11 movies to check out on Prime Video in December

Prime Video—perhaps more than any other streaming provider—is really leaning into Christmas-themed movies this December. Eddie Murphy plays a family man desperate to win his neighborhood’s Christmas-decorating contest in Candy Cane Lane, while Asa Butterfield and Cora Kirk star in the British rom-com Your Christmas Or Mine 2. In addition, Michael Keaton, who played Batman in the Christmas-set Batman Returns, reprises his role in The Flash. Other new arrivals in the Prime Video film library this December include Tales From The Darkside: The Movie, Stardust, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, The Turkey Bowl, Asteroid City, Sound Of Freedom, and many more.

Stardust (2007, available December 1)

The Matthew Vaughn-directed romantic fantasy-adventure is based on Neil Gaiman’s 1999 novel of the same name. The magical movie stars Claire Danes, Charlie Cox, Sienna Miller, Ricky Gervais, Jason Flemyng, Rupert Everett, Peter O’Toole, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Robert De Niro. The A.V. Club’s Tasha Robinson writes, “The film’s merry, enthusiastic tone—set largely by Robert De Niro, playing a giddy transvestite sky-pirate to the hilt—is hard to beat. The effects are terrific, and Gaiman’s story is full of enough unexpected turns to buoy the story along.”