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15 Best Movies Released This December

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By Total Film published 29 November 2012

The new films you should be watching in cinemas this month

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - out 13 Dec

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - out 13 Dec

The first instalment of Peter Jackson's second Middle-earth trilogy finally arrives in cinemas - in 3D - on Thursday 13 December.

Read full film review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

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Seven Psychopaths - out 5 Dec

Seven Psychopaths - out 5 Dec

This sunbaked shaggy-dog story from In Bruges writer/director Martin McDonagh is like Charlie Kaufman taking down Quentin Tarantino.

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Celeste And Jesse Forever - out 7 Dec

Celeste And Jesse Forever - out 7 Dec

Rashida Jones and Andy Samberg play a recently divorced couple who are still best friends in this unconventional romcom.

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Gremlins - out 7 Dec

Gremlins - out 7 Dec

Joe Dante’s anarchic creature feature from 1984 is re-released in cinemas in time for Christmas.

Read full Gremlins film review

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I, Anna - out 7 Dec

I, Anna - out 7 Dec

A slice of modern London noir from writer/director Barnaby Southcombe, starring his mother Charlotte Rampling.

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The Man With The Iron Fists - out 7 Dec

The Man With The Iron Fists - out 7 Dec

Grisly and goofy, this ode to the Shaw Brothers’ ’70s-era kung fu epics serves up 96 minutes of murder and mutilation and not a lot else.

Read full The Man With The Iron Fists film review

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The Oranges - out 7 Dec

The Oranges - out 7 Dec

A top-notch cast elevates this amiable, relatively unpredictable domestic farce that flirts with a darkness it never quite dares to embrace.

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Chasing Ice - out 14 Dec

Chasing Ice - out 14 Dec

Jeff Orlowski’s eco-doc is full of visually spectacular montages of ice floes receding that will make you gasp and move you to tears.

Read full Chasing Ice film review

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Smashed - out 14 Dec

Smashed - out 14 Dec

Like Blue Valentine crossed with an AA meeting, Smashed is really a study of the disintegration of a marriage, perfectly realised by Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Breaking Bad ’s Aaron Paul.

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Life Of Pi - out 20 Dec

Life Of Pi - out 20 Dec

A riot of saturated colour and delirious imagination, Ang Lee’s adaptation of Yann Martel’s Booker Prize winner radiates spirituality.

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Pitch Perfect - out 21 Dec

Pitch Perfect - out 21 Dec

Rebel Wilson is hilarious, Anna Kendrick is terrific and there are as many gross-out gags as there are singing numbers in this raucous musical comedy.

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West Of Memphis - out 21 Dec

West Of Memphis - out 21 Dec

Documentary-maker Amy Berg's investigation into what became known as the case of the West Memphis Three, a notorious miscarriage of justice.

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Jack Reacher - out 26 Dec

Jack Reacher - out 26 Dec

Tom Cruise plays Reacher, a homicide investigator who’s looking into a case in which a sniper shot five random victims, in this adaptation of Lee Child’s novel One Shot.

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Safety Not Guaranteed - out 26 Dec

Safety Not Guaranteed - out 26 Dec

Aubrey Plaza plays a disenfranchised twenty-something investigating a guy who claims to know how to time travel.

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Midnight's Children - out 26 Dec

Midnight's Children - out 26 Dec

Salman Rushdie adapts his own novel about the coming of age of two children born as India gains independence.

Read full Midnight's Children film review

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