With more than five dozen movies coming out between now and the start of the holiday movie season, there’s no way to preview them all.

There are a lot of potential greats, though, and some deserve a little more detail:

THE GUYS NIGHT OUT MOVIE

“Righteous Kill” (Sept. 12)

Take-away quote: “Most people respect the badge. Everybody respects the gun.”

Both Robert De Niro and Al Pacino have played the bad guys more often than the heroes, but this time they’re both part of the NYPD.

Turk (De Niro) and Rooster (Pacino) have been partners for the last 30 years. As they’re contemplating retirement, the detectives are called in to work on a case that is curiously similar to a case they solved many years before.

Before too long, it becomes clear that they’re dealing with a serial killer who has something in common with the police force — he thinks that people should be punished for their wrongdoings. At the same time the detectives wonder if they locked up the right person years ago, the rest of the force wonders if the killer might actually be one of them.

Rated: R.

THE TYLER PERRY

“Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys” (Sept. 12)

Take-away quote: “Follow your heart. But watch your back.”
Tyler Perry gets his own category because it seems like he’s releasing a new flick every other season nowadays.

In his most recent, he wrote it, directed it and co-stars with a more-diverse-than-usual cast including Kathy Bates, Alfre Woodard and Cole Hauser.

Though from very different social circles, Charlotte Carwright (Bates) and Alice Pratt (Woodard) have been great friends for many years.

Things change for them, though, when their adult children begin an affair with each other — even though they’re both married to other people. To get away from that issue, paternity secrets, the family business and the rest of life’s little problems, Charlotte and Alice take a cross-country road trip and attempt to save their families from impending disaster.

Rated: PG-13.

THE CHICK FLICK

“The Women” (Sept. 12)

Take-away quote: “It’s all about …”
Except for maybe the 1939 George Cukor classic this movie is remaking, “The Women” (2008) may just be the most qualified chick flick of all time — there are no male actors in it. Not even extras. Not even children.

Oh, and the women talk about men, namely the husband of one of the foursome of friends (Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Debra Messing and Jada Pinkett Smith) who is cheating with the department store perfume counter woman, “spritzer girl” (Eva Mendes).

Rated: PG-13.

THE BRO-MANTIC COMEDY

“My Best Friend’s Girl” (Sept. 19)

Take-away quote: “It’s funny what love can make you do.”

In a new wave of not-so-girly romantic comedies, Dane Cook is one of the forerunning actors.

In his newest, he plays Tank, rebound specialist. His “Hitch”-like job is to take recently single women out on awful dates, forcing them to realize just how great the men they just dumped really are. The problem is he actually starts to fall for one of the girls (Kate Hudson) he was hired to disgust. And he was hired by his best friend (Jason Biggs) — oops.

Rated: R.

THE THOUGHT-PROVOKING AWARD-WINNER

“Blindness” (Sept. 26)

Take-away quote: “In a world gone blind, what if you were the only person who could see?”

Though it didn’t fare spectacularly at the Cannes Film Festival, “Blindness” has a capable cast (Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo), was directed by Fernando Meirelles of “The Constant Gardener” and is based on the novel written by Nobel Prize winner Jose Sarmango.

An epidemic of blindness spreads through a city ending civilization as it once was. Anyone affected is sent to quarantine where the new “society of the blind” is given little to eat and only the strong survive.

Rated: R.

THE BASED-ON-A-TRUE-STORY

“Flash of Genius” (Oct. 3)

Take-away quote: “Corporations have time, money and power on their side. All Bob Kearns had was the truth.”

Set in the 1960s, twin beds in the master bedroom and all, “Flash of Genius” is the story — said to be true — of the man who invented the intermittent windshield wiper, Bob Kearns (Greg Kinnear).

The Kearns think they’ve hit the big-time, but the big auto companies take credit for the university professor’s idea and instead of getting walked over, Bob fights back … for years.

Rated: PG-13.

THE SPORTS FLICK

“The Express” (Oct. 10)

Take-away quote: “He changed our country … one yard at a time.”

What would fall be without college football? Based on another true story, this one of Ernie Davis (Rob Brown), two-time All-American running back and the first black to win the Heisman Trophy.

Rated: PG.

THE AWARD-WINNING NOVEL TURNED MOVIE

“The Secret Life of Bees” (Oct. 17)

The New York Times bestseller by the same name by Sue Monk Kidd has mesmerized readers for more than five years now, and it’s coming to the silver screen this year with an all-star cast (Dakota Fanning, Queen Latifah, Paul Bettany, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys and Sophie Okoneda).

It’s 1964 (yes, this is the third movie set in the ’60s that’s getting a preview) and 14-year-old Lily’s (Fanning) mother is dead and she doesn’t get along well with her father (Bettany). She runs away with Rosaleen (Hudson), part babysitter, part mother, part friend, and together they discover beekeeping when they are taken in by the Boatwright sisters (Latifah, Okonedo and Keys).

Rated: PG-13.

THE CREEPY THRILLER

“Passengers” (Oct. 24)

Take-away quote: “The truth can’t hide forever.”

Just in time for Halloween!

In her ever-continuing attempt to break the “Princess Diaries” stereotype, Anne Hathaway stars as Claire, a grief counselor assigned to help a handful of plane crash survivors.

As she develops a romantic relationship with one of her patients (Patrick Wilson), Claire discovers something supernatural going on as the rest of the survivors begin disappearing one by one.

Rated: PG-13.

THE TWEEN SUPERHIT

“High School Musical 3: Senior Year” (Oct. 24)

Take-away quote: “High school graduation.”

If the letters HSM don’t mean anything to you yet, they will soon. It’s tween-speak for “High School Musical” the Disney Channel franchise that has made billions from it’s fanatically loyal fans.

Not too much mystery about it, the title pretty much says it all.

In the first HSM movie to make it to the big screen, Troy (Zak Efron) and Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens) got into different colleges and are trying to figure out what that means. Along with the big game and graduation, the couple and the rest of the Wildcats put on a huge spring musical about everything they hope for and wonder about the future. The musical’s name? “Senior Year.”

Rated: PG.

THE KIDS’ MOVIES

“Igor” (Sept. 19)

Take-away quote: “He’s got one monster of a problem.”

A kiddie-fied animated version of the classic monster movie. One evil scientist’s hunchbacked lab assistant loves science and wants to be a successful inventor one day, too. The ultimate success in his world full of mad scientists is to win the annual Evil Science Fair. The only problem is that this Igor (John Cusack), well, is not quite evil.

Rated: PG.

... and “Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa” (Nov. 7)

Take-away quote: “Still together. Still lost.”

DreamWorks knows that when it comes to children and singing, dancing, talking animals — they’re pretty much inseparable.

The first “Madagascar” was a hit, but Alex the Lion (Ben Stiller), Marty the Zebra (Chris Rock), Melman the Giraffe (David Schwimmer) and Gloria the Hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith) are still stranded in Madagascar.

The New York Zoo animals get the chance to leave — on a plane piloted by the penguins — and end up crashing in Africa where Alex meets some of his long-lost family.

Not yet rated, but the first one was PG.

BOND, JAMES BOND

“Quantum of Solace” (Nov. 14)

Take-away quote: “I was always very interested to meet you …”

Daniel Craig’s second time playing James Bond in the 22nd film in the franchise is the third 007 movie to be based on a short story by Ian Fleming.

You might want to re-watch “Casino Royale” before you head to the theater for this new Bond flick, because it picks up almost right where the last one left off.

Even as he’s seeking revenge for the death of Vesper, the woman he loved who betrayed him, 007 manages to meet the lovely Camille (Olga Kurylenko) who’s fighting her own battles.  

Not yet rated.