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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Directed by Brett Morgen (Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, The Kid Stays in the Picture), this documentary is an intimate portrait of famed primate researcher Jane Goodall using newly discovered footage from the 1960s. The footage, filmed by her future husband Hugo van Lawick while they were in Gombe, Tanzinia, was thought to be lost, but it now provides an unprecedented look at Goodall’s early work.

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