Starring Barry Keoghan as a Talented Mr Ripley type initially dazzled by his smooth college chums at Oxford, Emerald Fennell’s follow-up to Promising Young Woman could be seen as a sort of cautionary tale for toffs who think it might be amusing to invite a member of the working class into their rarefied milieu. The Oslo Trilogy is an outstanding collection of three films from filmmaker Joachim Trier: Reprise, Oslo, August filmmaking and incredible storytelling. The thematic trilogy is one that audiences will certainly find compelling on many levels. Anders is getting older and Oslo continues to change, so who knows, maybe we will do a fourth [at some point],” Trier said. The return of Wayne McGregor’s all-star interpretation of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Thomas Adès’s rich score brings new colours to McGregor’s movement, and Tacita Dean’s transfixing films make the last act a visual feast. Lyndsey Winship

A special bundle of three of Jo Nesbo's award-winning crime titles starring the inimitable Detective Harry Hole.In this superb melodrama from Todd Haynes, Natalie Portman plays an actor researching her latest role by spending time with the person her character is based on. Step forward Julianne Moore, as a former high-school teacher three decades into a relationship with her former student (Riverdale’s Charles Melton). Catherine Bray The Redbreast: A report of a rare and unusual gun being fired sparks Detective Harry Hole's interest. Then a former soldier is found with his throat cut. Next, Harry's former partner is murdered. Why had she been trying to reach Harry on the night she was killed? Kasper Tuxen’s camera utterly adores Reinsve, with alluring close-ups of her extraordinary eyes, which reveal both her need to be with someone and her craving for freedom. Shortly after meeting Aksel (Anders Danielsen Lie), an older comic book artist, Julie crashes a wedding party and is instantly drawn to Eivind (Herbert Nordrum); although both have significant others, they dive straight into a gorgeously filmed seduction that involves no touching, wondering whether that counts as cheating. It’s a marvelous scene that questions the very nature of relationships and fidelity and sets the stage for everything that comes next. SNL alumnus and Portlandia co-creator Armisen is indie comedy royalty and also has a sideline in music (he’s currently bandleader on Late Night with Seth Meyers). Now he merges his twin loves in Comedy for Musicians But Everyone Is Welcome, which wrangles muso observations into crowd-pleasing gags. Rachel Aroesti

The Texas trio, led by Greg Gonzalez, arrive in the UK ahead of their third album. Recent singles suggest they’re not deviating from their ethereal goth-tinged dream pop, so expect a lot of dry ice and a reliance on mood over movement. MC Norwegian director Joachim Trier concludes his Oslo Trilogy with the riveting The Worst Person in the World, which is having a preview screening at Lincoln Center on January 28 before opening there on February 4. Shortlisted for Best International Feature Film, it is part of a weeklong series that includes the first two parts of the trilogy, 2006’s Reprise and 2011’s Oslo, August 31st, along with works selected by Trier and cowriter Eskil Vogt that influenced them. Before there was Hollywood icon Cary Grant, there was Bristol boy Archibald Leach, who had a deeply traumatic childhood. Made in collaboration with Grant’s daughter and ex-wife, this Jason Isaacs-starring biopic traces the actor’s radical transformation from one man to another. RA I like the idea that one life consists of many short stories,” said Trier. “The literary form made it possible to have all these moments and fragments from a longer period. [The main character] Julie is somehow awaiting her great destiny, waiting for fate to intervene; so putting that into a novelistic scale would mirror that sense of anticipation — and disappointment too.”

It’s a coming of age tale for grown-ups who wish they had already done so,” Trier said. “While the classic coming-of-age novel would follow someone in their late teens, this is about someone who turns 30, making life choices as she struggles with relationships and with herself. st, and The Worst Person in the World. The collection is a must-own for fans of these films. Outstanding But this is where we live our lives. Writing about Oslo, 31 August, Karl Ove Knausgaard (with whom Trier and Vogt collaborated in 2018 on a documentary about Edvard Munch) describes how “it begins in the collective, with memories we all have, while the rest of the film is about a rejection of community, of others”. [3] Before Phillip, Julie and Aksel reject the world, Reprise and The Worst Person also begin with memories we all have: memories of youthful ambition, folly and fun (Trier is nothing if not a director of fun). For Knausgaard, Anders – much like Aksel, Erik and Phillip, and Karl Ove in the My Struggle books (2009-11) – “sees through everything, everything that goes on around him is just empty talk, rubbish, banalities, and that’s how it is, social life is just empty talk, rubbish, banality, and yet that’s where we live our lives”. [4] At best – in Oslo, 31 August, in particular – the Oslo trilogy denounces a conformity seemingly typical of Norwegian society while simultaneously, crucially, recognising empty talk, rubbish, banality as where we live our lives.