12+ Films to See in December
With Academy Award nominations rapidly approaching, December is the month when several major contenders will finally be unveiled. While most moviegoers must wait until January to see films like Martin Scorsese's Silence, Ben Affleck's Live by Night, Mike Mills' 20th Century Women, and Theodore Melfi's Hidden Figures, there are still plenty of solid choices headed to a cineplex near you this month, including Damien Chazelle's La La Land, Denzel Washington's Fences, Pablo Larraín's Jackie, and more. We've picked out the best of the bunch below.
At Cannes this year, I, Daniel Blake earned director Ken Loach his second Palme d’Or (the first coming in 2006 for The Wind that Shakes the Barley). The Daniel of the title, played by comedian Dave Johns, is a carpenter recovering from a heart attack whose doctor won’t let him return to work despite social services determining he is fit to do so. This leaves him in bureaucratic limbo and without welfare, but it also leads him to single mom Katie (Hayley Squires) who recently moved to Newcastle with her two kids. Their friendship forms the heart of this humane and urgent slice of social-realist fiction.
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