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.
Drama | Directed by Sarah Polley
Opens in select theaters December 2 and nationwide December 25
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Writer-director Sarah Polley’s fourth feature, following Away from Her, Take This Waltz, and the award-winning documentary about her family, Stories We Tell, is an adaptation of Miram Towes’ 2018 novel about a group of women (played by Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy, Kate Hallett, and Liv McNeil) in a cloistered religious colony struggling to decide how to respond to years of abuse from the men they trusted. Do they do nothing, stay and fight, or leave? Based on horrible real events from a secluded Mennonite community in Bolivia where eight men used bovine anesthetic to paralyze and then rape multiple women, Polley’s film is a serious exploration of a specific predicament that speaks to the state of all contemporary women with humanity and surprising humor.
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