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.
At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the latest from acclaimed writer-director Asghar Farhadi (A Separation, The Past) was awarded Best Screenplay and earned Shahab Hosseini the Best Actor prize. Critics haven't had quite as much praise for the film as Farhadi’s previous work, but it has good reviews nevertheless. It also made the Academy's nine-film shortlist for Best Foreign Language Film and won that designation from the National Board of Review. The story follows Emad (Hosseini) and Rana (Taraneh Alidoosti), a young couple living in Tehran, as they are forced to move into a new apartment where an incident linked to the previous tenant of their new home changes the couple’s life.
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