Here are the Hollywood films that await this holiday season
A selective preview of the potential awards contenders and wannabe blockbusters Hollywood has in store for the holidays.
Movie Reviews
'Maestro' chronicles the brilliant Bernstein — and his disorderly conduct
Actors Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan give warm, deeply sympathetic performances as wide-ranging musician Leonard Bernstein and his wife, Felicia Montealegre Cohn, in a biopic directed by Cooper.
Inspired by a 1990s tabloid story, 'May December' fictionalizes a real tragedy
Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore star in Todd Haynes' dark and disturbingly funny film about a teacher who was convicted of raping her sixth grade student — and later went on to marry him.
What happens when a hit man misses his mark? 'The Killer' is about to find out
The mundane becomes mesmerizing in David Fincher's dark comedy, which tracks every detail of a hit man's routine: the scheduled naps, the fast-food runs, the yoga stretches he does to stay limber.
Intimate and piercingly sad, 'Priscilla' is Sofia Coppola's strongest movie in years
Adapted from Priscilla Presley's 1985 memoir, the film shows us the cracks in Elvis' Prince Charming veneer — the way he lavishes Priscilla with attention and then suddenly withholds it.
'Rustin' tells the story of the man who helped make the March on Washington possible
George C. Wolfe's biopic chronicles the work of civil rights leader Bayard Rustin in planning an executing the historic 1963 March on Washington.
In 'Priscilla,' we see what 'Elvis' left out
Sofia Coppola's glistening take on Priscilla Presley's life with Elvis is immersive and sad. But who exactly IS Priscilla, anyway?
Scary movies had another big year. A horror scholar shares her favorites
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with horror scholar and filmmaker Rebekah McKendry about her favorite horror movies of the year and the ideas that tie them together.
Alexander Payne keeps real emotion at bay in the coyly comic 'Holdovers'
Paul Giamatti plays a boarding school teacher charged with watching over the students who have no where to go during winter break in a throwback film that doesn't quite live up to its potential.
Paul Giamatti is a prep-school teacher stuck supervising students in 'The Holdovers'
Paul Giamatti plays a 1970s prep-school teacher reluctantly supervising students with nowhere to go for the Christmas holidays in Alexander Payne's dramedy, The Holdovers.