Holiday Picks
PROVOKR previews the season’s 10 sexiest
Nocturnal Animals
In director-cowriter Tom Ford’s mesmerizing new thriller, Amy Adams plays an art-gallery owner who believes a violent novel written by her ex-husband (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a veiled threat to her own safety.
Allied
It’s 1942, in the middle of World War II, and an American spy (Brad Pitt) in North Africa encounters a French Resistance fighter (Marion Cotillard) and falls in love. Directed by Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump; Back to the Future).
Rules Don’t Apply
Warren Beatty directs and stars as Howard Hughes in this Golden Era Hollywood romantic comedy about a young aspiring actress (Lily Collins) and a young man—Hughes’s chauffeur—who has eyes for her.
Miss Sloane
Jessica Chastain barnstorms her way to infamy and power as a lobbyist who will stop at nothing to get the result she seeks.
Harry Benson: Shoot First
A documentary about Benson, the man who took celebrity photojournalism to new heights of intimacy and revelation, giving us a personal point of view on the Beatles, Muhammad Ali and Michael Jackson. Opening in theaters December 9.
La La Land
Love hasn’t looked this musical in a long while: Ryan Gosling plays a jazz musician in Los Angeles who meets an aspiring actress (Emma Stone) and one step leads to another—in more ways than one. Written and directed by Damien Chazelle (Whiplash). Opening in theaters December 9.
Passengers
Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt are passengers aboard a spaceship on a 180-year journey who wake up 90 years early and have no choice but to get to know each other very, very well. Opening in theaters December 21.
Julieta
Spanish maestro Pedro Almodóvar cooks up another potent and passionate brew about mothers, daughters and lost and renewed familial bonds. Opening in theaters December 21.
20th Century Women
Southern California in the 1970s—a time of sexual freedom, political tumult and lives in the balance. Annette Bening, Greta Gerwig and Elle Fanning star in this drama of three women and how they influence the life of one young man. Opening in theaters December 25.
Live by Night
Ben Affleck directs and stars in this Dennis Lehane (Gone Baby Gone) story about Prohibition-era gangsters and the wild and dangerous lives they lead. With Zoe Saldana, Scott Eastwood and Sienna Miller. Opening in theaters December 25.
