Watch List Weekly Recap 1/6/23
The year ahead in film -- 32 movies we're looking forward to -- and the week ahead, too.
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What we’re looking forward to this year: Greta Gerwig’s Barbie film, a Robert Oppenheimer biopic (above), and a thriller about a cocaine-addled bear (you’ll never guess what it’s called: “Cocaine Bear”). All that and more in the 2023 Watch List movie preview.
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The weekly roundup of movies in theaters and on demand, to attend to or to avoid. Your best bets: Kore-eda’s “Broker,” the eerie “Nanny” on Amazon Prime, and an Edgar Allan Poe murder mystery on Netflix. Proceed with caution: The crowd-pleasing but mawkish “A Man Called Otto,” with Mr. Thomas Hanks (above).
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