With mere weeks left of 2018, a new year of cinema beckons. And, boy, has it got us excited!
There are new films from Jordan Peele, Quentin Tarantino and Barry Jenkins; new entries in the Avengers, Jumanji and Star Wars franchises; and even an upscale for popular TV show Downton Abbey.
Following on from our list of most-anticipated animated films, we now present thirty live-action features that we can’t wait to see in 2019…
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Mortal Engines roars into action with so exhilarating, if wildly chaotic, an opening that expectation cannot help but hit an early high. This is, after all, a production billed as being from the makers of Lord of the Rings. Whereas such vibrance is retained in the film’s pace and visual spectacle, however, the fluctuating energy of its storytelling can’t help but slightly disappoint.
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Lynne Ramsay doesn’t do straightforward when it comes to adapting books to film. It’s why we will never see her take on ‘The Lovely Bones’, latterly hashed from Alice Sebold by Peter Jackson, and explains how You Were Never Really Here can so lyrically draw from the eponymous novella of Jonathan Ames without recourse to exposition or, often, dialogue. The result is sensory cinema that is as concerned with imparting to audiences an experience as it is telling a story.
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