September
All About Steve, 4/9
A nerdy blonde Sandra Bullock stalks Bradley Cooper. Directed by Phil Traill.
9. 9/9
Postapocalyptic CG animation for adults. Voices by Elijah Wood and John C. Reilly; directed by Shane Acker.
The Other Man, 9/11
A husband (Liam Neeson) tracks down his wife’s (Laura Linney) Spanish lover (Antonio Banderas). Directed by Richard Eyre.
Love Happens, 9/18
… to Jennifer Aniston and Aaron Eckhart. Co-written and directed by Brandon Camp.
The Informant!, 9/18
Steven Soderbergh’s comedic thriller starring Matt Damon.
Jennifer’s Body 9/18
It’s amazing how fast Diablo Cody has become a joke after near-uniform critical raves (and an Oscar) for Juno. (I loathed it.) But hotcha Megan Fox as a camp vampire putting the bite on good girl Amanda Seyfried sounds right up the obnoxious Cody’s alley. If only the baby in Juno had burst out of Ellen Page’s belly and gone for her jugular …
The Invention of Lying 9/25
Ricky Gervais challenges organized religion (a.k.a. the Big Lie) with the help of Jennifer Garner, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill, and Patrick Stewart. I’m praying for the first great atheist comedy of the millennium.
October
A Serious Man 10/2
Joel and Ethan Coen explore (and, on the basis of the slapstick, incantatory trailer, travesty) their middle-class Jewish Minneapolis sixties roots. Burn After Davening?
An Education 10/9
Nick Hornby wrote it, and the Brit lass Carey Mulligan, who you read about a few pages ago, is the talk of (male) critics for being a luminous Audrey Hepburn–esque waif.
The Road, 10/16
Viggo Mortensen stars in the much-delayed film based on Cormac McCarthy’s postapocalyptic novel. Directed by John Hillcoat.
Where the Wild Things Are 10/16
Not a lot of CGI—people in big furry suits. Spike Jonze’s movie of Maurice Sendak’s incomparable, unruly classic can’t live up to our dreams, can it? Hold on: Sendak likes it and doesn’t need the money to say so. Good enough for me.
Amelia, 10/23
Hilary Swank as Amelia Earhart. Co-starring Richard Gere and Ewan McGregor; directed by Mira Nair.
This Is It, 10/28
The rehearsal footage for Michael Jackson’s last tour—in 3D!
November
The Men Who Stare at Goats, 11/6
Based on the darkly comic nonfiction best seller about a U.S. military unit investigating the paranormal. With George Clooney and Ewan McGregor; directed by Grant Heslov.
Fantastic Mr. Fox, 11/13
Director Wes Anderson’s first animated film, with voices by Bill Murray, Meryl Streep, and Jason Schwartzman.
2012, 11/13
John Cusack stars in the latest sci-fi boom-fest from Roland Emmerich.
New Moon, 11/20
The Twilight sequel—let the squealing begin.
Nine, 11/25
Daniel Day-Lewis stars with Penélope Cruz, Nicole Kidman, Sophia Loren, and Fergie in the screen version of the Broadway show. Directed by Rob Marshall.
Broken Embraces 11/20
If Pedro Almodóvar called up Penélope Cruz and said, “I’d like to make a movie in which all you do for 90 minutes is eat crullers,” and she said yes, I’d think, Hmmm, interesting, even if Volver was overrated, because Cruz liberates Almodóvar’s feminine (if not sexual) imagination. This one’s a lush, insidery melodrama about a blind film director—another hall of mirrors by cinema’s cracked genius.
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