Women Are Killing It in September's Best New Movies
Watch as Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick get mysterious, Kristen Stewart and Chloe Sevigny get murderous, and Kiera Knightley and Denise Gough get masterful in September's best new movies.
Taissa Farmiga stars in this The Conjuring 2 offshoot that'll shed light on the demonic nun who made audiences take the Lord’s name in vain. An origin story set in Romania, it should feel like its own entity, as you can bet Corin Hardy (The Hallow) will bring originality to the well-trodden material. Get tickets
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Jennifer Garner takes on the cartel, the FBI, and dirty LA cops in this revenge action film from Pierre Morel, the director of Taken. A woman with nothing lose - except a whole lotta bullets - is on a war path to avenge the death of her husband and young daughter. Alias fans, this one’s for you. Get tickets
Indie mainstay Michael Tully has crafted a creepy atmospheric thriller set in the Irish countryside. It stars Anna Margaret Hollyman as an artist who travels abroad for a curious art commission - one that involves a missing girl and an Irish priest who knows more than he’s letting on. Get tickets
To borrow from another 1987 chart-topper, it’s the end of the world as we know it in Reed Morano’s award-winning Sundance gem. Morano, who won an Emmy for directing for the pilot of The Handmaid’s Tale, unleashes a haunting apocalyptic film starring Elle Fanning and Peter Dinklage as the last two people on earth. And, no, they are not fine. Get tickets
Forget everything you think you know about the girl who took an ax and gave her mother 40 whacks. Dirctor Craig William Macneill, writer Bryce Kass, and stars Chloe Sevigny and Kristen Stewart twist an already-twisted tale into a psychological crime drama about what could have driven a woman to kill. A new infamous rhyme is in order. Get tickets
Get that blue ribbon. This documentary about high schoolers vying to not only win first place in their science fair but to change the world is the ultimate crowd-pleaser. Cristina Costantini and Darren Foster follow nine fair hopefuls on their journey to ISEF (the International Science and Engineering Fair). Status, cliques, hormones - it’s all there. Get tickets
Plus, add the best documentaries of the year to your queue now.
Paul Feig, a director typically associated with funny things like Bridesmaids, The Office, and Freaks and Geeks, goes dark to direct the screen version of Darcey Bell’s same-name page-turning mystery about moms, murder, and martinis. Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, and your new crush Henry Golding all star. Get tickets
Fair warning: this one's not passing the Bechdel test. But when you have Joaquin Phoenix, Jake Gyllenhaal, Riz Ahmed, and John C. Riley as cowboys shooting up the Oregon Trail in a dark-comedy western from Jacques Audiard (A Prophet, Rust and Bone), we say what the hell and saddle up. Get tickets
A kid. The ‘80s crack epidemic. McConaughey. All should make for a highly-watchable retelling of the time a 14-year-old from Detroit went from FBI informant to drug dealer to prison-for-lifer. Here’s hoping the second thriller from Yann Demange is as gripping as his debut, '71. Get tickets
Sam Levinson brings the dated teen dark comedy (think Heathers) into 2018 with elements of social media and witch hunt hysteria. This, an implausible yet conceivable attack on your senses, is a tale of what could happen should a society’s secrets get exposed. And it’s worth putting your phone away for 110 minutes. Get tickets
A feminist’s delight, this period romance has everything you want from the genre: love, humor, and Keira Knightley in a lot of romantic belle epoque-era garb. She plays the French literary legend, while Dominic West is the husband who claimed her work as his own. Get tickets
A maestro with torture and gore, Eli Roth gives kiddie horror a go. Based on John Bellairs’ juvenile fiction book, the story follows an orphan, his uncle (Jack Black), and a magic clock that can end the world, with the film taking its cues from nostalgic favorites like Gremlins and everything Tim Burton. If that's not enough reason to buy a ticket, Cate Blanchett also stars. Get tickets
Fans of Dan Fogelman’s prime-time sensation responsible for a billion cry sessions will need to spare some tissues for his big-screen ensemble drama - it promises all the feels of This Is Us. Armed with many storylines and many familiar faces, it aims to unravel the mystery that is four little letters: life. Get tickets
To say the mercury is rising is an understatement. Here to throw gasoline on a blazing and polarized America is Michael Moore. The documentarian behind provocative films including Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11 has a lot to say about the Trump MAGA era - just in time for voting season. Get tickets
A quiet character study from director Ari Gold, this musically-inclined romance is worth hunting down at indie theaters. Rory Culkin and Mary Beth Peil (Grams from Dawson’s Creek) star in a hazy, dream-like tale of grief, love, and deceit in the Adirondack mountains. Get tickets
Tiffany Haddish schools Kevin Hart in this Malcolm D. Lee comedy about a community college professor helping a grill salesman earn his GED. Those fond of Hart’s comedy will appreciate that he contributed to the script, and those loyal to Haddish will be pleased to know she’s delivering plenty of punchlines. Get tickets
Eva Vives’ debut, about a comic whose abuse takes center stage, has all the confidence of “any guy walking into a Guitar Center,” to borrow a Nina joke. Raw and biting, its material lays out a brilliant setting for lead Mary Elizabeth Winstead to prove what devoted fans already know: this woman can bring it. Get tickets
Watch as Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick get mysterious, Kristen Stewart and Chloe Sevigny get murderous, and Kiera Knightley and Denise Gough get masterful in September's best new movies.
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