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The Must-See Movies To Add To Your Watch List

Jodie Comer in The Death of Robin Hood

From starry Hollywood blockbusters to future cult classics, these are the movies to have on your radar right now

Words Natasha Bird, Olive Wakefield
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The Death of Robin Hood

The well-worn legend of Robin Hood gets the A24 treatment in this exhilarating tale, helmed by Hugh Jackman and Jodie Comer. Based on the17th-century ballad Robin Hood’s Death, the film charts Robin Hood’s personal reckoning as he grapples with his early transgressions on his death bed, all the while being nursed by a mysterious stranger (Comer). Expect plenty of existential angst, bloodshed and intrigue in this dark new drama. In cinemas from June 19

Matt Damon stars as Odysseus in Christopher Nolan’s cinematic interpretation of Homer's Odyssey

The Odyssey

Christopher Nolan takes on what is perhaps the greatest of all Greek myths in this retelling of Homer’s Odyssey. The ensemble cast is almost as legendary as the players in the original story: Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong’o, Zendaya, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Mia Goth and more… Expect sweeping seascapes, time-bending threads and a hero’s journey told through Nolan’s epic gaze. In cinemas from July 17

L-R: Olivia Wilde, Seth Rogen, Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton get together in The Invite, a comedy drama written by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack and directed by Wilde

The Invite

Olivia Wilde’s The Invite breathes fresh life into the genre of marital chamber dramas, delivering something at once raw, revealing and unexpectedly tender. Plus, it’s also laugh-out-loud funny. Written by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack, the film follows two couples (Wilde and Seth Rogen; Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton) over the course of a seemingly benign dinner that quickly unravels into a forensic dissection of long-buried resentments, emotional dependencies, thwarted ambitions and sexual anxieties. In cinemas from June 26

Josh O’Connor and Emily Blunt join forces in Steven Spielberg’s mysterious Disclosure Day

Disclosure Day

Steven Spielberg reunites with Jurassic Park writer David Koepp for this future cult-classic starring Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Colman Domingo, Eve Hewson and Wyatt Russell. The plot is under tight wraps, but in true Spielberg style, the premise is lofty: a team of investigators wrestle with an extra-terrestrial cover-up on the part of the government, while official agents try to keep the truth under lock and key. In cinemas from June 12

Renate Reinsve in Kane Parsons’s sci-fi horror, Backrooms

Backrooms

It’s the stuff of nightmares; endless, labyrinthine empty rooms that exist outside of space and time. This new horror, based on Kane Parsons’ internet folklore of the same name (Google it, if you dare), has been picked up by A24 and given a big-screen moment. Here, Renate Reinsve plays a therapist who enters this petrifying purgatory of the ‘backrooms’ to find her missing patient (Chiwetel Ejiofor). In cinemas from May 29

They’re back! Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway make a long-awaited return as Miranda Priestly and Andy Sachs in The Devil Wears Prada 2

The Devil Wears Prada 2

Gird your cerulean loins: the first trailers have finally dropped for The Devil Wears Prada 2, and yes, it looks just as gloriously sharp, self-aware and vicious in all the ways we expect of this sequel. Miranda Priestly is back, the industry has changed (or has it?) and the film promises a delicious reckoning among fashion’s power players in the age of TikTok, quiet luxury and public downfall. Expect killer one-liners, impeccably timed eyerolls and outfits that will dominate your group chats. In theaters May 1

Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie take the lead in Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights

Howling winds, unhinged yearning and so many tears… Emerald Fennell’s long-awaited interpretation of “Wuthering Heights” (quotation marks very much intentional) is nearly upon us. Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi take on Cathy and Heathcliff – one of literature’s most tortured couples – and if the trailer is anything to go by, we can expect all the melodrama of Emily Brontë’s novel with a touch of latex, lace and lacquer, all set to a stunning soundtrack by Charli XCX. In theaters February 13

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