Bond, Black Widow, Comey: 32 movies and television shows to watch this fall.
The fall release calendar is unusually crowded this year. Big-budget blockbusters delayed by the coronavirus crisis will jostle for attention alongside Oscars contenders, marquee television premieres and a handful of political documentaries aiming to help shape public opinion ahead of the presidential election.
Here's a month-by-month guide to some of the most notable movies and television shows arriving by the middle of December.Democratic politician and activist Stacey Abrams plays a central role in this searching documentary about voter suppression and gerrymandering, which . The issues are personal for Abrams, who two years ago narrowly lost her Georgia gubernatorial bid to Brian Kemp in a race she alleges was rife with mismanagement and disenfranchisement.Sean Durkin, who made his directorial debut in 2011 with the haunting thriller"Martha Marcy May Marlene," returns to the screen with this disquieting familial drama about a vain businessman who relocates his wife and children to an English country manor in the 1980s. The trailer suggests"The Shining" by way of E.M. Forster.The mortifications of middle school in the early 2000s once again take center stage in the second season of this comedy series. The show's co-creators, Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle, play versions of themselves as 13-year-olds and re-enact all manner of adolescent awkwardness.Mildred Ratched, the tyrannical nurse who torments Jack Nicholson's psychiatric patient in"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" , gets the origin story treatment in this suspense series, based in part on Ken Kesey's original novel. Sarah Paulson plays the title character alongside a supporting cast that includes Cynthia Nixon and Sharon Stone."Stranger Things" star Millie Bobby Brown plays Sherlock Holmes' intrepid teenage sister in this adventure film inspired by Nancy Springer's book series of the same name. The movie was originally slated for a theatrical debut by Warner Bros., but Netflix scooped up the rights as the coronavirus crisis shuttered theaters.The furiously prolific documentarian Alex Gibney is no stranger to thorny subject matter, having directed films about Enron, the Church of Scientology and WikiLeaks. He trains his lens on an especially knotty topic in this two-part documentary: Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election — and how America remains vulnerable to foreign meddling.The medium-hopping multi-hyphenate artist Miranda July has two feature films under her belt: the distinctive"Me and You and Everyone We Know" and"The Future" . July's latest is a decidedly unconventional heist movie starring Evan Rachel Wood, Richard Jenkins, Debra Winger and Gina Rodriguez.Apple's streaming service ventures into non-English-language programming with this political thriller, originally created for Israeli public television. The tense eight-episode drama follows an Iran-born Mossad agent as she embarks on a risky computer hacking assignment in her hometown, the Iranian capital of the title.The long-awaited fourth installment of this crime anthology series, loosely inspired by the Coen brothers' 1996 masterpiece, co-stars Chris Rock and Jason Schwartzman as the leaders of rival crime syndicates duking it out in 1950s Kansas City. The indie rock hero Andrew Bird plays a supporting character by the glorious name of Thurman Smutney.Jeff Daniels portrays former FBI chief James Comey in this two-part miniseries based on"A Higher Loyalty," about his government service and strained relationship with President Donald Trump. Brendan Gleeson, best known to viewers of a certain age as Mad-Eye Moody from the"Harry Potter" film series, plays the 45th president.Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, Matt Bomer and Andrew Rannells co-star in this ensemble drama adapted from the 1968 play of the same name, a seminal work in LGBTQ-themed theater and a landmark in queer representation. The four actors are reprising their roles from the play's 2018 revival on Broadway.Sign Up
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