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Movies playing in Durango Dec. 23-29

Buster, voiced by Matthew McConaughey, is featured in the new movie “Sing.”
Animas City Theatre

(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com)

The Eagle Huntress

(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com)Aisholpan, a 13-year-old girl, trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle hunter, and rises to the pinnacle of a tradition that has been handed down from father to son for centuries. Rated G.

Loving

“Loving” celebrates the real-life courage and commitment of an interracial couple, Richard and Mildred Loving, who married and then spent the next nine years fighting for the right to live as a family in their hometown. Their civil-rights case, Loving v. Virginia, went all the way to the Supreme Court, which in 1967 reaffirmed the very foundation of the right to marry – and their love story has become an inspiration to couples ever since. Rated PG-13.

Moonlight

A young man deals with his dysfunctional home life and comes of age in Miami during the “War on Drugs” era. The story of his struggle to find himself is told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain and beauty of falling in love while grappling with his own sexuality. Rated R.

Gaslight Theatre

(102 Fifth St. Next to the railroad depot, 247-8133, www.allentheatresinc.com)

Goldbricks in Bloom

(102 Fifth St. Next to the railroad depot, 247-8133, www.allentheatresinc.com)(Wednesday only) A social satire interweaving the story of a self-obsessed group of disenchanted young creatives with the mythic rise and fall of a New York painter. Not rated.

Manchester by the Sea

An uncle is forced to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy’s father dies. Rated R.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

In a time of conflict, a group of unlikely heroes band together on a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire’s ultimate weapon of destruction. This key event in the Star Wars timeline brings together ordinary people who choose to do extraordinary things, and in doing so, become part of something greater than themselves. PG-13.

Durango Stadium 9

(Next to Durango Mall, 247-9799, www.allentheatresi nc.com)

Why Him?

(Next to Durango Mall, 247-9799, www.allentheatresi nc.com) Set over the holidays, when a Midwestern dad travels with his family to visit his daughter at college and soon finds himself in a battle for her affections with her brash new tech billionaire boyfriend. Rated R.

Assassin’s Creed

A bartender finds out he comes from a long line of assassins. He is captured by a secret corporation who sends him back to various times and places in order to bring back artifacts. Rated PG-13.

Passengers

(Also available in 3-D with surcharge) A spacecraft transporting thousands of people to a distant colony planet has a malfunction in one of its sleep chambers. As a result, a single passenger is awakened 90 years before anyone else. Faced with the prospect of growing old and dying alone, he eventually decides to wake up a second passenger, marking the beginning of what becomes a unique love story. Rated PG-13.

Sing

(Also available in 3-D with surcharge) A koala named Buster Moon has one final chance to restore his theater to its former glory by producing the world’s greatest singing competition. Rated PG.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

(Also available in 3-D with surcharge) In a time of conflict, a group of unlikely heroes band together on a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire’s ultimate weapon of destruction. This key event in the Star Wars timeline brings together ordinary people who choose to do extraordinary things, and in doing so, become part of something greater than themselves. PG-13.

Collateral Beauty

An advertising executive encounters three mysterious figures who encourage him to move on from the past. Rated PG-13.

Office Christmas Party

When the CEO tries to close her hard-partying brother’s branch, he and his Chief Technical Officer must rally their co-workers and host an epic office Christmas party in an effort to impress a potential client and close a sale that will save their jobs. Rated R.

Moana

Three thousand years ago, the greatest sailors in the world voyaged across the vast South Pacific, discovering the many islands of Oceania. But then, for a millennium, their voyages stopped – and no one today knows why. From Walt Disney Animation Studios comes Moana, a sweeping, CG-animated adventure about a spirited teenager who sails out on a daring mission to prove herself a master wayfinder and fulfill her ancestors’ unfinished quest. During her journey, she meets the once-mighty demi-god Maui (voice of Dwayne Johnson), and together, they traverse the open ocean on an action-packed voyage, encountering enormous fiery creatures and impossible odds. Rated PG.



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