Your Sister’s Sister

Casual, amiably observant, and bruisingly funny, Your Sister’s Sister is another winning study of relational boundaries crossed and sexual dares gone awry, an uncharacteristically easy take on a genre that has been in disrepair for a long time. It captures human relationships with charm, warmth, and engaging insight.

Safety Not Guaranteed

Optimistic, endearingly scrappy, and sweetly told, Safety Not Guaranteed pursues both romance and science fiction and thereby resists easy categorization. Drawing on a low-tech, low-budget, low-concept premise and relying on a smart script and good-natured fun rather than special effects, first-time director Colin Trevorrow and writer Derek Connolly come up with a deceptively simple comedy that’s one of the most entertaining films of the year.