Fall Movie Preview: 78 Movies to Watch
![Fall Movie Preview: 78 Movies to Watch](https://ew.com/thmb/gHJyiTSig1HykuGJTJfzp5ucmRM=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/fmp-tout_0-e187138e17234643a91494a4a05afbdd.jpg)
So long, summer blues. It's fall! Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard slip into the past, Benedict Cumberbatch spins into a strange dimensions, Emily Blunt crashes into murder, Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence rocket into romance, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone trip the light fantastic, Eddie Redmayne unleashes the beasts... and we're falling in love with movies again.
The Light Between Oceans
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STARRING: Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Rachel Weisz
DIRECTED BY: Derek Cianfrance
RELEASE DATE: 9/2
With a bit of digital magic, New Zealand's Cape Campbell was transformed into Janus Rock, a fictional Australian island on which stoic lighthouse keeper Tom Sherbourne (Michael Fassbender) resides with his wife, Isabel (Alicia Vikander). The movie takes place in the 1920s, and the couple is living in peaceful isolation, a half day's boat ride from the nearest people. Then tragedy strikes. Isabel suffers one miscarriage, and another, and sinks into despair — until one day when a rowboat washes ashore with a baby girl and her dead father aboard. Isabel persuades Tom to keep the newborn, but it's an agonizing decision, especially when he encounters a bereaved woman (Rachel Weisz) on the mainland who he suspects is the girl's mother.
Morgan
![Morgan](https://ew.com/thmb/In2QsPeezijShgx9DCWIFL0vi_I=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-morgan3000232971-f2cd019e26434088bbee308476e0a145.jpg)
STARRING: Kate Mara, Anya Taylor-Joy, Toby Jones
DIRECTED BY: Luke Scott
RELEASE DATE: 9/2
A corporate fixer (Kate Mara) uncovers an enhanced-human specimen (Anya Taylor-Joy) as the cause of a horrifying incident. Ridley Scott produces this sci-fi thriller directed by his son Luke.
When the Bough Breaks
![Image](https://ew.com/thmb/J46zn35kcKzTDmaAkPysvDAGuT4=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/when-the-bough-breaks-57dc12ce286946289b8603fdb91d00f4.jpg)
STARRING: Morris Chestnut, Regina Hall, Jaz Sinclair
DIRECTED BY: Jon Cassar
RELEASE DATE: 9/9
A childless couple (Morris Chestnut, Regina Hall) find the seemingly perfect surrogate mother (Jaz Sinclair). Well, until she tries to make the husband her own.
Sully
![Sully](https://ew.com/thmb/QMU9ALOQfs1syFnRnhol__tb2D0=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-sully1000232966-264e1dddff7f4a8abbb43cba26154882.jpg)
STARRING: Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney
DIRECTED BY: Clint Eastwood
RELEASE DATE: 9/9
Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger famously landed an impaired jetliner on the Hudson River and saved all 155 aboard in 2009, but director Clint Eastwood (American Sniper) tells another side of this hero tale by looking at the investigation that followed.
Blair Witch
![Blair Witch](https://ew.com/thmb/g4vEFBkcngmYrStzn8zByOuzGeo=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-blair2000233722-04e54d8dcede41bb9434bbf2644140c2.jpg)
STARRING: James Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez, Corbin Reid
DIRECTED BY: Adam Wingard
RELEASE DATE: 9/16
In this sequel to 1999's horror classic, James Allen McCune (Shameless) plays the brother of Heather Donahue's character from the first film. He ventures into the same haunted woods with friends to look for his still-missing sis. Blair Witch was shot in secret under the code name The Woods, and Lionsgate even released a trailer with that title before finally letting the (black) cat out of the bag at Comic-Con last month.
Bridget Jones’s Baby
![Bridget Jones’s Baby](https://ew.com/thmb/hdfOD9qjEXiKY1QLG3lyGkhKEjE=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-bridgette2000232969-8c93b48172ee45c286e36c8e0555a894.jpg)
STARRING: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey
DIRECTED BY: Sharon Maguire
RELEASE DATE: 9/16
In the new sequel, Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) is less fluffy but no less blunder-prone as she becomes pregnant after falling into bed with ex-lover Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) and American businessman Jack Qwant (Patrick Dempsey) within the same short period of time, causing no small amounts of confusion and jealousy.
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years
![The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years](https://ew.com/thmb/1075Nf7lDC7YcEWNd4l7M6w2v5I=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/the-beatles_0-d056cf405df84ccdae6f8efdff4d25f6.jpg)
STARRING: Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, John Lennon
DIRECTED BY: Ron Howard
RELEASE DATE: 9/16
Ron Howard's doc tracks the Fab Four during their touring years — from Liverpool in 1962 through Beatlemania to their final 1966 bow at Candlestick Park.
Mr. Church
![Mr. Church](https://ew.com/thmb/6C5iu-E2qq6jdS61pYfJhG5yezo=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/eddie-murphy_0-1-256525f1a78241eb90193bccf07de18b.jpg)
STARRING: Eddie Murphy, Britt Robertson, Natascha McElhone
DIRECTED BY: Bruce Beresford
RELEASE DATE: 9/16
Set in '60s L.A., a chef (Eddie Murphy) transforms into a father figure for a young woman (Britt Robertson) as she grows up with a cancer-stricken single mother.
Snowden
![Snowden](https://ew.com/thmb/GFfI0azb0rPji5spniQU4KT1o2Y=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/snowden-53166b74b969415aa6924f0408eaa144.jpg)
STARRING: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zachary Quinto, Scott Eastwood, Shailene Woodley
DIRECTED BY: Oliver Stone
RELEASE DATE: 9/16
Director Oliver Stone tells Edward Snowden's story, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt stepping into the shoes of the fugitive NSA whistle-blower and Zachary Quinto playing investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald.
Queen of Katwe
![Queen of Katwe](https://ew.com/thmb/0gEY6oc-HjH7ebHYuAtn6SRXlw4=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-katwe4000232977-ccff7e4a9b084924a4611f0236e54299.jpg)
STARRING: Lupita Nyong'o, David Oyelowo, Madina Nalwanga
DIRECTED BY: Mira Nair
RELEASE DATE: 9/23
When Mira Nair (Vanity Fair) was casting the true-life story of Ugandan chess prodigy Phiona Mutesi, the only woman she could imagine playing the child's determined mother was her intern from her 2007 film, The Namesake. Only this young woman, who was also the daughter of Nair's husband's oldest and dearest friend, had the grit to take on the role of Harriet, the mother of five who endured the death of her husband and abject poverty to enable her daughter to thrive. It helped that this intern had since become an Oscar winner and one of the most sought-after actresses on the planet: Lupita Nyong'o.
Goat
![Goat](https://ew.com/thmb/u-ji4QvlyJeaebDVCxK8j9q1Odo=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/goat-2-59b1535d19f0405e89e2ff06815f3e0f.jpg)
STARRING: Ben Schnetzer, Nick Jonas, Gus Halper
DIRECTED BY: Andrew Neel
RELEASE DATE: 9/23
A BMOC (Nick Jonas) recruits his little brother (Ben Schnetzer) to pledge his fraternity, but the allure of girls, booze, and brotherhood might not justify the mental strain.
Beauty and the Beast
![Beauty and the Beast](https://ew.com/thmb/Kyk9S1KTzMFez1aBX_Z1sxKbWqA=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/beauty-and-the-beast-02-abe076ed4a0d40dcabaeba06b61c472c.jpg)
STARRING: Vincent Cassel, Léa Seydoux, André Dussollier
DIRECTED BY: Christophe Gans
RELEASE DATE: 9/23
Léa Seydoux, Vincent Cassel, and director Christophe Gans (Silent Hill) bring the classic 18th-century fairy tale to nonmusical life.
Storks
![Storks](https://ew.com/thmb/xyz1tan3C2Een0iy29-8BsUlD0w=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-storks1000232965-9caa6d20c5ae41dba064ad194fae3229.jpg)
STARRING: Andy Samberg, Katie Crown, Kelsey Grammer
DIRECTED BY: Nicholas Stoller, Doug Sweetland
RELEASE DATE: 9/23
Storks don't deliver babies anymore in this animated adventure, but one such bird (Andy Samberg) is determined to drop off a human newborn before his fierce boss (Kelsey Grammer) finds out.
The Magnificent Seven
![The Magnificent Seven](https://ew.com/thmb/gxUOk5jCZfg71eJzdT-FRYZdCMw=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-magnificent60002329831-07093aa4bd4b4ac8899ad767cf160208.jpg)
STARRING: Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke
DIRECTED BY: Antoine Fuqua
RELEASE DATE: 9/23
The Magnificent Seven puts a radical new spin on the outlaws-protect-a-small-town saga. This time, there's a new band of ruffians protecting a vulnerable Western outpost from a malevolent industrialist (Peter Sarsgaard). Denzel Washington leads the Seven as strong-silent Sam Chisolm, while Chris Pratt plays hard-drinking cardsharp Josh Faraday.
Deepwater Horizon
![Deepwater Horizon](https://ew.com/thmb/rEpPpCma4rBoNbyWjV3UQnaZ3nQ=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-deepwater4000232986-d48e05a6d17d49fb962dd6d0541b6773.jpg)
STARRING: Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, Kate Hudson
DIRECTED BY: Peter Berg
RELEASE DATE: 9/30
Deepwater Horizon focuses on extraordinary acts of courage and sacrifice in the face of a spiraling fiasco. "Everybody talks about the [marine] disaster, but people forget about the fact that 11 people lost their lives," says Mark Wahlberg, who plays one of the rig's heroes, Mike Williams. "[Their families] are going to hold us accountable, so we need to make sure we're getting it right."
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
![Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children](https://ew.com/thmb/eL3ErrmqcAdkbuht4nvLNKPh9nE=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-peculiar6000233015_0-79cc2c1da5814948ab64f269a3e9fb1f.jpg)
STARRING: Eva Green, Samuel L. Jackson, Asa Butterfield
DIRECTED BY: Tim Burton
RELEASE DATE: 9/30
In Tim Burton's new fantastical adventure, a family tragedy leads American teen Jake (Asa Butterfield) to an exotic British island where women can turn into birds and children possess serious peculiarities (like, say, having two mouths or the ability to control fire). Superheroes they are not.
American Honey
!['American Honey'](https://ew.com/thmb/SY0lOrzqmIL2CVv-JRHEGeHa8qU=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/american-honey-679faa06e1174371b6240defcc4e5823.jpg)
STARRING: Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, Riley Keough
DIRECTED BY: Andrea Arnold
RELEASE DATE: 9/30
Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, and Riley Keough traverse the U.S. peddling magazines and partying in this movie from writer-director Andrea Arnold (Wuthering Heights).
Denial
![Denial (Sept. 30)](https://ew.com/thmb/D9yg5AqmBO5nSaZ0yQey-9vQ3D8=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-denial1000233981_0-2537e3c77db7407f818f2feb6287db72.jpg)
STARRING: Rachel Weisz, Andrew Scott, Timothy Spall
DIRECTED BY: Mick Jackson
RELEASE DATE: 9/30
Historian Deborah Lipstadt (Rachel Weisz) battles staunch Holocaust denier David Irving (Timothy Spall) in a real-life libel case that hinged on proving the genocide happened.
Masterminds
![Masterminds](https://ew.com/thmb/UjdF4qt2UxgJIF_ZsnMQ058zi_E=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-masterminds6000233978-27a94e1f0963453bac5369bb98b478a5.jpg)
STARRING: Zach Galifianakis, Kate McKinnon, Owen Wilson, Kristen Wiig, Jason Sudeikis, Leslie Jones
DIRECTED BY: Jared Hess
RELEASE DATE: 9/30
A bumbling armored-truck driver (Zach Galifianakis), his loopy co-worker (Kristen Wiig), and an eager criminal (Owen Wilson) comically try to pull off a $17 million heist. Inspired by real events. Really.
The Girl on the Train
![The Girl on the Train](https://ew.com/thmb/4gwd_b_EJWJhzH0TGh-K31ykZGE=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-train8000233223_0-0ab27d40a6234f76b106105b43eb4232.jpg)
STARRING: Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett, Justin Theroux
DIRECTED BY: Tate Taylor
RELEASE DATE: 10/7
It doesn't take much to see how Emily Blunt's Rachel Watson could become obsessed with Haley Bennett's mysterious Megan Hipwell from afar in The Girl on the Train. As Megan's layers are peeled back, Bennett is a revelation, flitting from vulnerable and childlike to calculating and seductive.
The Birth of a Nation
![The Birth of a Nation](https://ew.com/thmb/oIi0nfZub0XRgA6pGvKItYGb-7k=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-birth-of4000232964_0-8346f9a7023044789a1602bf49af198a.jpg)
STARRING: Nate Parker, Aja Naomi King, Armie Hammer
DIRECTED BY: Nate Parker
RELEASE DATE: 10/7
Shot in Savannah, The Birth of a Nation traces the life of Nat Turner (Nate Parker), a peaceful preacher manipulated by wealthy Virginians to placate their slaves, who transformed himself into a leader of a violent insurrection.
37
![37](https://ew.com/thmb/voU8QMRzSmnR9cYD3xM6xth3660=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/37-movie-cf3ec9d5f8544b3f8a59c996b98e8509.jpg)
STARRING: Samira Wiley, Michael Potts, Maria Dizzia
DIRECTED BY: Puk Grasten
RELEASE DATE: 10/7
This fictionalized dramatization examines the 1964 rape and murder of Kitty Genovese through the POV of several of the 37 New York neighbors who witnessed the attack—and did nothing.
The 13th
![Image](https://ew.com/thmb/BuYZwi66IrwybyBK1NBYtMq6zB0=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/the-13-00a0a4f7bcec4df4909e53847c69e619.jpg)
DIRECTED BY: Ava DuVernay
RELEASE DATE: 10/7
Ava DuVernay (Selma) examines race in America by investigating the U.S. prison system in this Netflix documentary. The title refers to the U.S. amendment that abolished slavery.
Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
![Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life by James Patterson](https://ew.com/thmb/0rRlaSR8ynTChEOUgxE8jvrgs6g=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-middle-school-0000233748_0-8788ecc469c840919c72d1fd076eb2f3.jpg)
STARRING: Griffin Gluck, Lauren Graham, Rob Riggle
DIRECTED BY: Steve Carr
RELEASE DATE: 10/7
This chaotic comedy is part live action and part madcap animation as Rafe (Red Band Society's Griffin Gluck) tries to navigate a new school and his mom's relationship with a deadbeat boyfriend. When his nitpicking principal (Andrew Daly) confiscates and destroys his sketchbook, the imaginative Rafe retaliates by breaking every rule in the school's tedious code of conduct. That means plenty of elaborate pranks, like covering the principal's office in roughly 70,000 sticky notes.
Tower
![Tower](https://ew.com/thmb/o8y3bHqWN8WhtRKtY7nAZE916d8=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-tower1000233795-4aa81dff28e24fc3b1a96a61e7bb2e03.jpg)
STARRING: Violett Beane, Blair Jackson, Chris Doubek
DIRECTED BY: Keith Maitland
RELEASE DATE: 10/12
On a blistering summer day in 1966, a sniper opened fire from atop the University of Texas clock tower, killing 14 people. Keith Maitland's documentary blends rotoscoping animation with archival footage and witness interviews to reconstruct the panicked confusion. Though 50 years old, the shooting, he predicts, will feel devastatingly familiar. "As we all know from watching the news every couple of days, this is not the past," he says. "It's the present."
Mascots
![Mascots](https://ew.com/thmb/fGpdfpJzem-tA_gQeao0Q3OGk6k=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-mascots2000233706-2f584a74cff64a509b36073bf321f0ce.jpg)
STARRING: Jane Lynch, Ed Begley Jr., Zach Woods
DIRECTED BY: Christopher Guest
RELEASE DATE: 10/13
The Gold Fluffy is for sports mascots what the Mayflower is for dog owners, and director Christopher Guest (Best in Show) recruited an array of his longtime collaborators, including Jane Lynch and Ed Begley Jr. (who play contest judges), for this Netflix comedy, Guest's first feature in 10 years. Joining the company are Zach Woods (Silicon Valley) and Sarah Baker (Louie), who portray a pair of baseball-team mascots who also happen to be husband and wife.
The Accountant
![Image](https://ew.com/thmb/r6mDudf-wOThwv9SH9nxpXFqDQM=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-accountant7000233867-ccf3fc719be348ae83ecdf59ce6b2772.jpg)
STARRING: Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, J.K. Simmons
DIRECTED BY: Gavin O'Connor
RELEASE DATE: 10/14
Ben Affleck's character Chris Wolff, an autistic forensic accountant hired by criminals, lets loose his genius in director Gavin O'Connor's action thriller. When he's recruited by a legit client—a robotics company—to uncook their books and locate a money leak, Chris, in a pivotal scene, unveils his impossible discovery to a whistle-blowing CPA (Anna Kendrick) while simultaneously revealing the extent of his beautiful-mind skill set to the audience.
Desierto
![Image](https://ew.com/thmb/GDGi-YKeCJJ9vd50y6Lb8JLeQec=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/desierto_0-1-3d4c23e3bacd4ddfb331ccd5cdede3f6.jpg)
STARRING: Gael García Bernal, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Alondra Hidalgo
DIRECTED BY: Jonás Cuarón
RELEASE DATE: 10/14
Blood boils along the United States/Mexico border in this thriller from Gravity co-writer Jonás Cuarón. Jeffrey Dean Morgan (The Walking Dead) and Gael García Bernal (The Motorcycle Diaries) star.
Kevin Hart: What Now?
![Kevin Hart: What Now?](https://ew.com/thmb/N9EONW6j5RgO65OYhuu4tH1hlSA=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-what-now0500232970-d645e0ef5abd47eaa34e069b715dd1bd.jpg)
STARRING: Kevin Hart
DIRECTED BY: Leslie Small, Tim Story
RELEASE DATE: 10/14
In his newest stand-up concert film, the Central Intelligence star plays and slays an entire football stadium in his hometown of Philadelphia.
A Monster Calls
![A Monster Calls](https://ew.com/thmb/uT7SyoxZxdyqOLdscsFG-Wi4IXA=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-monster-calls0000233030_0-be5b8fc7c50a4eb7b10ddc8b0da56dad.jpg)
STARRING: Lewis MacDougall, Felicity Jones, Liam Neeson
DIRECTED BY: J.A. Bayona
RELEASE DATE: 10/21
An ominous tree creature helps 12-year-old Conor (Lewis MacDougall) cope while his mother (Felicity Jones) battles an illness in A Monster Calls. An adaptation of Patrick Ness' 2011 graphic novel, the movie follows a looming yew tree that transforms into a 36-foot-tall giant. The monster can be terrifying or sympathetic depending on Conor's mood as he also deals with school bullies and an unfeeling grandmother (Sigourney Weaver).
Keeping Up With the Joneses
![Keeping Up With the Joneses](https://ew.com/thmb/UNuSb_G0Gpd1JtsBHwplz5HOjxY=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-joneses1000233017-4492b0a505144831b7a0d8b5c0df7ab9.jpg)
STARRING: Zach Galifianakis, Isla Fisher, Jon Hamm, Gal Gadot
DIRECTED BY: Greg Mottola
RELEASE DATE: 10/21
Zach Galifianakis and Isla Fisher play Jeff and Karen Gaffney, a boring suburban couple who find themselves face-to-face with strangers: each other. "They're sending their kids off to camp for the first time," says director Greg Mottola (Superbad). "It's the first time in 11 years they're going to be alone for any significant amount of time." That's when the Joneses, played by Gal Gadot and Jon Hamm, move in next door. Turns out the Joneses have a secret—which leads the cul-de-sac couple into espionage action.
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
![Jack Reacher: Never Go Back](https://ew.com/thmb/CYsPVKwajuOI_sUCw-lj-FMDWTM=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-reacher12000233869_0-0c884ffe6e8c43718a1536e3cb41389c.jpg)
STARRING: Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders
DIRECTED BY: Edward Zwick
RELEASE DATE: 10/21
Four years after Tom Cruise first played military policeman-turned-wandering badass Jack Reacher in 2012's eponymous thriller, Reacher reconnects with old-friend-and-maybe-more Susan Turner (Cobie Smulders). Turner has Reacher's old job, and his attitude. But she's no movie cliché and the pair quickly find themselves on the run from a military conspiracy. Further complicating things: a teenage girl (Heroes: Reborn's Danika Yarosh) who might be Jack Reacher's daughter.
Moonlight
![Moonlight (Oct. 21)](https://ew.com/thmb/KgGGRnuwsU6yrhdvyT9MGO76vVI=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/moonlight_1-441c9fbff1484dd7a2b70e0c86299bc6.jpg)
STARRING: Trevante Rhodes, André Holland, Mahershala Ali, Janelle Monáe
DIRECTED BY: Barry Jenkins
RELEASE DATE: 10/21
Naomie Harris (Skyfall) plays the mother of a young African-American man as he struggles with self-discovery and modern definitions of masculinity.
Tyler Perry's Boo! A Madea Halloween
![Tyler Perry's Boo! A Madea Halloween](https://ew.com/thmb/fogQMb51tCYA94jSd3oSFU7hRUU=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-boomadea-000233980-f26644898d5c4f9fa6668d3da1833840.jpg)
STARRING: Tyler Perry, Bella Thorne, Diamond White
DIRECTED BY: Tyler Perry
RELEASE DATE: 10/21
The title says everything you need to know. Tyler Perry's sassy grandma faces ghosts and other scary-movie clichés.
In a Valley of Violence
![In a Valley of Violence](https://ew.com/thmb/Rilo1v9eEZeGPggiYIh6ypofswY=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/in-a-valley-of-violence_0-3e235fd255d943828c32e73c579c38fe.jpg)
STARRING: Ethan Hawke, Taissa Farmiga, John Travolta
DIRECTED BY: Ti West
RELEASE DATE: 10/21
A sleepy mining town is rattled when a drifter (Ethan Hawke) is egged into a fight by a local troublemaker (James Ransone), causing chaos for the local marshal (John Travolta).
Ouija: Origin of Evil
![Image](https://ew.com/thmb/fzPEhRwVtyKO4wEplL97-nGBltY=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ouija-origin-of-evil-abf776e1ada842dd8e1358db9c5084dd.jpg)
STARRING: Elizabeth Reaser, Lin Shaye, Lulu Wilson
DIRECTED BY: Barry Jenkins
RELEASE DATE: 10/21
The supernatural board game demonically possesses a little girl, in a prequel to the stealth 2014 hit.
The Handmaiden
![The Handmaiden](https://ew.com/thmb/coB31mhRs90RvTj-EW8M7zQ3UE4=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/handmaiden-711dc4bfeb65426bb1eb704722dd7db3.jpg)
STARRING: Kim Min-Hee, Kim Tae-ri, Ha Jung-Woo
DIRECTED BY: Park Chan-wook
RELEASE DATE: 10/21
Oldboy director Park Chan-wook's thriller is set in 1930s Korea during the Japanese occupation. A count hires an orphan to do his bidding, but there's more to her than she lets on.
American Pastoral
![American Pastoral](https://ew.com/thmb/2Cq9iUZZkjku2UO0pGnn682oilE=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-pastoral7000232987-42e0674bc8764f5a8643ba987c10dca3.jpg)
STARRING: Ewan McGregor, Jennifer Connelly, Dakota Fanning
DIRECTED BY: Ewan McGregor
RELEASE DATE: 10/21
It's been quite a journey bringing Philip Roth's 1997 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel to the screen. Multiple directors came and went before actor Ewan McGregor, who'd long been looking to make his directing debut, stepped up to tell the story of Swede Levov (McGregor), a New Jersey golden boy whose perfect American life falls apart when his daughter (Dakota Fanning) becomes a violent 1960s revolutionary.
Inferno
![Inferno by Dan Brown](https://ew.com/thmb/KhJQQK0TmXyPjMyizb55ktz7LhA=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-inferno3000232984-3828ba7a782d44ada4a457ccb30b1e8c.jpg)
STARRING: Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Ben Foster
DIRECTED BY: Ron Howard
RELEASE DATE: 10/28
Fans of author Dan Brown's symbology expert Robert Langdon, consider yourselves warned. In this third Da Vinci Code movie, the Harvard professor (Tom Hanks) isn't at his best. In fact, he's battling amnesia, a severe obstacle in his quest to prevent a madman (Lone Survivor's Ben Foster) from using Dante's 14th-century description of hell as the key to his warped plan for global destruction.
Rings
![Rings](https://ew.com/thmb/Uz5AAg8x4N2PLuuv1geNo9lPPyI=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/samara-rings-2016-2c81b443e79b48baae2d57405ccd103c.jpg)
STARRING: Matilda Lutz, Laura Wiggins, Aimee Teegarden, Johnny Galecki
DIRECTED BY: F. Javier Gutiérrez
RELEASE DATE: 10/28
Just as pop culture chimes the death knell for VCRs, the Ring franchise returns, with Matilda Lutz and Alex Roe playing the young couple who watch a cursed videotape.
Trolls
![Trolls](https://ew.com/thmb/5_goUXjvrieJDgF-IvOFn7WmVjs=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-trolls0002337071-604d56c6ad324171a2366bf2bf5d800e.jpg)
STARRING: Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, James Corden
DIRECTED BY: Walt Dohrn, Mike Mitchell
RELEASE DATE: 11/4
The fuzzy-haired toys come to life in an animated rainbow fantasy world that makes Oz look dull by comparison. Relentlessly joyful Poppy (Anna Kendrick) leads a tribe of übercheerful critters, but grumpy Branch (Justin Timberlake) lives in fear that giant monsters called Bergens will attack.
Loving
![Loving](https://ew.com/thmb/oiArv-26y9u3ogOser_u3aGkbzc=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-loving01000232993_0-a84095f35e5949e6ba51476a2cd64390.jpg)
STARRING: Joel Edgerton, Ruth Negga, Nick Kroll
DIRECTED BY: Jeff Nichols
RELEASE DATE: 11/4
Ruth Negga plays Mildred Loving, one half of the Virginia couple who were arrested in 1958 for the crime of interracial marriage, a conviction that led to the landmark 1967 antidiscrimination ruling by the United States Supreme Court.
Bleed for This
![Bleed for This](https://ew.com/thmb/zEKmPrMlBgkN5gyN2FZNc6gjZGg=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-bleed-for-this-000232992-af9f576192834f1a973ccfc0bc9e953a.jpg)
STARRING: Miles Teller, Katey Sagal, Aaron Eckhart
DIRECTED BY: Ben Younger
RELEASE DATE: 11/4
Boxing champ Vinny "The Pazmanian Devil" Pazienza (Miles Teller) faces impossible odds to fight his way back into the ring after breaking his neck in a car accident.
Hacksaw Ridge
![Hacksaw Ridge](https://ew.com/thmb/4MCCOidF7h9xyfM0l28FcUXrjAg=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-hacksaw7000233970-fff2b8b3ef8d444f84d5a0abaac63d4a.jpg)
STARRING: Andrew Garfield, Vince Vaughn, Sam Worthington
DIRECTED BY: Mel Gibson
RELEASE DATE: 11/4
Mel Gibson directs the heroic story of Pvt. Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield), a conscientious objector and WWII medic who earned the Congressional Medal of Honor after saving 75 lives during the Battle of Okinawa.
Doctor Strange
![Image](https://ew.com/thmb/amT2aVYN4eDfWv0-Ox0ycqNOKpo=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-nov-drstr-000232981-01_0-a1fe6e54911d47a89084ab166154ebf3.jpg)
STARRING: Benedict Cumberbatch, Tilda Swinton, Rachel McAdams
DIRECTED BY: Scott Derrickson
RELEASE DATE: 11/7
Benedict Cumberbatch (PBS' Sherlock) stars as Stephen Strange, a brilliant New York surgeon whose hands are horrifically damaged in a car accident. After bankrupting himself attempting to mend his injuries, Strange winds up in Nepal, searching for the Ancient One (Swinton), who he believes may be able to help. Instead of offering a medical solution, Swinton's androgynous character and his/her cohort Karl Mordo (The Martian's Chiwetel Ejiofor) introduce Strange to Marvel's many-dimensioned "multiverse."
Almost Christmas
![Almost Christmas](https://ew.com/thmb/56Zory9bRTdKABzx4QqnBJsGYT8=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-christmas-000233764-77117f9531aa47558f191f16c1a64d8a.jpg)
STARRING: Gabrielle Union, Kimberly Elise, Omar Epps, Danny Glover
DIRECTED BY: David E. Talbert
RELEASE DATE: 11/11
A widower (Danny Glover) wants just one holiday gift from his visiting family: five days of peace.
Elle
![Elle](https://ew.com/thmb/C5KEOmgVVpeAGAKfxx7i6go2qH8=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/elle-2016-98e155306ca7483a94b538992caca718.jpg)
STARRING: Isabelle Huppert, Christian Berkel, Anne Consigny
DIRECTED BY: Paul Verhoeven
RELEASE DATE: 11/11
After being attacked and raped, videogame executive Michèle (Isabelle Huppert) tracks down her attacker with revenge in mind in the latest from Paul Verhoeven (Basic Instinct).
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
![Image](https://ew.com/thmb/hadCYFbHqpDMT-IL4KaC7aL_K_M=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-halftime-walk-000232985_0-fcd4ea8ac2414fbfb6acc65d79e84fb0.jpg)
STARRING: Joe Alwyn, Vin Diesel, Kristen Stewart
DIRECTED BY: Paul Verhoeven
RELEASE DATE: 11/11
This film is based on Ben Fountain's 2012 book about an Iraq War hero (British newcomer Joe Alwyn) having a crisis of conscience just as he's being honored at the 2004 Super Bowl. It is told through Billy's eyes and flashes back and forth from the war in Iraq (Vin Diesel plays his sergeant), to moments from the night before the Super Bowl with family (Kristen Stewart is Billy's sister), to the halftime show.
Shut In
![Shut In](https://ew.com/thmb/PkaIAj6vVKErxPCGimbuJiT6TXY=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/shut-in-0cbc4e18b19844ee8983d107e7a66cd2.jpg)
STARRING: Charlie Heaton, Naomi Watts, Jacob Tremblay
DIRECTED BY: Farren Blackburn
RELEASE DATE: 11/11
A child psychologist (Naomi Watts) tries to save a young boy (Jacob Tremblay) during a wicked New England winter storm.
Arrival
![Arrival](https://ew.com/thmb/sg_zXYmwqvXZuSzt7AbEiNnkVKo=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-arrival0000233784_0-ac46a2fc2fd04aac97d9221fcbf5929e.jpg)
STARRING: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner
DIRECTED BY: Denis Villeneuve
RELEASE DATE: 11/11
Arrival — about an elite linguist (Amy Adams) brought in by the government to determine the intentions of recently arrived space aliens — marks the actress' second pairing with Jeremy Renner. But their friendship predates 2013's American Hustle by more than a decade, back to when they first met singing karaoke in the late '90s. "Working with Amy again was one of the big reasons I wanted to do this," says Renner, who plays a theoretical physicist. "The script and story were fantastic and I've always wanted to work with Denis [Villeneuve]. It checked so many boxes I couldn't say no."
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
![Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them](https://ew.com/thmb/lR6W_bQQi2j1F1REoQNdmuhQwDo=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/fb-ew-000239853-379e40dd2a9f4fccbac3ba6524cf4eda.jpg)
STARRING: Eddie Redmayne, Colin Farrell, Katherine Waterston
DIRECTED BY: David Yates
RELEASE DATE: 11/18
Eddie Redmayne makes magic as Newt Scamander, bringing J.K. Rowling's words back to the big screen for the first time since the final installment of the Harry Potter series in 2011. Starring alongside Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, and Ezra Miller, Redmayne plays a wizard and author who stops by stateside in the 1920s.
The Edge of Seventeen
![The Edge of Seventeen](https://ew.com/thmb/N9PlkxSSDSX20OxpPipthTz8LtU=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-seventeen-0000233886-29de3e6ee93648dea68fd6cb8ce990a3.jpg)
STARRING: Hailee Steinfeld, Haley Lu Richardson, Woody Harrelson
DIRECTED BY: Kelly Fremon Craig
RELEASE DATE: 11/18
Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit) plays Nadine, a high school misfit whose life crumbles further when her best friend starts hooking up with Nadine's brother.
Manchester by the Sea
![Manchester by the Sea](https://ew.com/thmb/7DCWPufoS-WI9eKe9cFcqpuXcas=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-manchester000233016-a2c88e32d9da452fabf034caf5dbe789.jpg)
STARRING: Casey Affleck, Kyle Chandler, Michelle Williams
DIRECTED BY: Kenneth Lonergan
RELEASE DATE: 11/18
In Kenneth Lonergan's brutally poignant third film, Casey Affleck (Gone Baby Gone) plays Lee, a haunted man who's fled his titular Massachusetts hometown after a devastating family tragedy. When his brother (Kyle Chandler) dies suddenly, Lee returns home to care for his nephew and is forced to confront his past, including his estranged ex-wife, Randi (Michelle Williams).
Nocturnal Animals
![Nocturnal Animals](https://ew.com/thmb/Gyy7k4mxhXo3jjK0MN0CKzN83Ek=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/amy-1_0-1394c0de4efd42c7bfc3773f6eace875.jpg)
STARRING: Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon
DIRECTED BY: Tom Ford
RELEASE DATE: 11/18
Tom Ford sought out Austin Wright's gripping 1993 meta-novel, Tony and Susan, for his sophomore effort. The tricky plot involves an apathetic married woman named Susan (Amy Adams) who receives a manuscript titled Nocturnal Animals in the mail from her ex-husband. She begins to read the story of Tony (Jake Gyllenhaal), a family man terrorized by highway hoodlums (led by Aaron Taylor-Johnson). Unnerved, Susan questions whether the manuscript is an act of forgiveness. Or revenge.
Allied
![Image](https://ew.com/thmb/4mEdnK1dWHIQ8gAu_Lmz543AAW8=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-allied0000233813-4297d914734d428db06298b11b8a953c.jpg)
STARRING: Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard
DIRECTED BY: Robert Zemeckis
RELEASE DATE: 11/23
In Robert Zemeckis' romantic wartime thriller, set in 1942 Casablanca and London, Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard are anything but the usual suspects. In fact, they're undercover operatives — he's from Canada, she's from France — with secrets to uphold and romance to pursue.
Rules Don't Apply
![Rules Don't Apply](https://ew.com/thmb/9Da7O3m4iUqs7h87KD4QE1K2D_0=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-rules000233810-7eee719cf3f74210af4a59a566b655e2.jpg)
STARRING: Warren Beatty, Lily Collins, Alden Ehrenreich
DIRECTED BY: Warren Beatty
RELEASE DATE: 11/23
Like legendary recluse Howard Hughes, Warren Beatty has been Hollywood's Invisible Man for the past 15 years. So it's fitting that during his hiatus he was toiling away on a film about...Howard Hughes. Rules Don't Apply is less a biopic of the batty billionaire than a late-'50s romance in which Beatty's Hughes (he also wrote and directed) looks on as two of his employees (Lily Collins as a wannabe actress, Alden Ehrenreich as her driver) weigh their attraction against their religious upbringings.
Moana
![Moana](https://ew.com/thmb/46ypcYJ5C2_kISHo6jCI3sZVy7w=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-moana0000233232-8f8ccbb31a41492a8aed92bb28a8eac4.jpg)
STARRING: Dwayne Johnson, Auli'i Cravalho
DIRECTED BY: Ron Clements, John Musker
RELEASE DATE: 11/23
Somewhere between the mermaids, maidens, and heavy sleepers in the Disney-princess pantheon, a new heroine is staking her claim. Meet Moana, a Pacific Islander from 2,000 years ago who embarks on a quest across the ocean to track down the shape-shifting demigod Maui (voiced by Dwayne Johnson), save her people, and fulfill her ancestral calling as a master wayfinder.
Bad Santa 2
![Bad Santa 2](https://ew.com/thmb/C_9qHbDvqHsjeQ8uy0JOK2BeRkE=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-santa20000234007_0-3524b56c7cba4303b69d6fbf041b9df1.jpg)
STARRING: Billy Bob Thornton, Kathy Bates, Tony Cox
DIRECTED BY: Mark Waters
RELEASE DATE: 11/23
Billy Bob Thornton is back as crusty St. Nick, Willie Soke. Joining him for the holidays are Kathy Bates and Christina Hendricks.
Lion
![Lion](https://ew.com/thmb/3yNuMHatN9_pUP9FfYK2GZfbtuE=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/lion-1-4231c1bcf761467294bd2fccc278b1eb.jpg)
STARRING: Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, Nicole Kidman
DIRECTED BY: Garth Davis
RELEASE DATE: 11/25
An Indian man (Dev Patel) raised by Australians (Nicole Kidman and David Wenham) turns to Google Earth to find his long-lost family.
La La Land
![La La Land](https://ew.com/thmb/3ke_zKUxFSnECZ5SVe5UxM-NqcM=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-la-la88000232990-d8f1600b0c414a3a8e63e2e92d78ae6d.jpg)
STARRING: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend
DIRECTED BY: Damien Chazelle
RELEASE DATE: 12/2
No movie genre simulates the feeling of falling in love better than the musical. And that's just what director Damien Chazelle (Whiplash) hopes he captures in his woozily romantic new movie. Although the story is set in the real world of Los Angeles, in one scene the lead lovebirds (Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling) take their waltz up into the stars. "I allowed myself to go as wild or as fantastical as I wanted," Chazelle says.
The Eyes of My Mother
![The Eyes of My Mother](https://ew.com/thmb/KJ_U6zq_4CeX7aVPYOu7YAu1yT0=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-eyes-of-my-mother-0000234060-b5e885d66ca445a398cd152c982d7a63.jpg)
STARRING: Diana Agostini, Olivia Bond, Will Brill
DIRECTED BY: Nicolas Pesce
RELEASE DATE: 12/2
This chilling Sundance head-turner delves into the world of a lonely farm woman who never recovers from a childhood tragedy.
The Salesman
![The Salesman](https://ew.com/thmb/5ZyFqrq0D4DFSoDepJbbsjtQAlk=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/the-salesman-4fd4cfbc1a704477a357fc51a75c384c.jpg)
STARRING: Taraneh Alidoosti, Shahab Hosseini, Babak Karimi
DIRECTED BY: Asghar Farhadi
RELEASE DATE: 12/9
Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi (A Separation) drew raves at Cannes for this tense drama about a young couple and the misfortune that stalks them after they move into a shabby apartment.
Miss Sloane
![Miss Sloane](https://ew.com/thmb/Hp3ZKWN-5VQjXmj6lpokkaubroM=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-sloane6000233051_0-43b6c9d88d734165b57478eb9eea3f94.jpg)
STARRING: Jessica Chastain, Mark Strong, Gugu Mbatha-Raw
DIRECTED BY: John Madden
RELEASE DATE: 12/9
For many on both sides of the argument, there is no bigger political issue than gun control. But Jessica Chastain, who plays a lobbyist pushing a background-check bill through the U.S. Senate, flinches a bit at that term. "Gun control is divisive because some people are immediately afraid that it's a kind of confiscation," she says. "And people who hear that in regards to this film will think it's a plant to move them in one direction." She pauses. "It's not." Instead, Miss Sloane, written by first-timer Jonathan Perera and directed by John Madden (Shakespeare in Love), uses the Second Amendment debate to explore how the American political system works—or doesn't.
Office Christmas Party
![Image](https://ew.com/thmb/BApOaj3sxS-dVFwFK-uGu3TYNgk=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-office1000233021-78e45c2b9d414f23bfb40183664c3402.jpg)
STARRING: Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, T.J. Miller
DIRECTED BY: Josh Gordon, Will Speck
RELEASE DATE: 12/9
A Chicago winter turns even bleaker for the office drones at a tech company when their CEO (Jennifer Aniston) tries to shutter the branch managed by her merry brother, Clay (T.J. Miller). Thus their traditional office Christmas shindig takes on a more urgent — and debauched — tone, as Clay and his CTO (Jason Bateman) attempt to use the yuletide bacchanal to woo a major client (Courtney B. Vance).
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
![Rogue One: A Star Wars Story](https://ew.com/thmb/U2qoJR9pSxeQwamtdBqhw9y58DA=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-rogue64000233923-8bdc78d2465b4484be83e5b390efb8fe.jpg)
STARRING: Felicity Jones, Ben Mendelsohn, Riz Ahmed
DIRECTED BY: Gareth Edwards
RELEASE DATE: 12/16
Appearing in Rogue One, a Star Wars stand-alone film about the Rebel spies who steal the original Death Star blueprints, Felicity Jones plays Jyn Erso, the loner whose scientist father has knowledge vital to both the Rebels and the Empire. To help the Rebel Alliance secure the plans that will eventually allow Luke Skywalker to destroy the Death Star, her conscripted outlaw will fight in space, on land, in the pouring rain, and under a sweltering desert sun.
The Founder
![The Founder](https://ew.com/thmb/Q4w0zJgrog-ZrFa-ct76Zh63v-k=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-founder2000232996-452b9324025f4d5993a3a2d84913af00.jpg)
STARRING: Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, Laura Dern
DIRECTED BY: John Lee Hancock
RELEASE DATE: 12/16
The largest fast-food corporation in the world got its name from the two brothers who founded it, but it was former milk-shake-machine salesman Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton) who transformed McDonald's into a global phenomenon — and pushed the McDonald brothers (Nick Offerman and John Carroll Lynch) out of their own restaurant.
A Kind of Murder
![A Kind of Murder](https://ew.com/thmb/TzcwHHohh41Hmse-wi6PyxSUpxU=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-kind-0000234054-05c4ce90c50d48cb9e30e3e38a23d88a.jpg)
STARRING: Haley Bennett, Jessica Biel, Patrick Wilson
DIRECTED BY: Andy Goddard
RELEASE DATE: 12/16
An unhappy 1960s couple (Patrick Wilson, Jessica Biel) become intertwined with a widower (Eddie Marsan) who may have murdered his wife. Inspired by Patricia Highsmith's novel The Blunderer.
Neruda
![Neruda](https://ew.com/thmb/Svy99P-WcNl-NgdbtE8otQzzhyU=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/neruda-b9d1ae1b715e41faa376ba1ada4b5906.jpg)
STARRING: Gael García Bernal, Luis Gnecco, Alfredo Castro
DIRECTED BY: Pablo Larraín
RELEASE DATE: 12/16
After turning against the Chilean government for outlawing communism, poet-statesman Pablo Neruda (Luis Gnecco) is forced into hiding and chased by a dogged police officer (Gael García Bernal).
Collateral Beauty
![Collateral Beauty](https://ew.com/thmb/3VOfY6c4bW9glAnbnkq7snDg3Qo=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-collateral9900232968_0-e217c4fd09c447e89edc4de2f37120a7.jpg)
STARRING: Will Smith, Helen Mirren, Edward Norton
DIRECTED BY: David Frankel
RELEASE DATE: 12/16
It's hard to describe Collateral Beauty, especially when the plot is being kept secret beyond its logline: Howard Inlet (Will Smith) finds his life shattered after a personal tragedy. "It's a little bit It's a Wonderful Life and a little bit The Wizard of Oz," says Smith, 47 (not helping). "It's the process of Howard putting his life back together, but there's also some interesting mystical elements." The Devil Wears Prada director David Frankel is behind the camera. Helen Mirren and Kate Winslet are in front of it with Smith, doing...something. "It's a smart, funny, and heartwarming Christmas story about reclaiming one's life and love," he says.
Assassin's Creed
![Assassin's Creed](https://ew.com/thmb/xDTjkJSIeO5a2lRqo2ijRcYXDS8=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-creed0000232972-4c24285013fd42e283edf706051d6528.jpg)
STARRING: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons
DIRECTED BY: Justin Kurzel
RELEASE DATE: 12/21
The recipe for any Assassin's Creed videogame is simple: Mix a historical period, a figure in a hood, and a knife hidden in his sleeve. The Assassin's Creed film stars Michael Fassbender as both modern-day death-row inmate Callum Lynch and his deadly 15th-century Spanish ancestor Aguilar, two men connected for mysterious reasons via a Matrix-like device called the Animus.
Julieta
![Julieta](https://ew.com/thmb/pHuZ73w6n1ZlQxMa8-zpBm2dbNY=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-julieta8000234059-93b70ea7ff304037aaebc05f21292ccd.jpg)
STARRING: Adriana Ugarte, Rossy de Palma, Emma Suárez
DIRECTED BY: Pedro Almodóvar
RELEASE DATE: 12/21
Pedro Almodóvar's film, about a woman grieving the dissolution of the relationship with her daughter after her husband's untimely death, is based on three Alice Munro short stories ("Chance," "Soon," and "Silence").
Sing
![Sing](https://ew.com/thmb/Vs6yar9NX-mwgQavCVDTxyR76CI=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-sing12000233221-6a36adf69d0a437e9492897dda1cb54f.jpg)
STARRING: Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Scarlett Johansson
DIRECTED BY: Garth Jennings
RELEASE DATE: 12/21
Matthew McConaughey voices Buster Moon, a koala bear theater owner who sponsors a singing competition to drum up interest in his struggling establishment. The American Idol-like event draws an eclectic group of competitors, including harried mama pig Rosita (Reese Witherspoon), teenage elephant Meena (Tori Kelly), and punk porcupine Ash (Scarlett Johansson).
20th Century Women
![20th Century Women](https://ew.com/thmb/51tdvMzCM8vbdZtGw_kNOuKBs2M=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-century7000233057-1802bda3bbfc4b4f9c887eb7c528a164.jpg)
STARRING: Annette Bening, Greta Gerwig, Elle Fanning
DIRECTED BY: Mike Mills
RELEASE DATE: 12/21
Director Mike Mills (Beginners) returns to his Santa Barbara hometown with a semi-autobiographical film about a California mother (Annette Bening) who recruits two very different women — a punk-rockish photographer (Greta Gerwig) and a precocious teen (Elle Fanning) — to share their views on life, love, and femininity with her 15-year-old son (Lucas Jade Zumann).
Patriots Day
![Patriots Day](https://ew.com/thmb/xuJOnRDjwTMQa1zz-G-y2LWUdgc=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/patriots-day-4eaa0c513c9248b8bf70cad1208020e8.jpg)
STARRING: Mark Wahlberg, John Goodman, Alex Wolff
DIRECTED BY: Peter Berg
RELEASE DATE: 12/21
Mark Wahlberg, J.K. Simmons, and John Goodman play police officers hunting down the two Boston Marathon bombers in Peter Berg's suspenseful account of the 2013 attack and its aftermath.
Passengers
![Image](https://ew.com/thmb/LVvk_zo4uuF0gGNhaf3JOLeBtVs=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-passengers9000233227-bbb63ea22a04496c94e59ca4c88748e9.jpg)
STARRING: Chris Pratt, Jennifer Lawrence
DIRECTED BY: Morten Tyldum
RELEASE DATE: 12/21
On a luxury interstellar spaceship bound for the Homestead II colony 120 years away, Jim (Chris Pratt) and Aurora (Jennifer Lawrence) are two of 5,000 souls traveling in suspended animation. But then, Jim and Aurora are mistakenly awakened 90 years too early. Alone in outer space with a giant ship as their personal playground, they begin to fall in love just as it becomes apparent that the ship is malfunctioning and endangering its entire population. Only they can save the rest of the crew.
Fences
![Fences by August Wilson](https://ew.com/thmb/UxPc8H_EOphwPMiW4vT6SBx8MK4=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/fences_0_0-97337d1b155641fb878310caa67a14d2.jpg)
STARRING: Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Mykelti Williamson
DIRECTED BY: Denzel Washington
RELEASE DATE: 12/25
Denzel Washington and Viola Davis both won Tonys for their roles in the 2010 revival of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. The film adaptation, directed by Washington, figures to be in the Oscars mix.
Why Him?
![Why Him?](https://ew.com/thmb/wEUA35eA5rE7o23D1TxZnnbWEoY=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ew-why11000232976_0-b78692c1ffaa45da8dc3821617026ad3.jpg)
STARRING: Bryan Cranston, James Franco, Zoey Deutch
DIRECTED BY: John Hamburg
RELEASE DATE: 12/25
It's dad versus boyfriend in Why Him?, A comedy about a protective pop, Ned (Bryan Cranston), who has major reservations about the man intent on marrying his daughter, Stephanie (Zoey Deutch). Laird (James Franco) is a tech billionaire with a generous heart but an extremely inappropriate sensibility that offends Ned to the core.
Gold
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STARRING: Matthew McConaughey, Edgar Ramirez, Bryce Dallas Howard
DIRECTED BY: Stephen Gaghan
RELEASE DATE: 12/25
It may take audiences a moment to recognize Matthew McConaughey in Gold: he gained 40 soft pounds and shaved back his locks so his forehead gleams in order to play Kenny Wells, a luckless prospector trying to strike it rich in the Indonesian jungle. Gold introduces Wells at rock bottom, operating his prospecting business out of a bar in Reno, while his steadfast girlfriend (Bryce Dallas Howard) works multiple jobs to keep them afloat. Ultimately, a fever dream inspires him to team up with a wily geologist (Edgar Ramirez) and head to Borneo in search of a massive gold strike.
Paterson
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STARRING: Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani
DIRECTED BY: Jim Jarmusch
RELEASE DATE: 12/28
Adam Driver is a bus driver named Paterson from Paterson, N.J., and Golshifteh Farahani is his more extroverted wife in director Jim Jarmusch's relationship drama.