10 movies you need to know about in 2020

As 2019 draws to a close, a brand-new slate of movies awaits us, spanning musicals, thrillers and superhero follow-ups. Here are our most-anticipated titles – all coming soon to a cinema near you.

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The Lighthouse

Hell really is other people in the horror director Robert Eggers’ latest feature, in which a lighthouse keeper (a flatulent, pipe-smoking Willem Dafoe) and his apprentice (a bristly, moustachioed Robert Pattinson) drive each other insane when marooned together on a deserted island in 19th-century New England. The movie is a brilliantly rendered two-hander, filmed in a boxy aspect ratio that replicates its characters’ deeply felt claustrophobia, with stark black-and-white cinematography to drain the unforgiving landscape of any colour or vitality. A disorienting swirl of dreamlike images – open graves, curling tentacles and mermaid sex (yes, you read that correctly) – The Lighthouse is a provocative, probing study of human relationships that echoes as loudly as the sonorous blare of its lonely foghorn.

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Eastern Tides

‘The Lighthouse’ is released in cinemas on 31 January 2020.

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