十二月佳片云集，这五部电影最值得期待！︱5 Films to Watch This December

十二月佳片云集，这五部电影最值得期待！︱5 Films to Watch This December

Spider-Man: No Way Home

《蜘蛛侠：英雄无归》

Now that Marvel's superheroes have saved the Universe, their next job is obvious: they have to save the multiverse. In the third of the Spider-Man blockbusters starring Tom Holland, the teenage web-spinner accidentally opens a portal to numerous parallel realities. He finds himself up against Alfred Molina's Doctor Octopus, who fought the Tobey Maguire incarnation of Spider-Man, and Jamie Foxx's Electro, who fought the Andrew Garfield incarnation. And, who knows, he may even bump into Maguire and Garfield themselves. Sounds fun? Errr... well, apparently not. "What people will be really surprised about is that it's not fun, this film," Holland told Total Film. "It's dark and it's sad, and it's going to be really affecting. You're going to see characters that you love go through things that you would never wish for them to go through."

如今漫威的超级英雄们已经拯救了宇宙，他们的下一个任务显而易见——拯救多元宇宙。《英雄无归》是《蜘蛛侠》系列的第三部。片中主演少年蜘蛛侠（汤姆·赫兰德饰）意外打开了通往多个平行现实世界的大门，碰上了托比·马奎尔版蜘蛛侠和安德鲁·加菲尔德版蜘蛛侠的死对头——章鱼博士（阿尔弗雷德·莫利纳饰）和电光人（杰米·福克斯饰）。而且，谁知道呢，他甚至可能撞上马奎尔和加菲尔德本人。听上去很有意思？绝非如此。赫兰德告诉《电影大全》杂志说：“这部电影并不好玩，会出乎所有观众的预料。影片基调阴暗悲伤，而且还会催人泪下。你喜爱的角色会经历你希望他们永远不要经历的可怕事情。”

Released internationally on 15 December

该片将于12月15日在全球上映。

Don't Look Up

《不要抬头》

People are often slow to react to a cataclysm, whether it's a climate emergency or a global pandemic – and it was this tendency that prompted Adam McKay (The Big Short, Vice) to make his new satire, Don't Look Up. Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio play two astronomers who have calculated that a "planet killer" comet is going to smash into the Earth, killing everyone. But the US president (Meryl Streep) is just one of the many people who refuse to face the facts. The rest of the all-star cast includes Rob Morgan, Jonah Hill, Timothée Chalamet and Ariana Grande.

气候危机，抑或是全球性大流行病，人们对灾难的反应通常较为迟钝。而这种迟钝正是亚当·麦凯（代表作《大空头》、《副总统》）新作《不要抬头》的拍摄灵感。《不要抬头》是一部讽刺电影，片中两名天文学家（詹妮弗·劳伦斯和莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥饰）估算出一颗“足以毁灭行星的”彗星将会撞击地球，导致所有人丧生，而美国总统（梅丽尔·斯特里普饰）和许多人一样不愿面对现实。该片的全明星阵容还包括罗布·摩根、乔纳·希尔、蒂莫西·柴勒梅德和爱莉安娜·格兰德。

In selected cinemas from 10 December, and on Netflix from 24 December

该片将于12月10日在北美部分影院上映，12月24日于网飞平台上线。

The Matrix Resurrections

《黑客帝国：矩阵重启》

Almost two decades after The Matrix Revolutions rounded off the Matrix saga – or so it seemed – it's time to take the red pill once again. The story is that Neo (Keanu Reeves) has been living as plain old Thomas A Anderson, with no memory of his heroics as a robot-bashing, kung-fu-kicking messiah, and no knowledge of his relationship with Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss). Then, of course, everything changes. This is the first Matrix film to be directed by Lana Wachowski without her sister Lilly, and two of the series' best actors – Laurence Fishburne and Hugo Weaving – aren't returning. Still, the action-packed trailer looks suitably eye-popping, and, thanks to Mark Zuckerberg, virtual reality and the metaverse is a hot topic once again.

《黑客帝国：矩阵革命》是《黑客帝国》系列的最后一部。现如今，本片完结已近20年，似乎是时候再次服下红色药丸了。新片讲述了（尼奥基努·里维斯饰）已经忘却了自己用功夫打败机器人拯救世界的英雄过往，也不再记得他和崔妮蒂（凯瑞-安·莫斯饰）的感情，现在他名为托马斯·A·安德森，过着平凡的老年生活。当然，接下来一切都改变了。《矩阵重启》是拉娜·沃卓斯基在没有与妹妹莉莉合作的情况下，首次执导的《黑客帝国》电影。系列内两位知名演员劳伦斯·费什伯恩、雨果·维文不会回归本片。尽管如此，打戏十足的预告片看起来十分引人眼球。多亏马克·扎克伯格，虚拟现实和元宇宙再度成为了热门话题。

Released internationally on 22 December

该片将于12月22日在全球上映。

West Side Story

《西区故事》

The original 1961 film of West Side Story, directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, is renowned as one of the finest Hollywood musicals ever made. A New York-set update of Romeo and Juliet, it was the biggest box-office hit of the year, and went on to win 10 Oscars, including best picture. Why, then, should anyone watch a new take on the same material? Well, one answer is that this West Side Story is directed by Steven Spielberg. Another answer is that Stephen Sondheim, who wrote the lyrics to Leonard Bernstein's music, has given it his seal of approval. "It's really terrific," he said on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. "And for those of you who know the show, there are going to be some real surprises in it, because Tony Kushner who wrote the screenplay has done some really imaginative and surprising things with the way the songs are used in the story, and the whole thing has real sparkle to it and real energy... Spielberg and Kushner really, really nailed it."

由罗伯特·怀斯、杰罗姆·罗宾斯执导的1961年版《西区故事》，是有史以来制作最为精良的好莱坞音乐电影之一。《西区故事》是纽约版、现代版的“罗密欧与朱丽叶”，登顶当年票房榜的同时，还一并赢下包括最佳影片奖在内的10座奥斯卡奖杯。那么为什么这部翻拍电影不得不看呢？其一，新《西区故事》由斯皮尔伯格执导；其二，老版《西区故事》由伦纳德·伯恩斯坦配乐，而乐曲填词人斯蒂芬·桑德海姆对新片表示高度认可。他在《深夜秀》节目上对斯蒂芬·科尔伯特说：“这部电影非常棒。哪怕看过原版，新版也能给你惊喜。编剧托尼·库什纳富于想象和创新，把配乐巧妙地穿插在故事中，整部片子都焕发出光彩和生机……斯皮尔伯格和库什纳做得很棒！”

Released internationally on 10 December

该片将于12月10日在全球上映。

Nightmare Alley

《玉面情魔》

Guillermo del Toro's first film as director since his Oscar-winning The Shape of Water is also his first not to feature ghosts, aliens, vampire superheroes or any other supernatural creatures. Despite having a spooky title, Nightmare Alley is a shadowy crime thriller based on a 1946 novel by William Lindsay Gresham. Bradley Cooper stars as The Great Stanton, a conjurer who steals a mind-reading act from a clairvoyant (Toni Collette) in a low-rent carnival. He performs it in swanky nightclubs with his loyal girlfriend (Rooney Mara), but a seductive psychologist (Cate Blanchett) is onto his game.

《玉面情魔》是吉尔莫·德尔·托罗自奥斯卡获奖影片《水形物语》之后的首部作品，也是他执导的第一部没有鬼魂、外星人、吸血鬼、超级英雄或其他超自然生物的电影。尽管电影名听起来像是恐怖片，但是《玉面情魔》其实是一部传统黑色电影，原型是威廉·林赛·格雷沙姆1946年所作同名小说。片中，魔术师斯坦顿（布莱德利·库柏饰）在一场底层人民的狂欢上偷学了占卜师（托妮·科莱特饰）的读心术，此后伙同忠实的女友（鲁妮·玛拉饰）一起在豪华俱乐部表演读心术，最后却被性感的心理学家（凯特·布兰切特饰）盯上。

Released on 3 December in India, and on 17 December in the US.

该片将于12月3日在印度上映，12月17日在美国上映。

重点词汇：

blockbuster

英 [ˈblɒkbʌstə(r)]；美[ˈblɑːkbʌstər]  

n. 大轰动；一鸣惊人的事物；（尤指）非常成功的书（或电影）

cataclysm

英 [ˈkætəklɪzəm]；美[ˈkætəklɪzəm]  

n. 大灾变；（突然降临的）大灾难；大动乱

resurrection

英 [ˌrezəˈrekʃn]；美[ˌrezəˈrekʃn]  

n. 复活；复苏

clairvoyant

英 [kleəˈvɔɪənt]；美[klerˈvɔɪənt]  

adj. 能预卜未来的；未卜先知的；通灵的

n. 未卜先知的人；通灵大师

swanky

英 [ˈswæŋki]；美[ˈswæŋki]  

adj. 摆阔的；时髦且豪华的