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“Maybe it’s time we try something new.” A year of endings, origin stories and big swings — the list that will keep you hooked from January to December.
“Maybe it’s time we try something new.” That’s the exact feeling we get after a new movie releases in theatres. As a new year begins, it brings new hopes, expectations, dreams — and, yes, new movies. The entertainment industry is thriving, and every year we get to see new talent on screen.
In 2018 it was all about off-beat movies and embracing different cultures through cinema. 2019 looks like a promising year, and there is a list of movies you simply cannot miss. We have made that list just for you — it will keep you hooked all through the year.
Marvel’s first female-led solo feature drops us into the 1990s, where Carol Danvers becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes. It is the essential warm-up act for April’s main event — and Brie Larson makes the wait worthwhile.
After Get Out, everything Jordan Peele touches demands attention. His follow-up sends a family on holiday face-to-face with their own doppelgängers. Expect social commentary folded inside genuine, sleep-with-the-lights-on horror.
The big one. Eleven years and twenty-two films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe converge on a single finale, as the surviving Avengers attempt to undo the snap that erased half of all life. Whatever happens, cinema history gets made in April.
Guy Ritchie takes on the magic carpet, with Will Smith stepping into the Genie’s enormous shoes. Whether you come for nostalgia or curiosity, Disney’s live-action streak makes this one impossible to ignore.
Nine years after the perfect goodbye of Toy Story 3, Pixar reopens the toy box. Woody, Buzz and a handmade newcomer called Forky hit the road — and if history is any guide, bring tissues.
Jon Favreau follows The Jungle Book with a photorealistic return to the Pride Lands, backed by a voice cast that includes Donald Glover and Beyoncé. The circle of life, rendered pixel by astonishing pixel.
Tarantino’s ninth film pairs Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt as a fading TV star and his stunt double, adrift in the Los Angeles of 1969. A love letter to the movies, written by cinema’s most obsessive fan.
Joaquin Phoenix descends into Gotham’s most infamous villain in a gritty, standalone character study — closer to a 1970s drama than a comic-book movie. The year’s biggest wild card, and possibly its most talked-about performance.
Forty-two years of the Skywalker saga come to a close as Rey, Finn and Poe face the First Order one final time. However it lands, December belongs to a galaxy far, far away.
Endings and beginnings, blockbusters and wild cards — that is the shape of 2019 at the movies. Keep this list close, book the good seats early, and we will see you in the queue.