13 movies you'll rush to see next few months

A SLATE of new movies have just premiered at three major film festivals — Venice, Telluride and Toronto — and the Oscar buzz is starting to heat up.

We’ve rounded up 13 movies that you’ll be rushing to see in the next few months.

A STAR IS BORN

This one has Oscar buzz all over it and some American critics are already calling it for Best Picture. The fourth version of A Star is Born since the Janet Gaynor original in 1937, Bradley Cooper’s directorial debut is earning ridiculously good plaudits from everyone — people love Cooper and Lady Gaga’s performances and their chemistry. It’s the story of a veteran country musician who discovers and falls in love with a young singer.

A Star is Born will be released on October 18 through Roadshow.

FIRST MAN

The Neil Armstrong biopic is an incredibly personal story of the first man on the moon. Director Damien Chazelle (La La Land, Whiplash) has reunited with Ryan Gosling, whose low-key energy is perfect as the laconic Armstrong. With a supporting cast that includes Claire Foy, Corey Stoll, Kyle Chandler and Jason Clarke, this space-biopic is much more about the man than the mission.

First Man will be released on October 11 through Universal.

THE FAVOURITE

Yorgos Lanthimos, the mercurial Greek director behind The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer, has turned his eye to the story of Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) and her relationships with two of her ladies-in-waiting, Sarah Churchill (Rachel Weisz) and Abigail Masham (Emma Stone). Rest assured this is not some stuffy costume drama — this is an all-out, bonkers story of palace intrigue and bitter rivalries. It looks properly amazing.

The Favourite will be released on December 26 through 20th Century Fox.

WIDOWS

Hunger, Shame and 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen has made his first movie in five years with Widows, adapted from an old British TV series. The premise for this crime thriller surrounds a group of women whose husbands die in a failed heist. Now threatened by their former partners’ associates, they have to finish the job themselves. It’s got an incredible cast in Viola Davis, Elizabeth Debicki, Daniel Kaluuya and Michelle Rodriguez.

Widows will be released on November 22 through 20th Century Fox.

THE NIGHTINGALE

Australian director Jennifer Kent (The Babadook), The Nightingale is a period thriller set in what we now call Tasmania but was then so named Van Dieman’s Land. In the mid-19th century, a convict woman is mad-bent on revenge against a British officer, chasing him through the unforgiving wilderness. The Nightingale won the Special Jury Prize at Venice.

The Nightingale will be released in 2019 through Transmission. Its Australian premiere will be at the Adelaide Film Festival on October 13.

ROMA

The word out of Venice is Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron’s (Gravity, Children of Men, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) black-and-white film Roma is a masterpiece and the highlight of an already accomplished director’s career. Set in the 1970s, the movie tells the story of a year in the life of a young nanny (first time actor Yalitza Aparicio) who works for a middle-class family. Roma has been praised for its generous humanity and beautiful spirit. Don’t miss it when it drops.

Roma will be released on December 1 on Netflix.

BEN IS BACK

Ben is Back is a showcase for Julia Robert’s enormous talent as much as it is a family addiction drama from director Peter Hedges (Dan in Real Life) and also starring his son Lucas Hedges (Lady Bird, Manchester by the Sea). The younger Hedges plays Ben, the oldest of four children who unexpectedly returns home for Christmas when he’s supposed to be in rehab — it’s a visit that will test his sobriety and his relationship with his mother Holly (Roberts).

Ben is Back will be released on January 31 through Roadshow.

IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK

From Moonlight director Barry Jenkins, If Beale Street Could Talk is a period romance based on James Baldwin’s novel — the story of a young pregnant African-American woman trying to clear the name of her imprisoned husband. Like Moonlight, Jenkins’ latest is said to poetically tell the experience of black people in America, through the prism of an intense, individual love story.

If Beale Street Could Talk will be released on March 7 through Entertainment One.

BOY ERASED

Directed by Joel Edgerton and starring Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe and Lucas Hedges, Boy Erased is the second movie this year to deal with teen gay conversion therapy. Hedges plays Jared, a 19-year-old who is outed to his conservative Baptist parents in the American south — he’s forced in the therapy or risk losing his whole family. Kidman and Crowe are both earning rave reviews for their performances.

Boy Erased will be released on November 8 through Universal.

SUSPIRIA

Coming off the back of Call Me By Your Name, Italian director Luca Guadagnino has taken a 180 dark turn for this remake of the 1977 supernatural horror set in a Berlin dance school with dark secrets and mysterious disappearances. The trailer is crazy intense and Indiewire’s David Ehrlich called it a “glorious work of madness”. Suspiria stars Tilda Swinton, Dakota Johnson, Chloe Grace Moretz and Mia Goth while the score was composed by Radiohead’s Tom Yorke.

Suspiria will be released on November 8, with advanced screenings November 2 to 4, through Transmission.

BEAUTIFUL BOY

Based on a pair of memoirs by a father and son, Beautiful Boy stars Timothee Chalamet and Steve Carell as the young man suffering meth addiction and the loving dad who risks everything to try and get his child back. Both Chalamet and Carell are being praised for their powerhouse performances in this film that is said to be grim but honest. Director Felix Van Groeningen previously made the emotionally wrenching The Broken Circle Breakdown.

Beautiful Boy will be released through Transmission but isn’t dated yet.

VOX LUX

Starring Natalie Portman, Jude Law and Jennifer Ehle, Vox Lux is directed by Brady Corbet, an actor who made his directorial debut three years ago with the intense The Childhood of a Leader. Vox Lux is said to be a dark tale about a woman who found fame as a singer after a violent tragedy. Corbet has been compared to auteur directors Michael Haneke and Lars von Trier and Portman is now in the Oscar conversation with this performance.

CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?

The real-life story of Israel Lee, Can You Ever Forgive Me? features two great performances from Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant. Lee was a lonely woman and failed writer who, on the verge of going broke, starts to forge letters from famous people. She seems to be getting away with it too, until one missive from Noel Coward raises suspicions. The film is directed by Marielle Heller (Diary of a Teenage Girl).

Can You Ever Forgive Me? will be released on December 6 through 20th Century Fox.

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