New to the Queue

Bringing the heat ...

Kumail Nanjiani (HBO's "Silicon Valley") co-wrote and stars in a biographical love story, aided by director Michael Showalter ("Hello, My Name Is Doris"), "The Big Sick."

Our gal Emmanuelle Devos ("Violette," "Gilles' Wife") stars as a grieving mother hunting down justice in "Moka."

A celluloid archivist tells the story of the discovery of a trove of film cans in the Yukon, "Dawson City: Frozen in Time."

Mike White ("The Good Girl," "Chuck & Buck," HBO's "Enlightened") re-teams with Miguel Arteta for the story of a progressive woman (Salma Hayek) battling with a conservative man (John Lithgow) during a soiree, "Beatriz at Dinner."

With trepidation (will it be more like "The Virgin Suicides" or "Marie Antoinette"?) we list Sofia Coppola's Civil War costume piece "The Beguiled." 

A documentary about the din of daily life, Patrick Shen's "In Pursuit of Silence."

The swan song from the legendary documentarian Albert Maysles, with an assist from three co-directors, takes place entirely on a passenger train, "In Transit."

And a documentary about a male nurse in Iraq over five years, "Nowhere to Hide."