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Martin McDonagh brings together Oscar winner Sam Rockwell and Academy Award nominee John Malkovich for his fifth directorial effort, “Wild Horse Nine,” produced by Searchlight Pictures. McDonagh also writes the film’s screenplay.

Hollywood often embraces Christmas horror films, yet releasing a holiday-themed nightmare in theaters just one day before Halloween is an interesting choice. Briarcliff Entertainment executes this strategy with “Christmas at the Kringles,” director Kevin Lewis’s thirteenth feature. Unfortunately, this stocking stuffer delivers more coal than presents.

Oscar-winning director Peter Farrelly returns to biopics with his sixth solo effort, “I Play Rocky,” produced by Amazon MGM Studios. Peter Gamble’s script dramatizes the development and production of the classic film “Rocky.”

Martin McDonagh brings together Oscar winner Sam Rockwell and Academy Award nominee John Malkovich for his fifth directorial effort, “Wild Horse Nine,” produced by Searchlight Pictures. McDonagh also writes the film’s screenplay.

Brad Bird returns to animation with “Ray Gunn,” a detective adventure that provided me with plenty to enjoy at this year’s Middleburg Film Festival. The filmmaker behind “The Iron Giant” and “The Incredibles” brings his imagination to a world where an old-fashioned private eye still has work to do, despite futuristic technology everywhere.