Awards contenders are making their way to multiplexes this month. Jennifer Lawrence is eyeing a fifth Oscar nomination for “Causeway” (November 4), Lila Neugebauer’s drama about a U.S. soldier struggling to adjust to life back home after suffering a traumatic brain injury in Afghanistan. Laura Poitras, who took home an Academy Award for “Citizenfour,” her 2014 portrait of Edward Snowden, tells the story of artist Nan Goldin’s attempts to hold the Sackler family accountable for the opioid epidemic in “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” (November 23).
Writer-directors Dina Amer and Sally El Hosaini are taking inspiration from the headlines with “You Resemble Me” (November 4) and “The Swimmers” (November