New to the Queue

 The transition phase ...

Chloe Zhao ("The Rider," "Nomadland") is back with a drama about Shakespeare and his wife (Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley) and their son who died young, "Hamnet."

Brazil's Kleber Mendonca Filho has been hit-and-miss (compare "Aquarius" with "Neighboring Sounds" and last year's "Pictures of Ghosts"), but we'll steel ourself for his latest 2.5-hour period piece, "Secret Agent."

Will Arnett stars in a moody film from Bradley Cooper about a comedian who returns to standup during the dissolution of his marriage, "Is This Thing On?" 

A documentary looks back at high school AV muckrakers who broke a big story about environmental harm in New York in the 1990s, "Teenage Wasteland."

Gus Van Sant is back with a '70s period piece about a hostage-taking at a bank, "Dead Man's Wire."

Morgan Neville ("20 Feet From Stardom," "Won't You Be My Neighbor") studies a breakthrough year in American cinema, "Breakdown: 1975."