You can’t have one without the other.
Celeste and Jesse Forever
She loves him, he loves her, and they’re divorcing. In his second Sundancer, director Lee Toland Krieger (The Vicious Kind) lightens up with the help of co-writer/star Rashida Jones. As a thriving trend forecaster, Celeste calls it quits because of unemployed Jesse’s cloudy future. Sad, yes, but the dirty jokes will cheer you up.
It’s like: Husbands and Wives becoming Just Friends.
Take: The yang to your yin.
Premieres: Today
Sleepwalk with Me
We all have a nighttime ritual. Matt’s includes taking gold in the Dustbuster Olympics and getting it on with oodles of marinara. Mike Birbiglia’s one-man play-turned-crowd-pleasing Sundance winner is a true story about a funnyman with REM behavioral disorder, and it’s one snooze fest you’ll want to see.
It’s like: Punchline meets In My Sleep.
Take: Funny people.
Premieres: August 24
Lawless
We reckon them French got an eyeful at Cannes this year during John Hillcoat’s true story about Virginia moonshiners. Working with Nick Cave (on story and music), Hillcoat concocts a brew of two parts feuding-gangster drama to one part tenderhearted romance. Tom Hardy growls, Shia LaBeouf cries (a lot), and Jessica Chastain glows.
It’s like: Miller’s Crossing meets Legends of the Fall.
Take: Dad out for a modern Western.
Premieres: August 29
Put down the corn whiskey and check out more of August’s must-see movies.
Photos: Lee Toland Krieger / Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics; Adam Beckman / Courtesy of IFC Films; Courtesy of The Weinstein Company
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