16 Films to See in October

by Keith Kimbell, Metacritic Film Editor – October 2, 2017

Updated 7:23pm to remove Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which has been delayed to a November 10 release date.

A large percentage of each year's best films open in the fall months, and this October looks likely to continue that trend, with multiple 90+ releases as well as notable new features from Todd Haynes, Yorgos Lanthimos, Noah Baumbach, Ruben Östlund, and Agnès Varda. In recent years, October has also been the month to launch smart but crowd-pleasing sci-fi fare. Following in the footsteps of Gravity, The Martian, and Arrival this year is the long-awaited Blade Runner 2049, which is already earning rave reviews.

Get the scoop on these and other top October films (including a few Netflix exclusives) in our gallery below.

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73 The Square

Force Majeure writer-director Ruben Östlund won the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for this dark comedy about a museum curator whose life gets increasingly chaotic with the addition of a new installation titled The Square. Claes Bang stars in a much-praised performance, and Elisabeth Moss plays a journalist he spars with, while Terry Notary is a performance artist who specializes in pushing the boundaries of acceptable behavior. While maybe a bit too ambitious, Sweden’s submission to the Academy Awards for best foreign language film is still not to be missed.

The Square