2018-09-20 Entertainment Weekly

THE SISTERS
BROTHERS

This pairing of two of Holly-
wood’s most idiosyncratic stars
delivers a compelling adaptation
of Patrick deWitt’s novel, which
follows two brothers/contract
killers riding across the Wild
West during the 1800s gold rush
in Jacques Audiard’sfilm.

CAN YOU EVER
FORGIVE ME?

Melissa McCarthy boldly resists
type as real-life writer-turned-
forger Lee Israel, whose boozy
drifter pal (Richard E. Grant)
helps her sell fake letters “writ-
ten” by dead celebrities in Mari-
elle Heller’s dark biopic. Both
actors give career-best turns,
enlivening these queer outcasts
with an electric (if curmud-
geonly) zest as the most com-
pelling odd couple of the year.

HALLOWEEN

In the festival’s most notable

midnight screening, Hollywood’s

OG scream queen Jamie Lee

Curtis returns to the franchise

she launched 40 years ago,

this time under the direction

of David Gordon Green and

paired with Judy Greer as

her estranged daughter, as

Haddonfield comes under attack

once again by the seemingly

indestructible Michael Myers.

EVERYBODY

KNOWS

Oscar-winning real-life couple

Penélope Cruz and Javier

Bardem live out every parent’s

nightmare in Asghar Farhadi’s

Everybody Knows, a psychologi-

cal thriller where the kidnap-

ping of a teenage girl on

the night of a big wedding in

a small Spanish town forces

a family to confront decades

of secrets.

THE PUBLIC

Emilio Estevez wrote, directed,

and stars in this dramedy about

a group of homeless people

who take over a Cincinnati pub-

lic library on a freezing winter

night. This duo collaboratively

lead the occupation with humor

d athy.

IS BORN

ooper hits a high note

e scenes with his

directorial debut. He also leads

the film opposite Lady Gaga

in this reinterpretation of the

oft-retold Hollywood romance

about a fading crooner and

his ingenue.

ROMA

Grounding himself back on

terra firma after steeringGravity

to seven Oscars in 2013, Alfonso

Cuarón reaches into his past

for this semiautobiographical,

1970s-set story about a middle-

class Mexican family’s daily life,

told in black and white.

IF BEALE STREET

COULD TALK

Moonlightdirector Barry Jenkins

brings James Baldwin’s literary

favorite to life with this experi-

mental take on a young woman’s

journey to free her falsely accused

fiancé from prison before their

child’s birth in 1970s Harlem.

DESTROYER

Nicole Kidman’s grizzled portrayal

of an L.A. detective haunted by

Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant
inCan You Ever Forgive Me?
and symp

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