Colin Farrell

Robert Pattinson stars as the new Batman.

The adaptation of a popular YA book series is a total mess.

The adaptation of the books about a child criminal mastermind looks a lot more like a standard Disney superhero film.

An 'In Bruges' reunion is in the works.

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Steve McQueen is a master of artful, searing dramas about fraught masculinity and suffering. Gillian Flynn is known for her twisty page-turners led by complex women carrying the burdens of trauma. Those two many not seem like the most likely of collaborators, but we get a beautiful marriage of their talents with Widows, a crowd-pleasing heist thriller with plenty on its mind.

The floppy-eared elephant is getting a dark live-action remake from Tim Burton.

The ‘12 Years a Slave’ director is back with a Gillian Flynn-scripted heist thriller featuring a killer cast.

Yorgos Lanthimos delivered one of the best films of 2016 with The Lobster, a darkly comedic and comprehensive satire of relationships and dating, featuring a wonderful performance from a schlubby Colin Farrell. If you walked away from that film thinking that maybe the director of Dogtooth was softening a bit, Lanthimos returns this year — schlubby Colin Farrell in tow — with his darkest film yet. The Killing of a Sacred Deer is a predictably uncanny, pitch-black tragicomedy that pits a narcissistic surgeon against a sociopathic teenager for what is undoubtedly one of the most disturbing cinematic experiences of the year.

Here are all the films and great actors from the first 10 months of the year that you missed -- and need to catch up with ASAP.