New films from Spike Lee, Judd Apatow, and, uh, Kevin James are coming this June

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New films from Spike Lee, Judd Apatow, and, uh, Kevin James are coming this June
Clockwise, from top: Da 5 Bloods (Photo: David Lee/Netflix), The King Of Staten Island (Photo: Mary Cybulski/Universal Pictures), Becky (Photo: Keri Anderson) Graphic: Natalie Peeples

Normally, The A.V. Club uses this space to preview all the major films coming to a theater near you. But with the world in the grips of a pandemic, nothing’s coming to a theater near you; theaters have closed their doors, and studios have pushed back their releases. So for the time being, we’ll instead be previewing movies going straight to VOD and streaming services. We’ll also note the films that definitely won’t be, as they’ve been officially postponed. These days, we’re all watching movies at home. Consider this now a source of the new releases coming to a living room near you.

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Elisabeth Moss has been absolutely killing it for a few years now, delivering powerhouse performances in everything from TV’s to last year’s Riot Grrrl backstage drama to this spring’s multiplex hit . Her winning streak continues with Shirley, starring the alum as reclusive “The Lottery” author Shirley Jackson, whose creative juices start flowing again after a young couple (Odessa Young and Logan Lerman) comes to stay in the house she rarely leaves. Michael Stuhlbarg costars as Jackson’s compatibly venomous husband in this charged psychodrama from director Josephine Decker ().

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