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MOVIE CALENDAR

THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY–PART 1

NOV. 21

Jennifer Lawrence returns in the franchise’s penultimate episode as civil war heats up in District 13.

REACH ME

NOV. 21

Kyra Sedgwick, Tom Berenger and Sylvester Stallone star in a thriller about a mysteriously inspirational self-help book.

THE BABADOOK

NOV. 28

This Australian horror flick, about a mother and son who come to believe they’re being stalked by the character in a children’s pop-up book, got raves at Sundance.

THE PYRAMID

DEC. 5

Archaeologists who find a pyramid buried in the Egyptian desert are unlikely to meet a happy ending in this horror pic.

DEMONIC

DEC. 12

Maria Bello and Frank Grillo are a psychologist and a detective unraveling the mystery of who killed five people in search of the paranormal.

EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS

DEC. 12

Ridley Scott directs Christian Bale, Ben Kingsley and Sigourney Weaver in an epic retelling of the Bible story featuring Moses, Ramses, 600,000 Jewish slaves and a whole bunch of plagues.

ESCOBAR: PARADISE LOST

DEC. 16

Benicio del Toro plays Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.

THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES

DEC. 17

Thirteen years after he started, Peter Jackson gives us the final chapter in his monumental Tolkien film cycle.