From Munich Medea: Happy Family, at the WP Theater. Bavaria’s capital and Euripides’s tragedy of infanticide have both very much and very little to do with the events of Munich Medea: Happy Family, Corinne Jaber’s unsettling play about childhood abuse, told in unflinching detail. And details are what Munich and Medea are: The main events of the play take place in southern Germany and pivot around a stage actor whose acclaimed roles include Jason in Medea.

Ryan Murphy don’t need no hateration, holleration in this Grotesquerie. Ryan Murphy is making a(nother) horror series for FX. This one’s called Grotesquerie, and Travis Kelce is the latest to join the cast — and, of course, he’s been enjoying it. The Murphy-verse is expanding February 23, 2024: Ryan Murphy is teasing a surprise series for FX called Grotesquerie, a new horror drama coming this fall. A Murphy-verse horror project?

Writer-director Trey Edward Shults likes to call his dizzying, devastating, hip-hop-saturated third feature film Waves a “diptych.” The A24-distributed drama (which arrives in theaters Friday) is broken into distinct first and second halves, with alternative sets of lead characters. Each section features its own plotline that, while inextricably linked to the other, ignores the traditional three-act structure that governs so many movies — even the art-house-iest of indies.

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Photo: Getty Images Over the past decade, actor Justin Theroux has long been a quiet player on the indie film scene, adding his slightly whiny charm to movies like The Baxter, Broken English, and Mulholland Drive. Lately, though, he’s been even more accomplished behind the scenes, directing last year’s Dedication starring Billy Crudup, being asked to write the upcoming sequel to Iron Man (!), and collaborating on the script for this week’s Tropic Thunder with Ben Stiller and Etan Cohen.

Michelle Monaghan has acted — often as the Girl — opposite some of the biggest actors of our time (Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible 3, Matt Damon in The Bourne Supremacy, Richard Gere in Unfaithful, Robert Downey Jr. in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, etc.), so it’s perhaps forgivable if some viewers still think of her as just another pretty face. But that may change tomorrow with the release acclaimed indie Trucker, which she pretty much carries with her performance as a tough long-haul trucker whose life is upended when she’s forced to care for the son she abandoned years ago.

Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, but only the Getty family is unhappy in a way that justifies two star-studded accounts of the darkest chapter in their history, released three months apart. First came All the Money in the World, Ridley Scott’s theatrical adaptation of John Pearson’s nonfiction book Painfully Rich, about the 1973 kidnapping of then-teenage John Paul Getty III, heir to the Getty family fortune.

Director Lila Avilés’ extraordinary family drama is in the vein of party films like Monsoon Wedding and Rachel Getting Married. Naíma Sentíes, the first timer who plays seven-year-old Sol in Tótem, has the bright, animated face of a kid who can’t help but broadcast whatever she’s feeling in the moment. She gives the unforced performance of a child rather than a child actor, which also means that when her face does go still, you can see her thinking.

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When Transparent creator and now two-time Emmy-winning director Jill Soloway released a rallying cry at the Emmys on September 18 to “topple the patriarchy,” there was a palpable shifting of audience members in their seats. After years of more traditional comedy series contenders seeing their directors take to the Emmys stage (think Modern Family), the fight for trans and female inclusion in Hollywood was suddenly being televised and Soloway was its fearless leader.