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15 Best Movies Released This January

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By Total Film published 1 January 2013

The new films you should be watching in cinemas this month

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Django Unchained - Out Fri 18 Jan

Django Unchained - Out Fri 18 Jan

Tarantino's three-hour feast of Southern-fried trash cinema stars Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio and Christoph Waltz.

Read Django Unchained review

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The Impossible - out Tue 1 Jan

The Impossible - out Tue 1 Jan

Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor endure the Indian Ocean tsunami of Boxing Day 2004.

Read The Impossible review

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Quartet - out Tue 1 Jan

Quartet - out Tue 1 Jan

Dustin Hoffman directs a gentle tale of ageing luvvies, starring ageing luvvies Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon and Billy Connolly.

Read Quartet review

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Chinatown & Repulsion - out Fri 4 Jan

Chinatown & Repulsion - out Fri 4 Jan

Both films are being re-released in cinemas as part of a Roman Polanski retrospective at London's BFI Southbank.

Read Chinatown review

Read Repulsion review

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Gangster Squad - out Thu 10 Jan

Gangster Squad - out Thu 10 Jan

Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone head a starry cast for this '40s and '50s-set cops and mobsters crime thriller.

Read more about Gangster Squad

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Les Misrables - out Fri 11 Jan

Les Misrables - out Fri 11 Jan

Tom Hooper's epic movie version of the world-beating hit musical is stirring and striking. Expect much Oscar love.

Read Les Misérables review

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American Mary - out Fri 11 Jan

American Mary - out Fri 11 Jan

Katharine Isabelle is phenomenal in this original and politically engaged horror film from the Soska sisters.

Read American Mary review

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What Richard Did - out Fri 11 Jan

What Richard Did - out Fri 11 Jan

An impressive study of guilt and responsibility from Irish director Lenny Abrahmson.

Read What Richard Did review

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Monsters Inc. 3D - out Fri 18 Jan

Monsters Inc. 3D - out Fri 18 Jan

Mike and Sully get the 3D treatment ahead of the release of prequel Monsters University this summer.

Read Monsters Inc. 3D review

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The Sessions - out Fri 18 Jan

The Sessions - out Fri 18 Jan

John Hawkes plays a quadriplegic man attempts to lose his virginity with the help of Helen Hunt's sex surrogate.

Read The Sessions review

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V/H/S - out Fri 18 Jan

V/H/S - out Fri 18 Jan

Portmanteau found-footage horror film featuring work from six up-and-coming filmmakers.

Read V/H/S review

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Everyday - out Fri 18 Jan

Everyday - out Fri 18 Jan

Shirley Henderson and John Simm play a couple separated by his prison sentence in Michael Winterbottom's latest.

Read Everyday review

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Lincoln - Out Fri 25 Jan

Lincoln - Out Fri 25 Jan

Daniel Day Lewis is an Oscar shoo-in for his turn as Abraham Lincoln in this portrait of the US president in his later years.

Read more about Lincoln

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Zero Dark Thirty - out Fri 25 Jan

Zero Dark Thirty - out Fri 25 Jan

Kathryn Bigelow returns with a fact-based thriller about the hunt for Osama Bin Laden.

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The Last Stand - out Fri 25 Jan

The Last Stand - out Fri 25 Jan

Arnold Schwarzenegger makes his return to leading man status as the sheriff of a small town in the path of a cartel of violent criminals.

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