Despite being a thin, conventionally attractive woman, she can’t help but repel men and women alike, by possessing decidedly un-feminine traits: She’s brusque, boasts a lumbering gait and is prone to inelegant, expletive-laden outbursts (most often at her family’s dinner table). The true definition of a NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training), she kills time during uneventful days by going to the local moviehouse and fostering one-sided crushes with lanky local alt boys. The title character (rousingly played by Benedetta Porcaroli) is a socially adrift 24-year-old girl staying at her parent’s family home in suburban Italy.

What happens when a young woman doesn’t have the requisite female friendships and matriarchal connections to help her navigate the threshold that exists between girlish adolescence and feminine maturity? Italian writer-director Carolina Cavalli (who previously wrote the screenplay for Sundance critical darling Fremont, whose director Babak Jalali now serves as her editor) provides such an example with absurdist levity and probing earnestness in Amanda, her directorial feature debut. Stars: Benedetta Porcaroli, Galatéa Bellugi, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Michele Bravi, Monica Nappo, Margherita Missoni Regardless of how you watch them, they deserve to be watched-from tiny international dramas to blockbuster action films to auteurist awards favorites.Ĭheck out the 10 best new movies movies right now: Some, thankfully, are cheaply and easily available to check out from your living room couch or your bedroom laptop. Some may have you weighing whether it’s worth it to brave the theater. This list is composed of the best new movies, updated every week, regardless of how they’re available. Sure, the theatrical experience claims plenty of worthy films, but with on-demand video rental and the overwhelming number of streaming options-two areas where indie and arthouse cinema have been thriving as theaters shove them aside for more and more Marvel movies-alternative viewing methods bear consideration if you’re after a comprehensive list of the best new fare. When searching for the latest and greatest cinematic offerings, the shifting distribution landscape makes one thing abundantly clear: No matter how badly we’d like for the big screen to be the place for the best movies, it’s simply not the case.

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