The 15 movies we’re most excited about this fall

Hollywood’s pipeline may be slowed due to the aftereffects of strikes we’re still dealing with, but our snapshot of the best films of the season is as packed as ever. — Joshua Rothkopf ‘Salem’s Lot’ Lewis Pullman, left, Makenzie Leigh and Bill Camp in the movie “Salem’s Lot.” After a period of worrying if the movie version of Stephen King’s 1975 vampire novel would even see the light of day or get deleted by a team of Warner Bros. bean counters, it can be confirmed that it is definitely coming to Max this Halloween season. — Mark Olsen ‘Blitz’ Elliott Heffernan and Saoirse Ronan in the movie “Blitz.” It would not be a stretch to call Steve McQueen one of our greatest living historical filmmakers. — Mary McNamara ‘Emilia Pérez’ Zoe Saldana, left, and Karla Sofía Gascón in the movie “Emilia Pérez.” On paper it seems more Mad Lib than movie: acclaimed French auteur Jacques Audiard making a Mexican-set melodrama about a ruthless crime boss who transitions to being a woman, in a film that won a joint best actress prize at Cannes for co-stars Zoe Saldana, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz and Karla Sofía Gascón. — Mark Olsen ‘All We Imagine as Light’ Kani Kusruti, left, and Divya Prabha in the movie “All We Imagine as Light.” Payal Kapadia’s drama swept into Cannes near the festival’s tail end and quickly upturned prize expectations, leaving with the Grand Prix, an award previously won by “The Zone of Interest,” “BlacKkKlansman” and “Inside Llewyn Davis.” The movie’s lovely satisfactions shouldn’t be overhyped: After an initial section of urban ennui in which two Mumbai nurses grapple with romantic unhappiness, the movie takes a right turn as they head out of town to a jungly beachside community where anything seems possible.