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The holidays take a holiday ...

Isabelle Huppert stars as a philosophy professor dealing with life's setbacks in the latest from Mia Hansen-Love ("Eden," "Goodbye First Love"), "Things to Come."

The documentary made from James Baldwin's unfinished project from the '70s about race in America, "I Am Not Your Negro."

We know it's probably worth it only for a handful of crude jokes, but we're looking forward to the unnecessary sequel about elves behaving badly, "Bad Santa 2."

Our gal Sophia Takal ("Wild Canaries," "Gabi on the Roof in July") goes behind the camera with her husband's script, a take on a toxic female friendship, "Always Shine."

Another mind-bender from Lucille Hadzihalilovic (the chilling "Innocence"), only her second film in 12 years, this one focused on young boys instead of girls, "Evolution."

A documentary about the discovery of two lost bluesmen in Mississippi the same day that three Freedom Summer students went missing while trying to register voters in Mississippi, "Two Trains Runnin'."

A musical? In what would be a fine choice for our annual mainstream Christmas Day movie (it's a secular tradition), Damien Chazelle ("Whiplash") dazzles the screen with "La La Land."