10 Must-See Movies Hitting Cinemas This September – From ‘Sense and Sensibility’ to ‘Resident Evil’

Directing duo Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern made the definitive record of New York’s post-millennium indie scene in Meet Me in the Bathroom (2022). Now with prodigious Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight along as writer, the pair document 2025’s Oasis reunion in what promises to be essential viewing for anyone who knows the words to ‘Wonderwall’ or dreams of plastic pint glasses sailing through the air. Along with concert footage galore, Liam and Noel Gallagher sit down for their first joint interview in 15 years. 

In cinemas Sep 9

Andrew Scott plays Allied high command’s top weather boffin in a tense wartime thriller about the decision to launch D-Day that’s adapted from David Haig’s acclaimed play. Brendan Fraser is Dwight Eisenhower and Damien Lewis is Field Marshal Montgomery, two military men keen to press ahead with the Normandy landings as Scott’s real-life meteorologist warns of an approaching storm. Weather maps have never been this exciting before.

In cinemas Sep 9 

Beloved for its film-star cameos and chic talent agents melting down over their demanding clients and bedhopping with each other, Netflix’s French megahit Call My Agent! gets its movie-length spinoff this month. It’s five years after the demise of ASK and the show’s undisputed star character, Andréa (Camille Cottin), is on a quest to direct her first film. To get the job done she’ll need her old team around her – and a cameoing George Clooney to swing by.

On Netflix Sep 10

Assembling Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Dianne Wiest and Stockard Channing on the same call sheet guarantees some form of magic, even before you cast them as the reuniting witches from semi-beloved 1995 movie Practical Magic. Probably won’t scare anyone witless but Gen-Xers of a certain age and romantic disposition will be forming an orderly queue.

In cinemas Sep 11

Legendary jazz man Bill Evans is the subject of a biopic that should have Blue Note and Verve aficionados out in force at their local arthouses. Grieving, hooked on heroin and unable to perform, he’s a satisfyingly knotty figure for director Grant Gee’s adaptation of Owen Martell’s 2013 novel ‘Intermission’ to explore. Anders Danielsen Lie (Sentimental Value) plays the American pianist. 

In cinemas Sep 11

Loved The Sheep Detectives? Baa-rilliant news, then, because Aardman’s fluffiest star is back for a third big-screen spinoff that should see him solving a crime or two of his own. The local farmer, fresh from wrecking the flock's pumpkin patch, has vanished into thin air and a wild beast is roaming the woods of Mossingham. Are the two connected? Wool-umbo is on the case.

In cinemas Sep 18

Horror wunderkind Zach Cregger could have followed up Barbarian and Weapons with just about anything – a Marvel film, a big horror franchise, another original story. Hell, he could have just taken the big blank cheque home and looked at it. So the fact that he’s picked a revival of the thus-far underwhelming Resident Evil franchise brings its own paradoxical sense of excitement. He must have something cool up his sleeve to cash his chips on another visit to Raccoon City? Austin Abrams, a Weapons standout, faces the monsters again in this one. 

In cinemas Sep 18

We know War Horse. Now meet War Dog. The canine in question is Odin, the handicapped combat dog of Brad Pitt’s retired special forces soldier. Both are traumatised by their experiences in action, and things won’t be getting easier when they go down in a plane crash in the Alaskan wilderness. The breathtaking scenery – New Zealand, IRL – will share top billing with director David Ayer’s Fury star.

In cinemas Sep 25

It’s a big autumn for fans of Jane Austen and period dramas in general. Netflix has a new Dolly Alderton-penned spin on Pride and Prejudice, and Georgia Oakley (Blue Jean) will be bringing a new take on Sense and Sensibility onto our cinema screens. The Oscar-winning Ang Lee version and the BBC’s 2008 series are high bars to clear, but she has a talent young British and Irish cast to work with, including Daisy Edgar-Jones, Esmé Creed-Miles, George MacKay and Frank Dillane. 

In cinemas Sep 25

Forty years after his breakthrough doc Sherman’s March wowed Sundance, Ross McElwee returns with a stunning film that records what’s happened in his life since. As is his MO, the American filmmaker turns the camera on himself and his family to investigate the cost of his restless creativity. A devastating loss make this heartsore but exceptional documentary a truly poignant watch.

In cinemas Sep 25