Even with the film and streaming industries in churn, and too few new titles finding their under-marketed way to theaters this year, the movie summer of 2025 stayed alive. Job One: done. Fall comes next, and damned if that lovely season doesn’t have a way of raising our quality expectations. We have the usual quotient of critical successes coming soon, having premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May. More of these prestige titles will follow suit after first-look appearances at the Venice and Telluride and Toronto festivals in September.

It’s a good feeling, this kind of anticipation. Maybe we should make it autumn all year long. Here are 10 of many on the horizon, release dates subject to change:

“Eleanor the Great” (Sept. 26): Director Scarlett Johansson’s feature directorial debu

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