Kicking off the year with absurdist glory: Emma Stone in Yorgos Lanthimos’ POOR THINGS (12 JANUARY)… Twenty years on from Sideways, Alexander Payne reunites with Paul Giamatti for THE HOLDOVERS (19 JANUARY)… Andrew Haigh’s ALL OF US STRANGERS (26 JANUARY) will obliterate your heart… While Blitz Bazawule’s musical take on THE COLOR PURPLE (26 JANUARY) will make it sing… Steel yourself for Jonathan Glazer’s chilling Auschwitz drama THE ZONE OF INTEREST (2 FEBRUARY)… Kingsley Ben-Adir stars in biopic BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE (14 FEBRUARY)… It’s a severe case of sandworms in DUNE: PART TWO (15 MARCH)… Ethan Coen’s DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS (15 MARCH) takes us on a lesbian road-trip… Alex Scharfman’s DEATH OF A UNICORN (TBC) has Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega as accidental unicorn killers… Bodybuilding thriller LOVE LIES BLEEDING (TBC) sees the return of Saint Maud director Rose Glass… SPIDER-MAN: BEYOND THE SPIDER-VERSE (TBC) will give us, probably, one hundred gazillion Spider-people… Luca Guadagnino reinvents the sports movie with sexy tennis drama CHALLENGERS (26 APRIL)… Shh! Keep your ears open for A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE (28 JUNE)… Alice Lowe is back with time-travel drama TIMESTALKER (TBC)… Anthony Mackie is a brave new Cap in CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD (26 JULY)... TRAP (2 AUGUST) finds M. Night Shyamalan at the helm of — no shit! — a psychological thriller... H.R. Giger’s glistening beasts rise again in Fede Álvarez’s UNTITLED ALIEN FILM (16 AUGUST)… Closing out Ti West’s X trilogy is MAXXXINE (TBC)… Wolverine lives again in DEADPOOL 3 (TBC)... POLARIS (TBC) has Lynne Ramsay reuniting with Joaquin Phoenix for an Alaskan horror… Ridley Scott re-unleashes hell in GLADIATOR 2 (22 NOVEMBER)… Alex Garland returns with social sci-fi CIVIL WAR (TBC)… Tom Hardy might break some bones in Gareth Evans’ crime thriller HAVOC (TBC)… and to end with a bang, we have what everybody’s calling an UNTITLED JORDAN PEELE FILM (26 DECEMBER). Even if he keeps that title, we’re first in line. 2024: not messing about.
ALEX GODFREY
Mike Faist as Art, Zendaya as Tashi and Josh O’Connor as Patrick in spicy tennis film Challengers.