• “21 Bridges”
Starring: Chadwick Boseman, J.K. Simmons, Sienna Miller.
Boseman, the charismatic star of Marvel’s “Black Panther,” heads the cast of this crime thriller, playing a New York police detective in charge of a manhunt for a pair of cop-killers — one so massive it involves locking down the whole island of Manhattan, and every way in or out. Sound far-fetched? Just a little. (Nov. 22, R)
• “Knives Out”
Starring: Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Christopher Plummer.
The new film by writer-director Rian Johnson (“Brick,” “Looper,” “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”) is a darkly comic, deliciously nasty murder mystery — the love child of Agatha Christie and David Mamet — about the greedy heirs of a recently deceased mystery writer (Plummer). His death is being investigated as a possible murder by a private detective, played by Craig. For fans of old-school murder mystery, this contemporary take — part parody, part loving homage — is a treat. (Nov. 27, PG-13)
• “Little Joe”
Starring: Emily Beecham, Ben Whishaw.
Beecham (“Hail, Caesar!”) won the Best Actress prize at Cannes for her performance as a plant breeder who develops a species of antidepressant flower – one whose scent, or pollen, seems to make people happy. But does it really? (Dec. 6, not yet rated)
• “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”
Starring: Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, John Boyega.
It only feels like it has been a thousand generations (to put it in Jedi terms), but after 42 long years, the three interconnected “Star Wars” trilogies have finally come to an end. Directed by J.J. Abrams, “The Rise of Skywalker” hints, tantalizingly, that Ridley’s heroic Rey, seen wearing a black hood and carrying a double red lightsaber in footage released at this summer’s D23 Expo, may have crossed over to the dark side. (Dec. 20, not yet rated)
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