Films

Renate Reinsve and Stellan Skarsgård lead this moving drama about a burgeoning stage actress and her estranged father, a once-renowned director who’s reappeared to both revive his career and repair his family’s broken bond. The novelistic drama marks another high watermark collaboration between actress Renate Reinsve and filmmaker Joachim Trier (THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD).

Academy Award–winning director Chloé Zhao (NOMADLAND) helms this lush and tender drama about William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal) and his family, as seen through the eyes of his thoughtful wife Agnes (a luminous Jessie Buckley).

Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) faces his most dangerous mystery yet. Riffing on Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue, the latest entry in Rian Johnson’s beloved mystery series is as strong, inventive, and entertaining as ever. Stellar ensemble cast features Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott and more.

Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy clash over the computerization of a TV network’s research department, which threatens to take the jobs of the women in this workplace — and just in time for the holidays.

Divine, director John Waters’ larger-than-life muse, engulfs the screen with charisma as Dawn Davenport, who progresses from a teenage nightmare hell-bent on getting cha-cha heels for Christmas to a fame monster whose egomaniacal impulses land her in the electric chair.

Winner of multiple prizes at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s sly, genre-bending political thriller stars Wagner Moura as Marcelo, a technology expert on the lam and seeking refuge in the Brazilian city of Recife in 1977 — and is a thrilling and pleasurable neo-noir steeped in the filmmaker’s love for and knowledge of cinema.

When three sorority sisters find themselves under attack from a foul-mouthed killer, it’s up to the police chief to even the odds. BLACK CHRISTMAS is a terrifying and demented holiday tradition that gets everything right. We’d expect nothing less from the director of A CHRISTMAS STORY.

After spotting the delicate Françoise at Midnight Mass, Jean-Louis vows to make her his wife, although when he spends an unplanned night at the apartment of the bold divorcée Maud, his rigid standards are challenged in Eric Rohmer’s brilliantly accomplished centerpiece of the Six Moral Tales series.

In the early 1800’s, Jean Kayak, a drunken applejack salesman, finds himself stranded in a surreal winter landscape with nothing but his dim wits to guide him. Against a backdrop of ruthless elements and forest creatures — all played by actors in full-sized mascot costumes — Kayak develops increasingly complex traps in order to win the hand of a mischievous lover.

Lane Meyer loves two things: skiing and his girlfriend Beth, who dumps him just before Christmas for the handsome and popular captain of his high school ski team. Lane’s teetering mental state and failed suicide attempts are upended by the arrival of Monique, a French exchange student.

“Manhattan. Christmas Vacation. Not so long ago.” So begins Whit Stillman’s surprise hit indie film, an ironically comic look at Manhattan’s endangered debutante scene that chronicles the rise of a group of young Park Avenue socialites who gather nightly to discuss love, honor and their impending demise.

Charlie Shackleton was hot on the trail of the next great American true crime documentary — until the project fell apart. A witty and beautifully assembled deep dive into our obsession with serial killers and the stories we tell about them, Shackleton’s fascinating resuscitation of his abandoned film emerges from the ash heap to probe and deconstruct the form with the incisive eye of a true crime connoisseur.

“Merry Christmas, 007.” The sixth James Bond film was released on Dec 19, 1969, and stars George Lazenby in his only role as playboy British agent James Bond, who goes undercover to pursue the villainous Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Telly Savalas), hell-bent on a holiday plan to hold the world at ransom.

It’s Christmastime in Reno, where a world-weary gambler (Philip Baker Hall) teaches the tricks of the trade to a luckless young man (John C. Reilly). The debut feature of writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson took a year to hit theaters — by which time Anderson was in production on BOOGIE NIGHTS, further cementing Hall and Reilly as Anderson mainstays.

An annual Belcourt tradition. Jimmy Stewart stars as George Bailey, a good man who’s spent a lifetime giving up on his dreams in order to keep life in his small town humming. When a guardian angel named Clarence finds a despondent George poised to jump off a bridge, he shows George what life would’ve been like had he never been born.

New York City detective John McClane becomes the only hope for a group of hostages, one of whom is his estranged wife, trapped in an L.A. high-rise when it’s seized by terrorists on Christmas Eve.

The Muppets' rendition of Charles Dickens' classic tale puts a unique twist on that fateful Christmas Eve, when Scrooge is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.

Armed with ruthless tactics and a strict sense of honor, crime boss Frank Lucas rules Harlem's chaotic drug underworld. When outcast cop Richie Roberts sets out to bring down Lucas’ multimillion-dollar empire, it plunges both men into a legendary confrontation in Ridley Scott’s sometimes holiday-set crime epic. Pizza and a Movie, co-presented with Slim & Husky's Pizza Beeria.

Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet), a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness. Set amid the underground world of 1950s table tennis, MARTY SUPREME evokes the vibe and intensity of director Josh Safdie’s earlier film UNCUT GEMS and features a career-making performance from Timothée Chalamet.

Work-In-Progress Screening — 2025 marks 100 years of the Grand Ole Opry. But what about Opryland USA, the show park that saved the Opry? The park was the centerpiece of life in Nashville during its 25 years of operation, drawing 2.5 million visitors a year to Middle Tennessee. It’s past time to definitively answer the question “WHY was Opryland closed and replaced with a shopping mall?”

Man-soo had it all — a loving family, the forest home of his youth, and a 25-year career at Solar Paper, where he’s suddenly given the axe. Park Chan-wook’s brilliantly incisive, darkly comic satire finds this newly unemployed man who, desperate to land a coveted job, hatches a ruthless plan to dispatch the competition.

A perceptive study in familial dynamics and a carefully constructed triptych, Jim Jarmusch’s latest film concerns a group of adults coming to terms with their lost or aging parents, its subtle and quiet style carefully constructed to allow small details to accumulate — almost like flowers being carefully placed in three delicate arrangements. Its stellar cast includes Adam Driver, Charlotte Rampling, Tom Waits, Cate Blanchett and Indya Moore, among others. (Best Film winner at the Venice Film Festival)

The team behind last year’s THE BRUTALIST, co-writers Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet, return with another ambitious swing for the fences, this time with Fastvold in the director’s chair. With stunning celluloid cinematography and an astounding score and soundscape, THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE plumbs the life and times of Ann Lee (Amanda Seyfried), the founder of the Shaker movement and one of pre-Revolutionary America’s most seminal religious figures. Screening in 35mm.