1. About Ray
2. Anomalisa
3. Beasts of No Nation
4. Beeba Boys
5. Black Mass
6. Born to Be Blue
7. The Danish Girl
8. Demolition
9. Desierto
10. The Dressmaker
11. Equals
Starring: Kristen Stewart and Nicholas Hoult
Directed by: Drake Doremus
Doremus veers dramatically from the contemporary setting of his 2011 Sundance hit Like Crazy (and the similarly themed Breathe In) into science fiction territory. In a future world in which love has been eradicated so that people can live productive, calm lives, Stewart's Nia and Hoult's Silas end up defying genetics. Equals is also playing at the Venice Film Festival, and Variety gave it a decent review, one that compared it to Gattaca, which is a great sign. (For those who love Gattaca, anyway — and I am one.) —K.A.
12. Evolution
13. Freeheld
14. He Named Me Malala
15. High-Rise
16. I Saw the Light
17. In Jackson Heights
18. Je Suis Charlie
19. Legend
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Starring: Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, David Thewlis, Christopher Eccleston, Chazz Palminteri, Tara Fitzgerald, and Taron Egerton
Directed by: Brian Helgeland
Hardy plays both twin brothers Reggie and Ronnie Kray, two of Britain's best-known gangsters, who rose to power in 1960s London due to Reggie's suave calculations and Ronnie's brutish muscle. Ronnie was also an out gay man at a time when there was practically no such thing in polite society, let alone in the bruising criminal underground (or, for that matter, in a crime thriller backed in the U.S. by a major studio like Universal). Browning (Sucker Punch) plays Reggie's long-suffering wife, in what is something of a depressingly familiar motif for this year's TIFF. —A.B.V.
20. Maggie’s Plan
21. The Martian
22. The Meddler
23. Miss You Already
24. Office
25. Our Brand Is Crisis
26. The Program
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Starring: Ben Foster, Chris O'Dowd, Guillaume Canet, Dustin Hoffman, and Jesse Plemons
Directed by: Stephen Frears
Two and a half years ago, Lance Armstrong gave a shocking and at times bizarre interview to Oprah Winfrey in which he finally admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs during his career as a competitive cyclist. The challenge for this film, about Armstrong's systematic efforts to evade detection and win an unprecedented seven Tour de France championships, is whether it can match the high drama of that interview and the media firestorm surrounding Armstrong's confession. Foster (Kill Your Darlings, The Messenger), who is pretty much always great, has never really been given as big a role as Armstrong. And because few people probably want to see this story just from Armstrong's perspective, the film also tracks the efforts of journalist David Walsh (O'Dowd) to discredit the cyclist amid his smokescreen of denials. —A.B.V.
27. Room
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Starring: Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Joan Allen, William H. Macy, Sean Bridgers
Directed by: Lenny Abrahamson
Room, which has already generated ecstatic reviews for star-in-waiting Larson out of its premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, has the kind of premise that might require a trigger warning. Based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Emma Donoghue, who also wrote the screenplay, it's about a young woman (Larson) who, seven years before, was kidnapped by a man who's kept her and the son (Tremblay) she conceived captive in a shed in his backyard. It's an understatement to describe this as difficult subject matter (inspired by the real-life case of Elisabeth Fritzl), but the story is as much about how a 5-year-old who's been kept in isolation all his life starts to experience the world as it is one about intense trauma. —A.W.
28. Spotlight
29. Stonewall
30. Trumbo
31. Truth
32. Where to Invade Next
Directed by: Michael Moore
The documentary world's favorite firebrand is back with a new film about how everything's going fine and we're all getting along! Hah, no — actually, Where to Invade Next finds the Oscar-winning director taking on America's military industrial complex, foreign policy, and seeming need to be forever at war with someone. Moore's keeping mum about the details of the doc, which he managed to shoot quietly and keep off the radar until the surprise TIFF announcement. But according to the festival, Where to Invade Next will be about Moore trying to figure out a way for the U.S. to do a better job invading other countries. —A.W.