In the Golden Globe nominations, the best films stand out, divided into “Musical or comedy” or in “dramatic film” which are undoubtedly the best to see starting in January and are awaiting their premiere on the big screen or streaming, although some are already available. Let’s see what they are and where they can be found. They function as a guide to discover stories with the best scripts, production and performances.
Best musical or comedy film stands out “Anora”, “Desafiantes”, “Emilia Pérez”, “A real pain”, “The substance” and “Wicked”. The best dramatic film is “The Brutalist”, “A Complete Unknown”, “Conclave”, “Dune: Part Two”, “Nickel Boys” and “September 5”.
“Anora” opens on January 16 in theaters and challenges the canons by combining social reality and humor through the story of an exotic dancer. Your director, Sean Baker, He won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and with his film he said he sought to eliminate the stigma of sex work.
“Challenging”, with four nominations, it premiered in October on Amazon Prime and has the great Zendaya (“Euphoria”) as the protagonist, to tell the story of two tennis players who compete for a woman in a love triangle in the world that reveals intimacies of the world of sports.
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“Emilia Pérez” hits the big screen on January 23 and will then be available on Netflix. Directed by veteran French filmmaker Jacques Audiard and based on the novel by Boris Reason, is about a transsexual drug dealer who wants to become a woman. It takes place in Mexico and stars Zoe Saldana as the lawyer who faces a moral dilemma when receiving cartel boss Juan “Manitas” Del Monte, who wants to leave the world of crime and follow his true desire of becoming a woman.
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“A real pain” is released in theaters on January 23 and is the second film as director of Jesse Eisenberg in which he also acts with Kieran Culkin (“Succession”) about two cousins who reunite to take a trip through Poland to honor their grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the duo’s old tensions resurface in the context of their family history.
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“The substance”, which was in theaters and is on Mubi is not only a celebration of horror, but an exploration of the beauty standards imposed by society. With the performance of Demi Moore is a grotesque fable that takes body-horror to new dimensions, using bodily transformation as a distorted mirror of insecurities and obsessions with youth. Combines horror and gore cinema.
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“Wicked” is in theaters and follows the story of Elphabathe Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz, who can be distinguished by her green skin and her black costume, which emulates that of the villain from the classic film. It is starring Cynthia Erivo, while the Good Witch of the South is Ariana Grande and the Wizard of Oz Jeff Goldblum.
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“The brutalist”, with Adrien Brody It is an immigration drama that talks about the fraud of the American dream. The story delves into the life of László Tóth (Brody), a Jewish architect born in Hungary who survived the Holocaust and who, after the end of World War II, emigrated to the United States with his wife. Out of poverty and indignity, he lands a contract with a mysterious and wealthy client embodied by Guy Pearce that changes the course of your life. As László begins to build the brutalist building of his dreams, a fateful incident causes everything to take an unexpected turn. It releases on January 23 on the big screen.
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“A Complete Unknown” premieres on December 25 starring Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan in a biopic directed by James Mangold. It sticks to the early years of the singer-songwriter’s career in the early 60s.
“Conclave” It was already released in theaters and is on Prime Video. The movie of Edward Berger It takes viewers to the world of the Vatican, through a deep and captivating adult drama in which the intrigues and secrecy of the cardinals emerge.
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“Dune, part two”, is available on Max in the franchise in which Denis Villeneuve and the multi-star cast tell the story inspired by the universe of Frank Herbert. Epic film with worms from Arrakis.
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“Nickel Boys” which premieres January 3 and will follow on Amazon, is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and chronicles the friendship between two young African-Americans who navigate together the trials of a reform school in Florida. The particularity of this film lies in its point of view, with an image that is an invitation for the viewer to place themselves in a body of the protagonist, which they may or may not recognize, as if they were walking in the shoes of the central character.
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“September 5” It went to theaters and is available on Disney Plus, Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV. It is a German production set in the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, but unlike the film Spielbergfocuses on the adventures of an American sports broadcast team that quickly makes the transition from sports reporting to live coverage of the kidnapping of Israeli athletes.
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