The end of the year is approaching, and while that means all kinds of things, one thing you might miss is how many streaming services are cleaning up their catalogs by 2025. Of course, there will be plenty of movies being added to the platforms. like Netflix, Prime Video, and Criterion Channel next year, but for now, we're focusing on the best movies coming out at the end of December.
This month's movie selection includes a perfect complement to one of the most surprising games of the year, a perfect complement to this Christmas' Bob Dylan biopic, one of the best comedies of the 2010s, and a horror classic .
Here are the best movies that will stop airing in December.
Editor's Choice: Raiders of the Lost Ark
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Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman
Leaving Prime Video: December 31
The new Indiana Jones game, Indiana Jones and the Great CircleIt is one of the biggest and best surprises of the year when it comes to gaming. So if you've already played the game and are eager to see more Indiana content, there's no better place to go than where the game opens: Raiders of the lost ark.
You've probably already seen this movie at least once, but it's always a good time to revisit what is one of the best action-adventure movies ever released. Raiders of the lost ark is a masterpiece of character development, humor, suspense and cinematic blocking, and a good reminder that when Harrison Ford wants to be, there is no more charming star in Hollywood history.
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Director: Will Gluck
Stars: Emma Stone, Stanley Tucci, Lisa Kudrow
Leaving Netflix: December 31
After Emma Stone's last few years of wonderful weirdness, it's easy to forget that for a brief period in her career she was effortlessly one of the funniest actresses in Hollywood. The main one of his achievements in comedy is easy toa witty high school comedy that had the same '80s humor and a modern makeover.
The film follows Olive Penderghast (Stone), who makes up a desperate lie to get out of a camping trip that spreads throughout the school and is branded a slob thanks to some gossip from her devoted classmate. But instead of deterring her classmates, Olive relies on reputation and turns the entire school upside down in the process.
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Director: Robin Hardy
Stars: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento
Leaving Prime Video: December 31
The wicker man It follows a police officer who is tasked with heading to a remote island to conduct an investigation into a girl who has been reported missing. What he finds instead is a society that follows an ancient pagan religion, with views he can't make head or tail of. But as his behavior becomes stranger, you begin to wonder what danger he might be in.
Curiously perfect for vacations in a twisted way, The wicker man is a horror classic whose influence continues to thrive today.
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Director: Joel and Ethan Coen
Stars: Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Adam Driver
Leaving the Criterion channel: December 31
The biographical film of Bob Dylan, a little more official, A complete strangerIt may have just been released in theaters, but the best evocation of the New York folk scene of the 60s remains the Coen brothers' excellent film. Inside Llewyn Davis.
The film follows Llewyn Davis, a struggling folk musician in the 1960s who is tragically talented but on exactly the wrong side of the line to make it big. The film follows Llewyn's eternal quest to get his foot in the industry's door without sacrificing the artistic integrity he believes lies at the soul of folk music, no matter what those around him say.
This melancholic masterpiece about pursuing art and passion no matter where it takes you is one of the brothers' best films and features an absolutely incredible central performance from Oscar Isaac that is some of the best acting work of the 2010s. So if you need an extra dose of folk music before or after watching Timothée Chalamet's version of Dylan, this is the perfect place to stop.