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Dear Evan Hansen The Many Saints of Newark

(Sept. 24)

Hot off its TIFF world premiere screening last week, the musical casts Ben Platt as a high school student whose letters to himself are mistaken for notes from fellow classmate (Colton Ryan), who commits suicide. Kaitlyn Dever, Julianne Moore, Amy Adams and Amandla Stenberg co-star.

The Starling (Sept. 24 on Netflix)

A woman (Melissa McCarthy) coping with the loss of her infant daughter is forced to contend with a feisty bird that's threatening to take over her idyllic garden.

The Guilty

(Sept. 24 in theatres; Oct. 1 on Netflix)

Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal reunites with Southpaw director Antoine Fuqua for a thriller about a 911 call dispatcher in a desperate race to save a distressed caller who has been abducted.

(Oct. 1)

The much-hyped Sopranos prequel takes place during the Newark riots of July 1967 and features Michael Gandolfini, the son of the late Sopranos star James Gandolfini, as the younger version of his father's famous character, Tony Soprano. “He's not a gun-wielding gangster. He's a kid who gets whittled down and pulled in,” Michael says.

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