'Blade Runner 2049,' 'BPM,' and 24 other movies to see this October (original) (raw)

With the lackluster summer stretch behind us, the fall movie season ahead shows great promise thanks to big-budget blockbusters (Blade Runner 2049, Geostorm) and awards-bound prestige titles (Novitiate, BPM [Beats Per Minute], The Square) alike. Here’s every movie that should be on your radar this October.

Blade Runner 2049

Thirty-five years after Ridley Scott introduced the world to Harrison Ford’s Rick Deckard, the acting veteran — alongside Ryan Gosling, Jared Leto, and Robin Wright — is stepping back into the iconic role with Oscar-nominated Arrival and Sicario director Denis Villeneuve at the helm. “I’m lucky for many reasons that this was my big-budget film, but one of them is that you could see where the money was going,” Gosling previously told EW. “The sets were so beautiful, and every aesthetic choice was for the cleanest, most efficient, elegant way to communicate story. When [cinematographer] Roger Deakins creates a frame, half your job is done for you.”

Release date: Oct. 6 — get tickets here
Release type: Wide

The Mountain Between Us

Kate Winslet, Idris Elba, and an adorable pooch are stranded together amid the frosty wilderness of snow-capped mountain peaks in this disaster-romance from director Hany Abu-Assad.

Release date: Oct. 6 — get tickets here
Release type: Wide

My Little Pony

The classic children’s toy line gets the big screen treatment with a little help from Emily Blunt, Liev Schreiber, Uzo Aduba, Kristin Chenoweth, Zoe Saldana, and Sia in this animated family flick.

Release date: Oct. 6 — get tickets here
Release type: Wide

The Florida Project

For his sixth feature, Tangerine filmmaker Sean Baker graduates from the gritty streets of Los Angeles to the sun-kissed stretches of central Florida’s tourist traps, which serve as the backdrop for an emotional gut-punch of a movie about a young girl (Brooklynn Prince) living in a motel with her destitute mother (Bria Vinaite) under the watchful eye of their all-seeing property manager, played by Willem Dafoe, whom has received a healthy amount of Oscar buzz for his supporting performance since the film’s debut in Cannes earlier this year.

Release date: Oct. 6 — get tickets here
Release type: Limited

Una

Rooney Mara tackles her most complex role yet as a woman staging an icy reunion with an older man (Ben Mendelsohn) she previously formed a sexual bond with as a teenager in first-time director Benedict Andrews’ pitch-perfect adaptation of David Harrower’s stage play Blackbird.

Release date: Oct. 6 — get tickets here
Release type: Limited

The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson

Oscar-nominated documentarian David France probes the mysterious death of gay icon Marsha P. Johnson who, alongside Sylvia Rivera, founded the trans activist group Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (S.T.A.R.) in New York City’s Greenwich Village before her body was found floating in the Hudson River in 1992.

Release date: Oct. 6
Release type: Netflix streaming

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

Noah Baumbach’s latest assembles a prestigious cast (Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson) for this dramedy about a fractured family that comes together in celebration of their patriarch. Critics particularly tipped Sandler’s performance as one of the best of his career when the film world-premiered in competition at Cannes in May.

Release date: Oct. 13
Release type: Netflix streaming

The Foreigner

Jackie Chan fronts a riveting action-thriller about a businessman grappling with the death of his daughter at the hands of terrorists — all while playing a cat-and-mouse game with a government official who may know more about her murder than he’s letting on.

Release date: Oct. 13 — get tickets here
Release type: Wide

Happy Death Day

Some moments we want to live over and over: a particularly joyous Christmas morning, a wild night with friends — unfortunately for _Happy Death Day_‘s Tree Gelbman (_Mary + Jane_‘s Jessica Rothe), she’s trapped in a seemingly never-ending cycle of reliving her own death-by-serial-killer in Disturbia writer Christopher Landon’s comedy-slasher hybrid (which also boasts one of the most amusing trailers of the year).

Release date: Oct. 13 — get tickets here
Release type: Wide

Marshall

Chadwick Boseman stars in this tense biopic about Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, who fights through a career-defining case before making U.S. government history. Kate Hudson, Josh Gad, Dan Stevens, and Emmy-winner Sterling K. Brown costar.

Release date: Oct. 13 — get tickets here
Release type: Wide

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women

After seven decades without a standalone movie, Wonder Woman blazed a trail for female-fronted superhero stories at the summer box office this year. Now, director Angela Robinson lays the foundation for Diana Prince’s legacy in this tale of psychologist William Moulton Marston, who created the iconic character while balancing complex relationships with the women (Rebecca Hall, Bella Heathcote) in his own life.

Release date: Oct. 13 — get tickets here
Release type: Wide

Breathe

Based on the true story of Robin Cavendish (Andrew Garfield), this biographical drama directed by Andy Serkis follows the disability rights activist throughout his twenties, at the tail end of which he was diagnosed with and subsequently paralyzed by polio, after beginning a romantic relationship with Diana Blacker (Claire Foy), his supportive wife. The film, which premiered in September at the Toronto International Film Festival, was written by Oscar-nominated screenwriter William Nicholson (Gladiator) and framed by three-time Academy Award-winning cinematographer Robert Richardson_(Hugo, The Aviator, JFK)._

Release date: Oct. 13 — get tickets here
Release type: Limited

Goodbye Christopher Robin

The work of A.A. Milne has reached countless readers over the years, and this light biopic (costarring Margot Robbie and Kelly Macdonald) dramatizes the writer’s (Domnhall Gleeson) life as his son inspires the creation of one of the most famous literary characters of all time: Winnie the Pooh.

Release date: Oct. 13 — get tickets here
Release type: Limited

Geostorm

Gerard Butler. Catastrophic weather events (Giant tornados! Icicle meteors!) threatening all of humanity. Lots of impressive CGI. Need we say more?