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September
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey: In the yawning aftermath of After Yang, writer/director Kogonada tries again with Colin Farrell, this time welcoming Margot Robbie to another potential wad of corn, giving it a horrific title, and going for the tearjerking jugular. I’m sorry, but it grows harder every year to cheer for the man who made Columbus.
One Battle After Another: Paul Thomas Anderson interprets Thomas Pynchon for the second time, casting Leonardo DiCaprio as fu-manchu’d Bob Ferguson. Anderson’s working with the biggest budget of his career, primed to hone Pynchon’s novel—the 1990 postmodernist thriller-romp Vineland—into what could be the closest the director’s come to an action-packed blockbuster.
October
The Smashing Machine: The Rock turns his face into a prosthetic meat-slab for Benny Safdie, playing MMA champion Mark Kerr. His artificially heavy brow cannot hide how desperately his sights are set on an Oscar nomination.
Tron: Ares: Jared Leto lands the easiest role of his lifetime—a synthetic humanoid who must learn how to be a real man—in the third film in a sci-fi franchise that seems “loosely planned” at this point.
The Mastermind: Kelly Reichardt mines a sumptuous ‘70s sheen for the story of an unassuming art thief (cutie-pie Josh O’Connor). No doubt we’re getting another hushed-but-devastating drama from an increasingly iconic American director.
A House of Dynamite: Little details are available for Kathryn Bigelow’s first film since 2017’s Detroit, except for a big castlist—including Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, and teen heartthrob Tracy Letts—and a one-sentence synopsis about an “unattributed missile” heading toward the US. Whatever. It’ll be on Netflix; you’ll get to it eventually.
Bugonia: Yorgos Lanthimos—popular director who makes weird, uncomfortable movies—is back with a movie that appears to be weird and uncomfortable. It’s his follow-up to last year’s Kinds of Kindness, a movie I’ve heard described as “weird” and “uncomfortable.” I wouldn’t know; I haven’t seen it. I’m not fond of feeling weird or uncomfortable.
November
The Running Man: Edgar Wright pimps out Glen Powell, the goddamnedest goodlooking man on god’s green earth, for the second cinematic attempt at adapting Stephen King’s 1982 book. Michael Cera could be playing a guy who electrocutes cops with a squirt gun full of his piss? I still need to confirm that.
Die, My Love: Grief and dissolution haunt Lynne Ramsey’s films (Morvern Callar, You Were Never Really Here), and her latest—starring Jennifer Lawrence as a woman whose reality’s crumbling—will probably be a similarly intense ghost story.
Train Dreams: Filmed throughout northeastern Washington, Clint Bentley’s quietest of the quiet Pacific Northwest epics sold to Netflix for a reportedly record-breaking amount at Sundance, which is funny, because this gorgeous historical drama will make exactly zero dollars.
Hamnet: Bard-heads rejoice! Chloé Zhao (The Rider, Nomadland) goes back super-thirsty to the Oscar well for the story of sexy William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal) and his wife Agnes (Jessie Buckley) mourning the loss of their young son, her via being sad and him via writing Hamlet (duh).
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