They’ve got big stars and even bigger ambitions but some of these gems may have been overshadowed.
As summer season slows, they’re worth keeping in mind.
(And that’s not to discount the dregs of January, another legendary dead zone.)

Credit: Prime Video; Nick Wall/20th Century Studios; MGM
(Too close, it turned out.)
Maybe checkIMDbfirst, screenwriters?
Vogt clearly has an inner Stephen King to unleash.

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Aubrey Plaza in ‘Emily the Criminal’.Sundance Institute

Daryl McCormack and Emma Thompson in ‘Good Luck to You, Leo Grande’.Searchlight Pictures

Everett Collection

‘Fire of Love’.Sundance Institute

Cooper Raiff and Dakota Johnson in ‘Cha Cha Real Smoth’.Apple TV+

Everett Collection

Ariane Labed in ‘Flux Gourmet’.IFC Films

Everett Collection

Thira ‘Aum’ Chutikul, left, and Viggo Mortensen in ‘Thirteen Lives’.Vince Valitutti/MGM

Maika Monroe in ‘Watcher’.IFC Midnight

Idris Elba plays the Djinn in George Miller’s ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing.'.MGM