White Noise a It's A Wonderful Life: the best movies to watch on TV at Christmas

DeLillo's great American novel, while Frank Capra's clever turn in A Christmas Carol offers a lesson in the true spirit of the season.

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In what may turn out to be the final outing for Newt and company, Wizarding World regular David Yates focuses more on the battle

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between Jude Law's Dumbledore and his arch-nemesis Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen, replacing Johnny Depp)

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The story as a whole, through a blood pact, forces Albus to recruit a team that includes Eddie's creature fighter Redmayne

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nd his auror brother Theseus (Callum Turner) to stop him. It is a tangled yet artfully staged narrative web.

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You have to admire Noah Baumbach for taking a movie from Don DeLillo's great American novel.

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Fortunately, its trademark mix of arc comedy and existential drama serves the source material well.

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Adam Driver plays Jack Gladney, a professor of Hitler studies at a Midwestern university, allowing satirical attacks on the self-absorption

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