Some of these launched at
prestige fall film festivals («Downsizing,» «Molly's Game,» «Hostiles,» «Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool»); others are bonafide awards contenders (Steven Spielberg's «The Post» and Paul Thomas Anderson's «Phantom Thread»); and some, like Hugh Jackman vanity musical «The Greatest Showman,» will soon skid into either bad reviews or audience reaction, or both.