October brings many delights: Halloween candy, cooler nights, and new movies all month long. There's no shortage of spooky thrills between The Exorcist: Believer, Pet Sematary: Bloodlines, and Josh Hutcherson trying to survive Five Nights at Freddy's. Crime dramas, psychological thrillers, and mind-bending sci-fi are all the rage, too — but it's Martin Scorsese who's the talk of Hollywood with his Leonardo DiCaprio-led epic Killers of the Flower Moon.
This psychological thriller won 2023's Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Directed by Justine Triet and grounded by Sandra Hüller's already acclaimed performance, Anatomy of a Fall unravels the mysterious death of lead character Sandra's husband. Did he fall from a balcony, or did his estranged wife push him? Whatever happened, Sandra finds herself interrogated in the courtroom, and her visually impaired son is the only witness.