5 great films that await their release in January

A new year arrives and the billboard is renewed. Many films have already been presented at festivals and have received their first reviews but have not yet been released to the public. Some of them that arrive in the first month of the year have many chances to be part of the possible candidates for awards, both for the production in general and for their stars.

Tom Hanks, Christian Bale, Michelle Williams, Brad Pitt or Margot Robbie are the stars of these films that are scheduled to be released this year. These are some of the premieres that will arrive in 2023 and that will surely become the titles that will appear in family discussions and on social networks.

Babylon

It is Damien Chazelle’s new film and has a luxury cast that includes Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt, Tobey Maguire and Olivia Wilde. The film delves into the beginnings of cinema when Hollywood became a mecca. A rising star in the midst of the boiling of the 20s in which excesses and depravity were commonplace. A portrait of the industry that received positive and negative reviews alike. It opens on January 19 in Latin America on the big screen.

The Fabelmans

It could be considered a kind of biopic of the childhood of Steven Spielberg who directs this production. Little Sammy Fabelman (Garbiel LaBelle) discovers his love for cinema at a screening of the movie The Greatest Show on Earth and will begin to make his own home film with the help of his mother, played by Michelle Williams. The rest of the cast is completed by Paul Dano as the father of the family. It is scheduled to be released in theaters on January 26.

the crimes of the academy

This film is an adaptation of Louis Bayard’s 2003 novel that fictionally recreates the origins of the writer Edgar Allan Poe. Christian Bale plays Augustus Landor, a detective living in West End in the 1800s. The synopsis summarizes the film like this: “A cadet is found dead. But after the body arrives at the morgue, tragedy turns to savagery when it is discovered that the young man’s heart has been cleverly removed. Fearing irreparable damage to the fledgling military academy, its leaders turn to a local detective, Augustus Landor, to solve the murder. Confronted with the cadets’ code of silence, Landor enlists the help of one of them to pursue the case, an eccentric cadet who despises the rigors of the army and is fond of poetry: a young man named Edgar Allan Poe. The cast is completed by great industry figures such as Harry Melling (Harry Potter) in the role of Edagar Alanb Poe, Gillian Anderson (Sex Education), Lucy Boynton (Bohemian Rhapsody), Hadley Robinson (I’m thinking of quitting), Timothy Spall ( Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street) and Robert Duvall (Apocalypse Now). Premieres on Netflix on January 6.

The worst neighboor in the world

Tom Hanks returns to the comedy genre and is an adaptation of Fredrick Backman’s novel and in turn is a remake of the Swedish film directed by Hannes Holm. In this story, the Elvis actor plays Otto, a hermit and curmudgeon widower who enjoys solitude. But some neighbors (a married couple with two girls) will arrive, somewhat noisy for his taste, who will turn his life 360 ​​degrees. They accompany in the cast Mariana Treviño and Rachel Keller among others. It opens in theaters on January 12.

tar

It is postulated as one of the best compositions by Cate Blanchett that comes from winning the Volpi Cup at the Venice Festival. The actress plays Lydia Tár (director of the Berlin Philharmonic) a renowned composer who is at a point in her career where she is performing a symphony that could become a work of art. But her personal life plays against her while she has to deal with the rest of the musicians in the orchestra. Its premiere is scheduled for the last week of January.

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