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“I haven’t really seen anything great this year” is a common refrain heard from January to September. To that we say… Have you been keeping up with our monthly Watchlist This! column? And have you seen the new Naked Gun?! On the other hand, we do sympathize—studios tend to save their best for fall film festivals and winter wide releases, improving their chances of winning Oscar gold via recency bias.
So, as blockbuster season ends and prestige drama season begins, our contributors have scoured the lineups from Venice, Toronto, New York, London and Busan. These include new pictures from Yorgos Lanthimos, Luca Guadagnino, Park Chan-wook, Guillermo del Toro, Claire Denis and more heavy hitters, as well as some under-the-radar gems, such as an Italian dramedy that finds Chris Pine speaking the romance language itself and a coastal mystery involving a ghost ship.
Though these film festivals are tragically inaccessible to the general public, that won’t stop us members from readying our watchlists for the influx of high-quality cinema that lies ahead. Read on to find out more about the twenty features that we’re most hotly anticipating, and we’ll see you at the movies!
Contributions from: Robert Daniels, Isaac Feldberg, Marya E. Gates, Zachary Lee, Iana Murray, Katie Rife, Rafa Sales Ross, Adesola Thomas, Mia Lee Vicino.
