The Best Fall Movies of 2021 - Vogue

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Nothing like a monster movie to enliven your Halloween and this one, a horror debut from director Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart, Hostiles) looks fun—in a misty, Pacific Northwest, vaguely mythic, young boy-confronts-ancient-evil sort of way. Bonus feature: Keri Russell, who we’ve seen too little of since that The Americans finale. —T.A.

Belfast (Focus Features - November 12) 

Kenneth Branagh built his film career interpreting the texts of everyone from Shakespeare (Much Ado About Nothing) to Mary Shelley (Frankenstein). But for Belfast, described by Branagh as his “most personal film” to date, the filmmaker turns his directorial eye towards his own youth in Northern Ireland growing up with working-class Protestant parents. Written and directed by Branaugh, the semi-autobiographical drama tells the story of one boy’s childhood set against the tumultuous backdrop of 1960s Belfast. Featuring newcomer Jude Hill as Branagh’s on-screen avatar, the film also stars Caitriona Balfa and Jamie Dornan as the boy’s parents, along with Judi Dench and Ciarán Hinds as his grandparents. An intimate and nostalgic exploration of family ties, Belfast is a welcome return to form for Branagh, who's recent directorial output has leaned heavier into big-budget spectacles like Thor and Murder on the Orient Express. —K.B.

Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount - November 19)

Top Gun: Maverick is finally (hopefully) a go for takeoff, after being pushed from a summer release (which had originally been a 2020 release). Tom Cruise is back in the saddle as Maverick, this time training a new class of Navy pilots, with Miles Teller (as Rooster, Goose’s son), Jon Hamm, and an ageless Jennifer Connelly supporting. There will be dogfights, beach volleyball, romantic motorcycle rides, and a cameo from Iceman Val Kilmer. —L.M.

Nightmare Alley (Searchlight - December 3)

Audiences are eagerly awaiting Guillermo del Toro’s follow-up to 2017’s Oscar-sweeping The Shape of Water. Based on the 1946 novel by William Lindsay Gresham (adapted into a 1947 film noir classic), the film stars Bradley Cooper as a manipulative carnival worker in the 1940s who falls in love with a mysterious and dangerous psychiatrist (Cate Blanchett). Rounding out the stacked cast are Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, Ron Perlman, Rooney Mara, and David Strathairn, among others. It’ll be Del Toro’s first film with no supernatural elements, but the recent R rating promises he’s not pulling any punches. —L.M.

Hand of God (Netflix - TBD)

Paolo Sorrentino’s coming of age story, set in Naples in the 1980s, is as much a tribute to the magical eccentricities of classic Italian film-making as it is to the southern city that is a vibrant character in its own right. The title refers to another force that shapes this film—the legendary Argentinian football (that would be, soccer) player Diego Maradona who made Naples his adopted home after he began playing for the city in 1984. (Maradona attributed one of his most famous goals “a little to the hand of god.”) Hand of God, the film, has the slightly dada flourishes that distinguish a Sorrentino work, and gained him breakthrough acclaim in The Great Beauty. But his aesthetic is also more subdued here; this is not realism exactly, but a romantic, loving portrait of a time and place. —C.S.

Mothering Sunday (Sony Picture Classics - TBD)

Imagine if the library scene in Atonement were expanded into a feature film of its own. Based on the 2016 best-selling novella by Graham Swift, Mothering Sunday is a sensuous British period drama centered on a housemaid and her secret lover and the events that occur over the course of Mother’s Day in 1924. Directed by French filmmaker Eva Husson, the film features big-gun Brits Glenda Jackson, Colin Firth, and Olivia Colman; rising stars Josh O’Connor and Odessa Young; delicious costumes by Sandy Powell; and a refreshingly equal approach to nudity. —L.M.

I Was a Simple Man (Strand - TBD)

Constance Wu plays a ghost returning to comfort her ailing husband, Masao (Steve Iwamoto), during his final days in Christopher Makoto Yogi’s I Was a Simple Man, which premiered at Sundance earlier this year. Set on the north shore of Oahu, the film shuffles between earlier periods in Masao’s life, revealing a wilder, more undeveloped island landscape and a man less burdened and twisted by the disappointments of his life. The film was shot entirely in Hawaii and along with the glittering Wu, features a notable case of Asian American and Native Hawaiian actors. —C.S.

Parallel Mothers (Sony Pictures Classics - December 24)

Pedro Almodovar took a brief break from full-length feature-making to give us his first English-language project, The Human Voice—an incredible 30-ish minute set piece in which Tilda Swinton walked around a vibrantly decorated soundstage monologuing and interrogating an absent lover/antagonist. His most recent film, Parallel Mothers, which opens the Venice Film Festival this September and is set for a wider release later in the year, stars an Almodovar favorite, Penélope Cruz, as a middle-aged woman who finds herself unexpectedly pregnant, and laboring alongside another mother, an adolescent whose pregnancy was also unanticipated. Quickly shot in the spring of 2021, the film seems no less beautiful than Almodovar’s greatest, filled with the quirks and flourishes that make him one of the most singular and visionary directors of our era. —C.S.

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