20 Films to See in December
The final month of 2022 brings the first sequel to the highest-grossing movie in history, potential Oscar contenders from Damien Chazelle, Sarah Polley, Sam Mendes, Darren Aronofsky, and Antoine Fuqua, arthouse fare from Hirokazu Kore-eda, Joanna Hogg, and Jafar Panahi, and more. In the gallery on this page our editors have selected the most interesting films debuting in North American theaters this month, listed in alphabetical order.
Additional content by Jason Dietz.
Documentary | Directed by Lizzie Gottlieb
Opens in LA/NY December 30 (additional cities tbd)
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Lizzie Gottlieb explores the 50-year relationship between 86-year-old author Robert Caro (The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York) and the director’s own 91-year-old father, Robert Gottlieb, who is Caro’s editor and one of the main figures behind Knopf’s success in the ’60s and ‘70s. Tracing their rise to prominence in their chosen professions, the documentary works as a double portrait of two men with tremendous intellects and peculiarities. Caro doesn’t write short books. Gottlieb edited The Power Broker down from one million words to 700,000, but one last job awaits: the final book of Caro’s five volume biography, The Years of Lyndon Johnson. May they finish it with time to spare.
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