Ten new movies that will make the odyssey to the theatre worth it this fall

FALL CULTURE PREVIEW Ten new movies that will make the odyssey to the theatre worth it this fall BARRY HERTZ PUBLISHED YESTERDAY Open this photo in gallery: ILLUSTRATION BY SUVI SUITIALA COMMENTS SHARE SAVE FOR LATER Listen to this article Learn more about audio Log in or create a free account to listen to this article. More fall culture: Albums | Stage | TV | Concerts | Visual Art Unlike last year, it was far from a cruel summer at the multiplex over the past three months. Between The Odyssey, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Toy Story 5 and Obsession, the box office reached record heights – and, hey, some of the movies themselves were pretty good, too. The fall doesn’t have nearly as many potential blockbusters on offer, but it does have a ton of potential, at least when it comes to serving audiences who have had their fill of Imax-sized spectacle and are looking for something a little more intimate and provocative. To that end, here are the 10 most intriguing titles coming to a theatre near you between now and U.S. Thanksgiving in November, when the bigger-than-big show-stoppers including Avengers: Doomsday and Dune: Part Three will begin to dominate the discourse, and your local theatre. Primetime You see how this looks, right? So went the typical opening vibe of Chris Hansen’s reality-television series To Catch a Predator, which orchestrated sting operations to catch adult men looking for sex with minors – a three-years-long stunt that ended after one subject fatally shot himself as an NBC camera crew entered his home. In director Lance Oppenheim’s docudrama exploring this lurid chapter in TV history, Robert Pattinson (who is easily the hardest-working actor of the year between this, The Odyssey, The Drama and this winter’s Dune: Part Three) plays Hansen with a seemingly slimy sheen, while various superb character actors (Merritt Wever, Tony Revolori, Bokeem Woodbine) populate the fringes of the story as cops, producers and victims. (Sept. 25) Digger Open this photo in gallery: Tom Cruise as Digger Rockwell in a scene from 'Digger.' COURTESY OF WARNER BROS. PICTURES/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tom Cruise goes full Les Tropic Thunder Grossman in this new epic-scaled black comedy from director Alejandro G. Iñárritu. Will Cruise, who packs on pounds of prosthetics to play an elderly oil baron who accidentally sets the Earth’s destruction in motion, get his long-deserved Best Actor Oscar for the trouble? Will Iñárritu, the mastermind behind Birdman and…