10 Films to See in January
Many of 2016's potential award contenders opened in December ... if you lived in Los Angeles or New York by the one or two theaters where they were screening to qualify for Academy Awards consideration. Those films—including the latest from Martin Scorsese, Mike Mills, Peter Berg, and more—will get a proper nationwide theatrical release in January. Find details on those movies, plus other promising new January releases (including that rarest of things: a good new film from M. Night Shyamalan), below.
Currently the fifth-ranked animated feature of 2016 on our Film Awards Scorecard, this first feature from director Michael Dudok de Wit is making a strong push for an Academy Award nomination. A wordless, animated fable about a man marooned on an island, this first international co-production from Studio Ghibli won a Special Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard section at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and has excellent early reviews.