Force Majeure

By all means, see David Fincher’s gloriously pulpy “Gone Girl,” the elegant, surreal comedy “Birdman,” the percussive and intelligent idie “Whiplash,” and the staggering Edward Snowden documentary “Citizenfour.” But before Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi epic “Interstellar” arrives and wipes everyone’s brains, here are three films not to forget amid the increasingly crowded fall movie season.

At least it was an iPhone. If it had been a generic droid that Tomas grabbed before abandoning his family in the face of an apparent but unrealized disaster, it really would have been embarrassing. His wife is still pretty disgusted, but he will deny everything in Ruben Östlund’s “Force Majeure.”