32 Movies We Can’t Wait to See This Year
Here are the best, most anticipated 32 films coming to theatres, which includes a blockbuster where Robert Downey Jr. can talk to animals, two Vin Diesel movies, including Jet Li and Donnie Yen acting in the same movie and a Matthew McConaughey film.
Release date: January 10Cast: Kristen Stewart, Vincent Cassell, Jessica HenwickDirector: William Eubank (The Signal)Why we’re excited: It’s been a while since we’ve had a good claustrophobic submarine movie, and Underwater looks like it won’t disappoint. When a subterranean earthquake damages their research deep below the surface of the ocean, a group of researchers discovers that they may have awakened something else down there.
Release date: January 10Cast: Tiffany Haddish, Rose Byrne, Billy Porter, Salma HayekDirector: Miguel Arteta (Beatriz at Dinner)Why we’re excited: If the plot — two friends, with very different styles of doing business, start a beauty company together and have to deal with a thieving investor — wasn’t enough to get us excited about this movie, the cast of insanely great comedians will. It’s about time Tiffany Haddish and Rose Byrne starred opposite each other.
Release date: January 17Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Harry Collett, Antonio Banderas, Michael SheenDirector: Stephen Gaghan (Syriana)Why we’re excited: There’s a possibility that Dolittle, the latest big screen version of Hugh Lofting’s story of a doctor who can chat with animals, will be an expensive, Cats-esque disaster. The behind-the-scenes stories about the film’s production are packed with ridiculous anecdotes. Can Robert Downey Jr. steer this leaky, critter-filled ship on charm alone? 
Release date: January 17Cast: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander LudwigDirectors: Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah (Black)Why we’re excited: Over a decade since 2003’s Bad Boys II, the original bad boy cops of ’90s action movie excess are back. This long-gestating threequel will feature Will Smith and Martin Lawrence reprising their roles again, which means they’ll be doing lots of shouting, gun-pointing, and blowing stuff up in the streets of Miami.
Release date: January 24Cast: Mackenzie Davis, Finn Wolfhard, Brooklynn PrinceDirector: Floria Sigismondi (The Runaways)Why we’re excited: This modern day adaptation of Henry James’ classic creeper The Turn of the Screw stars Mackenzie Davis, star of our favorite show of the 2010s, Halt and Catch Fire. She plays nanny to two children (Wolfhard and Prince) with some secrets in their vast, spooky mansion. Director Floria Sigismondi is an underrated stylist who has helmed episodes of shows like American Gods, Daredevil, and The Handmaid’s Tale, along with a number of memorable music videos, so expect this one to have some unnerving visual flair to it. 
Release date: January 24Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Henry Golding, Michelle DockeryDirector: Guy Ritchie (Aladdin)Why we’re excited: The Gentlemen looks like a movie that’s not actually a real movie, but a dream you might have after looking at a bunch of tweets about movies that people wished were real movies. (It also has nothing to do with similarly dapper, hyper-violent Kingsman series.) If anything, it looks like Guy Ritchie, who first established himself with talky gangster movies like Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch before helming giant Hollywood blockbusters like Sherlock Holmes, is back to his old tricks. Ditching the big-budget spectacle of his recent work, he’s assembled an ensemble cast of growly British gents — plus the very Southern gent Matthew McConaughey 
Release date: February 7Cast: Margot Robbie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ewan McGregor, Rosie PerezDirector: Cathy Yan (Dead Pigs)Why we’re excited: It’s commonly accepted knowledge that the best thing in the otherwise disastrous Suicide Squad was Margot Robbie’s baseball-bat-wielding villain Harley Quinn. Well, now Harley gets her own star vehicle, produced by Robbie herself. Our anti-heroine has freed herself from both Jared Leto’s creepy Joker and the leering male gaze of director David Ayer. Cathy Yan directs this team-up between the lady badasses of DC Comics, which will hopefully give Robbie’s character her due.
Release date: February 7Cast: Riley Keough, Jaeden Martell, Lia McHugh, Alicia SilverstoneDirectors: Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala (Goodnight Mommy)Why we’re excited: After premiering at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, this chilly, snowbound horror film, which charts the psychological breakdown of a young woman (Keough) attempting to care for her stepchildren in a remote cabin, finally makes it to theaters in time for winter. If you were a fan of the filmmaker’s previous film, 2014’s unsettling Austrian parental nightmare Goodnight Mommy, you won’t want to miss this similarly tense fable of family strife.
Release date: February 14Cast: Ben Schwartz, James Marsden, Jim Carrey, Tika SumpterDirector: Jeff FowlerWhy we’re excited: For a movie that didn’t even come out that year, Sonic the Hedgehog, an attempt to bring the speedy blue Sega video game hero to the big screen, pretty much dominated a lot of film conversations on social media in 2019 — mostly teeth-related conversations. If you haven’t heard yet about the hedgehog-human teeth debacle, please educate yourselves, cringe at the appropriate moments, and find solace in the relief that the teeth will not look like that anymore. Which means the movie will be great, obviously.
Release date: February 14Cast: Michael Peña, Maggie Q, Lucy Hale, Austin StowellDirector: Jeff Wadlow (Truth or Dare)Why we’re excited: Adapting a cheesy ’70s television series can be a hit or miss endeavor — for every Charlie’s Angels (2000) there’s a Charlie’s Angels (2019) — but this Blumhouse produced reboot looks like it will emphasize the more sinister aspects of the show’s high-concept premise about a mystical island where dreams come true. For the vacationers who arrive at the destination paradise looking for a little therapeutic rest and relaxation, the fantasies can quickly turn into nightmares. 
Release date: February 14Cast: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Will Ferrell, Zach Woods, Kristofer HivjuDirector: Nat Faxon and Jim Rash (The Way Way Back)Why we’re excited: There is good reason to be wary of Downhill, a remake of an already near perfect movie, Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure, which follows a family in crisis when the husband ditches his wife and children upon seeing an avalanche rushing toward them during a skiing vacation. On the other hand: There’s also the promise of comedy legends Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Will Ferrell playing a married couple on the brink of implosion.
Release date: February 21Cast: Vin Diesel, Eiza González, Guy Pearce, Talulah RileyDirector: David WilsonWhy we’re excited: It’s worth checking out any movie where Vin Diesel, making another attempt at non-Fast franchise fare, mumbles “I’ve got unfinished business” in the trailer. This superhero thriller, which is based on a character from a long-running Valiant Comics title, follows a buff Marine (Diesel) who gets brought back from the dead by some super-scientists after the murder of his wife and child. As you’d imagine he’s got revenge on his mind, hence all the “unfinished business” talk, but the shady folks who resurrected him as a self-healing, unkillable super-soldier have other more nefarious plans. 
Release date: February 21Cast: Harrison Ford, Karen Gillan, Cara Gee, Terry NotaryDirector: Chris Sanders (The Croods)Why we’re excited: Just as every generation is riveted and traumatized anew by reading Jack London’s canine classic, we each get to see new versions of it on the big screen. It’s dog and man (Harrison Ford) against the cruel wilderness of the world’s last northern frontier — what’s not to love? And let’s not forget: filmmaker Chris Sanders also directed Lilo & Stitch and How to Train Your Dragon, both of which are great. 
Release date: February 28Cast: Elisabeth Moss, Aldis Hodge, Storm ReidDirector: Leigh Whannell (Upgrade)Why we’re excited: No, sadly, it’s not a continuation of Universal Studios’ ill fated Dark Universe series (RIP), but this version of H.G. Wells’ terrifying classic The Invisible Man, which follows a woman convinced her abusive ex is torturing her from beyond the grave, looks like it’ll do just fine on its own, thank you. Plus, we’ll get to see plenty of Elisabeth Moss’s patented Crazy Face as the main character doing battle with the unseeable foe. 
Release date: February 28Cast: Tommie Lynn Milazzo, Shay WalkerDirector: Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild)Why we’re excited: If you vibed with the combination of quasi-realism and fairytale aesthetics of Zeitlin’s previous movie Beasts of the Southern Wild, you’re gonna be head over heels for his update of J.M. Barrie’s classic Peter Pan narrative, which has gotten its fair share of re-imaginings over the years. This version arrives complete with volcanic islands, railway trains to nowhere, and mysterious glowing underwater creatures. 
Release date: March 6Cast: Ben Affleck, Al Madrigal, Michaela Watkins, Janina GavankarDirector: Gavin O’Connor (The Accountant)Why we’re excited: With the Olympic hockey weepie Miracle and the mixed martial arts melodrama Warrior, director Gavin O’Connor proved he knows his way around the soulful, rough-hewn conventions of the sports movie genre. This gruff-looking tale of an alcoholic tasked with coaching a high school basketball team re-teams the filmmaker with Ben Affleck, the star of his bizarrely re-watchable thriller The Accountant, so expect lots of macho emoting and lesson-learning.
Release date: March 6Cast: John Magaro, Orion Lee, René Auberjonois, Alia ShawkatDirector: Kelly Reichardt (Certain Women)Why we’re excited: Kelly Reichardt is one of the great underrated directors of this era, and her film about fur trapping in the 19th Century already received plenty of plaudits when it debuted at fall festivals in 2019. The movie, which was adapted from a novel by Reichardt’s frequent collaborator Jonathan Raymond, tells a story of unlikely friendship against the often brutal backdrop of the Pacific Northwest, a territory she’s explored in most of her other films. Plus, it features one of the final performances of the late great character actor René Auberjonois, who Star Trek fans will remember as Odo from Deep Space Nine.
Release date: March 20Cast: Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe, Cillian MurphyDirector: John Krasinski (A Quiet Place)Why we’re excited: 2018’s sound-averse invasion parable A Quiet Place was the type of slick, efficient horror movie with a satisfying ending that doesn’t really demand a sequel. The bare-bones “mythology” of the premise could be summed up in the goofy “What is the weakness?” question scrawled on a whiteboard in the background of the first movie. Still, unnecessary horror sequels can surprise you, and Blunt, the star of the original, is returning along with director John Krasinski.
Release date: March 27Cast: Liu Yifei, Jet Li, Donnie Yen, Gong LiDirector: Niki Caro (The Zookeeper’s Wife)Why we’re excited: Okay, so the Disney live action remakes have burned us before. But something about this one looks different. Niki Caro’s adaptation isn’t a strict, beat for beat, retelling of the animated musical. (This new version isn’t even a musical.) Instead, Caro appears to have made an epic action movie that (seems at least) to be respectful to the actual legend of Hua Mulan and features a cast consisting of luminaries like Jet Li, Donnie Yen, and Gong Li.
Release date: March 27Cast: Morfydd Clark, Jennifer Ehle, Lily FrazerDirector: Rose GlassWhy we’re excited: To some movie fans, A24 horror has become a genre unto itself, and we are ready for the body horror of this new entry from first time feature filmmaker Rose Glass about a nurse (Clark) who is a little too preoccupied with her own saintliness. The trailer comes packed with striking, shadow-filled images of ominous sink drains, a floating body, and a very uncomfortable pair of shoes. Pray for some solid scares. 
Release date: April 3 Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Maisie Williams, Charlie Heaton, Henry ZagaDirector: Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars)Why we’re excited: After multiple delays and rescheduled release dates, this horror-tinged X-Men spin-off starring Anya Taylor-Joy (The Witch) and Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones) as young mutants figuring out their new abilities looks like it will finally hit theaters. It was originally supposed to come out in 2018, with the likely goal of launching a new set of young X-Men movies, but it got caught up in corporate limbo following the sale of 20th Century Fox to Disney.
Release date: April 8Cast: Daniel Craig, Rami Malek, Lashana Lynch, Ana de ArmasDirector: Cary Joji Fukunaga (Beats of No Nation)Why we’re excited: It’s been a rough road to Daniel Craig’s final outing as James Bond. First Danny Boyle left the project, and then production had to be shut down midway through after Craig suffered an injury. But director Cary Joji Fukunaga, best known for the first season of True Detective, is an inspired choice of a director, and the franchise is adding some necessary new blood like Lashana Lynch as a fellow super spy and foil for the main man. If Craig really is determined to leave the franchise, hopefully he’ll go out in style. 
Release date: April17Cast: Keri Russell, Jesse Plemons, Jeremy T. Thomas, Graham GreeneDirector: Scott Cooper (Hostiles)Why we’re excited: As a region, the Pacific Northwest lends itself to the moody, fog-filled atmospherics of horror. What’s going on in those woods? This spooky-looking Oregon-set tale, an adaptation of a short story by Channel Zero creator Nick Antosca, presumably answers that question in some detail, telling the story of a teacher (Russell) dealing with a mysterious young student harboring a dark secret. It’s also produced by creature-feature-fan Guillermo Del Toro, so expect to see some actual antlers.
Release date: April 17Cast: Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham, Laverne Cox, Molly ShannonDirector: Emerald FennellWhy we’re excited: Writer and actress Emerald Fennell, best known for running the second season of Killing Eve, makes her film directorial debut with this cheeky-looking revenge tale. It features Carey Mulligan as a woman who pretends to be drunk at bars to entrap men who are looking to take advantage of members of the opposite sex. A trailer set to a violin cover of Britney Spears’ “Toxic” only served to pique our interest further.
Release date: April 24Cast: Eric Andre, Lil Rel Howery, Tiffany HaddishDirector: Kitao SakuraiWhy we’re excited: Adult Swim’s The Eric Andre Show, an absurd parody of the late night talk show format, remains one of the funniest comedy series of the last decade. This prank-film, which looks like Andre’s anarchic version of a Jackass-like stunt spectacular with a road-trip narrative conceit, should be just as odd, alienating, and unrelenting as the show that helped make him a beloved cult figure in certain corners of the internet.
Release date: May 1Cast: Scarlett Johanssen, Florence Pugh, Rachel Weisz, David HarbourDirector: Cate Shortland (Berlin Syndrome)Why we’re excited: Nearly ten years after the Internet began clamoring for a standalone film featuring the MCU’s first female Avenger, we’re finally getting one, and it looks like a lot of shooty, kicky, punchy, Russian spy fun. Not to mention the story takes place between Civil War and Infinity War, so you might want to watch out for a familiar face or two you may not expect.
Release date: May 15Cast: Amy Adams, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gary Oldman, Julianne MooreDirector: Joe Wright (Darkest Hour)Why we’re excited: Amy Adams seems to have found her niche playing women with mental health issues who are constantly unsure if what they’re seeing is real or imagined. Don’t get it twisted: we love this for her, and The Woman in the Window, an adaptation of a bestselling novel with a truly bizarre backstory, looks like a fast-paced thriller with a really nasty streak. How many knives do you count in that trailer? At least five.
Release date: May 22Cast: Vin Diesel, Charlize Theron, Helen Mirren, John CenaDirector: Justin Lin (Fast & Furious 6)Why we’re excited: After taking a break from the series for a few movies, the Fast and Furious franchise’s best director (it’s not even a contest) Justin Lin is finally back in the driver’s seat (sorry), taking the Fast fam on a new, exciting adventure. We don’t know a whole lot about what this movie will be about, other than Charlize Theron’s evil computer hacker Cipher will return and John Cena will be joining the cast, but it’s basically a given that this will have a ton of cool cars in it. 
Release date: May 29Cast: Ferdia Shaw, Judi Dench, Nonso Anozie, Hong Chau, Josh GadDirector: Kenneth Branagh (Murder on the Orient Express)Why we’re excited: Artemis Fowl is one of those young adult fantasy book series that basically demanded a film adaptation as soon as the first one was published. That was back in 2001, so you can imagine how rabid the fans’ anticipation has become since then. The good news is, the movie, which is based on Eoin Colfer’s first novel in the series about a boy genius (Shaw) searching for his father, looks great, and modern CGI has evolved enough to give the fantastical bits the spiffy visual effects they deserve.
Release date: June 5Cast: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig, Pedro PascalDirector: Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman)Why we’re excited: We loved Wonder Woman, one of the best films to come out of the modern day superhero onslaught, which means we’re extra jazzed to see its pleasingly retro-looking follow up. Director Patty Jenkins returns and throws Diana Prince into 1984 where she visits malls and wears power suits. Somehow Chris Pine’s Steve Trevor is also there, as are some new villains played by Pedro Pascal and Kristen Wiig.
Release date: June 26Cast: Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, John HammDirector: Joseph Kosinski (Oblivion)Why we’re excited: Daredevil movie star Tom Cruise returns to the cockpit of a fighter jet for this long-rumored sequel to his 1986 Tony Scott flight school adventure. Miles Teller will play Lieutenant Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw, the son of Anthony Edwards’ Goose from the original, so expect lots of life lessons, barroom sing-alongs, and, yes, some beach volleyball. Take us back to the danger zone, ASAP.
Release date: June 26Cast: Anthony Ramos, Melissa Barrera, Corey Hawkins, Lin-Manuel MirandaDirector: Jon M. Chu (Crazy Rich Asians)Why we’re excited: Lin-Manuel Miranda made his mark before Hamilton with this musical ode to the neighborhood where he was raised. Now it comes to the screen with rising star Anthony Ramos as protagonist Usnavi, the character Miranda played on Broadway. We’re most excited to see what Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M. Chu does now that he’s back in Step Up mode, filming intricately choreographed, massive dance sequences on New York City streets.Check out our 2020 release calendar below and drop a like if there are movies that you can’t wait to see.
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