1
Phantom Thread
(Christmas)
Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Day-Lewis rub up against dramatic weft and weave in a based-on-life roundelay of womanizing and thundercrack romance in the high-end fashion world of 1950s England.
2
The Shape of Water
(December 8)
The amniotic wash of fairytale and fancy finds Guillermo del Toro in fine, sometimes bawdy, sexually physicalized fettle: let all the dreaminess wash over you.
3
Darkest Hour
(December 8)
Gary Oldman is the funny Churchill. Gary Oldman is the twinkly Churchill… No… Gary Oldman is the human Churchill. A funny wonder of a drama from director Joe Wright, which incidentally dovetails with Christopher Nolan’s “Dunkirk.”
4
Call Me By Your Name
(December 15)
Luca Guadagnino charts the course of sudden sunny summery love to the strains of Psychedelic Furs’ “Love My Way.”
5
The Disaster Artist
(Music Box, December 1)
James Franco’s welter of little-seen productions about artists and poets finds comic balance in the unlikely tale of the making of “The Room” and the squirmy dreams of its poète maudit, Tommy Wiseau.