New to the Queue

One of my most-anticipated releases of the year, and the rest:

A return to dramatic features from master filmmaker, Jia Zhang-ke ("The World"), "A Touch of Sin."

A tour de force from flashy director Steve McQueen, "12 Years a Slave."

The trailer didn't thrill me, but the reviewers are raving about the second movie from J.C. Chandor ("Margin Call"), "All Is Lost," with Robert Redford stranded on a yacht in the Indian Ocean.

Parents track the educational progress of their son and one of his friends in the documentary "American Promise."

James Toback uses the Cannes film festival to examine the business of movie distribution in the HBO doc "Seduced and Abandoned."

An interesting-looking documentary about urban planning, "The Human Scale."

Should we give Bruno Dumont ("Humanite," "Twenty-Nine Palms") another chance? He's got Juliette Binoche and he keeps things short in the biopic "Camille Claudel 1915."

Pauls Giamatti and Rudd  are a pair of thieves in New York in "All Is Bright."

A powerful documentary about Cambodian rice farmers battling the progression of capitalism, "A River Changes Course."

The latest from the difficult Matthew Porterfield ("Hamilton"), the music-infused "I Used to Be Darker."

A fun-looking found-footage exercise in teen drama, "The Dirties."

Two documentaries about extreme athletes and adventurers: "McConkey" and "The Summit."

A look at the twisted cartoonist, "Gahan Wilson: Born Dead, Still Weird."

I saw this at the Santa Fe Film Festival nearly a year ago, and I look forward to another viewing on video: the heartfelt tribute to one of the great American songwriters of the 20th century, "A.K.A. Doc Pomus."