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Straight time: a new documentary on a 1978 murder case raises necessary questions about the prison-industrial complex and the model-minority myth

Shoot your shot: Adam Sandler’s latest features some surprising performances from a host of professional ballplayers and another endearing turn from the Sandman himself

Each to his own ability: Julian Radlmaier’s breezy 2017 political farce suggests that, though all ideology may be pretense, at least we’re in it together

Spinning a yarn: Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis’s shape-shifting, myth-infused feature is a Matryoshka doll of tales within tales

Zero gravity: Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh’s banlieue fantasia is a politically charged fable set in a condemned Parisian housing project

Country living: Radu Muntean’s searching gaze digs beneath the surface of an adventure gone wrong to unearth an incisive parable about charity and power

Hot rocks: Fern Silva’s multifaceted, immersive essay film takes the legacy of colonialism in Hawai’i as a jumping-off point

Dang me: Alan Rudolph’s 1984 country-music comedy is a rough-and-rowdy good time, punctuated by a typically unhinged performance from Rip Torn

Train in vain: Juho Kuosmanen gentle romantic drama is a film of sweet, uncomplicated loveliness—an increasingly undervalued cinematic tonality

Tale as old as time: in Mamoru Hosoda's virtual-age spin on The Beauty and the Beast, two teenagers seek connection in the vast void of the internet