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.)

summer indie movies Thirteen Lives; Good Luck to You Leo Grande; 3,000 Years of Longing

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.

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

A24

LG

(In theaters Aug. 26)

Sundance Film Festival Preview

Aubrey Plaza in ‘Emily the Criminal’.Sundance Institute

GOOD LUCK TO YOU, LEO GRANDE

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

APPLES, Aris Servetalis

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Sundance Film Festival Preview

‘Fire of Love’.Sundance Institute

Sundance Film Festival Preview

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

MURINA, Gracija Filipovic

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Ariane Labed in ‘Flux Gourmet’

Ariane Labed in ‘Flux Gourmet’.IFC Films

THE INNOCENTS

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Thira “Aum” Chutikul (left) as Commander Kiet and Viggo Mortensen (right) as Rick Stanton in THIRTEEN LIVES, directed by Ron Howard, a Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures film. Credit: Vince Valitutti / Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures © 2022 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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

Maika Monroe in ‘Watcher’

Maika Monroe in ‘Watcher’.IFC Midnight

Three Thousand Years of Longing

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