Gutnik utilizes the technique of telling four separate stories, each spotlighting one woman on the train that day. We’ve seen this method of storytelling done so often in other independent features and when done poorly it feels like what it is: a gimmick. Here, there’s never a feeling of unity between the women at any point — outside of them being women with motherhood issues — so they play like four disparate stories with a highly tangential reason for being told as one....

Early reviews for “Stillwater” are solid. At a Friday press conference and later Master Class, Damon said though this was his fifth time at Cannes, it felt like his first. He was moved by the experience of returning to commune with strangers in a theater. “Last night was unlike any other. It all changed,” he said. “We are not meant to be cut off from each other.” Damon expressed gratitude to his many collaborators over the decades, including Ben Affleck, “Saving Private Ryan” director Steven Spielberg, “Oceans” and “Contagion” director Steven Soderbergh, and Martin Scorsese (“The Departed”)....

Filmed over the course of two days in upstate New York, Hawke, topless, leads a string of delinquent young adults post-orgy in the woods. The five-minute video marks the first single from Hawke’s upcoming album “Moss,” out September 23. “‘Thérèse’ is about the secret spaces we build where we are free to be ourselves, in a world that is always intentionally or systematically misunderstanding us,” Hawke said in a press statement....

Moss’ spry but often superficial film purports to explore what it’s like for an actual human being to run for the highest office in the land, and yet the competency and boy-scout-in-search-of-a-merit-badge resolve that (briefly) turned Buttigieg into an unexpectedly popular alternative to Donald Trump is also what renders him such an impenetrable subject for a documentary. Buttigieg isn’t robotic in the same way as so many politicians twice his age are — indeed, even the most intimate moments of this fully authorized but convincingly transparent film reaffirm the gee-whiz realness that he exuded on the campaign trail — but “what you see is what you get” is a much better incentive to vote for someone than it is to watch a movie about them....

“Heat 2,” as announced by Deadline, is written by Mann with co-writer Meg Gardiner, and will track the lives of the film’s characters (Robert De Niro as a professional thief and Al Pacino as a Los Angeles Police Department Lieutenant among them) both before and after the events of the original movie. Watch a teaser, shared by Mann, for the novel below. “It’s been my intention for a long time to do the further stories of ‘Heat,’” Mann told Deadline....

When we first meet the aforementioned Mr. Bachmann, he’s wearing an AC/DC shirt. The “School of Rock” vibes continue from there, as it’s quickly clear that he greatly values opportunities to encourage his students to perform music themselves. The long, immersive scenes allow viewers to become a part of the classroom, living through the school day along with the disciples. In part, that’s because Speth’s documentary can feel almost as long as a school day: At three hours and 37 minutes, it’s a daunting plunge, but not an unprecedented one....

In the immediate aftermath of his accident there certainly was hesitation about whether Hollywood would keep Mitchell. He recounted how just four months after his accident he was back on national television on the series “Ed.” “I sat down to meet with the producers; they were nervous to even meet with me because they were like, ‘What are we gonna say to him?’” Mitchell told IndieWire. “I just started explaining some of the funny things that have happened to me since I was in a chair [and] it was like ‘Man, you got the job....