First Out of the Gate
THE SKELETON TWINS - Hugely talented "SNL" alums Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader get dark with a family drama of estranged siblings.
THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU - An appealing ensemble cast joins hack director Shawn Levy in another family tale. Starring Tina Fey, Jason Bateman, Adam Driver, Kathryn Hahn and Rose Byrne.
THE ZERO THEOREM - Familiar Terry Gilliam dystopia porn, starring Christoph Waltz and screening at the local art house cinema. It's been a while since we checked in with the Python alum, having missed his more recent "Tideland."
Auteur, Auteur
STRAY DOGS - Taiwan's Tsai Ming-liang ("What Time Is It There?") finally returns with the story of a family in poverty.
TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT - Marion Cotillard stars in the latest from master filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne.
AN EYE FOR BEAUTY - Canadian Denys Arcand ("The Barbarian Invasions") spins a new love story.
THE NEW GIRLFRIEND - Francois Ozon is back with the story of a young woman who makes a startling discovery about the husband of her dead best friend.
BIRDMAN - Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu ("Amores Perros," "Babel") recruits Michael Keaton as an aging actor trying to relive his heyday as a superhero.
THE CUT - Fatih Akin ("Head On," "The Edge of Heaven") casts Tahar Rahim from "A Prophet" to turn a spotlight on the Turkish genocide of the Armenians between the wars in the 20th Century.
NED RIFLE - Indie darling Hal Hartley completes the trilogy he began with "Henry Fool" and "Fay Grim," with Henry and Fay's son taking over.
LISTEN UP PHILIP - Alex Ross Perry follows up "The Color Wheel" with a Jason Schwartzman frolic as a writer going off the rails as his second novel is to be published.
LAGGIES - Lynn Shelton continues her slog toward the mainstream with a story of a 30-ish woman (Keira Knightley, meh) ditching her fiance to hang out with a teenage girl.
WHILE WE'RE YOUNG - Noah Baumbach teams with Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts as a couple whose career and marriage are shaken up by a younger pair.
99 HOMES - Ramin Bahrani ("Man Push Cart," "Chop Shop," "Goodbye Solo") returns with the story of an unemployed construction worker and a shady realtor who foreclose mortgages.
FOXCATCHER - Bennett Miller ("Capote," "Moneyball") casts Mark Ruffalo and Channing Tatum in another promising wrestling film. (See "Win Win.")
Familiar Faces
CAKE - Jennifer Aniston is a woman in a chronic-pain support group who investigates the suicide of a fellow group member (Anna Kendrick). Also starring William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman.
WHIPLASH - Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons team up as rivals between a college band leader and the drummer he recruits.
MANGLEHORN - David Gordon Green casts Al Pacino as a local locksmith still heartbroken by the woman he loved and lost decades ago.
MEN, WOMEN & CHILDREN - Jason Reitman corrals Adam Sandler for a comedy about sexual angst in the Internet age. Also starring Kaitlyn Dever, the little punk from “Short Term Twelve."
ST. VINCENT - Bill Murray stars as a brooding former Vietnam War vet who befriends a neighbor boy and takes the lad on inappropriate adventures.
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING - "Man on Wire" director James Marsh dramatizes Stephen Hawking's life story.
DUMB AND DUMBER TO - The originals are back with a sequel to one of the stupidest and funniest movies of all time.
INHERENT VICE - Shall we give Paul Thomas Anderson and Joaquin Phoenix another chance? Here they adapt Thomas Pynchon's gonzo 2009 novel about a Southern California private eye investigating the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend's wealthy boyfriend. The cast includes Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson and Reese Witherspoon.
Pulp Fiction
GONE GIRL - Warily, we dive into the juicy adaptation of that great summer novel despite director David Fincher and star Ben Affleck.
KILL THE MESSENGER - The sad story of Gary Webb, the west coast journalist who pursued the explosion of crack in the inner city during the 1980s. Starring Jeremy Renner, with Mary Elizabeth Winstead ("Smashed").
EDEN - Greta Gerwig stars in the new film from French director Mia Hansen-Løve ("Goodbye First Love"), which focuses on the rise of the French electronic-music boom in the 1990s.
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