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Don’t know what to save your ticket money for? These are the movies you can’t miss this season.
Birdman
Michael Keaton is generating some serious Oscar buzz for his lead performance in this seemingly zany black comedy about a washed-up actor who once played a superhero and is now struggling to mount a show on Broadway. The film is the first from director Alejandro González Iñárritu (“Babel,” “Biutiful”) that doesn’t deal in outright miserablism, and it co-stars the likes of Emma Stone, Naomi Watts and Edward Norton.
R
Opens Oct. 17
Interstellar
With details gradually being released, Christopher Nolan’s space opera “Interstellar” has been this fall’s biggest cinephile tease. What we do know is that Anne Hathaway and Matthew McConnaughey play a pair of astronauts who travel to another dimension to save Earth. What they find there — and whether or not they return — remains to be seen.
PG-13
Opens Nov. 7
Foxcatcher
Bennett Miller’s fact-based tale about the ultra wealthy John du Pont (Steve Carell) and the pair of wrestling brothers (Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo) who trained on his Pennsylvania ranch is a chilling high point for the director of “Capote” and “Moneyball.” An eerie Oscar magnet, it boasts Tatum’s finest performance yet.
R
Opens Nov. 14
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
As irksome as it may be that every modern Hollywood franchise has to break its last chapters into parts, we’re still hyped for the next adventure of Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), who’s in full-on revolution mode, and is joined by new characters played by primo actors like Julianne Moore.
PG-13
Nov. 21
Inherent Vice
Another of the season’s enigmas, the latest from painterly master Paul Thomas Anderson reunites him with his “Master” star Joaquin Phoenix, along with Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Benicio Del Toro and Katherine Waterston. Based on the pulpy novel by Thomas Pynchon, the crime comedy follows a private investigator (Phoenix) as he seeks out his ex’s missing boyfriend. Hilarity, mania — and surely, first-class cinema—ensues.
R
Opens Dec. 12
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