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Mubi has unveiled next’s streaming lineup, featuring notable new releases, including Molly Manning Walker’s debut How to Have Sex, Kevin Macdonald’s High & Low: John Galliano, and Quentin Dupieux’s Yannick. Ahead of Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17, two of his earlier films will arrive on the platform, along with a pair of features from All of Us Strangers director Andrew Haigh, as well as S. Craig Zahler’s Brawl in Cell Block 99, and more.

“The story can be translated into many different settings and I think it’s still relevant in terms of house parties, clubs, and even in relationships,” Molly Manning Walker recently told us about her debut How to Have Sex. “On the other hand: I wanted to make something that was very cinematic, but not set in a domestic environment. But the reason that this particular setting felt perfect was that––at that time,...

Can’t sleep? You’ll love Apple TV+’s hilarious new comedy, Still Up, a tale of two friends bonded by insomnia. Regardless of your sleep habits, Still Up is something to marvel — a rare kind of comedy that speaks to that innate human desire for connection and all the messy things people occasionally have to manage just to get by in the world.

Meet Lisa and Danny (Antonia Thomas and Craig Roberts). They chat away late into the night and are there for each other, often via FaceTime, as they brave a bevy of quirky circumstances in their lives. The duo’s platonic relationship develops over the course of their regular late-night repartee.

It’s a stellar premise for a series about two very different people—Lisa is a mother and in a relationship, Danny is single and a bit agoraphobic. Still Up’s executive producers Phil Clarke and...

Made in Russian at Odesa Film Studio in the aftermath of de-Stalinization, Kira Muratova’s Brief Encounters and The Long Farewell nonetheless faced censorship for ignoring the precepts of socialist realism. They make for fruitful viewing as a diptych, sharing in certain themes, motifs, and, above all, a rulebook-shredding attitude to cinematic form. Neither overtly criticize Soviet life, yet they smuggle in a discontent that’s detectable less by what they condemn than by what they frame instead: the domestic, the psychological, the interpersonal. What’s surprising isn’t that they got banned, but that Muratova managed to get them made at all. Now especially, watching these two films feels like something of a miracle.

Brief Encounters, from 1967, tells the story of Nadya (Nina Ruslanova), a young woman who leaves her village to work as a housekeeper for Valya (Muratova), committee member to a provincial Odesa district, and her husband,...