Ten films to watch this September
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Nicholas Barber selects this month’s unmissable releases, including the long-awaited return of Bond, a Sopranos prequel and a Cinderella musical starring Camila Cabello.
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Dear Evan Hansen
2021 is officially a bumper year for movie musicals, with such high-profile toe-tappers as In the Heights, Annette, West Side Story, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, and Tick, Tick… Boom! on the bill. One of the most anticipated is Dear Evan Hansen, a teen drama about a lonely high-school boy, Evan, who writes himself a motivational letter, and when his classmate Connor kills himself, Connor’s parents mistakenly believe that Evan’s letter was written by their son. The Tony-winning Broadway show was scripted by Steven Levenson (who also wrote the screenplay for Tick, Tick … Boom!), with songs by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (La La Land, The Greatest Showman). The film features Julianne Moore and Amy Adams as Evan and Connor’s respective mothers, while Evan himself is played by Ben Platt, who…
