What to see at the cinema at Christmas: the best films showing

MODENA. Sofa and blanket in the privacy of your home or multiplex and big screen to socialize and experience emotions among people? The dilemma for lovers of the seventh art returns forcefully in these Christmas holidays, even if lovers of the seventh art have no doubts in the choice between platform and audience. Films are best enjoyed in the cinema and Christmas once again becomes the key period for the entire sectorwhich is breathing again after the blow of the pandemic which had also forced the closure of cinemas in 2020, which has never happened in history. Difficult years, but over time there has still been a recovery even if the pre-covid results are still far away. This Christmas also presents itself with a very varied programme which allows you to satisfy all tastes, even the most sophisticated ones.

Blockbuster

It’s not Christmas without blockbusters this year we find “Avatar 3”subtitled “Fire and ashes”. James Cameron takes viewers back to Pandora for another event film lasting almost 3 and a half hours and luckily this time, unlike the first film in the saga, released 16 years ago, there are no glasses 3D to create optic nerve disorders.

The process

“Nuremberg” by James Vanderbilt is another great film that captivates the viewer for 2 and a half hours with the historical-war genre. Set at the end of the Second World War, when the main leaders of Nazi Germany were brought to trial. A monumental Russell Crowe as Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring forcefully holds a very psychological script.

Cartoons

It’s not Christmas without entertainment. “Zootropolis 2“, released a few weeks early, is Disney’s Christmas cartoon. Inspired by Aesop’s fables with animal protagonists, it confirms itself as a blockbuster and suitable not only for children, to whom it is particularly recommended “A little mouse under the tree”, a German animated film directed by Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken.

Italians to the rescue

“Good Way” marks the great return of Checco Zalone after 6 years from “Tolo Tolo” which relies on the direction of Gennaro Nunziante after the experiment of self-directing in his latest film. It will be a long-distance duel with another Italian comic-moral film, that “Oh my life” del duo Pio and Amedeo which has already become the most watched national film of the season in just a few days. Nostalgia effect of laughter instead for the return to the big screen of Aldo Giovanni and Giacomobox-office hits at Christmas several times over the last 30 years, with the docufilm “Aptitude, none“. Also waiting for “Primavera” by the director Damiano Michieletto and played by Tecla Insolia and Michele Riondino; a dive into eighteenth-century Venice, with Antonio Vivaldi, violin teacher of a talented orphan.

Fine palates

There is also space for arthouse films with “My family in Taipei“, a work directed by director Shih-Ching Tsou, written and produced together with Sean Baker (Anora). The film had its world premiere in the Critic’s Week section of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival and in Italy at the 20th edition of the Rome Film Festival where it won the Best Film Award. Also very interesting “ Father Mother Sister Broth is“, a film that marks Jim Jarmusch’s return to directing, conceived in the form of a triptych. Three stories that tell the relationships between adult children, their rather distant parents and between siblings. Each of the three parts is set in the present and each in a different country.”Father” is set in the Northeastern United States, “Mother” in Dublin, and “Sister Brother” in Paris.

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