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Why it's worth seeing: We've had a string of pretty great DC Comics movies in the past few years- Wonder Woman and Aquaman both breathed new life in what looked like a dead franchise-but Birds of Prey, the Harley Quinn-centric girl gang team-up movie full of glitter and exploding sandbags, is the first one that seems to remember its characters' poppy, colorful origins.

( Watch the trailer) - EZ HBOĬast: Margot Robbie, Rosie Perez, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Ella Jay Basco Bacurau holds its cards close to its chest, all building to an exuberantly bloody finale that's angry and hysterical. Dornelles and Mendonça Filho give the film a fuzzy B-movie feel that's only enhanced by the presence of B-movie hero Udo Kier as a threatening military figure. To say too much about what is actually going on in Bacurau would ruin the experience of watching it. You sit, hypnotized by the film while at the same time you wonder: What the hell is even happening? Is something supernatural or alien occurring? What about the hallucinogens that characters keep taking? Or is this just reality spun on its head? The quasi-western seems to exist in a world that is not quite our own, even as it offers an allegory for messy present-day Brazilian politics. The mystery as to just who or what is besieging the tiny isolated town is the driving force behind the movie's narrative, but the question posed above also applies to the experience of watching Bacurau. Why it's worth seeing: "What's going on in Bacurau?" holds dual meaning when discussing the new film by Brazilian directors Juliano Dornelles and Kleber Mendonça Filho. ( Watch the trailer) - EZ IFC FilmsĬast: Sônia Braga, Udo Keir, Bárbara Colen, Thomas Aquinoĭirectors: Juliano Dornelles and Kleber Mendonça Filho Her performance is agonizing as is the movie that surrounds it. The Assistant is a tale of disillusionment, and Garner wears the exhaustion, stress, and pain of that on her face. When Jane reaches out to a smarmy HR person played by Succession's Matthew Macfadyen, she quickly realizes that speaking out is futile. Instead, it is about the systems in place that have allowed his behavior to go on for so long. But this is not a story about triumph over the evil that men like Weinstein perpetrate. A meeting with an actress extends late into the night.

A new, very pretty woman arrives from Idaho with no experience and is put up in a fancy hotel. Jane's unseen boss is quite evidently a stand-in for Harvey Weinstein, and over the course of her otherwise monotonous day, Jane starts to realize something is amiss. Of course, you're probably aware of some version of this story. But Green has made a silent scream of a film, which is so quietly unsettling it becomes hard to shake. When the day is over, long after the sun is set, she heads home. A young woman (played by Ozark's Julia Garner)-whose name is apparently Jane, although it's never said in the movie-goes to work at the office of a high-powered Hollywood executive before the crack of dawn. Why it's worth seeing: Nothing much happens in The Assistant. ( Watch the trailer) -Esther Zuckerman Bleecker StreetĬast: Julia Garner, Matthew Macfadyen, Kristine Froseeth Vinterberg crafts a tale of male ennui in a country where drinking is rampant, and captures an incredible performance from Mikkelsen. Eventually, as it always does, the buzz wears off. Martin, at first, sees only the positive effects: He's a more exuberant presence in his classroom, and is reconnecting with his wife. The idea is research, but as with anything involving alcohol, lines become blurred. He and his buddies start to test a theory of psychiatrist Finn Skårderud that humans' blood alcohol content is, on average, too low. When out for a birthday celebration with his fellow instructors, he initially refuses to drink, but eventually gives in and an experiment starts. Why it's worth seeing: Thomas Vinterberg's drama Another Round stars Mads Mikkelsen as Martin, a history teacher who is reserved and sober, quite literally. Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Lars Ranthe, Magnus Millang