“Only What We Carry”
Jamie Adams writes and directs this improvisational drama, shot in six days on the Normandy coast and starring Sofia Boutella, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Lizzy McAlpine, Simon Pegg, Quentin Tarantino, and Liam Hellmann. The film centers on buried secrets and new romantic tensions among a dancer, her sister, her former choreographer, and his visiting friend. Tarantino’s acting appearance is the headline, but Gainsbourg, Boutella, Pegg, and McAlpine make the ensemble just as interesting.
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“Rain Reign”
Erika Burke Rossa writes and directs this adaptation of Ann M. Martin’s novel, starring Felice Kakaletris, Paul Rudd, Jeremy Sisto, and Gretchen Mol. The story follows Rose, a 12-year-old neurodivergent girl, whose beloved dog goes missing during a superstorm. Her search tests her family’s bonds and her own resilience. The material sits squarely in sincere family-drama territory, but Rudd, Sisto, and Mol give the adult side of the story some welcome heft.
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“Clean Hands”
Jake Allyn writes, directs, produces, and brings a true-story hook to “Clean Hands,” starring Zach Braff, Esther McGregor, Abigail Spencer, and Lucas Till. Braff plays Kevin Simmers, a narcotics officer whose teenage daughter’s opioid addiction turns a public crisis into a family emergency. The film puts a man trained to fight drugs professionally in a personal crisis where law, love, fear, and helplessness blur.
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“The Long Haul”
David Drake writes and directs “The Long Haul,” starring Margo Martindale as CJ, a long-haul trucker who has spent decades running from a dark truth: Cole Sprouse, Stephen Root, and Yalitza Aparicio co-star. Martindale is the reason to pay attention here. She has spent years turning supporting roles into full, complicated lives, and the idea of her leading a road drama about guilt, isolation, and the past catching up has obvious appeal.
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“They Fight”
Sheldon Candis directs and co-writes this youth-boxing drama starring André Holland, Wendell Pierce, and Samira Wiley. Holland plays a recently released coach who joins a local gym and helps a group of adolescent boxers chase a national championship. Sports dramas can be formula machines, but boxing remains durable because it reduces conflict to discipline, pain, pride, and bodies under pressure. Holland and Pierce give the mentor side of the story instant credibility.
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