As is often the case, November is a packed month for the film release schedule. There are plenty of festival favorites that made the rounds and are now getting their mainstream release. It’s also a big month for notable directors with new films from everyone from Sofia Coppola to Ridley Scott. With that said, we can’t write about everything, but even those not mentioned on the below list are worthy of checking out.

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It’s fall film preview time, finally. Before that though, one of the big stories coming from the entertainment industry this summer has been the Strike. The Writers Guild of America went on strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers on May 2, and just over a month later after approving their own strike authorization, The Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and later joined the WGA in their call for better regulations and compensation.

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What can one life teach us about humanity? “All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt” peels away the layers of a woman’s complicated life. The film’s story follows Mackenzie, also known as Mack, as she traverses a life full of love, heartbreak, grief, and hope. It stars Charleen McClure, Moses Ingram, Reginald Helms Jr., Zainab Jah, Sheila Atim, and Chris Chalk.

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A memory, tinged with aching rawness, emerges in “All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt,” the feature debut by writer/director Raven Jackson. This memory briefly foretells the knotting stream of remembrances that roots our protagonist, Mack (played in these early childhood scenes by a sage Kaylee Nicole Johnson). It begins in 1970, with young Mack’s hands caressing a fish’s scales before throwing the suffocated creature back into the glinting water.

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