We welcome the month of February —ALREADY?!— while the 2023 awards season continues to heat up the atmosphere and the billboards of our movie theaters. This week we will be able to take two of the main candidates to sweep the Oscar delivery ceremony to our retinas, including a rerun of the best positioned to turn the gala upside down.
The premieres of February 3, 2023
‘Souls in pain of Inisherin’ (‘The Banshees of Inisherin’, 2022)
- It is the new film by Martin McDonagh, director of the celebrated ‘Three billboards on the outskirts’.
- In it, the filmmaker repeats with the leading couple made up of Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson after the fantastic ‘Hiding in Bruges’.
- Its huge cast is completed by Kerry Condon and Barry Keoghan, shaping a cast that carries the film in flight
- It arrives after winning three Golden Globes —including the one for best comedy film— and opts for a whopping 9 Oscars.
Criticism in Espinof: ‘Almas en torment by Inisherin’, more than a film, it is a state of mind: Martin McDonagh signs a brilliant and devastating exploration of loneliness
‘They knock on the door’ (‘Knock at the Cabin’, 2023)
- ‘A knock at the door’ marks the return of M. Night Shyamalan to the big screen after the remarkable ‘Time’, and maintains all the spirit of the director.
- On this occasion, he has opted for minimalism, locking a handful of actors in a cabin while the apocalypse breaks out… or not.
- Among them are Jonathan Groff, Ben Aldridge, Dave Bautista and Rupert Grint, who has worked with the director on the fantastic Apple TV+ ‘Servant’.
- It is based on the novel by Paul Tremblay.
Criticism in Espinof: ‘They knock on the door’: effective home invasion with twists, revelations and a minimalist Shyamalan that complies without risking
‘Asterix and Obelix and the Middle Kingdom’ (‘Astérix et Obelix: L’Empire du milieu’, 2023)
- Guillaume Canet returns to the fray doing double as actor and director adapting the adventures of Asterix and Obelix.
- In addition to Canet as Asterix, the film stars Gille Lellouche as Obelix, Vincent Cassel as César, and Marion Cotillard as Cleopatra.
- It is the first live-action film in the franchise not to adapt an original story from the comics.
- It is also the first live-action film in the franchise not to have Gerard Depardieu as Obelix.
Criticism in Espinof: ‘Asterix and Obelix: the Middle Kingdom’: the fifth film from the Gallic town maintains the level of the previous ones, but that is not a good sign
‘Everything at once everywhere’ (‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’, 2022)
- The Daniels’ film is re-released in theaters after turning the Oscar nominations upside down, leading them with 11 nominations, so what less than making it a place of honor among the releases of the week.
Criticism in Espinof: ‘Everything at once everywhere’: a brilliant multiversal oasis overflowing with creativity that makes its billionaire counterparts pale