a whole three hour , Lonergan looks at a mournful situation from every angle – it’sthe funniest catgut - punch you ’ll have this year . Watch the trailer

Nocturnal Animals

Release date : November 18thCast : Jake Gyllenhaal , Amy Adams , Laura Linney , Aaron Taylor - Johnson , Michael ShannonDirector : Tom Ford ( A Single Man)Reason to be excited : Seven years after his directorial debut , A Single Man , fashion interior decorator Tom Ford steps back behind the tv camera to manufacture a family relationship thriller that gang of Cormac McCarthy . Only Ford could put together a movie that appear stylish and game as infernal region . catch the trailer

Allied

Release date : November 23rdCast : Brad Pitt , Marion Cotillard , Lizzy Caplan , Matthew GoodeDirector : Robert Zemeckis ( Forrest Gump)Reason to be stimulate : In the twelvemonth ’s boldest answer to " they do n’t make ‘em like they used to , " Pitt stars as spy Max Vatan , who , in 1942 North Africa , encounters French Resistance fighter Marianne Beausejour ( Cotillard ) on a mission behind opposition lines . There ’s love , there ’s war , there ’s in all likelihood backstabbing , and there are two famous people reminding us why we at times fall hard for flick stars . Zemeckis , a hold - and - bred Hollywood tailor , should give this one the old - school push it take to work out . ascertain the trailer

Bad Santa 2

Release date : November 23rdCast : Billy Bob Thornton , Tony Cox , Brett Kelly , Kathy Bates , Christina HendricksDirector : Mark Waters ( mean value Girls)Reason to be excited : What do 13 years do to a big Santa ? Nothing , evidently . Thornton ’s Willie T. Stokes looks as dreadful as ever in this highly anticipated subsequence , which trade the original ’s director , the off - kilter Terry Zwigoff , for pee . IfBad Santa 2 hasa modicum of the ardor emitted from " The Plastics , " we ’ll be OK.Watch the trailer

Moana

spill appointment : November 23rdCast : Auli’i Cravalho , Dwayne Johnson , Temuera Morrison , Jemaine ClementDirectors : Ron Clements and John Musker ( Aladdin)Reason to be excited : We do n’t blame your gut instinct for beshrew Disney animated feature as " kid material , " but afterFrozenandZootopia , maybe the Mouse House deserves a niggling trust?Moanaspins a magical adventure out of pelagic iconography , throwing in original songs byHamilton ’s Lin - Manuel Miranda for good measure . see the trailer

Rules Don’t Apply

spill engagement : November 23rdCast : Lily Collins , Alden Ehrenreich , Warren Beatty , Matthew BroderickDirector : Warren Beatty ( Bulworth)Reason to be excite : Beatty spend years originate this movie , swash as a biopic of the age Howard Hughes . The upshot looks like more of a screwball fixed storage - com , following two young lover ( Collins and Ehrenreich ) as they seek to make a relationship piece of work under their employer , the demented Hughes ( Beatty).Watch the trailer

Miss Sloane

outlet date : November 25thCast : Jessica Chastain , Sam Waterston , Mark Strong , Gugu Mbatha - RawDirector : John Madden ( Shakespeare in Love)Reason to be charge up : With the election in the rearview , America can finally move around its attention to pressing issues , andMiss Sloanehas a hint : throttle command . The picture show come after a fictional lobbyist ( Chastain ) mounting a fictional political campaign for gun control , a very actual problem . Inevitable controversy should make this one a must - see . look on the poke

Lion

Release date : November 25thCast : Dev Patel , Rooney Mara , David Wenham , Nicole KidmanDirector : Garth Davis ( Top of the Lake)Reason to be excited : Based on a true story , LionstarsSlumdog Millionaire ’s Dev Patel as Saroo Brierley , who , 25 years after being separated from his female parent in India , tracks her down using Google Earth . Take that , Luddites!Watch the dawdler

Incarnate

dismissal engagement : December 2ndCast : Aaron Eckhart , Carice van Houten , Catalina Sandino Moreno , Emjay AnthonyDirector : Brad Peyton ( San Andreas)Reason to be sex : Eckhart sensation as an exorcist with the ability to go in the subconscious of his patients for kick demon ass . A confident Oscar play from the the great unwashed who convey usInsidious . take in the trailer

Jackie

discharge date : December 2ndCast : Natalie Portman , Greta Gerwig , Peter Sarsgaard , Billy CrudupDirector : Pablo Larraín ( No)Reason to be excited : admirer of the Kennedys may be shocked by this unfettered , provocative look at the aftermath of JFK ’s character assassination . As her mind wander back and forth through time – wrap by the creepiest music of the class – Jackie O. recalls the grisly events of November 22nd , 1963 , and struggle to cheat her husband ’s aura into the chronological record of history . keep an eye on the prevue

La La Land

Release date : December 9thCast : Ryan Gosling , Emma Stone , J. K. Simmons , Finn WittrockDirector : Damien Chazelle ( Whiplash)Reason to be excited : A atavist to impulsive musicals likeSingin ' in the RainandUmbrellas of Cherbourg , La La Landtakes a witching - realism approach to love affair in the City of Angels . An excuse to get Stone and Gosling ballroom - dancing in a planetarium is a good excuse in our books , andLa La Landcould turn out to be something even more . Watch the trailer

Office Christmas Party

outlet date : December 9thCast : Jason Bateman , Olivia Munn , T.J. Miller , Kate McKinnonDirector : Josh Gordon & Will Speck ( Blades of Glory)Reason to be excite : From the bros who brought usThe HangoverandBad Momscomes the next outrageous political party film that will inspire a fearsome decisiveness the next time there ’s tequila in your vicinity . government agency Christmas Partyis amply stocked with big - concealment comedians andSNLanchors all ready to spike your vacation plans with booze . Watch the lagger

Rogue One

Release date : December 16thCast : Felicity Jones , Diego Luna , Ben Mendelsohn , Donnie Yen , Mads MikkelsenDirector : Gareth Edwards ( Godzilla)Reason to be excited : The form of address of this newStar Warsprequel is a bit of a double entendre : " Rogue One " touch to the band of mercenaries put together by the Rebellion to steal the Death Star plans , but plays into the fact that it ’s the firstStar Warsmovie to " go knave " from the Skywalker " Episode " timeline . put just before the outcome of the original 1977 movie , Rogue Onestages a state of war pic inside a universe we all hump and have sex . Watch the lagger

The Space Between Us

Release day of the month : December 16thCast : Gary Oldman , Asa Butterfield , Carla Gugino , Britt RobertsonDirector : Peter Chelsom ( Serendipity)Reason to be excited : Set in the near hereafter , Butterfield plays the first human put up on Mars – an accident NASA ca n’t keep secret . When the kid tie in with a missy his eld via video recording schmooze , he mount a program to return home . retrieve a lovesome and cuddly fellow traveler toThe Martian . learn the trailer

Collateral Beauty

outlet escort : December 16thCast : Will Smith , Edward Norton , Keira Knightley , Helen MirrenDirector : David Frankel ( The Devil Wears Prada)Reason to be excited : It ’s been year since Smith play a " normal guy , " but his latest role casts him as a grieving Padre take care for meaning in the earthbound cosmos . He finds rilievo by publish letters to concepts like Time , Love , and destruction . When the precis set out present themselves before him as tangible the great unwashed , he gross out . Read as : guaranteed sentimentality for the holidays . Watch the trailer

Assassin’s Creed

vent date : December 21stCast : Michael Fassbender , Marion Cotillard , Jeremy Irons , Michael K. WilliamsDirector : Justin Kurzel ( MacBeth)Reason to be stir : While adapted from a billion - clam video recording - game property , Assassin ’s Creedis something of a passion project for Fassbender , who produced the moving-picture show and hire his artfulMacbethdirector to make his blockbuster debut . conflate sci - fi time traveling with Crusades - era steel - swinging , Assassin ’s Creedis one of the grander experiments of the holiday time of year . watch out the poke

Passengers

dismissal date : December 21stCast : Chris Pratt , Jennifer Lawrence , Michael Sheen , Laurence FishburneDirector : Morten Tyldum ( The Imitation Game)Reason to be excited : There ’s very little out there onPassengers , a sci - fi picture about a spaceship’s120 - year journey to an off - world settlement . When Pratt and Lawrence ’s " hibernation pod " open 90 years early … well , something dramatic happens . Probably ! We ’ll be reliable : the promise of this couplet in a two - hander is enough for us to corrupt in blind .

Why Him?

Release engagement : December 23rdCast : James Franco , Bryan Cranston , Zoey Deutch , Megan MullallyDirector : John Hamburg ( I Love You , Man)Reason to be excited : Hamburg broke out with his script forMeet the Parents , and this holiday season , he inverts the assumption to put dads on the suffer ending . Franco plays a tech - industry hotshot cook to splice the girl of Cranston , who bust into protective modality . Hijinks ensue , and considering the pedigreed , worthy hijinks . Watch the laggard

A Monster Calls

Release date : December 23rdCast : Sigourney Weaver , Felicity Jones , Toby Kebbell , Liam Neeson , Lewis MacDougallDirector : J. A. Bayona ( The Impossible)Reason to be excited : break from its original October release date to an awards - friendly holiday topographic point , this Spielbergian drama find a male child carry on with his female parent ’s concluding cancer by conjuring – or encountering ? – a Groot - ish ogre , voiced by Neeson . Watch the lagger

Silence

outlet day of the month : December 23rdCast : Andrew Garfield , Adam Driver , Liam Neeson , Ciarán HindsDirector : Martin Scorsese ( The Wolf of Wall Street)Reason to be excited : Scorsese has been talking up his adaptation of Shūsaku Endō ’s novel , about two seventeenth - century Portuguese Jesuit priest who travel to Japan to call back their elder , since the mid-’90s . He ’s at long last give up the religious epos just in time for awards season – where it will invariably shake up the contender .

Gold

firing appointment : December 25thCast : Matthew McConaughey , Édgar Ramírez , Bryce Dallas HowardDirector : Stephen Gaghan ( Syriana)Reason to be excited : McConaughey went fat , bald , and slovenly for his role in this spectacular thriller , distinguish asTreasure of the Sierra Madrewith aWolf of Wall Streettwist . Gaghan ’s been quietly working on the flick for a number of years , so we ’re crossing our fingers it ’s … gold . Watch the trailer

Hidden Figures

Release date : December 25thCast : Taraji P. Henson , Octavia Spencer , Janelle Monáe , Kevin CostnerDirector : Theodore Melfi ( St. Vincent)Reason to be excited : There is no space race , no Project Mercury , no John Glenn , first American astronaut to revolve the Earth , without the three African - American mathematicians enrol by NASA to aid come through the space race . Hidden Figuresdigs into the under - talk about racism of the US space plan with some of today ’s practiced working thespian . Watch the trailer

Live by Night

Release date : December 25thCast : Ben Affleck , Elle Fanning , Brendan Gleeson , Zoe SaldanaDirector : Ben Affleck ( Argo)Reason to be excited : conform from Dennis Lehane ’s novel of the same name , the latest from author - film director - Batman Affleck chronicle the transformation of a 1920s Bostonian into one of America ’s most infamous bootleggers . With full point decor , noir grimaces , and lot of firepower , bouncy by Nightmay turn out to be Oscar material , but should give Affleck and his A - listing mold plenty to chew on . see the trailer

20th Century Women

Release date : December 25thCast : Annette Bening , Elle Fanning , Greta Gerwig , Lucas Jade Zumann , Billy CrudupDirector : Mike Mills ( Beginners)Reason to be excited : draw in comparisons toAlmost Famousand Michael Chabon novel , this inherited story of find teetertotter on the ethnical brink that is 1979 Santa Barbara . Mills is a master key of the melancholy comedy , so we suspect his autobiographical throwback should deliver on joke and tears . Watch the trailer

Fences

Release escort : December 25thCast : Denzel Washington , Viola Davis , Jovan Adepo , Stephen HendersonDirector : Denzel Washington ( Antwone Fisher)Reason to be excited : Washington ’s directorial career is strike or miss , but bringing dramatist August Wilson ’s poetic examination of race and class to the big screen door sounds as stimulating as any Michael Bay movie . Washington and Davis played the roles on Broadway in 2010 and pluck up Tonys for their performances . carry them to find some Oscar love , too .

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