Coming Soon: February 2017

Awards season is pretty spectacular and simultaneously really odd. The films on offer at the moment range from blatant Oscar-bait fully deserving of 5* reviews to awful sequels that really shouldn't have been green-lit for production. As such, cinemas are flooded with films at the moment, with many successful box office hits from January (see, for example: La La Land and Manchester by the Sea) still widely available. However, they'll have to make room for the constant barrage of excellent new content reaching audiences over the next month as February has plenty to offer in terms of astonishingly good new films.

I've already broken my 2017 rule of only highlighting 10 films each month as there are just too many unmissable films out over the next 28 days... oops!

As ever, all films below are released in cinemas in February 2017 in the U.K.: some may have already opened abroad so if you're outside the U.K. then do check your local cinemas for film times and release dates.

LOVING

Friday 3rd February 2017

Cert.: 12A / Dir.: Jeff Nichols

"The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led to a legal battle that would end at the US Supreme Court."

TONI ERDMANN

Friday 3rd February 2017

Cert.: 15 / Dir.: Maren Ade

"A practical joking father tries to reconnect with his hard working daughter by creating an outrageous alter ego and posing as her CEO's life coach."

20TH CENTURY WOMEN

Friday 10th February 2017

Cert.: 15 / Dir.: Mike Mills

"The story of three women who explore love and freedom in Southern California during the late 1970s."

BILLY LYNN'S LONG HALFTIME WALK

Friday 10th February 2017

Cert.: 15 / Dir.: Ang Lee

"19-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his squad - contrasting the realities of war with America's perceptions."

FENCES

Friday 10th February 2017

Cert.: 12A / Dir.: Denzel Washington

"A working-class African-American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life."

PREVENGE

Friday 10th February 2017

Cert.: 15 / Dir.: Alice Lowe

"Widow Ruth is seven months pregnant when, believing herself to be guided by her unborn baby, she embarks on a homicidal rampage, dispatching anyone who stands in her way."

THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE

Friday 10th February 2017

Cert.: U / Dir.: Chris McKay

"Bruce Wayne must not only deal with the criminals of Gotham City, but also the responsibility of raising a boy he adopted."

THE FOUNDER

Friday 17th February 2017

Cert.: 12A / Dir.: John Lee Hancock

"The story of Ray Kroc, a salesman who turned two brothers' innovative fast food eatery, McDonald's, into one of the biggest restaurant businesses in the world with a combination of ambition, persistence, and ruthlessness."

HIDDEN FIGURES

Friday 17th February 2017

Cert.: 12A / Dir.: Theodore Melfi

"Based on a true story. A team of African-American women provide NASA with important mathematical data needed to launch the program's first successful space missions."

MOONLIGHT

Friday 17th February 2017

Cert.: 15 / Dir.: Barry Jenkins

"A timeless story of human self-discovery and connection, Moonlight chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami."

PATRIOTS DAY

Thursday 23rd February 2017

Cert.: TBC / Dir.: Peter Berg

"The story of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the aftermath, which includes the city-wide manhunt to find the terrorists responsible."

IT'S ONLY THE END OF THE WORLD

Friday 24th February 2017

Cert.: TBC / Dir. Xavier Dolan

"Louis, a terminally ill writer, returns home after a long absence to tell his family that he is dying."

I'v already seen Hidden Figures and Moonlight and cannot recommend them enough, and my tickets are already booked for The Lego Batman Movie! I'm also extremely excited for Toni Erdmann, Fences and Loving... oh, February, what a month!