From Wakanda Forever to Don’t Worry Darling: the best films to see in autumn 2022 | Film

That film’s director, George Miller, dubbed him “the Anti-Mad Max,” the polar opposite of his futuristic gonzo action classics. Instead it is an ironic fantasy, a meditation on stories and myths. Tilda Swinton plays a professor of narratology who is in Turkey for a conference. She opens a glass bottle in her hotel and a genie comes out: Idris Elba, who is happy to fulfill one or the other wish.
September 2nd. All release dates are in the UK and are subject to change

Michael Flatley fans and masochists worldwide are excitedly talking about making a special pilgrimage to Dublin for the premiere of a film that has become legendary – produced, directed, written and starring Riverdance Hoofer Flatley as a super cool secret agent. This action thriller technically premiered at the 2018 Raindance film festival in London, but scathing journalists were barred by Flatley, unhappy by people using the phrase “vanity project,” and his mythic reputation grew. The trailer showed us something startlingly wooden and strange.
September 2nd.

A group of twenty-somethings throw a party at a mansion during a hurricane, and after accidentally consuming some narcotics, things go horribly wrong while the gang play a murder-in-the-dark game called Bodies Bodies Bodies. There’s a super hip cast including Rachel Sennott (from Shiva Baby), Maria Bakalova (from Borat Subsequent Moviefilm) and Pete Davidson.
September 9th.

The runaway success of Rian Johnson’s Knives Out and the Agatha Christie revivals Death on the Nile and Murder on the Orient Express proved there was still a market for the classic, tongue-in-cheek, all-star crime thriller of time. Britcom writer Mark Chappell wrote this mystery, set in 1950s London theater land, about the murder of one of the crew members working on a mousetrap-type production. Saoirse Ronan plays Constable Stalker and Sam Rockwell is Inspector Stoppard (perhaps named after the author of The Real Inspector Hound).
September 9th.

Claire Denis brings together three heavyweights of French cinema for an intense love triangle. Set in Paris, Juliette Binoche plays the host of a sophisticated radio talk show living with a former sports star who has retired due to injury, played by the smoldering wrinkled Vincent Lindon. One day Binoche sees her old lover whom she left for Lindon on the street; this is Gregoire Colin. The meeting of all three should be explosive.
September 9th.

David Cronenberg’s new film (not a remake of, and not to be confused with, his 1970 film of the same name) is a Ballardian-style body horror atrocity exhibition that he gave us in Crash. In a bizarre future world, evolution and medicine have grown bodies with many new organs. Viggo Mortensen plays a performance artist whose girlfriend Léa Seydoux removes his extra organs and tattoos them in front of a live audience – to the fascination of a government inspector played by Kristen Stewart. Fuh-reaky.
September 9th.

A glorious shapeshifting epiphany/freakout of a documentary about David Bowie. It’s a montage of archival footage, footage from live performances, Bowie’s own experimental video art, paintings, film and stage work, along with his elegant – and invariably polite – interviews with various normcore TV personalities who don’t quite get it.
16th September.

Entrance ticket to paradise

This is a classic old school romantic comedy that features movie stars above the title, not just IP monsters and superheroes. George Clooney and Julia Roberts play a divorced couple who learn that their daughter, played by Kaitlyn Dever, is about to marry a man she just met in Bali. This marriage scenario was exactly the same mistake they made when they were teenagers: now this middle-aged couple heads to Bali to foil the wedding. But could it be that they fall in love again?
16th September.

It’s in all of us

Actress Antonia Campbell-Hughes showcased her directorial talent with the eerie short Acre Fall Between last year and now makes her feature film debut with It Is in Us All, a disturbing meditation on death and fate centered around a car crash on a deserted road in Ireland . It involves two people: a 17-year-old local, played by Rhys Mannion, and a London visitor, played by Cosmo Jarvis, whose existence is mysteriously turned upside down by the tragedy.
September 23rd.

don’t worry darling

Olivia Wilde directs this psychological horror thriller based on a story by Carey Van Dyke. Florence Pugh and Harry Styles play Alice and Jack, a young couple living a seemingly idyllic and prosperous life in a 1950’s US town called Victory, economically dependent on a single company whose business is a very disturbing mystery .
September 23rd.

in front of your face

Korean author Hong Sang-soo’s exquisitely delicate, underperformed, low-budget chamber dramas have become a delight on the festival stage. In this new film, Korean star Lee Hye-young plays Sangok, a once-famous Korean actor who has returned to his native country from the United States. She’s touring all of her old haunts and all seems quiet — until there’s a terrifying revelation.
September 23rd.

The Woman King

Viola Davis stars in this expansive historical epic directed by Gina Prince Bythewood. Davis is General Naniscal, leader of an all-female military unit called the Agojie in the 19th-century African kingdom of Dahomey (now Benin) fighting the European colonial powers who are attempting to enslave her. John Boyega plays the real ruler King Ghezo.
4th of October.

The Lost King

The discovery of the remains of Richard III. in 2012 cried out for a treatment in British cinema, and now Steve Coogan has co-written a comedy, directed by Stephen Frears, about real-life amateur historian Philippa Langley’s struggle to get the academic and historical establishment to heed their suspicion that the king under one Leicester car park could be buried. She is played by Sally Hawkins and Coogan is her husband John.
October 7th.

A breathtaking black widow noir romance from Korean director Park Chan-wook, who’s recently transitioned from gonzo revenge violence to high-class suspense thrillers. Chinese star Tang Wei plays the beautiful wife of a businessman whose shattered body was found at the foot of a well-known rock climb. Has he been pushed? The investigator (Park Hae-il) begins to suspect the widow… and to fall in love with her.
October 21.

The Banshees by Inisherin

Writer-director Martin McDonagh, creator of ‘In Bruges’ and ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’, can be relied upon for his high-octane black comedy. Now he’s reunited with his Bruges stars, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, two friends on a remote Irish island who find themselves in a tragic situation when one suddenly ends their relationship.
October 21.

Amsterdam

Fiery and controversial filmmaker David O Russell is back with a quirky, high-profile 1930s drama starring Christian Bale, Margot Robbie and John David Washington as three friends who witness a murder and then become suspects themselves, and uncover a bizarre mystery in the process Conspiracy at the heart of the American government. Featuring Chris Rock, Robert De Niro, Anya Taylor-Joy, Rami Malek and Mike Myers.
November 4th.

This heartfelt and beautifully acted film from writer Kazuo Ishiguro and director Oliver Hermanus is a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1953 classic Ikiru, or To Live. Bill Nighy plays a tight-lipped civil servant diagnosed with stomach cancer at the end of 30 years of joyless bureaucratic employment and obsessed with one mission: build a humble little children’s playground before he leaves.
November 11th.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Black Panther was a 2018 sensational hit and instant Afro-Futurist classic for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Here’s the highly-anticipated sequel, albeit with changes. Chadwick Boseman, who played the lead role in T’Challa, died in 2020; his character has not been brought back and Daniel Kaluuya has indicated that he will not be reprising his role as W’Kabi. But Lupita Nyong’o is back as T’Challa’s former lover, Nakia.
November 11th.

she said

An investigative-journalistic process in the tradition of All the President’s Men and Spotlight, starring Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan. You play Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, two New York Times reporters working on the story of Harvey Weinstein’s abuse and her long, complex struggle to stand up to Weinstein’s legal attack dogs and convince his victims to go on the record .
25. November.

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