Vogue’s Fall Movie Guide: 24 Movies You Should Watch This Season Inline
Photo: Everett Collection1/24Black Mass
It’s a law of nature that every great actor will eventually play a gangster. It’s Johnny Depp’s turn. In the latest from the director Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart), Depp disappears into the role of Whitey Bulger, the creepy-looking real-life Boston crime lord—and FBI informant!—whose brother, Billy (Benedict Cumberbatch), was president of the Massachusetts Senate. Here’s one Best Actor nomination slot now taken. September 18
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It’s another law of nature that every great actress will eventually star in an action movie. It’s Emily Blunt’s turn—yet again. This time she plays an honest FBI agent who gets involved in a secret operation against the Mexican drug cartels run by a shadowy government op (shifty-fun Josh Brolin) and a shadowy narco-whisperer (scary-fun Benicio Del Toro). Directed by Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners), it should leave your knuckles so cold and white you’ll think they’ve been snowed on. September 18
Photo: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures3/24The Intern
Whether it’s Jack Nicholson falling for Diane Keaton in Something’s Gotta Give or Meryl Streep juggling Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin in It’s Complicated, writer-director Nancy Meyers likes to brighten her heroines’ lives with fantasy-figure males. Here, Anne Hathaway plays an overwhelmed head of a fashion website whose senior citizen intern (Robert De Niro, not crabby for once) turns out to be a man’s man of the old school. September 25
Photo: Courtesy of 20th Century Fox4/24The Martian
For the past 300 years (actually 296, but who’s counting), people have doing versions of Robinson Crusoe. In this latest one by Ridley Scott—one of the few Hollywood directors capable of knocking your eyes out—Matt Damon plays a guy who gets stranded on Mars all by himself. You only hope the little green men give the poor guy a Wilson soccer ball to talk to. Just like Interstellar (and we hope it’s better than that), it leaves costar Jessica Chastain back on Earth. Maybe she doesn’t like flying. October 2
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It’s yet a third law of nature that every great actor will eventually play two gangsters. No wait. What we mean is that our reigning avatar of Marlon Brando, Tom Hardy, should knock our socks off playing both Reggie and Ronnie Kray, the legendary (hence the title) East End twins who became London’s pop-star hoodlums during the sixties. We bet it’ll be worth seeing for the nifty period details alone—those dudes liked to dress sharp. October 2
