Last year’s slate of holiday-season releases was slender, owing to the pandemic. Despite ongoing uncertainty about in-person attendance, many of the major films that were held back then are coming out now, alongside more recent high-profile productions. The robust crop of likely awards contenders includes a typical dose of bio-pics, including Reinaldo Marcus Green’s “King Richard” (Nov. 19), which traces the efforts of Richard Williams (Will Smith) to overcome prejudices and practical obstacles while coaching his daughters Venus (Saniyya Sidney) and Serena (Demi Singleton) to tennis stardom. In “House of Gucci” (Nov. 24), Ridley Scott unfolds the family conflicts that culminated in the murder of the fashion label’s scion, Maurizio Gucci (Adam Driver), ordered by his ex-wife, Patrizia Reggiani (Lady Gaga). Aaron Sorkin wrote and directed “Being the Ricardos” (Dec. 10), a drama about the marital and professional troubles of Lucille Ball (Nicole Kidman) and Desi Arnaz (Javier Bardem) as they struggled to keep “I Love Lucy” on the air.
Sequels and remakes loom large, starting with Steven Spielberg’s take on “West Side Story” (Dec. 10), featuring Rachel Zegler and Ansel Elgort as the star-crossed lovers; Ariana DeBose and Rita Moreno co-star. “Nightmare Alley” (Dec. 17), Guillermo del Toro’s version of the 1947 film noir, stars Bradley Cooper as a carnival mentalist who teams up with a psychiatrist (Cate Blanchett) for lucrative scams. With “The Matrix Resurrections” (Dec. 22), Lana Wachowski returns to direct the fourth installment in the series, which she co-wrote with David Mitchell and Aleksandar Hemon; Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss are back as Neo and Trinity.
Plays provide the basis for some of the season’s most anticipated movies. Lin-Manuel Miranda makes his feature-film directorial début with “Tick, Tick . . . Boom!” (Nov. 12), an adaptation of Jonathan Larson’s autobiographical play, in which a rising young composer (Andrew Garfield) wrestles with self-doubt. Stephen Karam directs the film version of his play “The Humans” (Nov. 24), about a Scranton couple (Jayne Houdyshell and Richard Jenkins) who spend a turbulent Thanksgiving in Manhattan with their musician daughter (Beanie Feldstein) and her boyfriend (Steven Yeun). Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand star in Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth” (Dec. 25); the cast also includes Brendan Gleeson and Corey Hawkins.
Among the acclaimed directors presenting new projects this season is Jane Campion, whose Western, “The Power of the Dog” (Nov. 17), stars Benedict Cumberbatch as a rancher who persecutes his brother’s wife (Kirsten Dunst) and stepson (Kodi Smit-McPhee). Paul Thomas Anderson’s coming-of-age drama “Licorice Pizza” (Nov. 26), set in the San Fernando Valley in the nineteen-seventies, stars Cooper Hoffman (the son of Philip Seymour Hoffman) and the musician Alana Haim. And Pedro Almodóvar blends romance, politics, and history in “Parallel Mothers” (Dec. 24), a wide-ranging drama about a photographer (Penélope Cruz) who has a child with a forensic archeologist (Israel Elejalde) as they prepare to exhume the body of her great-grandfather, a victim of Francoists during the Spanish Civil War, from a mass grave. ♦
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