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This month's movies

December 2

"Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris"

A widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress, and decides that she must have one of her own.

Rated PG

December 9

"Thor: Love and Thunder"

Thor enlists the help of Valkyrie, Korg and ex-girlfriend Jane Foster to fight Gorr the God Butcher, who intends to make the gods extinct.

Rated PG-13

December 16

"Where the Crawdads Sing"

A woman who raised herself in the marshes of the deep South becomes a suspect in the murder of a man she was once involved with.

Rated PG-13

December 23

Library Closed

December 30

"Woman Walks Ahead"

Catherine Weldon, a portrait painter from 1890s Brooklyn, travels to Dakota to paint a portrait of Sitting Bull and becomes embroiled in the Lakota peoples' struggle over the rights to their land.

Rated R