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You'll want these five films on your list for fall

After a two-year dry spell, Hollywood's summer blockbusters finally busted some blocks this year. Now, the question is how to keep that momentum going.
In <em>Vesper,</em> Raffiella Chapman plays a 13-year-old girl living in a future where biological experiments have wiped out all the earth's edible plants.

In case there was any doubt, things will not get quieter as the weather cools.

There'll be plenty of battlefield epics (Devotion, Medieval, The Woman King), superhero sagas (Black Adam, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever), horror films (Halloween Ends, God's Country, Prey for the Devil) and sci-fi odysseys (Vesper, Strange World).

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