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Even with the film and streaming industries in churn, and too few new titles finding their under-marketed way to theaters this year, the movie summer of 2025 stayed alive. Job One: done. Fall comes next, and damned if that lovely season doesn\u2019t have a way of raising our quality expectations.<\/p>\n
We have the usual quotient of critical successes coming soon, having premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May. More of these prestige titles will follow suit after first-look appearances at the Venice and Telluride and Toronto festivals in September.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a good feeling, this kind of anticipation. Maybe we should make it autumn all year long. Here are 10 of many on the horizon, release dates subject to change:<\/p>\n
\u201cEleanor the Great\u201d (Sept. 26):<\/strong> Director Scarlett Johansson\u2019s feature directorial debut stars June Squibb \u2014 95, if you can believe it \u2014 as a newly minted New Yorker, relocated from Florida to be with her daughter and grandson. It\u2019s a tale of a falsehood that escalates quickly; the film had people laughing and in tears at Cannes, they say.<\/p>\n \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d (Sept. 26):<\/strong> Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s latest film is a loose adaptation of Thomas Pynchon\u2019s novel \u201cVineland,\u201d marking the writer-director\u2019s second Pynchon adventure (\u201cInherent Vice\u201d was the first). The cast of this project, which I\u2019m guessing, recklessly, may combine comic and kinetic action-thriller elements in a bracing way, includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Teyana Taylor, Regina Hall and Benicio del Toro. Disorient me, baby! Surprise me! Discombobble away!<\/p>\n \u201cAnemone\u201d (Oct. 3):<\/strong> Since we just mentioned Paul Thomas Anderson, we should make note of his 2017 film \u201cPhantom Thread,\u201d after which Daniel Day-Lewis pointedly retired from film acting. Or so he said at the time. But retirement can last as long as the retiree chooses. The magnificent actor co-wrote the script with son Ronan Day-Lewis, also the director. He leads the cast of a story described as a generational struggle, with politics and bloodshed lurking in the background.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Smashing Machine\u201d (Oct. 3):<\/strong> Mixed martial arts warrior Mark Kerr, a fixture of the UFC ring in the 1990s and early 21st century, fell prey to painkiller addiction as he kept on fighting. His real-life story was the subject of an HBO documentary; now it\u2019s a based-on-fact narrative feature, starring Dwayne Johnson, directed by \u201cUncut Gems\u201d co-director Benny Safdie.<\/p>\n \u201cAfter the Hunt\u201d (Oct 10)<\/strong>: Know what cheesed me off last year? Director Luca Guadagnino\u2019s feverish tennis triangle \u201cChallengers\u201d getting shut out at the Academy Awards. That was dumb. But hopes are high regarding this drama starring Julia Roberts as a professor whose ace student (Ayo Edebiri) accuses the professor\u2019s beloved faculty colleague (Andrew Garfield) of sexual assault. With a director fascinated by both moral gray areas and clashing definitions of consent, with the help of a formidable cast, this could be an autumn ringer.<\/p>\n \u201cA House of Dynamite\u201d (Oct. 10; Netflix streaming Oct. 24):<\/strong> This is Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow\u2019s first feature in eight years, a nail-biter (we hope) following a team of White House staffers faced with a \u201cFail Safe\u201d\/\u201cDoctor Strangelove\u201d crisis caused by a potentially catastrophic incoming enemy missile. In \u201cThe Hurt Locker\u201d and \u201cZero Dark Thirty,\u201d Bigelow proved herself an intuitive expert in grace under monumental pressure. The cast here includes Rebecca Ferguson, Idris Elba, Greta Lee, Tracy Letts, Anthony Ramos and Jason Clarke.<\/p>\n \u201cIt Was Just an Accident\u201d (Oct. 17):<\/strong> Imprisoned; confined to house arrest; making art that is legitimately life-threatening for the maker: The Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has worked stealthy wonders across much of his adult life in these conditions. His latest effort, a highly personal suspense drama about a state-sanctioned torturer finding out what the other side of the coin looks like, won top prize at Cannes.<\/p>\n \u201cSpringsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere\u201d (Oct. 24):<\/strong> Destined not to have much, if any, of the easygoing genius-of-musical-destiny appeal of the recent Bob Dylan biopic \u201cA Complete Unknown,\u201d this is a retelling of how Bruce Springsteen\u2019s gorgeous, melancholy landmark album \u201cNebraska\u201d came to be. As Springsteen, Jeremy Allen White trades \u201cThe Bear\u201d for a different bear of an acting challenge; writer-director Scott Cooper\u2019s ensemble features Jeremy Strong as manager Jon Landau, and a host of crack supporting players includes Paul Walter Hauser.<\/p>\n \u201cNuremberg\u201d (Nov. 7):<\/strong> This piece of anguished WWII history comes from Jack El-Hai\u2019s nonfiction account \u201cThe Nazi and the Psychiatrist.\u201d Russell Crowe stars as Hermann G\u00f6ring, Hitler\u2019s second-in-command and one of many high-ranking Nazi officials on trial after the war for crimes against humanity, among other charges that can never fully encompass the millions killed in the Holocaust. Rami Malek portrays G\u00f6ring\u2019s psychiatrist; the Nuremberg Trials head prosecutor and, later, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson is played by Michael Shannon.<\/p>\n \u201cJay Kelly\u201d (Nov. 14; Netflix streaming Dec. 5):<\/strong> Director and screenwriter Noah Baumbach collaborates with George Clooney for this high-price-of-stardom seriocomedy co-written by Emily Mortimer. Clooney plays a gracefully but inevitably aging Hollywood star whose trip to Italy to pick up a lifetime achievement award resets the protagonist\u2019s brain, and ego, into reflective mode. And funny mode, too, we hope. The ensemble surrounding Clooney sounds pretty terrific: Adam Sandler, Laura Dern, Stacy Keach (good to have him back on screen!), co-writer Mortimer and Baumbach\u2019s creative and off-soundstage partner Greta Gerwig.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Even with the film and streaming industries in churn, and too few new titles finding their under-marketed way to theaters this year, the movie summer of 2025 stayed alive. Job One: done. Fall comes next, and damned if that lovely season doesn\u2019t have a way of raising our quality expectations. 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