Anticipated Winter Movies
Films coming to cinemas and streaming this season
Godzilla Minus Zero
Director: Takashi Yamazaki
Writer(s): Takashi Yamazaki
Starring: Ryūnosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Min Tanaka, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Masami Nagasawa, Yuki Yamada
Genre: Action/Drama/Horror
Plot Synopsis: In 1949, two years after their first brush with Godzilla, the Shikishima family is caught up in a new catastrophe as the monster returns.
Release Date: November 6th
Wild Horse Nine
Director: Martin McDonagh
Writer(s): Martin McDonagh
Starring: John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi, Tom Waits, Parker Posey, Bastián Bodenhöfer
Genre: Action/Comedy/Crime
Plot Synopsis: In 1973 Chile, two CIA agents are sent from Santiago to Easter Island on a mission that tests how far they can trust each other.
Release Date: November 6th
The Cat in the Hat
Director: Alessandro Carloni, Erica Rivinoja
Writer(s): Caroline Williams, Erica Rivinoja, Alessandro Carloni
Starring: Bill Hader, Matt Berry, Quinta Brunson, Xochitl Gomez, Tiago Martinez, Giancarlo Esposito
Genre: Animation/Adventure/Comedy
Plot Synopsis: An all-new animated take on Dr. Seuss's mischievous Cat, whose visit brings magic and mayhem to two children's afternoon.
Release Date: November 6th
Soul Patrol
Director: J.M. Harper
Writer(s): J.M. Harper
Genre: Documentary/History/War
Plot Synopsis: Members of the Vietnam War's first Black special operations team reunite to tell their story, and to ask whether facing the past can heal old wounds.
Release Date: November 6th (limited), November 11th (wide)
I Play Rocky
Director: Peter Farrelly
Writer(s): Peter Gamble
Starring: Anthony Ippolito, AnnaSophia Robb, Toby Kebbell, P.J. Byrne, Jay Duplass, Matt Dillon
Genre: Biography/Comedy/Drama
Plot Synopsis: The true story of a struggling, unknown Sylvester Stallone, who wrote Rocky and then refused to sell it unless he was cast in the lead.
Release Date: November 6th (limited), November 20th (wide)
Being Heumann
Director: Sian Heder
Writer(s): Sian Heder, Rebekah Taussig
Starring: Ruth Madeley, Mark Ruffalo, Dylan O'Brien, Rob Delaney, Ray Fisher, Madeline Delp
Genre: Biography/Drama/History
Plot Synopsis: In 1977, disability rights activist Judy Heumann leads a 28-day occupation of San Francisco's Federal Building to force through equal access laws.
Release Date: November 6th (limited), November 13th (wide, and streaming on Apple TV)
Club Kid
Director: Jordan Firstman
Writer(s): Jordan Firstman
Starring: Jordan Firstman, Reggie Absolom, Cara Delevingne, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Colleen Camp, Vicki Pepperdine
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Plot Synopsis: A hard-partying New York club promoter has his life turned upside down when the 10-year-old son he never knew existed arrives on his doorstep.
Release Date: November 6th (limited), November 26th (wide)
Ebenezer
Director: Ti West
Writer(s): Nathaniel Halpern
Starring: Johnny Depp, Rupert Grint, Andrea Riseborough, Sam Claflin, Daisy Ridley, Tramell Tillman
Genre: Adventure/Comedy/Drama
Plot Synopsis: A new, ghostly telling of A Christmas Carol in Dickens' London, as Ebenezer Scrooge is confronted with his past, present and future.
Release Date: November 13th
How to Rob a Bank
Director: David Leitch
Writer(s): Mark Bianculli
Starring: Nicholas Hoult, Zoë Kravitz, Anna Sawai, Rhenzy Feliz, Paul Sparks, Young Mazino
Genre: Action/Comedy/Crime
Plot Synopsis: A crew of bank robbers starts posting its heists on social media, drawing the police into a very public chase.
Release Date: November 13th
Paper Tiger
Director: James Gray
Writer(s): James Gray
Starring: Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, Miles Teller, Gavin Goudey, Roman Engel, Cindy Katz
Genre: Crime/Drama/Thriller
Plot Synopsis: Two brothers chasing the American Dream get tangled up with the Russian mafia, putting their family in danger and their loyalty to the test.
Release Date: November 13th (limited), November 20th (wide)
Madden
Director: David O. Russell
Writer(s): David O. Russell, Cambron Clark
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Christian Bale, Kathryn Hahn, John Mulaney, Sienna Miller, Shane Gillis
Genre: Biography/Comedy/Drama
Plot Synopsis: The life of John Madden, from his Super Bowl win with Al Davis's Raiders to the video game and broadcasting career that made him a household name.
Release Date: November 18th (streaming on Prime Video)
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
Director: Francis Lawrence
Writer(s): Billy Ray, Michael Lesslie
Starring: Joseph Zada, Jesse Plemons, Ralph Fiennes, Glenn Close, Ben Wang, Kieran Culkin
Genre: Action/Adventure/Fantasy
Plot Synopsis: Twenty-four years before Katniss, the reaping for the 50th Hunger Games, the Second Quarter Quell, sends a young Haymitch Abernathy into the arena.
Release Date: November 20th
Minotaur
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Writer(s): Simon Lyashenko, Andrey Zvyagintsev
Starring: Dmitriy Mazurov, Iris Lebedeva, Boris Kudrin, Yuriy Zavalnyouk, Varvara Shmykova, Vladimir Friedman
Genre: Crime/Drama/Thriller
Plot Synopsis: A powerful executive's carefully controlled life starts to collapse as a business crisis, global turmoil and his wife's affair push him toward the edge.
Release Date: November 20th
Elsinore
Director: Simon Stone
Writer(s): Stephen Beresford, Ethan Silverman
Starring: Andrew Scott, Olivia Colman, Billie Piper, Johnny Flynn, Luke Thompson, David Dawson
Genre: Biography/Drama
Plot Synopsis: The story of actor Ian Charleson, who prepared for the performance of his life as Hamlet at London's National Theatre while facing impossible odds.
Release Date: November 20th (limited), December (wide)
Josephine
Director: Beth de Araújo
Writer(s): Beth de Araújo
Starring: Channing Tatum, Gemma Chan, Mason Reeves, Philip Ettinger, Syra McCarthy, Eleanore Pienta
Genre: Crime/Drama/Thriller
Plot Synopsis: After witnessing a crime in Golden Gate Park, eight-year-old Josephine struggles to feel safe again, while the adults around her fail to reach her.
Release Date: November 20th (limited), December 4th (wide)
Give Me the Ball!
Director: Liz Garbus, Elizabeth Wolff
Genre: Documentary/Biography/Sport
Plot Synopsis: A portrait of Billie Jean King, built from archive footage and interviews with her inner circle, and of how she chose to change the world over protecting herself.
Release Date: November 22nd (streaming)
Hexed
Director: Jason Hand, Fawn Veerasunthorn, Josie Trinidad
Writer(s): Jared Bush, Dana Ledoux Miller
Starring: Hailee Steinfeld, Rashida Jones, Jodie Foster, Walton Goggins, Henry Winkler, Dan Stevens
Genre: Animation/Adventure/Comedy
Plot Synopsis: An awkward teenager and her high-strung mother discover that the girl's quirks might be magical powers, opening the door to a hidden world of magic.
Release Date: November 25th
The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth
Director: David Fincher
Writer(s): Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Brad Pitt, Elizabeth Debicki, Scott Caan, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Carla Gugino, Peter Weller
Genre: Action/Comedy/Crime
Plot Synopsis: Cliff Booth, the stuntman from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, returns in a new role as a Hollywood fixer.
Release Date: November 25th (limited), December 23rd (streaming on Netflix)
All of a Sudden
Director: Ryūsuke Hamaguchi
Writer(s): Ryūsuke Hamaguchi, Maho Isono, Léa Le Dimna, Makiko Miyano
Starring: Virginie Efira, Tao Okamoto, Kyôzô Nagatsuka, Kodai Kurosaki, Jean-Charles Clichet, Marie Bunel
Genre: Drama
Plot Synopsis: Marie-Lou runs a nursing home outside Paris and fights for more humane care, a mission deepened by her friendship with a Japanese theater director facing terminal cancer.
Release Date: November 25th
Focker-in-Law
Director: John Hamburg
Writer(s): John Hamburg, Ilana Glazer, Austen Earl
Starring: Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Ariana Grande, Owen Wilson, Blythe Danner, Teri Polo
Genre: Comedy
Plot Synopsis: Greg and Pam Focker's son Henry announces he is marrying a strong-willed woman who seems to be his complete opposite, and family chaos follows.
Release Date: November 25th
In Waves
Director: Phuong Mai Nguyen
Writer(s): Fanny Burdino, Samuel Doux, Cairo Smith
Starring: Lyna Khoudri, Rio Vega, Paul Kircher, Birane Ba, Gauthier Battoue, Taiana Tully
Genre: Animation/Biography/Drama
Plot Synopsis: An animated true story set in Southern California surf culture about finding your soulmate and the lasting power of love after loss.
Release Date: November 27th (limited), December 11th (streaming on Netflix)
Tender Loving Care
Director: Mike Leigh
Writer(s): Mike Leigh
Starring: Marion Bailey, Paul Jesson, Kate O'Flynn, Alice Bailey Johnson, Tilly Vosburgh, Alan Williams
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Plot Synopsis: A child protection worker moves back in with her relentlessly upbeat best friend, while her aging parents worry about her and face a crisis of their own.
Release Date: December 4th
Behemoth!
Director: Tony Gilroy
Writer(s): Tony Gilroy
Starring: Pedro Pascal, Olivia Wilde, Will Arnett, Eva Victor, Alexa Swinton, Kaya Ralls
Genre: Drama/Music
Plot Synopsis: A musician from a family of musicians returns to Los Angeles in a love letter to film music and the people who make it.
Release Date: December 4th
The Gallerist
Director: Cathy Yan
Writer(s): James Pedersen, Cathy Yan
Starring: Natalie Portman, Jenna Ortega, Sterling K. Brown, Daniel Brühl, Charli XCX, Zach Galifianakis
Genre: Comedy/Crime/Thriller
Plot Synopsis: A desperate gallery owner hatches a scheme to sell a dead body as an artwork at Art Basel Miami.
Release Date: December 4th
14th
Director: Ava DuVernay
Genre: Documentary/History/News
Plot Synopsis: Ava DuVernay talks with scholars, politicians and legal experts about the 14th Amendment and the fight over who gets to belong in America.
Release Date: November 27th (limited), December 4th (streaming on Netflix)
Violent Night 2
Director: Tommy Wirkola
Writer(s): Pat Casey, Josh Miller
Starring: David Harbour, Kristen Bell, Jared Harris, Joe Pantoliano, Maxwell Friedman, Daniela Melchior
Genre: Action/Comedy
Plot Synopsis: Cut off from the North Pole and stranded in a crumbling New Jersey mall, Santa takes on a ruthless crime lord and his henchmen.
Release Date: December 4th
The Debut
Director: Jesse Eisenberg
Writer(s): Jesse Eisenberg
Starring: Julianne Moore, Paul Giamatti, Halle Bailey, Colton Ryan, Jesse Eisenberg, Bonnie Milligan
Genre: Comedy/Drama/Musical
Plot Synopsis: A shy housewife is unexpectedly cast in a community theater production and loses herself in the role under the spell of a forceful director.
Release Date: December 11th (limited), December 25th (wide)
Avengers: Doomsday
Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Writer(s): Stephen McFeely, Michael Waldron
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Pedro Pascal, Paul Rudd, Anthony Mackie
Genre: Action
Plot Synopsis: Heroes from three different worlds are forced to team up against a catastrophic threat that could wipe out everything they know.
Release Date: December 18th
Dune: Part Three
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Writer(s): Denis Villeneuve, Brian K. Vaughan
Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Jason Momoa, Florence Pugh, Rebecca Ferguson, Isaach de Bankolé
Genre: Action/Adventure/Drama
Plot Synopsis: Emperor Paul Atreides faces the consequences of his rise to power, as political plots and a holy war across the galaxy threaten the future only he can see.
Release Date: December 18th
The Angry Birds Movie 3
Director: John Rice
Writer(s): Thurop Van Orman
Starring: Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Emma Myers, Rachel Bloom, Walker Scobell, Danny McBride
Genre: Animation/Action/Adventure
Plot Synopsis: Red faces his biggest challenge yet, fatherhood, while also having to save the world.
Release Date: December 23rd
Coward
Director: Lukas Dhont
Writer(s): Lukas Dhont, Angelo Tijssens
Starring: Valentin Campagne, Emmanuel Macchia, Jef Jacobs, Willem De Schryver, Liam Jacqmin, Mistral Guidotti
Genre: Drama/History/Romance
Plot Synopsis: During the First World War, a young Belgian soldier eager to prove himself meets Francis, who has been tasked with lifting morale behind the front lines.
Release Date: December 25th
Jumanji: Open World
Director: Jake Kasdan
Writer(s): Jake Kasdan, Jeff Pinkner, Scott Rosenberg
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart, Karen Gillan, Nick Jonas, Awkwafina
Genre: Action/Adventure/Comedy
Plot Synopsis: This time the game breaks out of its console, and the players have to deal with Jumanji unleashing chaos on the real world.
Release Date: December 25th
Werwulf
Director: Robert Eggers
Writer(s): Robert Eggers, Sjón
Starring: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Willem Dafoe, Lily-Rose Depp, Bodhi Rae Breathnach, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Plot Synopsis: Robert Eggers's werewolf tale of devotion, damnation and the devil within.
Release Date: December 25th