A wonderful cast of suburban teens face a rite of passage—fraught with anxiety and desire—that starts in the world of Richard Linklater and ends in that of David Lynch. Tyler Taormina’s sly but surprisingly touching debut plays with and then upends the clichés of American end-of-school comedies.

Knocking it straight out of the park in his first feature as writer-director, Carson Lund embraces baseball’s nostalgic pleasures to stage an American elegy. With an audio cameo from documentarian Frederick Wiseman, Eephus goes by that playbook, immersed intricately in a beloved national pastime.

Gliding through a somnolent suburbia, Tyler Taormina’s hypnotic follow-up to Ham on Rye captures the unexpected magic and surprise interactions of the witching hour. In this Long Island lullaby, filmed during lockdown, skaters soar and lovers slink into the dark, keyed in to the rhythm of the night.