kagetsu killer
My most anticipated movie of 2022 has become my most anticipated movie of 2023 due to a schedule change. , recreating the bloody boomtown of early 1920s Oklahoma is an intriguing prospect in itself.But in David Grann’s book about the murder of the Osage people who became rich in the oil deposits beneath their tribal lands, Scorsese is the perfect narrative of a unique American tale of greed, violence and white supremacy. Has a backbone. Adds his first film to it both Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, his leading figures in different eras of his career, and supporting players including Jesse Plemons, Brendan Fraser, Lily Gladstone, and better than run out of Apple money No reason. (Giving all the cash Scorsese wants to make a movie should be a federal requirement for streaming platforms.) Scott Tobias
club zero
Little Joe, Jessica Hausner’s final film of 2019 and the Austrian filmmaker’s first in English, is a terrifyingly clever genre subversion, gradually turning the horror setting inside out. reveal what is less threatening and more psychologically speaking. By the sound, she may perform a similar transformative act in her latest project, confirmed to have been filmed in the UK in August. Playing a devout teacher, he goes on to unleash the influence of a cult leader over five students and is opposed by fellow educator Amir El-Masri and the great Sisse Babette Knudsen as headmaster. I was. Hausner thrived when she built tiny, closed worlds within institutions, whether palatial hotels or ultra-sterile laboratories, and now turns classrooms into her teenage hormones and Svengal brainwashing. It seems that you are trying to change to a pressure cooker. She keeps her fingers crossed for a competition slot at Cannes. Charles Bramesco
magic mike last dance
No trailer delivers more hype than the trailer for Magic Mike’s The Last Dance. His third installment of what was never intended to become a franchise, via a stage show across the pond apparently funded by Salma Hayek’s new character, Channing his Tatum beloved. Promise the last blast of male strippers. Everything we know about this film so far has been good news: minimal plot, maximum dancing, hot men busting out choreography on London buses, making the original film so compelling. It also featured Tatum’s lap dance, which Hayek described as “extremely physically demanding” and the film ending with a dance sequence that lasts over 30 minutes. Director Steven Soderbergh has revealed: Go big or go home, I’m going to see this in theaters. Adrian Horton
infinity pool
In 2022, Mia Goth has established herself as an actor I want to watch out for after her fantastic lead roles in Ti West’s linked horror films X and Pearl. She brought a unique edge and personality to those roles, combining notes of vulnerability and arrogance in a way that really worked for me. I was so excited to see him star opposite Alexander Skarsgård. Young Cronenberg offers an infinity pool away from his widely admired owner. This is a movie that seems to center around a man sentenced to death who clones himself for his wealth and is allowed to execute that person instead. The film is accompanied by many grotesque bodies, surprising twists, and questions about who we are, what defines our humanity, and how technology is changing it all. , promises an intense fusion of sci-fi and horror. Veronica Esposito
you hurt me
There are many reasons why I’m excited about the spiky comedy-drama You Hurt My Feelings. A welcome reunion of the Enough Said dream team of Nicole Holofcener and Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, a promising matchup between A24 distribution and the Sundance premiere, the smug fact that it was filmed partially on the street where I currently live – but A novelist, played by Louis-Dreyfus, one day overhears her husband admit that he doesn’t like his writing for years, and his marriage ends. has become confused.It was a gloriously unsettling setting and a terrifyingly revealing ‘how do I so far can you get over this? ’ teases the allure of force majeure and the kind of uncomfortable, relatable knot Holofcener arguably does better than anyone else. The most glamorous fireworks display of 2023 will likely take place between the two of them in their Brooklyn apartment. Benjamin Lee
barbie
Usually the news of a highly talented writer-director adapting a familiar existing work fills me with dread. I wasn’t all that excited about Greta Gerwig’s Little Women. A comedy based on Mattel’s famous line of fashion dolls, enough to make you anticipate hot Barbie. Margot Robbie plays Barbie opposite Ryan Gosling’s Ken – but in the toy’s endless model, costume, and profession traditions, perhaps other members of a large and impressive cast (Issa Ray, America Ferrera, and Kate McKinnon) are implied. Also play a variation of Barbie. Surprisingly little is known about the film’s plot, but it’s the first screenplay co-written by Gerwig and her life partner Noah Baumbach since the frenzied Mistress America. Barbie may be half as funny as that movie, but it’ll probably be vying for the best big studio project of the summer movie season. Jesse Hassenger
zone of interest
First announced in 2018, Jonathan Glaser’s fourth feature has seemed like a mirage over the years, moving forward at a pace that is perfectly in line with his reputation as a stubborn, unprolific genius. increase. Still, with a Cannes premiere likely on the cards, there’s reason to hope that this year will finally be the year Glazer’s adaptation of Martin Amis’ 2014 Holocaust novel, produced by A24. , which completed filming in Poland last year and is in post-production. Leading by German stars Sandra Hüller and Christian Friedel, rigorous visual stylist Glaser is Pawel Pawlikowski’s favorite cinematographer. I used a certain Lukasz Zal (Cold War, Ida). As for the story, Amis’s concentration camp novel, which involves a young Nazi officer’s pursuit of the camp commander’s disillusioned wife, unfolds from three separate perspectives. Michelle Farber’s “Under the Skin” was great. Guy Lodge
killer
In The Killer, Michael Fassbender, absent from our screens since 2019’s X-Men: Dark Phoenix, is a calm, patient and precise man who begins to unravel reality and lose grip while waiting for his next target. Star as an assassin. The material is perfect for director David Fincher. And not just because he’s playing the waiting game to run this film, either. Char has been trying to adapt since releasing a masterpiece about the real-life killer Zodiac in 2007, when Alexis Norent’s graphic novel first came out. Who knows what impact the delay in development might have had on the 16 years it took for the passionate project to be handed over from Paramount to Netflix. Thanks to you, I finally started down that path. We’ll see how Fassbender’s killer fits in among the characters Fincher is drawn to.From The Social Network and Mank’s Storyteller, Seven tries to hold onto the story as tightly as Fincher does. and Gone Girl’s murderous mastermind. Radhyan Shimonpilai
Creed III
I love Rocky movies, and in Creed III, from the moment the trailer showed Jonathan Majors a bare torso, I slackened off. (His muscle has muscle, and muscle has muscle!) After eight bites of an apple, Rocky thinks he’s almost out of juice by now. It touches on the core ideas of the legends of the world, but rarely featured in sports films. A man who could have been in the spotlight, actually better than a famous star, made a ruthless and deadly decision. It’s a regeneration project that Majors recreates to Creed perched on Michael B. Jordan’s mountaintop. And with the latter inheriting the directorial reins from Steven Caple Jr., it will be interesting to see if this premise works out. It looks like it will. Andrew Lawrence
Renfield
What did it for me were paparazzi photos of Nicolas Cage crouching around a set in New Orleans dressed as a modern-day Dracula. In a pretty red velvet suit, his face is dusted with grave-white powder, and his lips are the icy hue of someone who fell asleep with red wine dripping down his face. And then there are his hands, finished with dagger-like fingernails and colorful rings worthy of a cartoon king. Cage stars in stunning costumes in the upcoming horror-comedy Renfield. As the lover of Awkwafina, who never gets bored. With ingredients like that, a movie can be great, or it can be bananas, or both. Lauren Meckling
65
When 65 trailers materialized online, I was truly stunned. I knew so little about it that I could not pay attention. Well, it quickly soared to the top of the must-see list, promising to be a mashup of Stargate, Jurassic Park, Aliens, and throwing in a good dose of Planet of the Apes. I make no attempt to hide: our spacegun-wielding hero Adam Driver – apparently a sort of Ripley who may or may not have time traveled just crash-landed on planet Earth at that point. Dinosaurs will become extinct. (Perhaps the asteroid that knocked out his ship is the same one that did it for the dinosaurs, the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event the internet tells me.) Soon please don’t come Andrew Pulver
