Starring: James Badge Dale, Marin Ireland, Sasha Frolova, Samantha Logan, Evan Jonigkeit, Virginia Kull

On the trail of a missing girl, an ex-cop comes across a secretive group attempting to summon a terrifying supernatural entity.

Starring: Guinevere Turner, V.S. Brodie, T. Wendy McMillan, Migdalia Melendez

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After leaving behind her girlfriend to attend college in Chicago, young lesbian Max West (Guinevere Turner) is introduced to Ely (V.S. Brodie), a slightly older woman with quirky habits. While Max and Ely quickly develop an attraction to each another, a poorly timed phone call from Max’s long-distance girlfriend, Kate, brings things to an abrupt halt. Meanwhile Max’s roommate, Kia (T. Wendy McMillan), helps her girlfriend, Evy (Migdalia Melendez), cope with some tough times at home.

Starring: Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen, Natasha Lyonne

From writer-director Azazel Jacobs (French Exit, The Lovers) comes this bittersweet and often funny story of an elderly patriarch and the three grown daughters who come to be with him in his final days. Katie (Carrie Coon) is a controlling Brooklyn mother dealing with a wayward teenage daughter; free-spirited Christina (Elizabeth Olsen) is a different kind of mom, separated from her offspring for the first time; and Rachel (Natasha Lyonne) is a sports-betting stoner who has never left her father’s apartment — much to the chagrin of her stepsisters, who share a different mother and worldview. Continuing his astute exploration of family dynamics in close-knit spaces, Jacobs follows the siblings over the course of three volatile days, as death looms, grievances erupt, and love seeps through the cracks of a fractured home.

Starring: Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, Connie Nielsen Denzel Washington

Years after witnessing the death of Maximus at the hands of his uncle, Lucius must enter the Colosseum after the powerful emperors of Rome conquer his home. With rage in his heart and the future of the empire at stake, he looks to the past to find the strength and honor needed to return the glory of Rome to its people.

Starring: Kyle Gallner, Rosemarie DeWitt, Naomi Scott, Lukas Gage

About to embark on a new world tour, global pop sensation Skye Riley begins to experience increasingly terrifying and inexplicable events. Overwhelmed by the escalating horrors and pressures of fame, she must face her dark past to regain control of her life before it spirals out of control.

Starring: Jason Schwartzman, Carol Kane, Dolly De Leon, Caroline Aaron, Robert Smigel

In Between the Temples, Ben (Schwartzman) is a forty-something cantor losing his voice and possibly his faith. Struggling to meet the expectations of his rabbi, congregation, and not one but two Jewish mothers (Aaron and de Leon), Ben finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as an adult bat mitzvah student. This warm and anxious comedy from prolific writer/director Nathan Silver explores the complexities of belief, connection, and what it means to be a real mensch.

Starring: Willa Fitzgerald, Kyle Gallner, Barbara Hershey, Ed Begley Jr.

In Strange Darling, nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.

Starring: Seth Rogen, Anna Faris, Ray Liotta, Michael Peña, Dan Bakkedahl, Jesse Plemons

Ronnie Barnhardt (Seth Rogen) is many things: Head of Security at an Albuquerque-area Mall; an Aspiring Police Officer; a Dutiful Son to a burned-out Alcoholic Mother; a man totally in love with a co-worker (Anna Faris) who barely remembers he exists. But above all, he is angry. Alone. And he is ready to be noticed. Fortune smiles on Ronnie and frowns at the rest of the mall when a serial flasher begins stalking the parking lots, drawing the attentions of the local news and the Hot-headed Police Higher-up Detective Harrison (Ray Liotta), while igniting in Ronnie the ambition long-buried under his regime of Bi-Polar suppressing meds and schlubby appearance: he will be the hero this mall needs. He will catch this pervert. He will blow the brains out of all darkness in the world and save the day. Or he will die trying.

Zeroing in on one of the many discontented American lives that often quietly pass by in the margins of most folks’ vision, Observe and Report basically grafts the soul of Taxi Driver onto the bones of one of the Judd Apatow-ian bawdy comedies that still ruled the theatrical landscape back in ‘09, producing an alarmingly prescient portrait of an Incel on the rise back when these types were referred to as “Guys who Buy Swords at the Mall.” Hilarious and shockingly bleak while maintaining an insane kind of high-wire empathy for all the suburban souls caught in his camera, writer/director Jody Hill deploys the slo-mo dad-rock poetry that made shows like Eastbound and Down and Vice Principals 21st century comedy touchstones to totally place the audience in Ronnie’s deeply deluded POV without ever allowing us to comfortably view him as an anti-hero (unlike certain other Taxi Driver riffs focusing on supervillian clowns). Rogen gleefully rips the stuffing out of his freshly cultivated Teddy Bear screen persona to hide a ticking time bomb within while Farris, Liotta and an absolutely on-fire Michael Peña put in some of the best work of their careers to keep this brazen balancing act of pothead chuckles, sudden violence and deep seated misery afloat.

Greeted by well-earned controversy and a war for public awareness following in the wake of the unfortunate success of Paul Blart: Mall Cop (which was rushed through production to beat this very film to theaters), Observe and Report was ignored by the public and split critics right down the center: “If you thought Abu Ghraib was a laugh riot, then you’ll love Observe and Report” -Manhola Dargis; “A crazy mosaic of Americana with tiles scattered and missing. A-” -Liza Schwarzbaum. As the Ronnie Banhardts of the world became major cultural forces over the past 15 years and Jody Hill and co. moved on to HBO’s The Righteous Gemstones, the film’s 51% on Rotten Tomatoes has held fast making this 15th anniversary a ripe moment to Re-consider! the whiplash genius of this undervalued masterpiece of American malaise, assuming we all survive the untethered lunacy of the film’s final reel.

Starring: Hunter Schafer, Jan Bluthardt, Marton Csokas, Jessica Henwick, Dan Stevens, Mila Lieu

Seventeen-year-old Gretchen reluctantly leaves America to live with her father at a resort in the German Alps. Plagued by strange noises and bloody visions, she soon discovers a shocking secret that concerns her own family.

Starring: Rae Dawn Chong, Don Gordon, Tom Towles, Antonio Fargas

Just as Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer was slowly finding distribution, John McNaughton was eager for his next project when the script for The Borrower stood out among otherwise uninspiring stories. A playful mix of genres, The Borrower has a remarkable cast of character actors who embody an alien transitioning between human forms, with frequent McNaughton player Tom Towles stealing the show. This is a movie that deserves higher cult status, replete with exploding heads and a demented sense of humor.