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Based on the book by J.R.R. Tolkien, this movie finds a curious Hobbit named Bilbo Baggins journeying to the Lonely Mountain with a raucous group of Dwarves to reclaim their homeland and a lost treasure stolen from them by the dragon Smaug.

The Twilight Saga comes to a close with this movie, which picks up after the birth of Renesmee, the half-human half-vampire offspring of Bella and Edward Cullen. But the little one sparks a threat from the evil Volturi.

Daniel Craig returns as James Bond and finds his loyalty to M (Judi Dench) tested when her past comes back to haunt her. As MI6 comes under attack from an ex-agent, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.

Monsters have the perfect getaway in Hotel Transylvania, a high-end resort built by Dracula to keep his daughter Mavis safe from humans. But the Count goes into overprotective mode when a human boy discovers the resort and falls for Mavis.

Jennifer Lawrence stars as a teen named Elissa who moves with her mom to a new town, where they find themselves living next door to a house with a mysterious past.

Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton play a childless couple who bury a box in their garden containing all of their wishes for a child. Soon, a boy mysteriously appears in their house, dirty and with leaves attached to his legs.

When Emily arrives in Miami with dreams of becoming a professional dancer, she sparks with Sean, the leader of a dance crew and flash mob whose neighborhood is threatened by Emily’s father’s development plans.

This fourth movie in the Bourne franchise stars Jeremy Renner as Aaron Cross, a superhuman government agent who goes rogue as he finds himself in a life-and-death situation that links back to the events of the previous three films.