Krampus
Theatrical Release Date: 12/04/2015
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Horror
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Michael Dougherty
Actors: Adam Scott, Toni Collette, David Koechner, Allison Tolman
Plot: A young boy in a dysfunctional family has to sit through yet another disappointing holiday - but this time, he's had enough. Fed up with the Christmas spirit, he turns his back on everything... only to summon Krampus, a demonic force bent on punishing non-believers. As beloved icons turn twisted and evil, the boy will have to pull his fractured family together if any are to survive the festive onslaught.
III: The Ritual
Theatrical Release Date: 12/03/2015
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Pavel Khvaleev
Actors: Polina Davydova, Evgeniy Gagarin, Lyubov Ignatushko
Chi-Raq
Theatrical Release Date: 12/04/2015
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Spike Lee
Actors: Nick Cannon, Teyonah Parris, Anya Engel-Adams, Wesley Snipes
Plot: Spike Lee's updated take on the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes: when a gang violence results in the death of a child, Lysistrata gathers a group of women together in Chicago's southside and begins a movement that challenges race, sex and violence that spreads from the city, to the nation then to the world.
Christmas Eve
Theatrical Release Date: 12/04/2015
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Mitch Davis
Actors: Jon Heder, James Roday, Patrick Stewart, Julianna Guill
Plot: It's Christmas Eve and for six groups of New Yorkers, it's going to be a very different holiday. Each group finds themselves trapped in elevators - with no one to talk to but each other, it will be a night of humor, romance and transformation.
Life
Theatrical Release Date: 12/04/2015
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Anton Corbijn
Actors: Robert Pattinson, Peter Lucas, Lauren Gallagher, Kendal Rae
Plot: In 1955 Life magazine photographer Dennis Stock was sent on assignment to photograph up-and-coming movie star James Dean. As Stock convinces Dean to participate, we learn about the young man, not just a rebel on screen, but an icon in his own right.
Macbeth
Theatrical Release Date: 12/04/2015
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Justin Kurzel
Actors: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Elizabeth Debicki, David Thewlis
Plot: When a Scottish duke receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that he will one day become king, it drives his ambition to commit regicide and take the throne by force - but his glory is short-lived as as his house and kingdom fall to ruin.
Only the Dead
Theatrical Release Date: 12/04/2015
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Bill Guttentag, Michael Ware
Actors: Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, Michael Ware
Plot: Inside footage during the american invasion in Irak, 2003 and the years that fallow.
Youth
Theatrical Release Date: 12/04/2015
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Actors: Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano
Plot: Two old friends, a retired composer and conductor, the other a director about to finish one last, great project, find themselves on vacation at the alps. There they examine and talk about the young people around them: their children, their staff, the hotel employees - even as both face an unexpected development in their respective lives.
