13 movies to see in autumn

Opens Mar 7

Brie Larson takes the title role in a new Marvel storyline as an Air Force pilot infused with alien DNA. Annette Bening, Ben Mendelsohn and Jude Law co-star. 

Opens Mar 14

The devastating terrorist attack in Mumbai in 2008 is the subject of Australian director Anthony Maras’ feature debut, with Dev Patel and Armie Hammer in the cast.

Opens Mar 14

The irresistible Bill Nighy stars as a Scrabble obsessive searching for his missing son in a witty UK drama about communication and game playing.

Opens Mar 21

Destroyer follows the moral and existential odyssey of LAPD detective Erin Bell (Nicole Kidman) who, as a young cop, was placed undercover with a gang in the California desert with tragic results. When the leader of that gang re-emerges many years later, she must work her way back through the remaining members and into her own history with them to finally reckon with the demons that destroyed her past.

Opens Mar 28 

Jordan Peele won an Oscar for his creepy and satirical Get Out screenplay; now he returns with the horrific story of a family on vacation terrorised by their own doppelgangers. Lupita Nyong’o and Winston Duke (Black Panther) star.

Opens Apr 4

The lovable flying elephant from Disney’s 1941 masterpiece gets the live-action treatment under the direction of Tim Burton.

Opens Apr 4

Based on a horror novel by Stephen King, Pet Sematary follows Dr Louis Creed (Jason Clarke), who, after relocating with his wife Rachel (Amy Seimetz) and their two young children from Boston to rural Maine, discovers a mysterious burial ground hidden deep in the woods near the family's new home. 

Opens Apr 11

Maggie Gyllenhaal plays a teacher who discovers that one of her five-year-old charges seems to have a preternatural talent for poetry and takes it upon herself to nurture his gift – but goes way too far.

Opens Apr 18

The are echoes of Patricia Highsmith’s psychological thrillers in this slow-burning film from South Korea in which a young man in love with a free-spirited woman is consumed with jealousy when she introduces her wealthy new friend (The Walking Dead’s Steven Yeun).

Opens Apr 25

The surviving Avengers regroup for the continuation of the apocalyptic story begun in Avengers: Infinity War. Who’ll die this time?

Opens May 9

The year is 1613, and William Shakespeare is acknowledged as the greatest writer of the age. But disaster strikes when his Globe Theatre burns to the ground, and devastated, Shakespeare returns to Stratford, where he must face a troubled past and a neglected family. Kenneth Branagh directs and plays Shakespeare in this biopic scripted by Ben Elton.

Opens May 16

Internationally acclaimed and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mike Leigh portrays one of the bloodiest episodes in British history, the infamous Peterloo Massacre of 1819, where government-backed cavalry charged into a peaceful crowd of 80,000 that gathered in Manchester, England to demand democratic reform.

Hoping to match the runaway success of Bohemian Rhapsody is the dramatisation of the life of another great gay rock star, Elton John (Taron Egerton, singing his own versions of the songs). Dexter Fletcher, who co-directed Rhapsody, is also calling the shots on this one.