Best movies to watch this month, September 2019

Hustlers

Writer-director Lorene Scafaria turns to the dark corners of neon-lit rooms for her new movie starring Jennifer Lopez, Lili Reinhart, Keke Palmer, Lizzo and more.

Based on the 2015 New York Magazine article 'The Hustlers at Scores', Scafaria writes and directs an explosive look at the women behind the scandal. The strip club employees band together against their Wall Street clients to bring them to justice.

Ad Astra

Brad Pitt's new sci-fi film sees the actor play a lonely engineer searching for his dad, Tommy Lee Jones, in space - while also saving the world in the process.

The director, James Gray, has previously worked with Pitt on The Lost City of Z, one of the most highly acclaimed films of 2017, Anticipation for Ad Astra is further heightened by the casting of legendary actor Tommy Lee Jones, star of The Homesman, as well as Liv Tyler, star of The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

The Farewell

Awkwafina makes her first foray into drama with Lulu Wang's The Farewell, a moving story about family, loss and conflicting cultures in which one family hides a cancer diagnosis from their beloved grandma.

Wang brings her own family memories to life in this charming and tender film, itself based on the story she told on ‘In Defence of Ignorance’ show from the This American Life podcast. The film chronicles a close-knit family distanced by two cultures, two countries, two ways of dealing with bad news: dwell on a sad truth, or hide it – making every last memory a good one.

The Goldfinch

The worldwide bestseller and Pullitzer prize-winning novel is coming soon to the big screen: Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch has found a stellar cast and heavyweight director to bring the beloved story to life.

Ansel Elgor leads the cast as Theodore Decker, the boy who lost his mother to an explosion and must reassemble the pieces of his life. Nicole Kidman, Finn Wolfhard, Luke Wilson and Sarah Paulson co-star.