Towing his suitcase and a giant Toblerone, Ben (Sathya Sridharan) arrives in Sri Lanka counting down the minutes until he reunites with his long-distance girlfriend, Suzanne (Anastasia Olowin). But from the moment they meet, the couple struggles with conflicting desires that only become more apparent as their vacation progresses.

Writer/director Nadia Conners earns a seat at the table with her first narrative feature, which tells the story of an acclaimed stage actress turned Hollywood housewife and mother. Her choices, marriage, and relationship to the industry all go under a wide-angle microscope in The Uninvited.

On December 14, 2012, 26 families’ worlds turned upside down. Twenty children, six adults, murdered in the span of eight minutes. For the next 10 years, Alex Jones accused these families of fabricating the worst day of their lives. Welcome to the nauseating world of angertainment.

Dev Patel’s directorial debut Monkey Man is a gritty, nasty piece of work.

The phrase, “I am cringe but I am free” might as well have been coined about the music of Dory Previn. This is not an insult; indeed, it is a compliment of a very high and specific order, and Dory Previn: On My Way to Where does a solid, interesting job of explaining her work’s how and why.

Although Jackie Robinson officially integrated baseball in 1947, many Black and Latin American players would face their own uphill battles in the years to come. Clemente shines a light on one such player: Roberto Clemente, the first Puerto Rican superstar.

Denis Villeneuve recently caused a surprising firestorm by daring to suggest that the visual medium of cinema should rely primarily on the image, not words. It seems like E.L. Katz has taken that wisdom deeply to heart with supernatural horror Azrael.

Documentary Whatever It Takes achieves takeoff velocity in a hurry. Before the title credit pops up on the screen, we have the complete setup: A mild-mannered, middle-aged couple living in suburban Boston has started receiving anonymous threats online. Things escalate with creepy deliveries, and we’re off.

Noor (Faryal Mehmood), a widowed schoolteacher and young boy’s mother, seeks to raise money for a girls’ school in her native Pakistan. As a way to garner interest and donations, she dons a purple wig and takes to social media – for better and much worse.