Let’s face it, you are in holiday overload and just need a brief escape. Take a glass of wine, go into the bedroom, crunch up some wrapping paper so the kids will leave you alone and watch this week’s must-watch *non-holiday* FREE Prime movies. Because any list that includes hot A.I., Liberace and a blue print to surviving post-Trump world is worth watching:
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
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4.1 stars – 19,752 reviews
The worldwide phenomenon of The Hunger Games continues to set the world on fire with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, which finds Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) in District 13 after she literally shatters the games forever.
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3.3 stars – 2,258 reviews
When estranged twins Maggie and Milo feel they’re at the end of their ropes, an unexpected reunion forces them to confront why their lives went so wrong. As the twins reconnect, they realize the key to fixing their lives may just lie in repairing their relationship.
Ex MachinaFREE with Prime Membership
3.9 stars – 27,123 review
Alex Garland, writer of 28 Days Later and Sunshine, makes his directorial debut with the stylish and cerebral thriller, EX MACHINA. Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson), a programmer at an internet-search giant, wins a competition to spend a week at the private mountain estate of the company’s brilliant and reclusive CEO, Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac). Upon his arrival, Caleb learns that Nathan has chosen him to be the human component in a Turing Test–charging him with evaluating the capabilities, and ultimately the consciousness, of Nathan’s latest experiment in artificial intelligence. That experiment is Ava (Alicia Vikander), a breathtaking A.I. whose emotional intelligence proves more sophisticated–and more deceptive–than the two men could have imagined.
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2.7 star – 2,600 reviews
A funny cross-generational comedy about aging, ambition and success, as well as a moving portrait of a marriage tested by the invading forces of youth. Powered by great performances by Ben Stiller, Adam Driver, Naomi Watts and Amanda Seyfried.
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3.5 stars – 2,029 reviews
[HBO] Michael Douglas and Matt Damon star in this HBO Films production that recounts show-biz icon Liberace’s tempestuous five-year relationship with a young live-in lover. Dan Aykroyd, Scott Bakula, Rob Lowe and Debbie Reynolds co-star.