A good start - and there'll be plenty more besides...
Nosferatu - 1 January
Ol' Long Choppers is back in the new film from writer-director Robert Eggers (The Northman, The Lighthouse, The Witch). Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, and Bill Skarsgård star.
We Live in Time - 1 January
Brooklyn director John Crowley returns with a real lesson in screen chemistry from stars Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield. It's a movie for romantics and realists alike, riffing on that old chestnut that life is what happens when you're making other plans...
Nickel Boys - 3 January
The film adaptation of Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel sees Oscar-nominated documentary director RaMell Ross making his feature drama debut - from a first-person point-of-view. Set in an abusive reform school in 1960s Florida, it follows the friendship between two youths, Elwood (Ethan Herisse) and Turner (Brandon Wilson).
A Real Pain - 8 January
Writer-director Jesse Eisenberg and co-star Kieran Culkin play the chalk-and-cheese cousins who head to Poland to honour their late grandmother. We're expecting the laughter-to-tears ratio to be just right.
Babygirl - 10 January
Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson will provide a sultry January in Irish cinemas. She's the CEO and he's the intern in this "torrid" affair to remember from writer-director Halina Reijn.
Maria - 10 January
Angelina Jolie delivers the performance of her career as the world's most iconic soprano, Maria Callas, in 1970s Paris during the last days of her life. Director Pablo Larraín's (Spencer, Jackie) film is a gorgeous watch - and listen.
The Girl with the Needle - 10 January
If it's chills you're after, look no further than Magnus von Horn's gothic horror, Denmark's entry for Best International Feature Film at this year's Oscars. Vic Carmen Sonne plays the mother-to-be who gets in way over her head when she takes a new job to make ends meet...
A Complete Unknown - 17 January
With Timothée Chalamet in the lead role, Bob Dylan's early years receive the biopic treatment from director James Mangold (Walk the Line) - and the man himself sounds excited. "Timmy's a brilliant actor so I'm sure he's going to be completely believable as me. Or a younger me. Or some other me," Dylan tweeted in December.
The Brutalist - 24 January
Adrien Brody has been tipped to win a second Best Actor Oscar for this - deep breath - 3.5-hour historical drama from director Brady Corbet. It follows László Toth, a Hungarian-born architect who survives the Holocaust and comes to America "to rebuild his life, his work, and his marriage to his wife Erzsébet (Felicity Jones)".
Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story - 31 January
Directed by Sinéad O'Shea (Pray for Our Sinners, A Mother Brings Her Son to Be Shot) and with Oscar nominee Jessie Buckley reading the late Edna O'Brien's own diaries, Blue Road is described as "a candid portrait of one of the world's greatest and most charismatic writers". The documentary won Best New Irish Feature and the Audience Award at the recent Cork International Film Festival.
Hard Truths - 31 January
Marianne Jean-Baptiste reunites with Secrets & Lies writer-director Mike Leigh to tell the story of the no-filter Pansy. Hard Truths is laugh-out-loud in places, desperately sad in others, and likely to leave you thinking that your own high-dudgeon hangups aren't so bad really.
Becoming Led Zeppelin - 5 & 6 February IMAX, 7 February cinemas
The long-awaited and "first officially sanctioned film" on the rock legends arrives with American Epic director Bernard MacMahon behind the lens. A celebration day indeed.
September 5 - 6 February
The massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics is told through the eyes of the ABC Sports crew providing live coverage of the siege in the Olympic village. The 1999 Kevin Macdonald-directed documentary One Day in September won an Oscar for its examination of events 53 years ago, and now Tim Fehlbaum's historical drama has been tipped as a "dark horse contender" in this year's Academy Awards race.
The Seed of the Sacred Fig - 7 February
The Special Jury Prizewinner at Cannes in May, this political thriller is the latest from exiled Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof. Here, an investigating magistrate's (Missagh Zareh) gun mysteriously disappears amid rising tensions...
Bring Them Down - 7 February
Barry Keoghan brings it all back home in this rural thriller about two warring west of Ireland families. The debut feature of writer-director Christopher Andrews, expect Bring Them Down to receive some BAFTA Awards recognition in the coming days/weeks.
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy - 13 February
Renée Zellweger is back as our now-widowed hero in a fourth instalment that's all about living again. Michael Morris (Brothers & Sisters, Better Call Saul) directs; Chiwetel Ejiofor and Leo Woodall are the new love interests, and Hugh Grant adds to the mirth and mischief as only he can.
I'm Still Here - 21 February
Brazil's Oscar entry sees Central Station director Walter Salles and star Fernanda Torres reunite to tell the true story of a family during Brazil's military dictatorship of the 1970s. "During the seven years we spent creating I'm Still Here, life in Brazil veered dangerously close to that past - which made it all the more urgent to tell this story," says Salles, who knew the family at the centre of his film.
The Last Showgirl - 28 February
Pamela Anderson has put herself right in the awards season mix for this Las Vegas-set character study from director Gia Coppola. "I got to bring my whole life into this role," she told Variety in a recent interview.
Four Mothers - 4 April
The Irish mammies are ready for their close-ups in this comedy-drama from A Date for Mad Mary director Darren Thornton, co-written with his brother Colin. Four Mothers gained serious momentum with its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival in October, winning the Audience Award for Best Feature.
Mickey 17 - 18 April
High Life star Robert Pattinson returns to sci-fi, this time with Parasite's Oscar-winning director Bong Joon-ho at the controls. Mickey 17 was originally due last year; the trailer suggests the wait has been worth it.
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning - 21 May
After numerous delays, Himself returns as agent extraordinaire/insurer's nightmare Ethan Hunt - and "the fate of every living soul on Earth" is in his hands. Is that less pressure than making Final Reckoning the best instalment in the franchise's 29-year history?
28 Years Later - 20 June
Director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland are back with the dead to recapture the magic of their 2002 rager. Already, the trailer is the second most-watched horror appetiser of all time - and we're sure we've seen this zombie somewhere before...
F1 - 27 June
Brad Pitt gets behind the wheel to play the veteran who comes out of retirement to mentor a rookie. This is the new vehicular adventure from Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinksi and writer Ehren Kruger, and that plot does sound a bit familiar...
Saipan - Date TBC
Let battle recommence in families across the country! Steve Coogan is Mick McCarthy and Éanna Hardwicke is Roy Keane in the new film from Good Vibrations duo Lisa Barros D'Sa and Glenn Leyburn.
Wicked: For Good - 21 November
For many the screen pairing of 2024, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande return to conclude the Wizard of Oz origin story. Director Jon M Chu's sequel has a lot to live up to, but we reckon he has next Christmas all wrapped up!
