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With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

Greenland (Ric Roman Waugh)

At first glance, Ric Roman Waugh’s Greenland appears to be a spiritual sequel to Geostorm. Also starring Gerard Butler, that 2017 film is a silly, diverting disaster-action epic. Greenland is decidedly more nuanced, cerebral, and, frankly, memorable. Butler plays John Garrity, a structural engineer determined to mend his fractured marriage. As he tries to make good with his wife Allison (Morena Baccarin) ahead of a neighborhood barbecue, reports of incoming debris from a nearby comet get more serious. John, unexpectedly, gets a “Presidential Alert” on his phone, informing him, his wife, and their son Nathan (Roger Dale Floyd) have been selected for government-sponsored shelter. It...

Considering how dire last summer was for theatrical exhibition and the perpetually-in-flux release calendar, we opted to forgo our standard preview of the season. However, with theaters beginning to reopen across the country and promising releases on the horizon, there’s thankfully enough to warrant a summer movie preview this year. While potentially worthwhile studio offerings are still a bit slim, there’s still plenty to see over the next four months. As a note, while May usually indicates the start of the season, we’ve included a handful of films arriving on the last day of April, this Friday, that will roll out over the next month.

Check out our picks below and return for monthly updates as more is sure to be added to the calendar.

About Endlessness (Roy Andersson; April 30)

“What should I do now that I have lost my faith?” is the question that animates About Endlessness...

Stars: Ryan Francis, Morgan Alexandria, Bryce Fernelius, Michael Flynn, Brynne Hurlbutt, Avery Pizzuto, Garrett McClellan | Written and Directed by Jerren Lauder

A diverse group of ex-cons-turned-movers; Schillinger (Ryan Francis), Imani (Morgan Alexandria) and Carlos (Bryce Fernelius); are convinced by their creepy client, Vern (Michael Flynn), to pull an all-nighter for a generous pay bump. As the night progresses and rooms are cleared, they slowly uncover the horrors that exist inside his old Victorian mansion, including boobytraps, human experimentation, Nazi monsters and more…

Nazis. Never really gone away have they? Literally and figuratively. Genre films have often mined that particularly nasty brand of human being for horrific effect – from the evils of Nazi zombies in films like JJ Abrams’ Overlord, or more low-budget fare such as Dead Snow and the Outpost franchise; to the sinister human experimentation of The Boys From Brazil. In Stay Out of the F**king Attic we get all that and more,...

One of our favorites from this year’s Sundance Film Festival, we’ve been waiting to see when Robert Machoian’s The Killing of Two Lovers would be picked up, and now Neon has come through, landing worldwide rights for the riveting drama. A vivid portrait of marriage, the distributor will release the film towards the end of February, in time for awards consideration, and will also produce the director’s next film. Ahead of the release, the first trailer and poster have arrived.

John Fink said in our Sundance review, “Opening with a jarring, heart-stopping scene in which David (Clayne Crawford) points a gun at his sleeping wife, Robert Machoian’s The Killing of Two Lovers is a riveting and restrained autopsy of a marriage in free fall. David and Nikki (Sepideh Moafi) have already separated, with David returning to his parent’s home. Their teenage daughter Jessica (Avery Pizzuto...

"You need to fight. You need to fight for us." Neon has released the first official trailer for the indie small town relationship drama The Killing of Two Lovers, which originally premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. David desperately tries to keep his family of six together during a separation from his wife. They both agree to see other people but David struggles to grapple with his wife's new relationship. The film, with its honest and sometimes brutal portrayals of marriage, is driven by impressively nuanced performances by stars Clayne Crawford, Sepideh Moafi, Chris Coy, Avery Pizzuto, Arri Graham, and Ezra Graham. Featuring some fantastic cinematography by Oscar Ignacio Jiménez. This looks a brutal exploration of family and emotional frustration, and the look and feel really makes it stand out. Take a look. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Robert Machoian's The Killing of Two Lovers,...

Neon has acquired the worldwide rights to thriller The Killing of Two Lovers from writer-director Robert Machoian.

The distributor has set a Feb. 23, 2021 release date, making the feature eligible for awards consideration.

The feature, which debuted at Sundance, follows David (Clayne Crawford) who desperately tries to keep his family of six together during a separation from his wife, Nikki, played by Sepideh Moafi. They both agree to see other people but David struggles to grapple with his wife’s new relationship.

Chris Coy, Avery Pizzuto, Arri Graham, and Ezra Graham also star.

Back40 Pictures and 433 Pictures are behind the movie, which ...

Neon has acquired the worldwide rights to thriller The Killing of Two Lovers from writer-director Robert Machoian.

The distributor has set a Feb. 23, 2021 release date, making the feature eligible for awards consideration.

The feature, which debuted at Sundance, follows David (Clayne Crawford) who desperately tries to keep his family of six together during a separation from his wife, Nikki, played by Sepideh Moafi. They both agree to see other people but David struggles to grapple with his wife’s new relationship.

Chris Coy, Avery Pizzuto, Arri Graham, and Ezra Graham also star.

Back40 Pictures and 433 Pictures are behind the movie, which ...

Robert Machoian wrote, directed Next entry about post-separation anxieties.

Los Angeles-based The Exchange has acquired its latest film from Sundance, taking worldwide sales rights to Next section entry The Killing Of Two Lovers.

CEO Brian O’Shea and his team are currently introducing the title to Us and international buyers. The company’s other Sundance pick-ups include Spree and Welcome To Chechnya.

Robert Machoian wrote and directed the film about David, who desperately tries to keep his family of six together during a separation from his wife. The parents agree to see other people, but David struggles to grapple with his wife’s new relationship.

With over 60 films viewed at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, it’s time to wrap up the first major cinema event of the year. We already got the official jury and audience winners here, and now it’s time to highlight our favorites.

One will find our favorites (in alphabetical order), followed by the rest of our reviews. Check out everything below and stay tuned to our site, and specifically Twitter, for acquisition and release date news on the below films in the coming months.

The 40-Year-Old Version (Radha Blank)

Playwright Radha Blank’s spirited directorial debut The 40-Year-Old Version in an often hilarious and heartfelt autobiographical tale of reinvention. Surrounded in a shoebox apartment of memories of her past including 30 Under 30 Awards, Blank plays herself, a playwright who is faced with two options for her new play Harlem Ave: a local family theater or a flashier off-Broadway venue with a hole in their schedule.

Opening on what appears to be the verge of its titular act, Robert Machoian’s “The Killing of Two Lovers” then steadily pulls back from what sounds like a noirish potboiler of marital infidelity and rage. Instead, his , as is so often the case.

Stark as the surrounding Western Utah landscapes its characters seem dwarfed by, the terse narrative may be a bit too stripped down for those seeking more conventional melodrama. Commercial prospects will not be high. But this first solo feature (Machoian co-directed three prior ones with Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck) is an arresting auteurist miniature that should travel far on the festival circuit, perhaps picking up awards that might heighten appeal to niche distributors in various formats.

An odd-jobber in his podunk town — where there appears to be exactly one store — shaggy 30-something David (Clayne Crawford) is first glimpsed in a state of armed emotional extremis standing over the bed of his wife,...

Opening with a jarring, heart-stopping scene in David (Clayne Crawford) points a gun at his sleeping wife, Robert Machoian’s The Killing of Two Lovers is a riveting and restrained autopsy of a marriage in free fall. David and Nikki (Sepideh Moafi) have already separated, with David returning to his parent’s home. Their teenage daughter Jessica (Avery Pizzuto) takes it out on both parents, telling them to be the adults and work it out. The problem with that notion is that David and Nikki never had the chance to grow. Having Jessica young and four boys immediately afterward, they’ve stayed in the same small Utah town and moved only a few doors away from David’s childhood home.

Directed by Robert Machoian, who is known for working with frequent collaborator Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck on naturalistic portraits of parents and children–including When She Runs and absentee parents in God...