What to Watch: Our Critic Picks These 5 New Movies
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WHAT TO WATCH
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AARP critic Tim Appelo picks upcoming movies and shows to watch
NOSFERATU
In theaters December 25
Willem Dafoe, 69, plays a mad professor who hunts Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgård), the vampire who’s obsessed with a young German woman (Lily-Rose Depp, daughter of Johnny Depp, 61).
THE ORDER
In theaters December 6
In a fact-based thriller, an FBI man (Jude Law, 51) hunts a gang of neo-Nazi bank robbers in the 1980s Pacific Northwest. With Marc Maron, 61, as a Jewish talk show host who was murdered by the gang.
TAKING CARE
On Prime Video November 29
Grammy winner James Keach, 76, directs an AARP-sponsored documentary about Seth and Lauren Rogen as they navigate with humor and resilience Lauren’s mother’s advancing Alzheimer’s disease (On aarp.org/membersedition December 6).
THE SIX TRIPLE EIGHT
In theaters December 6, on Netflix December 20
Kerry Washington, Oprah Winfrey, 70, and Sam Waterston, 84, star in the story of the first (and only) Women’s Army Corps unit of color stationed overseas in World War II.
UNSTOPPABLE
In limited theaters December 6; on Prime Video January 16
Jennifer Lopez, 55, Bobby Cannavale, 54, and Don Cheadle, 60, star in the true story of Anthony Robles (Jharrel Jerome), born with one leg, who won a national college wrestling championship.