Here are some last-ditch holiday presents for the late shoppers among us. There’s Ad Astra, James Gray’s second attempt to remake Apocalypse Now and a pretty moving movie about loneliness that also has killer baboons. There’s David Mamet’s Heist, not his best but maybe the most purely quotable of his non-Glengarry works (I’m partial to Ricky Jay’s exhausted “Kids growin’ up, so on. Hope for the future”). There’s Bi Gan’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night, a movie I’ve yet to hear a coherent description other than that it’s a gangster riff with a wild 3D-shot ending. There’s Look Who’s Talking, the epitome of soft high-concept studio comedies in the late 20th century, and The Cable Guy, the demonic parody of high-concept studio comedies in the late 20th century. There’s White Squall, which I’m pretty sure even Ridley Scott doesn’t remember that he made. And there’s Rambo: Last Blood and Downton Abbey, two very different movies that pander to geriatrics like little else before them.

Abominable (Universal)
Ad Astra (Fox)
The Cable Guy (Sony)
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (Oscilloscope)
Downton Abbey (Universal)
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (MVD)
Heartbreak Hotel (Kino)
Heist (Sony)
Long Day’s Journey Into Night 3D (Kino)
Look Who’s Talking (Sony)
Mad Love (Kino)
Murders in the Rue Morgue (Shout Factory)
Paradise (Kino)
Rambo: Last Blood (Lionsgate)
The Remains of the Day (Sony)
White Squall (Kino)