festive cheer: Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal hunt a child kidnapper in ‘Prisoners’

it’s streaming on Hulu in the US and on Netflix in the UK

Okay, this one ain’t festive or cheery, but it is a great film set at Thanksgiving (though it’s not about the holiday). From my 2013 review of Prisoners:

[T]horoughly gripping and frequently unexpectedly ugly, in the most intriguing way possible… [T]he depressing mundanity of the horrors on display… makes it so intense, so uncomfortable, and so brilliant…