It may be Blue Monday, but why should it be the unhappiest day of the year? Turn that frown upside down and get to your local Cineworld to feast on the sparkling line-up of new releases.
The following list of movies, ranging from Oscar contenders to all-action outbursts, is exactly what you need to banish those January blues.
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1. A Complete Unknown
Man-of-the-moment and Oscars contender Timothée Chalamet is unnervingly convincing as music legend Bob Dylan in this revealing biopic. Chalamet portrays the young Dylan at the point when he first burst onto the 1960s New York folk music scene, a development that anticipated his controversial shift into the 'Electric Dylan' period in 1965. Director James Mangold, himself a music biopic veteran from 2005's Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line, adapts Elijah Wald's 2015 book Dylan Goes Electric while the supporting cast includes Elle Fanning as Suze Rotolo, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez and Edward Norton as Pete Seeger.
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2. Wolf Man
If you're in the mood for some scares this Blue Monday, hide behind your popcorn during a screening of the new chiller from Leigh Whannell and studio Blumhouse. They collaborated to successful effect on the 2020 chiller Invisible Man, which put a clever twist on the classic Universal Studios monster movie property. Wolf Man promises another radical reinvention of a familiar Universal formula, starring Christopher Abbott (Poor Things) as a devoted family man who suffers a lycanthrope attack and feels his body degrading as he transforms into something horrific and decidedly less-than-human.
3. Nosferatu
More scares are on the cards in Robert Eggers's grandiose Gothic tapestry of vampiric destruction and despair. Eggers delivers his long-awaited remake of the 1922 German silent film, casting Bill Skarsgard as the bestial and terrifying Count Orlok who arrives in the German town of Wisborg to form a pact with the preternaturally gifted Ellen Hutter (Lily-Rose Depp). The visuals are gorgeous, the soundscape is oppressive and the atmosphere is all-encompassing in the latest film from a contemporary horror master.
4. We Live in Time
If you fancy something a bit more tender and down to Earth, then opt for this non-linear love story starring the red-hot duo of Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh. The two actors share unbeatable chemistry in this story of the romance between a Weetabix salesman and a fusion chef, the timeline scrambling itself back and forth to pinwheel us between triumph and despair in a manner very close to the realities of our own day-to-day lives.
5. A Real Pain
Jesse Eisenberg directs and stars in this brittle, bittersweet and ultimately winning story of a fractious European road trip. Eisenberg and Golden Globe winner Kieran Culkin portray mismatched cousins who traverse Poland to honour the memory of their late grandmother, a journey that is rife with all manner of recriminations and reconciliations.
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