Motherless Brooklyn
In an unusually bold adaptation, writer-director-producer Edward Norton has transplanted the main character of Jonathan Lethem’s best-selling novel Motherless Brooklyn from modern Brooklyn into an entirely new, richly woven neo-noir narrative, reset in 1950s New York. Emotionally shattered by a botched job, Lionel Essrog (Norton), a lonely private detective with Tourette syndrome, finds himself drawn into a multilayered conspiracy that expands to encompass the city’s ever-growing racial divide and the devious personal and political machinations of a Robert Moses–like master builder, played by Alec Baldwin. Featuring a rigorously controlled star turn by Norton and outstanding additional supporting performances by Bruce Willis, Willem Dafoe, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Bobby Cannavale, Leslie Mann, and Cherry Jones, plus a haunting soundtrack (featuring a score by Daniel Pemberton, with orchestration by Wynton Marsalis, and an original song by Thom Yorke), Motherless Brooklyn is the kind of movie Hollywood almost never makes anymore, and a complexly conceived, robust evocation of a bygone era of New York that speaks to our present moment. A Warner Bros. Picture.

Director: Edward Norton
Produced by: Edward Norton, Gigi Pritzker, Bill Migliore
Cast: Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: November 1, 2019
Runtime: 2 hour 24 minutes
Genre: Crime, Drama
Rated: R

Marriage Story
A stage director and his actor wife struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal and creative extremes.

Director: Noah Baumbach
Produced by: David Heyman, Noah Baumbach
Cast: Merritt Wever, Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver
Distributor: Netflix
Release Date: December 6, 2019
Runtime: 2 hour 16 minutes
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Rated: R