11 movies to check out on Netflix in December

Fans of director Zack Snyder have much to look forward to in December. First up is , a Superman origin story starring Henry Cavill as the titular Kryptonian. The movie kicked off the DC Extended Universe, which continues this month—and simultaneously wraps up the Snyderverse—with Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom. The A.V. Club’s Ignatiy Vishnevetsky writes, “Cavill—whose performance involves more posing than acting—is alternately presented as an alien messiah, a superweapon, and an American flag flapping in the wind; the one thing he never gets to be is a character. As a result, Man Of Steel sometimes feels like arty advertising—the tentpole movie equivalent of a car ad that invokes images of freedom or luxury without ever mentioning the price or specifications.”