Movies Released June 10, 2025

In a fading Midwestern town, the local legend of Frendo the clown becomes all too real as teenagers start to go missing one by one, before meeting spectacularly sticky ends.

The teasingly entwined ambiguities of love and death continue to fascinate Alain Guiraudie (Stranger by the Lake, NYFF51), who returns with a sharp, sinister, yet slyly funny thriller. Set in an autumnal, woodsy village in his native region of Occitanie, his latest follows the meandering exploits of Jérémie (Félix Kysyl), an out-of-work baker who has drifted back to his hometown after the death of his beloved former boss, a bakery owner. Staying long after the funeral, the seemingly benign Jérémie begins to casually insinuate himself into his mentor’s family, including his kind-hearted widow (Catherine Frot) and venomously angry son (Jean-Baptiste Durand), while making an increasingly surprising—and ultimately beneficial—friendship with an oddly cheerful local priest (Jacques Develay). In Guiraudie’s quietly carnal world, violence and eroticism explode with little anticipation, and criminal behavior can seem like a natural extension of physical desire.

Walter is new in town. Grace is leaving town. After sparking an untimely connection, two lonely, midwestern artists decide to spend a weekend together. As they wander the city of Grand Rapids, they dive a bit too deep with oversharing and get into some wide-ranging conversation topics: lactose intolerance, climate change, photography, food-themed superheroes, purity culture, and other normal stuff. As their separation rapidly approaches, Walter & Grace are forced to let go of what they want in order to get what they need.

In Joshua Tree's desert, a biker woman and dancer confront past traumas after a violent night. A psychic and shaman use supernatural forces to heal their deep-rooted pain, challenging the toxicity of possessive love.

In Kazuya Shiraishi’s action-packed epic, ten convicts are promised freedom in exchange for defending a small town in feudal Japan. Tasked with holding a fortress against encroaching government forces, they fight with the desperation of men with nothing to lose. But when the officials who recruited them renege on their promise, the warriors realize they’ve been used as pawns in a larger scheme. Betrayed and outnumbered, they must forge their own fate or die trying.

13-year-old Missy Taylor lives with her drug-addicted mother, Annette, in rural Australia. When Annette’s boyfriend, Trent, is released from prison and moves in, he becomes a threat to Missy. In an act of self-defense, Missy kills Trent. However, Annette turns against her daughter, leading to a harrowing cat-and-mouse chase that tests Missy’s resilience and will to survive.

Wayne hates his logistics job. So when an underworld chieftain presents an opportunity to elevate his position and make some money, Wayne grabs it. His drug smuggling submarine sinks. He loses his life savings. His debt and servitude to a drug boss deepen. And oh yeah, don’t forget those pesky cops. With the help of his equally inept friends and faithful girlfriend, he hatches a plan to steal pills from his pharmaceutical client. The money flows in. As do the unintended side effects which include peril, addiction, and an overall moral decay (where there wasn’t much to begin with). Hellbent on repaying his debt, Wayne’s folly intensifies while his empathy wanes. The stakes heighten. The threats mount. The cops draw closer. And Wayne unravels the truth: his friends, his girl, his idiot boss… they’re all just pawns in the drug game. At his breaking point, Wayne hatches a final plan to release himself from Big Pharma’s kung fu grip.