Christmas Day’s big releases

The Wolf of Wall Street

(R)

Leonardo DiCaprio stars as a hard-partying stock swindler in this black comedy from director Martin Scorsese. Jonah Hill and Matthew McConaughey co-star. DiCaprio is “tremendous,” and the movie “a monument to excess,” said the Phoenix Arizona Republic. That’s “precisely the point.”

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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

(PG)

Almost 75 years after James Thurber created the daydreaming title character, Ben Stiller takes on the role, chasing a photograph for Life magazine while wooing his crush (Kristen Wiig). Sadly, said The New Yorker, an “air of elegy infects the story and sucks the fun out of it.”

Grudge Match

(PG-13)

Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone attempt to land some laughs playing off their iconic roles as boxers in Raging Bull and Rocky, respectively. Here, the actors play aging adversaries who come out of retirement to fight one last time. Alan Arkin, Kevin Hart, and Kim Basinger co-star.