Hollywood Revs Up For Fall Films

Films mentioned in this segmentRush (opens nationwide Sept. 27)

Gravity (opens nationwide Oct. 4)

12 Years a Slave (opens Oct. 17)

August: Osage County (limited release Dec. 15)

Off-the-radar picks

All Is by My Side (no release date available)

Fading Gigolo (no release date available)

Ron Howard’s racing film “Rush” opens nationwide this week. It’s one of many films opening in the next few months that will vie for Oscar nominations.

As Boston Globe film critic Ty Burrtells Here & Now, “we are in the fall serious season as opposed to the summer silly season.”

Burr previews several films, including a couple of off-the-radar picks he saw at the Toronto Film Festival.

• Read Ty Burr’s review of “Rush”

Guest

• Ty Burr, film critic for The Boston Globe. He tweets @tyburr.

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