Trailer Mash

Smiles, chills and royals: Our guide to this week's new films, based on their previews

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As Helena Bonham Carter's genetically accurate rendition of Elizabeth in The King's Speech fades from memory, there's a new Queen Mother in town—England's rather splendid Olivia Colman. Perfectly cast in Hyde Park on Hudson, the story of what happened when the British royals visited FDR on the eve of World War II, she is nevertheless upstaged remorselessly in this teaser by Bill Murray's showboating as America's greatest 20th-century Caesar.

Competing for your teary smiles are that terrifying-looking Gerard Butler romantic comedy Playing for Keeps, about an ex-professional footballer's woes, and Ed Burns joint The Fitzgerald Family Christmas, about an OIrish family reunion.

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