Ana Lily Amirpour continues to play with genre material in The Bad Batch, setting her sophomore film in a Mad Max-style wasteland soaked in violence and sex.
Colin Trevorrow scales back for The Book of Henry, taking on the story of a family investigating a suspicious neighbor under the directive of their hyper-intelligent son.
Jeannette Walls’s memoir on her unconventional childhood serves as the basis for The Glass Castle, a multifaceted tale of her lively & troubled family.
Good Time’s title is clearly a sarcastic jest; no one is having a good time here, and there’s allusions to time spent running towards a dream that’s not fully realized.
Most of the weird stuff in the trailer for Battle of the Sexes really happened, right down to the sugar daddy jacket, so while it may seem irreverent to make this landmark event into a comedy, it sort of always was one.
It’s hard to get any tangible ideas about Woodshock from this tease, mixing as it does paranoia, regret, longing, and general unease into a bewildering milieu.