11 movies to check out on Netflix in December

In Luc Besson’s sci-fi action film , Scarlett Johansson plays the titular character who develops psychokinetic abilities after an experimental drug enters her bloodstream. The blockbuster also includes Morgan Freeman, Choi Min-sik, and Amr Waked. The A.V. Club’s Ignatiy Vishnevetsky writes, “The sheer weirdness of Lucy’s imagery—a telekinesis-assisted car chase, a USB stick containing all the knowledge of the universe, people growing animal limbs—prevents it from registering as run-of-the-mill summertime ‘dumb fun.’ It comes across, instead, as a directorial flight of fancy, an imaginatively goofy take on an already goofy idea, exaggerated by Besson’s blunt style and an uncommonly fast pace.”