Last week, we whittled the 288 features screening at this year’s festival down to the 50 buzziest films. Now we want to know which flick is the frontrunner. August: Osage County has Pulitzer-prize-winning source material and Meryl Streep, but tickets for sci-fi saga Gravity (heralded by Time as “the glory of cinema’s future”) are being scalped online for $600 a pair. Then there’s The Fifth Estate, the Julian Assange biopic starring an ice-blond Benedict Cumberbatch, which has netted all the opening-day hype—and the impassioned support of the Cumberbitches. Other contenders include: Steve McQueen’s super-serious historical drama 12 Years a Slave; weepy love flick Labor Day with Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin; Brit tearjerker Philomena with Judy Dench; and Atom Egoyan’s Devil’s Knot starring Reese Witherspoon and the adorably bumbling Colin Firth
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(Images: August: Osage County, The Weinstein Co.; The Fifth Estate, The Fifth Estate/Facebook; Gravity, Gravity/Facebook)
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