What to Watch: The 18 Finest Motion pictures and TV Exhibits From December

Right here’s a roundup of the month’s most noteworthy motion pictures and TV exhibits, as coated by The Wall Avenue Journal’s critics.

Poor Issues

Luxurious, dazzling and superb appear barely enough as descriptors of “Poor Issues,” a two-hour-and-20-minute cinematic fable of self-discovery. Author-director Yorgos Lanthimos, the dryly bizarre Greek filmmaker who has principally been compelled to work on skimpy budgets earlier than, has eventually been given the sources to point out off all the pieces he can do. This movie makes most of this fall’s acclaimed footage appear to be, within the phrases of certainly one of its characters, “indicators of the traditional thoughts straining laborious to nearly contact mediocrity.”