One of the year’s better-traveled festival discoveries is about to make its U.S. debut. Marine Atlan’s feature directorial debut, “La Gradiva,” won the AMI Paris Grand Prize after its world premiere in Cannes’ Critics’ Week in May, and has since picked up the Bright Horizons Award at the Melbourne International Film Festival and the Prix d’Ornano-Valenti at Deauville. Most recently, it premiered in North America in TIFF’s Centerpiece program.

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Writer/director Judd Apatow is best known for his contributions to the world of comedy films and television shows, but has been pushing for a while now to also be a bit of a comedy historian, with previous documentaries such as “The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling” (after having worked closely with the comedian as a writer on his landmark HBO series “The Larry Sanders Show“), “George Carlin’s American Dream,” and most recently with “Mel Brooks: The 99-Year-Old Man!

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NEON has released a new trailer for James Gray’s “Paper Tiger,” his bruising 1980s New York crime drama starring Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, and Miles Teller. After premiering at Cannes earlier this year, the film opens at the 64th New York Film Festival this week before arriving in theaters in November.

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Set in 1986 Queens and Brooklyn, “Paper Tiger” stars Teller as Irwin Pearl, an unemployed engineer trying to provide for his family.

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After its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month, “Prima Facie” heads to UK and Irish theaters this fall, and Sony Pictures has released a new trailer for Susanna White’s adaptation of Suzie Miller’s acclaimed stage play.

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Cynthia Erivo stars as Tessa Ensler, an ambitious London barrister who has built her reputation successfully defending men accused of sexual assault.

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Next month brings a handful of comedy documentaries, and one of them is “Who Is Martin Mull?,” exploring the life of late musician and cult comedian Martin Mull, from directors Neil Berkeley and Bob Saget. The streamer has dropped a first-look trailer for the doc that is coming to the service in early October.

Mull was known for a slew of credits over the years, including appearances on the “Tonight Show,” the movie “Clue,” alongside shows such as “Arrested Development,” and playing an openly gay character on “Rosanne” when it was still taboo to have characters on network television (Mull’s Leon Carp would get married in a special episode in 1995).

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A new Jeremy Saulnier movie is always worth watching, especially when the filmmaker behind “Blue Ruin,” “Green Room,” and “Rebel Ridge” returns to the brutal genre territory that first put him on the map. Now, A24 has quietly begun teasing Saulnier’s next film, previously known as “October,” under a new title: “Slayground.”

Rather than roll out a conventional trailer, A24 has taken a considerably more cryptic route.

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After a surprise Super Bowl teaser and a brief title-announcement clip last month, Netflix has finally unveiled the first full official trailer for “The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth,” bringing Brad Pitt back to the role that won him the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” This time, however, Tarantino is handing his most enigmatic character to David Fincher.

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More than a decade after making an unforgettable screen debut in Paweł Pawlikowski’s Oscar-winning “Ida,” Agata Trzebuchowska has moved behind the camera. Her feature directing debut, “Sick,” is headed to Fantastic Fest for its world premiere this month, and the first trailer suggests something considerably stranger and more disquieting than your average coming-of-age drama.

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Written and directed by Trzebuchowska, “Sick” centers on 16-year-old Maks (Konrad Kąkol) and his older sister Emma (Katarzyna Łubik), who are sent to the Polish countryside to care for their ailing grandmother over the summer.

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Twenty years after V asked audiences to remember the fifth of November, James McTeigue’s “V for Vendetta” is heading back to theaters. Warner Bros., Saga Arts, and Fathom Entertainment have announced a 20th-anniversary theatrical re-release for November 1 and November 5, accompanied by a new trailer and an exclusive featurette with McTeigue.

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Released in 2006 and adapted from the DC Vertigo graphic novel illustrated by David Lloyd, “V for Vendetta” imagines a near-future Britain ruled by an authoritarian government.

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After making his feature directorial debut with 2020’s “Arkansas,” Clark Duke is heading back to his home state for another crime story. This time, however, the material has a considerably more darkly comic streak. The new thriller “Stranglehold” stars Ashley Benson and Jake Lacy as a financially strapped couple whose robbery plan quickly goes sideways.

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Benson plays Bailey, a small-town Arkansas stripper who has grown tired of barely scraping by.

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Ex-heavyweight champion boxer Mike Tyson needs no introduction, but Netflix will nonetheless give the sports legend a two-hander this Fall. First up, “Tyson,” a four-part documentary about the turbulent life and career of the boxer, followed by a comedy special featuring Tyson, directed by his wife, Kiki Tyson.

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“Tyson” premieres on the streamer next month, with “Mike Tyson: Return of the Mike” debuting in November.

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Few modern American criminal cases have remained as fiercely disputed for as long as Leonard Peltier’s. Nearly five decades after the Native American activist received two consecutive life sentences for the 1975 murders of FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation, acclaimed filmmakers Jesse Short Bull and David France revisit the case, the American Indian Movement, and the government campaign surrounding it in the documentary “Free Leonard Peltier.” The Playlist can exclusively debut the film’s new trailer below.

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Celebrity divorce becomes a battleground for some of London’s most powerful lawyers in HBO and Sky’s new drama series “War,” created by “Lupin” and “Hijack” writer George Kay.

Dominic West and Sienna Miller lead the eight-episode series as British tech entrepreneur Morgan Henderson and international film star Carla Duval, whose marriage implodes into a headline-making divorce.

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With three episodes left, “Lanterns” has set its dramatic table well, finally returning to the show’s central whodunit: the murder of Kyle Chandler‘s Hal Jordan. With the show finally returning to the present day, it’s up to Aaron Pierre‘s John Stewart and Kelly MacDonald‘s Sheriff Kerry to put the pieces together.

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But they’ll get a little help from Nathan Fillion‘s Guy Gardner, too.

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At this point, Guy Ritchie seems determined to see how many movies and television shows one filmmaker can keep moving at once. With “The Gentlemen” back for its second season, “MobLand” returning this week, and a second season of “Young Sherlock” already in production, Ritchie’s unusually prolific run shows little sign of slowing down.

Next up on the movie side is “Wife And Dog,” a new suspense thriller written, directed, and produced by Ritchie, and Black Bear has now released the film’s first teaser trailer.

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“A friendly guide to getting what you’re owed” is how Amazon MGM is selling David Leitch’s “How To Rob A Bank,” and that line makes the movie’s intentions pretty clear. This isn’t merely a story about charismatic criminals chasing money. It’s arriving as a pointed fantasy about economic inequality, resentment, and the increasingly familiar feeling that the system works very well for a select few. At the same time, everyone else is expected to accept whatever remains.

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Everybody knows Cinderella’s story, but what about the supposedly “evil” stepsisters left behind once that glass slipper finds its owner? Netflix Animation is flipping the familiar fairy tale with “Steps.” Instead, the animated comedy puts Cinderella’s maligned siblings at the center of the story. Now, the streamer has released the first teaser trailer and art ahead of the film’s November debut.

Ali Wong voices Lilith, who has grown tired of living in Cinderella’s shadow.

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It’s been four years since Chris Pratt first played James Reece in “The Terminal List.” Now, the Navy SEAL is finally heading back into action. Prime Video has released another look at Season 2 ahead of its October premiere.

The series debuted in 2022 and later expanded with the prequel “The Terminal List: Dark Wolf.” That series followed Ben Edwards (Taylor Kitsch) before the events of the original show.

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Next month sees the arrival of “Sacrifice,” the latest effort from French filmmaker Romain Gavras, best known for his film “Athena.” The new project boasts a cast that features the likes of Anya Taylor-Joy (“Lucky”), Chris Evans (“Avengers: Doomsday”), Vincent Cassel (“The Shrouds”), Salma Hayek Pinault (“Magic Mike’s Last Dance,” “Without Blood”), Ambika Mod (“Black Bag”), John Malkovich (“Wild Horse Nine”), Swedish rapper Yung Lean, and Charli xcx (“I Want Your Sex”).

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Can you enjoy a holiday too much? A family’s festive obsession proves to be dangerous in “Christmas at the Kringles.” The upcoming comedic horror film follows the Seversons as they try to live the perfect suburban life. Their new neighbors, the Kringles, turn that dream into a nightmare. What starts as an annoyance quickly becomes a fight for survival, complete with the help of a miscreant Santa.

‘Kringles’ is directed by Kevin Lewis, who is a producer on the project.

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Long before Katniss Everdeen volunteered as tribute, Haymitch Abernathy had his own brutal introduction to the Capitol. Lionsgate has released a new trailer for “The Hunger Games: Sunrise On The Reaping,” putting Joseph Zada’s teenage Haymitch at the center of the bloodiest Hunger Games yet and offering a broader look at the sprawling ensemble around him.

Set 24 years before the original “The Hunger Games,” “Sunrise On The Reaping” begins on the morning of the 50th Hunger Games, otherwise known as the Second Quarter Quell.

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Few animation studios have committed themselves to doing things the hard way quite like LAIKA. Nearly two decades after “Coraline” introduced the studio’s extraordinarily tactile brand of stop-motion filmmaking, LAIKA is attempting its biggest swing yet with “Wildwood,” an expansive fantasy adventure from director Travis Knight (“Kubo and the Two Strings,” “Masters of the Universe”).

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What’s scarier than discovering something monstrous inside your home? Maybe discovering that it looks exactly like your mother. Jessica Chastain pulls double duty in “Other Mommy,” the new supernatural horror film from “Host” and “The Boogeyman” filmmaker Rob Savage, playing both a protective mother and the deeply unsettling entity trying to replace her.

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Based on Josh Malerman’s 2024 novel “Incidents Around the House,” “Other Mommy” centers on eight-year-old Bela (Arabella Olivia Clark), whose already troubled household becomes considerably more frightening when something begins visiting her from inside a closet.

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The increasingly volatile intersection of marriage and foreign policy remains at the center of Netflix’s “The Diplomat,” which returns for its fourth season on October 15. The streamer has released the season’s first teaser and images, promising another combustible collision between the personal and political.

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Season 4 begins after a catastrophic incident shatters the fragile peace Ambassador Kate Wyler brokered between the United States and the United Kingdom.

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There’s something uniquely American about exploiting moral panic for entertainment, turning it into a ratings bonanza, and pretending it’s a public service. And Lance Oppenheim’s “Primetime” understands that exactly and unpacks how seductive—and grotesque—that transformation can be. Robert Pattinson barrels through the film as a fictionalized Chris Hansen, all righteous conviction, manic ambition, and barely contained ego, in a satire that’s hysterical, ferocious, and increasingly unnerving.

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