# Awards Season Heats Up With ‘The Only Living Pickpocket In New York,’ ‘Fatherland’ & More — Specialty Preview

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/awards-season-heats-up-with-the-only-living-pickpocket-in-new-york-fatherland-more-specialty-preview/
- Published: 2026-10-24T00:30:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-24T01:10:57+00:00
- Original publisher: Deadline
- Original article: https://deadline.com/2026/10/indie-films-opening-only-living-pickpocket-in-new-york-wicker-1237171300/
- Topics: Art, Culture

## Key points

- Several independent films open amid awards-season attention.
- Pickpocket begins on six screens and has a 97% critics’ score.
- Wicker opens in 1,471 cinemas with strong critics’ and audience scores.

## Summary

Several independent films are opening this weekend, with awards attention surrounding John Turturro’s The Only Living Pickpocket in New York and Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland. The releases span limited cinema runs and broader openings, while A24’s You Can See Everything goes wide and Netflix expands the release of La Bola Negra.

Pickpocket opens on six screens in New York and Los Angeles, with Turturro playing an ageing thief in a changed city; it has a 97% Rotten Tomatoes critics’ score. Fatherland, which won Pawlikowski the Cannes Best Director award, opens at four cinemas and follows Thomas Mann and his daughter across post-war Germany. Wider releases include A Talent for Murder on 876 screens and Wicker on 1,471; Wicker, starring Olivia Colman, Peter Dinklage and Alexander Skarsgård, has a 92% critics’ score and 93% audience score.

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