Best of the fall
SEPT. 15:
“American Assassin” A CIA black ops recruit teams up with a Cold War veteran (Michael Keaton) to investigate a wave of attacks on military and civilian targets. * “Dolores” A documentary about the labor and civil rights leader Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the first farm workers unions with César Chávez. * “Mother!” From filmmaker Darren Aronofsky comes a psychological thriller about a couple whose relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home. “Trophy” An in-depth look into biggame hunting, breeding and wildlife conservation in the U.S. and Africa. SEPT. 22:
“Birthright: A War Story” A story about the women battling government control of reproductive health care.
“Brad’s Status” Ben Stiller stars as a father accompanying his collegebound son to the East Coast, where he reconnects with his old college friends.
“Friend Request” A demonic presence starts killing a college student’s
(Alycia Debnam-Carey) friends.
“Kingsman: The Golden Circle” An intelligence agency faces a new challenge when their headquarters are destroyed and the world is held hostage.
“The LEGO Ninjago Movie” The Green Ninja (Dave Franco) tags alongside Sensei Wu (Jackie Chan) to defeat a warlord.
“Rebel in the Rye” The story of writer J.D. Salinger, starring Nicholas Hoult. “Stronger” Jake Gyllenhaal stars as 2013 Boston Marathon bombing survivor and double amputee Jeff Bauman.
SEPT. 29:
* “American Made” Tom Cruise stars in this story about the real exploits of a hustler and pilot recruited by the CIA.
* “Battle of the Sexes” The 1973 tennis match between women’s world champion Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) and ex-men’s champ Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell). “Flatliners” Five medical students take on a dangerous experiment where they stop their hearts to experience some of the afterlife. “Lucky” The spiritual journey of a 90-year-old atheist and the characters who inhabit his desert town.
“Victoria and Abdul” Judi Dench stars as Queen Victoria, who establishes an alliance with a young Indian clerk, Abdul Karim (Ali Fazal). ------------------------OCT. 6:
“Blade Runner 2049” Thirty years have passed, and a new blade runner (Ryan Gosling) comes to the scene.
“The Mountain Between Us” Stranded after a plane crash, two strangers band together to survive hundreds of miles of wilderness.
OCT. 13:
“Happy Death Day” A college student keeps reliving the day of her murder until she discovers her killer’s identity. “The Foreigner” Jackie Chan stars as a restaurant owner who must track down the Irish radicals responsible for his daughter’s death. * “Loving Vincent” More than 65,000 frames of handpainted oil paintings piece together the story of Vincent van Gogh’s life.
“Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House” A portrait of the special agent called “Deep Throat” who helped inform Watergate.
“Marshall” The story of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (Chadwick Boseman) as a young attorney for the NAACP.
“Professor Marston & the Wonder Women” The story of how Harvard psychologist William Moulton Marston created Wonder Woman in the 1940s.
OCT. 20:
“Breathe” Andy Serkis makes his directorial debut with the love story of a couple overcoming the effects of polio.
“Geostorm” The world’s leaders gather together to create a network of satellites to control the global climate, but the system goes awry. * “Only the Brave” The story of the “Granite Mountain Hotshots,” a unit of elite Arizona firefighters that tackled one of the deadliest wildfires in history.
“The Snowman” An elite crime squad detective and his team investigate the disappearance of a victim at the first snowfall. “Wonderstruck” Brian Selznick’s story follows a young boy and a girl from the past who set off on a quest in New York.
OCT. 27:
“Jigsaw” Law enforcement officers chase the ghost of a dead man.
“Novitiate” Set in the early 1960s, a young woman training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith and sexuality.
* “Suburbicon” An idyllic suburban community masks an underbelly of deceit and violence. With Matt Damon. * “Thank You for Your Service” U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq struggle to integrate back into civilian life.
OCTOBER release dates TBD * “The Florida Project” Moonee, a precocious 6-yearold, and her mother live week to week in a budget motel managed by a stern owner (Willem Dafoe). “Woodshock” Rodarte fashion designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy’s film stars Kirsten Dunst as a haunted young woman experiencing personal loss.
* “Goodbye Christopher Robin” An look at the relationship between children’s author A.A. Milne (Domhnall Gleeson) and his son, Christopher Robin. ------------------------NOV. 3:
“A Bad Moms Christmas” Three women rebel against the challenges and expectations of hosting and entertaining for Christmas. “Killing of a Sacred Deer” Pyschological thriller about a surgeon (Colin Farrell) who forms a dangerous bond with a young boy with a sinister streak.
“Thor: Ragnarok” Thor (Chris Hemsworth) races against time to get back to Asgard and to stop the destruction of his homeworld.
NOV. 10:
“Bill Nye: Science Guy” A behind-the-scenes portrait of the “Science Guy.”
“Daddy’s Home 2” Father and stepfather Dusty (Mark Wahlberg) and Brad (Will Ferrell) join forces for Christmas.
* “Murder on the Orient Express” A passenger on a European train must solve a murder before the killer strikes again.
NOV. 17:
“Justice League” Wonder Woman, Batman and other superheroes assemble to face the threat of the villain Steppenwolf and his army. * “The Last Flag Flying” Richard Linklater directs this comedy-drama starring Bryan Cranston and Steve Carell. “Wonder” August Pullman navigates school life with facial differences that his family and classmates struggle to accept.
NOV. 22:
“Coco” The Disney-Pixar animation follows Miguel (Anthony Gonzalez) as he dreams of becoming an accomplished musician. “Death Wish” Bruce Willis, Vincent D’Onofrio and Elisabeth Shue star in this action-thriller by Eli Roth. “The Man Who Invented Christmas” The film shows how Charles Dickens created “A Christmas Carol.” * “Molly’s Game” An Olympic-class skier ran the world’s most exclusive highstakes poker game for a decade before being arrested by FBI agents. Starring Jessica Chastain.
“Just Getting Started” Morgan Freeman stars as a free-wheeling manager of a Palm Springs retirement resort.
NOV. 24:
* “The Current War” Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) and George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon) battle over the supply of electricity. NOVEMBER release dates TBD
* “Darkest Hour” The Winston Churchill biopic stars Gary Oldman as the prime minister during his time negotiating a peace treaty with Nazi Germany. “Lady Bird” Saoirse Ronan stars as a teenager seeking to escape her small town to attend college in New York. *“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” A woman (Frances McDormand) ignites a town controversy when she paints public signs directed at the revered sheriff (Woody Harrelson).
------------------------DEC. 1:
* “Wonder Wheel” This Woody Allen film takes place in an amusement park in the 1950s.
DEC. 8:
“All the Money in the World” A left-wing organization in Italy hatches a massive kidnapping plot in the 1970s. * “The Disaster Artist” James Franco directs and stars in this movie about filmmaker Tommy Wiseau and his actor best friend, Greg Sestero (Dave Franco).
DEC. 15:
* “Call Me By Your Name” An American-Italian is enamored of a student who comes to study and live with his family. “Ferdinand” A giant, friendly bull is mistaken for a dangerous beast and torn from his home in this animated film.
* “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” The Skywalker saga continues with stars Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, Lupita Nyong’o and Andy Serkis. DEC. 20:
“Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” Four teenagers in detention spiral into a video game jungle with avatar bodies.
DEC. 22: “Bastards” Two brothers (Ed Helms, Owen Wilson) discover that their eccentric mother (Glenn Close) raised them on the lie that their father died when they were young.
* “Downsizing” Matt Damon and Kristen Wiig star in this sci-fi comedy-drama about a couple that decides to shrink themselves. * “Pitch Perfect 3” The third installment about the a capella group
DEC. 25:
* “The Greatest Showman” Musical tells the story of P.T. Barnum, starring Hugh Jackman.
DECEMBER release dates TBD * “The Post” Meryl Streep stars as The Washington Post’s Katharine Graham, the country’s first female newspaper publisher.
* “The Shape of Water” From Guillermo del Toro comes a tale set in the Cold War era, where two women discover a classified experiment.
“The Ballad of Lefty Brown” Lefty Brown (Bill Pullman) stops at nothing to avenge the death of his friend, frontier lawman Eddie Johnson (Peter Fonda). -----------------------------JAN. 5:
“Happy End” A family drama set in Calais during the European refugee crisis.
JAN. 12:
* “Proud Mary” Taraji P. Henson stars as a Boston hit woman who turns her life around when a professional hit goes bad and she cares for a young boy.
“Sherlock Gnomes” In this animated film, Gnomeo and Juliet look into the case of missing garden gnomes in London.
“The Commuter” A businessman is caught up in a criminal conspiracy on his commute home. With Liam Neeson.
JAN. 19:
“Den of Thieves” A crew of bank robbers attempts to pull off the ultimate heist: steal millions of dollars from the Federal Reserve.
“Forever My Girl” Country music star Liam (Alex Roe) left his bride in his small home town to pursue fame. He later returns for a funeral of a friend, realizing the consequences.
“Horse Soldiers” An Afghan war drama starring Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon and Michael Pea. JAN. 26: “Extinction” A father has a recurring dream of losing his family. His nightmares turns into reality when the planet suffers an invasion.
“The Leisure Seeker” Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland are a runaway couple traveling from Boston to Key West in their old RV. “Show Dogs” Max, a rottweiler police dog, must undergo a makeover to go undercover to find a network of illegal animal traders. “White Boy Rick” The story of a teenager who became an undercover informant for the FBI during the 1980s.