TUESDAY MOVIES
9 a.m. (16) (34) (48) Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas ★★★ (’09, Children’s) (EI) Voices of Elizabeth Daily. Animated. George makes preparations for a perfect Christmas. (1:00)
11:30 a.m. (FREE) Home Alone ★★★ (’90, Children’s) Macaulay Culkin. A leftbehind boy battles two burglars in the house. (2:30)
11:30 a.m. (FX) War for the Planet of the Apes ★★★ 1/2 (’17, Science Fiction) Andy Serkis. Soldiers battle Caesar and his army of intelligent apes. (3:00)
12:15 p.m. (TCM) The Leopard Man ★★★ (’43, Horror) Dennis O’Keefe. A dancer and a PR man solve killings blamed on an escaped leopard. (1:15)
1:30 p.m. (E!) Back to the Future Part III ★★★ (’90, Comedy) Michael J. Fox. Marty McFly visits the Old West to save the imperiled Doc. (2:30)
1:30 p.m. (TCM) The Seventh Victim ★★★ (’43, Horror) Tom Conway. Young woman seeks sister, finds Greenwich Village satanists. (1:30)
2 p.m. (TMC) Body Heat ★★★ 1/2 (’81, Crime Drama) William Hurt, Kathleen Turner. A lawyer is persuaded by his lover to murder her husband. ‘R’ (1:53)
2:01 p.m. (SYFY) X-Men: First Class ★★★ (’11, Action) James McAvoy. The early years of Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr. (2:47)
3:30 p.m. (AMC) Edward Scissorhands ★★★ 1/2 (’90, Fantasy) Johnny Depp. A man-made misfit cuts a tragic figure in suburbia. (2:30)
4 p.m. (E!) The Goonies ★★★ (’85, Children’s) Sean Astin. Young misfits find a 17th-century pirate’s treasure map. (2:30) 4 p.m. (TMC) Shine a Light ›››‡ (’08, Documentary) Mick Jagger, Keith Richards. The Rolling Stones perform at New York’s Beacon Theatre. ‘PG-13’ (2:02) 4:30 p.m. (FREE)
The Santa Clause ★★★ (’94, Comedy) Tim Allen. An adman takes over for fallen Santa. (2:00)
6 p.m. (AMC) National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation ★★★ (’89, Comedy) Chevy Chase. A traditional Griswold yuletide backfires in comic fashion. (2:15) 6:05 p.m. (TMC) Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore ››› (’74, Drama) Ellen Burstyn, Kris Kristofferson. A widow and her son take steps toward self-sufficiency. ‘PG’ (1:52)
6:30 p.m. (E!) The Goonies See 4 ★★★ p.m.
8 p.m. (NICK) The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part ★★★ (’19, Children’s) Voices of Chris Pratt. Animated. LEGO DUPLO invaders from space wreak havoc in Bricksburg. (2:30)
8 p.m. (PARMT) The Wedding Singer ★★★ (’98, Romance-Comedy) Adam Sandler. A 1980s wedding crooner attempts to find true love. (2:30)
8 p.m. (TCM) Murder, My Sweet ★★★ 1/2 (’44, Crime Drama) Dick Powell. Ex-con Moose Malloy hires gumshoe Philip Marlowe to find his Velma. (2:00)
8 p.m. (TMC) Taxi Driver ★★★★ (’76, Drama) Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster. A disturbed New York cabby befriends a teenage hooker and frees her from her pimp. ‘R’ (1:53)
8:15 p.m. (AMC) Elf ★★★ (’03, Children’s) Will Ferrell. A man leaves Santa’s workshop to search for his family. (2:00)
9 p.m. (E!) Back to the Future Part III ★★★ See 1:30 p.m.
10 p.m. (HALL) The Most Wonderful Time of the Year ››› (’08, Drama) Henry Winkler. A snowbound stranger brightens the holidays for a family. (2:00)
10 p.m. (TCM) The Big Sleep ★★★ 1/2 (’46, Mystery) Humphrey Bogart. Philip Marlowe investigates blackmail and murder. (2:00)
10 p.m. (TMC) Mean Streets ★★★★ (’73, Crime Drama) Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel. Small-time hoods hang out in a bar and get into big trouble in New York’s Little Italy. ‘R’ (1:50)