Take a look at the 15 movies you'll be hearing about in fall 2024.

15 Fall Movies You Need to Know About

Take a look at the 15 movies you&#39;ll be hearing about in fall 2024.

From popular franchises to brand new worlds of exploration, science fiction and fantasy stories are more popular than ever. Check out our list of the best and brightest new and upcoming movies and series.

New and Upcoming Sci-Fi and Fantasy

Discover some of the most anticipated sequels, prequels, and spin-offs coming to theaters and streaming.

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Barmaid Sylvie is a single mom living with her two sons, Sofiane and Jean-Jacques. One night, Sofiane is injured while being alone in the flat which results in placing him in a foster home. Sylvie is determined to bring her son back home.

Alexis Tonetti, Virginie Efira, and Félix Lefebvre in Rien à perdre (2023)

This first narrative feature from veteran documentarian Delphine Deloget fires on all 8 cylinders. Clearly the voice and hand of a mature storyteller. The highest compliment I can pay the film is that while I enjoyed seeing it in competition at Cannes, I enjoyed it even more viewing it a second time at the NYC premiere. We&#39;re sure to see more of this French writer/director&#39;s socially conscious narrative work in the future. Virginie Efira&#39;s performance here combines power and nuance and even draws a bit from her beginnings in comedy. The quiet whispers exchanged between her and her youngest son, provide authentic intimate moments rarely seen on screen. Interestingly, the director discussed her choice to not include non-diagetic music in the soundtrack leaving the actors words to convey the emotion, clearly informed by her documentary aesthetic.

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Rien à perdre

Delphine Deloget composes a poignant film in which a mother has her young son taken away from her because the state considers her incapable of raising him. The son is disturbed. The mother works evenings in nightclubs and is financially precarious. The elder brother is independent, but looks after his younger brother in the evenings. She is helped to a greater or lesser extent by her two brothers, who are not the solution - quite the contrary for one of them. The film also highlights the difficulties faced by state employees who find themselves in the position of having to take a child away from a mother. Deloget&#39;s film succeeds because it does not descend into excessive pathos, even though all the scenes could lend themselves to it. With Virgine Effira, who powerfully embodies this mother, who goes all the way, who has nothing to lose, as the film&#39;s title suggests, to get her son back. Even if the mother&#39;s character isn&#39;t all white, the viewer empathizes with her, and the dramatic progression builds on this. The film contains very little music, which makes the images and Virginie Effira&#39;s turpitude and tragedy all the more powerful.

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Rien à perdre

Enjoyed it even more the 2nd time.

A dense and fearsome tragedy

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