Margot Robbie busts her corset in Wuthering Heights, the Devil Wears Prada sequel goes fashionably to war, and Christopher Nolan brings us a Greek epic. Plus much more in our pick of the best films coming to UK cinemas this year
Jessie Buckley may need to hire a carpenter for the silverware-cabinet she is expected to need for her hugely admired performance in the film based on the Maggie O’Farrell novel. She plays Anne (or Agnes) Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare, grieving the terrible loss of their 11-year-old son, Hamnet, in 1596, which the story imagines to be a spur to the creation of Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. Paul Mescal plays Shakespeare and Emily Watson his mother, Mary.
9 January.
A docufictional account of the last hours in the life of five-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab, killed in 2024 by the IDF in Gaza in her uncle’s car, along with six family members and two paramedics, after sole survivor Rajab herself had stayed on the phone for hours to the Palestinian Red Crescent, desperately begging for help. The film uses the real audio recording of Rajab’s voice and fictionally reconstructs the drama in the call-centre office; real people played by actors, responding to the actual voice.
