SubwayTakes creator Kareem Rahma swaps rapid transit for walking in step with comedian Mary Neely in this fresh low-budget drama, which the pair cowrote. Park buskers and mom-and-pop diners dot the route to intimacy—breaking through the ice of modern loneliness—in this tribute to a wintry New York.

Something wicked this way comes in Pete Ohs’s irreverent horror comedy, a darkly ironic exorcism of male obsession and entitlement. Dotted with mysterious mounds and dusty roads, the atmospheric deserts of New Mexico provide an eerie backdrop for this cinematic seance, set under the pale winter sun.