10 of the best movies to see in August

Here is the list of ten best movies to watch in august

1.My Old School

When Brandon Lee, then 16, transferred to a new school near Glasgow in 1993, everyone noticed something odd about him. Some speculated that he was leading a second life. But no one anticipated the magnitude of the lie that would finally be revealed. Lee's old classmates and professors explain his unusual narrative in Jono McLeod's documentary - and if you don't want to know the finish, don't Google his name. Lee refused to appear on television, so his testimony is lip-synced by Alan Cumming (The Good Wife), while flashbacks to the 1990s are animated cartoons.

According to Vox's Alissa Wilkinson, the results are "flat-out hilarious... like listening to a group of pals tell you about the wildest experience they share."

In the United Kingdom and Ireland, it will be available on August 19th.

2.Luck

Tony Award nominee Eva Noblezada provides the voice of Sam, "the unluckiest person in the world," in Skydance Animation's first full-length film. She grew up in the foster care system and hopes to bring some extra good fortune to a fellow foster child, which leads her to a realm where magical creatures, including a black cat voiced by Simon Pegg and a dragon voiced by Jane Fonda, manipulate the human race's fortunes. Luck may sound a little sinister, but director Peggy Holmes promises it's full of "positivity and inspiration." "We've all been through a really hard time in the world together," she says to Jackson Murphy at Animation Now.

People want to sit back, relax, and be motivated to simply keep going. When the bad luck strikes, simply keep going because some good luck will follow."

On Apple TV+ globally on August 5,

3.Mack & Rita

13 from Freaky Friday to Big From 30 to 17, Again, many comedies depict young minds zapping into elderly bodies and vice versa. However, Katie Aselton's (The Freebie, Black Rock) new film puts a new spin on the formula by using older actors rather than teens and adults. Mack & Rita, written by Paul Welsh and Madeline Walter, is about a 30-year-old novelist (Elizabeth Lail) who has always felt like a 70-year-old woman on the inside.

She is mysteriously turned into a 70-year-old lady on the exterior after attending a new-age programme in Palm Springs. She is a cheerful, easygoing "glammy granny" social-media influencer in her new persona (Diane Keaton in an all-too-rare starring role), but can it compensate for losing 40 years of her life?

The film was released on August 12 in the United States, Canada, and Spain.

4.Bullet Train

David Leitch was Brad Pitt's stunt double on Troy, Fight Club, and Mr and Mrs Smith, and has since gone on to direct films like Hobbs & Shaw, Atomic Blonde, and Deadpool 2. And now the two old friends have teamed up for Bullet Train, Leitch's latest shooting-and-punching-fest. Pitt plays an assassin sent by his handler (Sandra Bullock) to steal a briefcase from one of the passengers on a Japanese train, unaware that the train is full of other shady characters (Brian Tyree Henry, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Zazie Beetz, Michael Shannon).Bullet Train, adapted from a novel by Ktar Isaka, is "the kind of summer popcorn movie that knows it's a summer popcorn movie," according to EW's Nick Romano. "However, because Leitch is at the helm, the action is sharp, slick, dynamic, and always moving the story forward."




The film will be released on August 3rd in the United Kingdom and August 5th in the United States.

5.Blind Ambition

The perfect underdog story in this intoxicating Australian documentary directed by Robert Coe and Warwick Ross would seem far-fetched in a Hollywood comedy. Its four heroes are all Zimbabwean refugees who fled to South Africa and found work as waiters, then as sommeliers, before forming Zimbabwe's first competitive wine-tasting team. Their next destination will be Burgundy, France, for "the Olympics of wine tasting." Pour yourself a glass of your favourite rosé and relax. "While the focus is on the road to the championship and the outcome of the competition," Jojo Ajisafe writes in Little White Lies, "the real joy of Blind Ambition is watching the team's strength and ambition."How they not only changed their own and their families' lives, but also exposed the world to Zimbabwe's untapped talent."




The film was released on August 12 in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and on September 2 in the United States.

6.Emily The Criminal

Emily (Aubrey Plaza) is a bad person. In John Patton Ford's darkly satirical urban thriller, she becomes involved in a low-level credit card scam organised by Youcef (Theo Rossi), which leads to bigger, more violent crimes. But, just maybe, her mistakes are understandable. Ford argues for Emily that with $70,000 in student loans to repay and patronising bosses offering her only unpaid internships, she is out of options.According to Alissa Wilkinson of Vox, the film is "an entertaining and sharp-edged look at the world in which so many millennials find themselves," saddled with "enormous debt, a lousy job market, an exploitative gig economy, and the sinking feeling that nothing's going to get better if you don't escape the system."




In the United States and Canada, it was released on August 12th.

7.The Feast

There aren't many folk-horror films in which the characters all speak Welsh, but Lee Haven Jones' The Feast would be worth watching in any language. A posh dinner party in the Welsh countryside is the setting. A politician (Julian Lewis Jones) hopes to persuade some local farmers to allow a mining company onto their property. But their evening's waitress, the mysterious Cadi (Annes Elwy), has other plans. "The filmmaker examines issues relating to classism, climate change, wealth inequality, sexism, and so much more with deliciously malevolent precision," writes Sara Michelle Fetters at MovieFreak.Jones also doesn't hold back on the gore and blood, and the resulting mix of social commentary and ghoulish mystical terror is beautifully disturbing on a primal level."




In the United Kingdom, it was released on August 19th.

8.Three Thousand Years of Longing

Seven years after the explosive Mad Max: Fury Road, George Miller is back with another film - and the contrast could not be starker. We have a demure English academic (Tilda Swinton) at a literature conference in Istanbul instead of bloodthirsty survivalists racing around post-apocalyptic Australia. A djinn (Idris Elba) appears in her hotel room and grants her three wishes, but the academic has read enough myths to know that wishes rarely come true, so the djinn tries to charm her with fantastic tales from his past.

Miller's romantic fantasy, which debuted at Cannes, is a far cry from Mad Max territory, but there is a common thread between the two films. "Three Thousand Years of Longing," writes Ben Croll at The Wrap, "is another kind of blockbuster that tries to lead by example, a big-budget fantasia that argues there are more imaginative and original ways for Hollywood to employ its tools." In the United States and Canada, it was released on August 31. Jones also doesn't hold back on the gore and blood, and the resulting mix of social commentary and ghoulish mystical terror is beautifully disturbing on a primal level." In the United Kingdom, it was released on August 19th.

9.Bodies Bodies Bodies

According to Matthew Turner of Nerdly, this "Agatha Christie-style Gen-Z slasher farce" is "one of the horror highlights of the year." Amandla Stenberg and Maria Bakalova (from Borat Subsequent Moviefilm) play a young couple who attend a hipster house party at the mansion of a wealthy friend. Late at night, the twenty-somethings play "bodies bodies bodies," a game in which the murderer "kills" his victims by touching them. But then, of course, someone gets killed. The film's director, Halina Reijn, satirises our resentments, insecurities, and social-media obsessions while also delivering a deftly plotted murder mystery."In short," Turner says, "Bodies Bodies Bodies is a thoroughly entertaining, deliciously twisted horror farce that demands to be seen by as large an audience as possible." "Agatha Christie would be pleased." Released on August 5th in the United States, August 12th in Canada, and September 9th in the United Kingdom.

10.I came By

Hugh Bonneville co-stars in I Came By as Sir Hector Blake, a snooty high-court judge who is a far cry from the characters he is known for in Downton Abbey and Paddington. Alongside him is George MacKay, who plays a graffiti artist akin to Banksy whose specialty is sneaking into the homes of Britain's wealthiest aristocrats and doing some unauthorised redecorating. However, while staying at Sir Hector's London townhouse, he discovers a dark secret that puts his life in danger. This Netflix crime thriller, directed and co-written by Bafta-winning Babak Anvari, promises "classic Hitchcockian suspense via contemporary themes of establishment privilege and corruption."


The film will be released in cinemas in the United Kingdom and Ireland on August 19, and on Netflix worldwide on August 31.