New movies......

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The Skeleton Twins (Sept. 12)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhULZJDXLaE

We're used to seeing Saturday Night Live alums Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig in slapstick comedies, but The Skeleton Twins looks far more real. The duo star as twins reunited after 10 years apart, and are supported by a quirky, intriguing cast that includes Luke Wilson and Ty Burrell. The film won best screenplay at Sundance this year -- the script was written by director Craig Johnson as well as Mark Heyman (the writer behind Black Swan). Oh, and Variety called both Hader and Wiig's performances "knockout."

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This Is Where I Leave You (Sept. 19)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH0cEP0mvlU

The cast is the draw here, and the credits are packed to the brim: Tina Fey, Adam Driver, Jason Bateman, Corey Stoll, Jane Fonda -- and that's just the immediate family in this shiva-focused dramedy. Based on the novel by Jonathan Tropper, this is certainly not Hollywood's first attempt at a story about a family all grown up and returning to their childhood dynamics. Hopefully the finished product will be more Arrested Development than The Family Stone. -

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Gone Girl (Oct. 3)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym3LB0lOJ0o

If you're keeping track of fall's most anticipated movies, this one certainly tops the list. Gone Girl is the movie adaptation of Gillian Flynn's bestselling novel about a wife who disappears and the subsequent media mania that surrounds her husband. Starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike and directed by cult favorite David Fincher, the movie's current buzz is circling around Flynn's admission to Entertainment Weekly that the film's ending is entirely different than the novel. "This is a whole new third act!" she said.

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Whiplash (Oct. 10)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnuImW1dWAk
The trailer is enraging, but the buzz around Whiplash is strong. Whiplash in its original form was a short about a jazz drummer that won Sundance's 2013 Short Film Jury Prize for U.S. Fiction. Since then, it's been turned into the feature starring Miles Teller. The film's writer and director, Damien Chazelle, is a 29-year-old Hollywood wunderkind who has been on the media radar since his college days. His film Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, made while still an undergrad, became a New York Times' critic's pick. Whiplash is an important watch for anyone keeping tabs on Hollywood's rising generation of greats.

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The Judge (Oct. 10)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBvK6ni97W8
Robert Downey, Jr., not in an Iron Man suit is reason enough to give The Judge a try. The plot is pretty appealing too, especially for anyone looking for their fall law drama. Downey plays a big-shot lawyer who returns to his hometown when his estranged father, a judge, is named as a murder suspect. The movie is directed by David Dobkin, who previously gave us Wedding Crashers. If this movie has even half the quotable lines Wedding Crashers did, not seeing The Judge will mean spending the next five years only understanding a fraction of the quote-riddled conversations happening around you.

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Men, Women & Children (Oct. 17)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5aKdBxlmIc

Jason Reitman is known for zeitgeisty movies like Juno, and his latest project, Men, Women & Children, looks like it may just hit 2014 on the nose. Without a single word spoken, the trailer manages to make waves by showcasing just how lonely everyday people are, even while wrapped up in constant communication, or perhaps because of it. To top it all off, there's a killer cast: Ansel Elgort, Adam Sandler (playing Punch-Drunk Love levels of drama), Judy Greer, Emma Thompson, Jennifer Garner -- the list goes on.

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Dear White People (Oct. 17)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm6HeK1dyAY
Hopes are high for Dear White People, an indie satire positioning itself to be one of the most important comedies of the year. The film, framed as a mockery of race relations in Hollywood, is really a full-on skewering of race relations in America. Writer and director Justin Simien is being heralded as someone to watch, and Variety praised the film for "ask[ing] some of the hard questions without pretending to know any of the answers," questions that only become more poignant and urgent as 2014 rolls on. -