We’re prepared — prepared to show the web page on 2024, prepared for such time-tested voices as Terrence Malick, Ryan Coogler and Kelly Reichardt to remind us of why we love this artwork type a lot. Maintain your breath for the second half of “Wicked,” whirling into theaters in November. Till then, we’ve received one other two dozen titles certain to maintain issues attention-grabbing.
‘Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story’ (Jan. 31)
Liza Minnelli on the Cannes Movie Competition in 1970.
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There aren’t too many legendary divas left who’re recognizable by simply one in all their names: Barbra, Stevie, Mariah — and, after all, Liza. And but one way or the other, none of those icons have but to be the topic of a serious documentary. That modifications in January, when a function movie about Liza Minnelli hits theaters. The film, which premiered to sturdy critiques on the Tribeca Movie Competition in June, picks up instantly after Minnelli’s mom, Judy Garland, dies, and reportedly doesn’t shrink back from discussing the topic’s 4 marriages or habit struggles. The “Liza” doc is popping out on the heels of a high-profile manufacturing firm optioning the rights to Minnelli’s forthcoming memoir (the e-book gained’t even be printed till 2026) to adapt right into a Warner Bros. TV adaptation. On condition that the movie is barely 105 minutes, it appears like the proper teaser for a full-blown — and lengthy overdue — season of Liza obsession. —Amy Kaufman
‘Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy’ (Feb. 13, Peacock) 
Renée Zellweger and Leo Woodall within the film “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.”
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Greater than 20 years after “Bridget Jones’ Diary” launched Renée Zellweger’s saucy, salty e-book publicist to the filmgoing plenty, I just lately had event to rewatch the 2001 movie on a airplane, half anticipating a cringeworthy assortment of dated jokes and dodgy fashions. What I found as an alternative was a freewheeling, foul-mouthed, genuinely humorous studio comedy — and a heretofore untapped pleasure for the fourth movie within the franchise, “Mad About the Boy.” Rejoining Bridget as a single mom 4 years after the dying of husband Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), the brand new movie’s jumping-off level is a particular drag, but it surely places our heroine, and us, proper again the place we need to be: torn between two good-looking, charming love pursuits (Leo Woodall and Chiwetel Ejiofor), making an entire spectacle of herself. —Matt Brennan
‘Paddington in Peru’ (Feb. 14) 
A scene from the film “Paddington in Peru.”
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Come on; we’re all trying ahead to seeing the Ben-Whishaw-voiced Paddington once more, and whereas it’s troublesome to think about “Paddington in Peru” will high “Paddington 2,” which is, based on Rotten Tomatoes, the best-reviewed movie of all time, at the very least this time we get to see our favourite bear in his place of origin. Taking his adopted household the Browns (minus Sally Hawkins who has been changed by Emily Mortimer) to go to his beloved Aunt Lucy, Paddington is informed that she is lacking. Off they go to search out her, with assistance from a probably El-Dorado-related map and a nefarious river boat captain (Antonio Banderas). The movie received blended critiques when it debuted within the U.Ok. in November (no deliciously absurd Hugh Grant for one factor), however nonetheless it guarantees a rollicking good time the entire household can get pleasure from and there simply aren’t sufficient of these lately. —Mary McNamara
‘Mickey 17’ (Mar. 7) 
Robert Pattinson and Robert Pattinson within the film “Mickey 17.”
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Six years after making historical past with 2019’s “Parasite” (the primary non-English-language movie to win finest image on the Oscars), visionary South Korean director Bong Joon Ho is heading to the celebs. Tailored from Edward Ashton’s sci-fi novel “Mickey7,” “Mickey 17” returns Bong to the dystopian terrain of his 2023 movie “Snowpiercer,” with Robert Pattinson starring as Mickey, an “expendable” on a high-risk mission to colonize a frozen planet. Tasked with the deadliest jobs, Mickey dies time and again, “reprinted” every time with most of his recollections intact. However when Mickey begins to query his function on this morbidly environment friendly cycle, his insurrection threatens the system. With its mixture of darkish humor, existential dread, social commentary and pure gonzo weirdness, “Mickey 17” — which additionally stars Naomi Ackie, Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo and Steven Yeun — asks what it means to be human in a world the place humanity itself is lowered to only one other renewable useful resource. —Josh Rottenberg
‘The Wedding Banquet’ (Apr. 18) 
Kelly Marie Tran, left, Lily Gladstone, Han Gi-Chan and Bowen Yang within the film “The Wedding Banquet.”
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The world wants extra queer rom-coms, so I might have been intrigued by any try and remake Ang Lee’s traditional 1993 marriage farce. However since this new tackle “The Wedding Banquet” is from “Spa Night” and “Fire Island” director Andrew Ahn, that instantly made it right into a must-see for me. Like the unique, Ahn’s movie can be centered round a pretend marriage of comfort between a homosexual man (Han Gi-chan) and a girl (Kelly Marie Tran), however this time, the wedding will not be about hiding any queer relationships. Furthermore, the storyline has expanded to incorporate one other queer couple — girlfriends making an attempt to have a child by means of IVF (performed by Tran and Lily Gladstone) — who’re finest associates with stated homosexual man and his boyfriend (Bowen Yang). At a time the place it seems like society is regressing of their attitudes in direction of the LGBTQ+ group, a movie that celebrates queer chosen households is a salve. —Tracy Brown
‘Sinners’ (Apr. 18) 
Michael B. Jordan, left, as Smoke and Miles Caton within the film “Sinners.”
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Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan’s trifecta of vital and business hits — “Fruitvale Station,” “Creed” and “Black Panther” — has turned their director-muse combo into its personal model identify. (See additionally: Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks.) Their upcoming horror film is one other sharp flip in a filmography that’s pivoted from indie darling to status crowd-pleaser to comic-book blockbuster. “Sinners,” which Warner Bros. landed in a aggressive bidding battle, introduced itself in a teaser that was merely blood and pizzicato strings. Gauging from the trailer, this grisly interval piece seems to be set within the South with Jordan starring in a twin function as a pair of twins, at the very least one in all whom will get to spray bullets with a retro tommy gun. Rumor is the pugnacious Irish actor Jack O’Connell performs the villain. He could also be a vampire, he could also be a demon — both approach, I’m curious to see what he and the dynamic duo will unleash. —Amy Nicholson
‘Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning’ (Could 23) 
Tom Cruise, middle, leads his group within the film “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning.”
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Can we count on Tom Cruise sprinting throughout rooftops just like the destiny of the world — or at the very least the summer season field workplace — trusted it? Want we even ask? Choosing up the place the $566-million-grossing “Dead Reckoning Part One” left off, the eighth movie within the practically 30-year-old franchise finds Ethan Hunt and his IMF group (together with Simon Pegg’s Benji, Ving Rhames’ Luther and Hayley Atwell’s Grace) nonetheless locked in a battle to cease the “Entity,” a rogue AI threatening world stability and forcing Ethan to confront his previous. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie in his fourth “Mission” outing, the film showcases the 62-year-old Cruise persevering with to push the bounds of what age and studio insurance coverage will permit. Throughout filming in England, he was seen dangling from an upside-down biplane — due to course. Whereas the title hints at an epic conclusion, Cruise and McQuarrie have already teased that Ethan Hunt’s story will not be over simply but. In spite of everything, on this franchise, nothing is actually unattainable. —J. Rottenberg
‘Ballerina’ (June 6) 
Lance Reddick, left, Ian McShane and Ana de Armas within the film “Ballerina.”
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John Wick followers, take coronary heart. Sure, 2023’s “John Wick: Chapter 4” appeared prefer it could possibly be the concluding entry within the vastly widespread franchise that includes Keanu Reeves because the legendary — and seemingly indestructible — hit man of few phrases. Fueled by jaw-dropping mayhem, a frenzied tempo and menacing darkish humor, the “John Wick” movies have been enormously entertaining, spiced by cameos from big stars, together with Halle Berry and Laurence Fishburne. Now the upcoming “Ballerina” appears to be like like a contemporary starting for the franchise. Billed as “From the World of John Wick”, the spinoff stars Ana de Armas, who impressed James Bond followers together with her motion chops in “No Time to Die.” She stars within the spinoff as Eva Macarro, a ballerina-assassin embarking on a lethal mission to avenge the dying of her father. Returning to the franchise are Ian McShane, the late Lance Reddick in his remaining movie look and Reeves. There will likely be blood, a number of it. —Greg Braxton
‘Elio’ (June 13) 
Elio (voice of Yonas Kibreab), left, and Glordon (voice of Remy Edgerly) in Disney and Pixar’s “Elio.”
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A fantasy coming-of-age story with aliens? Signal me up. The eponymous 11-year previous on the middle of “Elio” has been described as an alien-obsessed house fanatic with an energetic creativeness. After some mishap results in Elio getting beamed up, the alien leaders of an interplanetary group come to mistakenly consider he’s the chief of “uh, Earth” and the film will see him having to navigate the aftermath of stated misunderstanding. The movie boasts the creatives behind a few of my favourite Pixar tweens: “Coco” co-director Adrian Molina and “Turning Red” director Domee Shi, who has taken over directing duties together with “Burrow’s” Madeline Sharafian. I’m anticipating huge emotional swings together with hilarious moments of awkward cringe as younger Elio begins to determine the type of individual he desires to be. —T.B.
‘28 Years Later’ (June 20) 
Aaron Taylor-Johnson, left, and Alfie Williams in “28 Years Later.”
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Generally a terrifying trailer is sufficient — and this one actually hits the nightmare mark. However a lot has occurred because the zombie style received a post-9/11 rethink in 2002 with “28 Days Later.” Unique director Danny Boyle has gained Oscars, mounted an epic Olympics opening ceremony (London 2012) and strayed a bit from his playful economic system. Unique screenwriter Alex Garland, in the meantime, has change into a signature filmmaker of his personal, just lately releasing the disturbing what-if motion film “Civil War.” They’ve reunited, bringing alongside the primary movie’s gifted cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle (“Dogville,” “Slumdog Millionaire”), who shot the brand new undertaking on iPhones. This heroic trio, taking up the autumn of civilization and the ravenous undead? Seems like a no brainer to us. (Want actors? How about Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes?) —Joshua Rothkopf
‘F1’ (June 27) 
Damson Idris and Brad Pitt within the film “F1.”
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When Brad Pitt appeared on the rostrum just lately at Formulation 1’s season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, flanked by real-life drivers Charles Leclerc and George Russell, the undertaking of producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Joseph Kosinski’s new racing drama got here into sharp, sudden focus. Greater than the modern actioners of the Nineteen Sixties and Seventies like “Grand Prix” and “Le Mans,” or latest interval items like “Ferrari” and “Ford v Ferrari,” “F1” seems to be chasing a type of high-octane trompe l’oeil: Can “F1” construct a world so lifelike we mistake Brad Pitt’s Sonny Hayes for a championship contender, and Javier Bardem for his showy group proprietor? Like Netflix sequence “Drive to Survive” and “Senna,” the movie was made with the participation of the game’s governing physique and so acquired unprecedented entry. Now it simply must keep away from taking part in like a feature-length commercial. — M. Brennan
‘M3GAN 2.0’ (June 27) 
M3GAN within the film “M3GAN 2.0.”
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You simply can’t maintain an evil AI doll down. “M3GAN,” the horror film a few robotic created by sensible scientist Gemma (Allison Williams) meant to be the playmate and companion for her grieving niece Cady (Violet McGraw) was an enormous hit when it premiered in 2022. M3GAN developed her personal self-awareness and reworked right into a residing doll that took by itself lethal character, full with quirky little dance strikes. Though M3GAN got here to a foul finish by the ultimate credit, the sequel reveals that she has been resurrected and is now much more deadly. Returning for extra scary-fun thrills are Williams and McGraw. —G.B.
Untitled Trey Parker/Matt Stone Movie (July 4) 
Matt Stone and Trey Parker, photographed in Melbourne, Australia in 2017.
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Little has been revealed about Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s upcoming comedy, their first function movie since 2004’s “Team America: World Police.” Nonetheless, listed here are two clues that it’s going to hit theaters like an incendiary system: First, the award-laden musician and provocateur Kendrick Lamar produces and stars as a Civil Warfare-era reenactor who learns his white girlfriend’s ancestors as soon as enslaved his personal. Second, Paramount Chief Government Brian Robbins has made some extent of releasing it on July 4. “It’s certain to create some fireworks,” Robbins stated to a room of movie-theater house owners. With a script by the malevolently hilarious Vernon Chatman (“Wonder Showzen,” “Xavier: Renegade Angel,” “The Shivering Truth”), each inventive concerned is thought for pushing boundaries over a cliff after which stomping on their stays. The final time the “South Park” creators teamed up with Lamar, they digitally reworked him into O.J. Simpson. —A.N.
‘Superman’ (July 11) 
David Corenswet within the film “Superman.”
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It’s a chook! It’s a airplane! It’s a brand new Superman film! Written and directed by DC Studios boss James Gunn, “Superman” will see David Corenswet take over the mantle because the eponymous Man of Metal whereas additionally serving because the big-screen launch of the rebooted DC Universe. Choosing up a while after Superman has revealed himself to the world, the movie will comply with the Kryptonian superhero as he’s making an attempt to determine who he’s as an individual whereas struggling together with his day-to-day life, based on the filmmaker. However what I’m most interested by is how a hero like Superman, who symbolizes hope and the easiest of humanity as a result of he believes within the innate goodness of individuals, will resonate at a time when society is so polarized that rhetoric dehumanizes these with opposing viewpoints. What does “truth, justice and a better tomorrow” imply to us proper now? —T.B.
‘Freakier Friday’ (Aug. 8) 
Jamie Lee Curtis, left, and Lindsay Lohan within the film “Freakier Friday.”
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As somebody who grew up loving the “Freaky Friday” remake of the early aughts — and has had that pop-rock earworm from its closing scene caught in my head for 22 years — I’m thrilled that Disney is releasing a follow-up to the body-swapping comedy. Years after a by-the-book mom Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis) and a rebellious daughter Anna (Lindsay Lohan) spent a while experiencing one another’s lives, Anna now has a daughter of her personal and a soon-to-be stepdaughter. Would possibly a little bit soul-switching be useful when merging households? Your entire solid of the unique movie is again for the sequel — Mark Harmon, Chad Michael Murray, Christina Vidal Mitchell, Haley Hudson, Lucille Soong, Stephen Tobolowsky and Rosalind Chao — this time joined by Manny Jacinto, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Julia Butters and Sophia Hammons. And naturally, I’m hoping this second film, directed by Nisha Ganatra (“The High Note”), additionally closes with an “Ultimate”-level banger. —Ashley Lee
Untitled Paul Thomas Anderson Movie (Aug. 8) 
Author-director Paul Thomas Anderson, photographed in Los Angeles in 2018.
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‘The Bride’ (Sep. 26) 
Christian Bale within the film “The Bride.”
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Jessie Buckley stars because the titular character in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s reimagining of “The Bride of Frankenstein” and if there’s a extra thrilling sentence to be written in cinematic journalism, I don’t know what it’s. Oh, and Christian Bale stars because the Monster (who, as purists will know doubt level out, was not referred to as Frankenstein, that being the identify of the person who initially created him.) There’s a throughline right here from Gyllenhaal’s 2021 directorial debut “The Lost Daughter,” which examined the notion of a “monstrous” mom. Additionally, the brand new movie follows on the heels of “Poor Things,” which featured one other surgically cobbled-together younger lady bent on busting social norms. However “Frankenstein” was, in any case, a feminine creation; Mary Shelley didn’t simply write a e-book that has generated dialog and variations for greater than 200 years, she principally invented science fiction and fashionable horror. So will probably be effectively value seeing this story informed by means of the eyes of a girl, each in entrance of and behind the digital camera. —M.M.
‘Wicked: For Good’ (Nov. 21) 
Cynthia Erivo, left, and Ariana Grande in “Wicked: Part I.”
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Common strategically cut up Jon M. Chu’s movie model of the blockbuster stage present into two components, full with a yearlong intermission. The primary film — already the very best grossing movie adaptation of a Broadway musical — launched audiences to the inexperienced witch Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) and her bubbly bestie Glinda (Ariana Grande), and ended on a gravity-defying cliffhanger, with Elphaba flying away from Ozas an alternative of aligning with the Wizard (Jeff Goldblum) and her former mentor Madame Morrible (Michelle Yeoh). Just like the 2003 present’s Act 2, the second film will overlap with the occasions of the film “The Wizard of Oz” and reveal the fates of Glinda’s charismatic boyfriend Fiyero (Jonathan Bailey), Elphaba’s youthful sister Nessarose (Marissa Bode) and her crush Boq (Ethan Slater). Whereas it should additionally embody two new songs from composer Stephen Schwartz, I’m most trying ahead to Erivo and Grande’s rendition of the beloved duet from which this second installment takes its title. —A.L.
‘After the Hunt’ (TBA) 
Luca Guadagnino on the premiere of “Queer” throughout the London Movie Competition in October.
(Scott A. Garfitt / Invision / Related Press)
One thing concerning the “After the Hunt” ensemble of Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, Michael Stuhlbarg, Chloë Sevigny and Andrew Garfield feels unpredictable: a mixture of generations, stardoms and performing kinds that has a slight air of flamable hazard to it. The grouping is made much more thrilling in that the solid is being led by director Luca Guadagnino, who’s following the one-two flex of “Challengers” and “Queer” with a dramatic thriller from actor turned first-time screenwriter Nora Garrett. Within the story, a Yale professor (Roberts) finds her private {and professional} lives thrown into disarray after a star pupil ranges a rape accusation towards a colleague. The exploration of energy dynamics, sexual politics and academia is simply the type of provocative storytelling that Guadagnino excels at, unafraid of sticking his nostril straight into any variety of cultural hornet’s nests. —Mark Olsen
‘Die, My Love’ (TBA) 
Scottish director Lynne Ramsay speaks throughout an interview on the Morelia Movie Competition in 2018.
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Merely saying that Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay could have a brand new movie in 2025 — her first since 2017’s “You Were Never Really Here” and solely her fifth since 1999 — is sufficient to benefit inclusion on this checklist. However the reality it’s an adaptation of Ariana Harwicz’s darkly comedian novel “Die, My Love” about post-natal melancholy and bipolar dysfunction, with a solid together with Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, LaKeith Stanfield, Nick Nolte and Sissy Spacek, makes it actually irresistible. Ramsay makes a speciality of vibes and temper as a lot as direct storytelling, dipping into wells of deep and disturbing feelings, and he or she ought to have the ability to create sparks from the mixed live-wire energies of Lawrence and Pattinson, who’re each in a position to stroll the razor-edge of goofy/bizarre and haunting/dramatic like few others. —M.O.
‘The Mastermind’ (TBA) 
Filmmaker Kelly Reichardt, photographed in New York in 2020.
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Josh O’Connor has change into one in all Hollywood’s most in-demand younger actors with roles in upcoming movies from, amongst others, Rian Johnson and Steven Spielberg. He may even star in Kelly Reichardt’s “The Mastermind,” described because the story of an artwork heist set amid the shifting cultural and political dynamics of the Vietnam Warfare period. Reichardt has introduced her observant, politically-charged filmmaking to style storytelling earlier than, with the eco-terrorism thriller “Night Moves” and her westerns “Meek’s Cutoff” and “First Cow,” although this could possibly be her most conventionally accessible work but. The solid additionally consists of “September 5’s” John Magaro, who has labored with Reichardt twice earlier than, in addition to “Licorice Pizza” star Alana Haim, Invoice Camp, Hope Davis, Gaby Hoffman and “The Penguin’s” Rhenzy Feliz. —M.O.
‘Materialists’ (TBA) 
Director Celine Music, left, on the set of “Materialists,” with Dakota Johnson and Chris Evans.
(Atsushi Nishijima / A24)
A few yr in the past, over a glass or three of wine, filmmaker Celine Music and I have been speaking about our previous lives and the methods we met our spouses. “I used to be a matchmaker, you know,” she revealed, after which proceeded to inform me some tales that made me query how anybody managed to remain in a relationship for greater than 5 minutes. I remembered this dialog when it was introduced that her subsequent film, the follow-up to the 2023 Oscar-nominated finest image “Past Lives,” was going to be a dramedy a few skilled matchmaker who finds her personal match with a wealthy man, solely to search out herself questioning her alternative when an ex-boyfriend comes again into her life. Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans star within the movie, and who doesn’t need to see what comes from that love triangle? —G.W.
‘Mother Mary’ (TBA) 
Anne Hathaway within the film “Mother Mary.”
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Billed as an “epic pop melodrama,” this movie from A24 follows the connection between a pop star, performed by Anne Hathaway, and a dressmaker, performed by Michaela Coel, the Emmy-winning creator and star of “I May Destroy You.” Author-director David Lowery has described “Mother Mary” as a “weird, weird film” and “the hardest thing I’ve ever done.” The movie options authentic songs by Charli XCX and Jack Antonoff and an ensemble solid together with FKA Twigs and “Euphoria’s” Hunter Schafer. It’s exhausting to know precisely what to anticipate from a director who strikes between totally different genres, from poetic indies like “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints” to big-budget fantasies like “Peter Pan & Wendy.” Early pictures from the film present Hathaway in a golden halo-like headdress and gilt bodysuit, trying like Cher meets the Virgin Mary — and, effectively, I’m bought. No matter this film is, I’ll be watching. —Meredith Blake
‘Sentimental Value’ (TBA) 
Jury member Joachim Trier on the opening ceremony of the Cannes Movie Competition in 2021.
(Vianney Le Caer / Invision / Related Press)
Along with his Oscar-nominated romantic comedy “The Worst Person in the World,” director Joachim Trier put his distinctive twist on a well-known archetype — the late-20-something lady with the messy private life. With this comply with up, anticipated subsequent yr from Neon, he’ll dig right into a dysfunctional father-daughter relationship. Written by Trier and Eskil Vogt, “Sentimental Value” reunites the filmmaker together with his “Worst Person” main girl Renate Reinsve. She performs an actor named Nora, whose eccentric father Gutav (Stellan Skarsgård), a once-celebrated filmmaker determined for a comeback, reappears after a protracted absence. In a bid for reconciliation, he presents a component in his new movie to Nora, who isn’t . Elle Fanning performs an American star working in Oslo, Norway. —M. Blake
‘The Way of the Wind’ (TBA) 
Terrence Malick on the Made in Austin panel at SXSW in Austin, Tx., in 2017.
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