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New movies are released into theaters every weekend. How do you decide which movie to watch? I’ll save you the hassle of researching every movie by comparing the new releases for the upcoming month in this column. Then, I’ll tell you which movie you should watch this month in the theaters.

I used to compare the movies every week, but thought this would be more fun (and who has the money to see a movie in the theaters every weekend?). What could go wrong with this plan? Well, a movie could change its release date after the column was written, or a BOP reader could go through withdrawal by only getting one column from me each month.

For the month of November 2015, the new movies in wide release are as follows:

November 6th:
The Peanuts Movie
Spectre

November 13th:
The 33
Love the Coopers
My All American

November 20th:
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
The Night Before
The Secret in Their Eyes

November 27th:
Creed
The Good Dinosaur
Victor Frankenstein

I predict a movie’s watchability by seven criteria. For each criterion, I am going to rank these movies from the best to the worst. If a movie gets first place in a category, it will get one point. The lower the ranking, the more points it will get (like golf). Then I’ll calculate the best movies to watch this month at the end of the column.

CLEAREST TITLE (Is the title recognizable or unique enough to make me watch the movie)
1- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 - Be still my heart. I can’t wait.
2- Victor Frankenstein - I have heard of Frankenstein!
3- The Peanuts Movie - Will Charlie Brown ever kick that football? Nostalgia!
4- Spectre - The new James Bond movie
4- The Good Dinosaur - The next Pixar movie
5- The Night Before - What? The night before Christmas or what?
5- Creed - A band documentary?
5- My All American - This movie will lack international appeal
5- Love the Coopers - Not sure, but sounds decent.
5- The Secret in Their Eyes - Not sure, but sounds fine.
5- The 33 - The 33 what?

BEST GENRE & RATING (elevated status if you are the only genre or rating for the entire month)
1- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 - (Adventure/Sci-fi, PG-13)
1- Spectre - (Action, PG-13)
2- The 33 - (Drama/History, PG-13)
2- My All American - (Sport/Bio, PG)
2- Creed - (Drama/Sport, PG-13)
2- The Peanuts Movie - (Animation, G)
2- The Good Dinosaur - (Animation, PG)
3- Victor Frankenstein - (Drama/Horror, PG-13)
3- The Secret in Their Eyes - (Mystery/Thriller, PG-13)
3- The Night Before - (Comedy, R)
3- Love the Coopers - (Comedy, R)

BEST PLOT (in ten syllables)
1- The Good Dinosaur - (Animation, PG) - Dinosaurs and humans lived together
1- The 33 - (Drama/History, PG-13) - Three months, miners trapped underground, true tale.
2- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 - Girl overthrowing government. Action.
3- Creed - (Drama/Sport, PG-13) - Rocky trains Apollo Creed’s son. For real.
3- The Peanuts Movie - (Animation, G) - New story about Charlie Brown and friends.
4- Victor Frankenstein - (Drama/Horror, PG-13) - Dr. Frankenstein, Igor, and Monster.
4- The Secret in Their Eyes - (Mystery/Thriller, R) - Murdered daughter. They WILL find the killer.
5- Spectre - (Action, PG-13) - Bad guys. Things at stake. Danger and James Bond.
5- My All American - (Sport/Bio, PG) - Underdog. College Football. Against Odds.
6- The Night Before- (Comedy, R) - Three friends have one final night of drunk fun.
6- Love the Coopers - (Comedy, R) - Family. Holidays. Chaos. Food fight.

BEST TRAILER (Higher rankings if your trailer makes me care about the movie and want to watch it! So comedies, be funny. Horror movies, be scary. Action movies, don’t be lame.)
1- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2- The 33
2- Creed
2- The Secret in Their Eyes
3- The Peanuts Movie
3- The Good Dinosaur
4- Spectre
4- My All American
4- Victor Frankenstein
5- The Night Before
5- Love the Coopers

COOLEST LEAD ACTOR
1- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 - (Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook)
1- Victor Frankenstein - (Daniel Radcliffe, Harry Potter)
1- The Secret in Their Eyes - (Julia Roberts, Pretty Woman)
2- The Peanuts Movie - (Charlie Brown, from the comic strips)
2- Creed - (Sylvester Stallone, Rocky)
2- Love the Coopers - (Diane Keaton, The Godfather)
3- Spectre - (Daniel Craig, Casino Royale)
3- The 33 - (Antonio Banderas, Mask of Zorro)
3- The Night Before - (Joseph Gordon Levitt, Inception)
3- My All American - (Aaron Eckhart, The Dark Knight)
4- The Good Dinosaur - (Didn’t recognize the cartoon characters yet)

BEST CAST
1- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 - (Elizabeth Banks, Liam Hemsworth, Julianne Moore, Josh Hutcherson, Stanley Tucci, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Woody Harrelson, Donald Sutherland)
2- Love the Coopers - (Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Ed Helms, Anthony Mackie, Amanda Seyfried, June Squibb, Marisa Tomei, Olivia Wilde)
3- Spectre - (Christoph Waltz, Ralph Fiennes, Monica Bellucci)
4- The 33 - (Rodrigo Santoro, Juliette Binoche, James Brolin, Lou Diamond Phillips)
4- The Peanuts Movie - (Lucy, Linus, Snoopy, and the whole Peanuts’ gang)
4- The Secret in Their Eyes - (Nicole Kidman, Chiwetel Ejiofor)
5- Creed - (Michael B. Jordan, Phylicia Rashad)
5- The Night Before - (Seth Rogen, Anthony Mackie, and a ton of famous cameos)
5- Victor Frankenstein - (James McAvoy, Jessica Brown Findlay)
5- My All American- (Sarah Bolger, Robin Tunney, Finn Wittrock)
6- The Good Dinosaur - (the voices of Steve Zahn, Anna Paquin, and Frances McDormand)

BEST STREET CRED (what else has the director directed)
1- Spectre - (Sam Mendes, American Beauty)
2- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay- Part 2 - (Francis Lawrence, I Am Legend)
2- The Night Before- (Jonathan Levine, Warm Bodies)
2- The Peanuts Movie- (Steve Martino, Horton Hears a Who!)
3- Creed- (Ryan Coogler, Fruitvale Station)
3- Love the Coopers - (Jessie Nelson, I am Sam)
3- The 33 - (Patricia Riggin, Girl in Progress)
4- The Secret in Their Eyes - (Billy Ray, Shattered Glass)
4- Victor Frankenstein - (Paul McGuigan, BBC Sherlock)
5- The Good Dinosaur - (Peter Sohn, directed the short Partly Cloudy)
5- My All American - (Angelo Pizzo, first movie he’s directed)

The Results: I’ll list the points each movie received in each of the seven rounds. Like golf, the lowest total score will show the best movie to watch this month.

You may interpret this column for your own movie preferences. For example, if you know for sure Pixar can’t go wrong, feel free to watch The Good Dinosaur. However, if you are still on the fence, please read the following conclusions from the scientific data gathered in this column.

Conclusion 1: If you are going to see one new movie in the theaters this October, you should go and see The Hunger Games.
Conclusion 2: If you are made of money and can see more than one movie, feel free to check out The Peanuts Movie or The 33.
Conclusion 3: Then, depending on your taste, you may either want to watch Spectre or Creed.
Conclusion 4: This month looks like a really good month for movies. I want to see almost all the movies in theaters. Well done, Hollywood. Well done.