The Way Back

Back in high school, Jack Cunningham (Ben Affleck) had everything going for him. A basketball phenom, he could have punched his ticket to college or even the pros, but, instead, he chose to walk away from the game, forfeiting his future. Cunningham’s glory days are long gone ... but, as it turns out, not forgotten. Years later, he gets the chance to take back his life when he is asked to coach the struggling basketball team at his alma mater. Cunningham reluctantly accepts, surprising no one more than himself, and as the boys start to come together as a team and win, he may get his last shot at redemption.

Director: Gavin O’Connor

The Burnt Orange Heresy

A spiky romance laced with art-history references and the trappings of a sleekly elegant neo-noir, this classy adaptation of Charles Willeford’s best noir novel, originally published in 1971, changes the location from the Everglades to the shores of Lake Como, in Italy, where a European art critic and his American weekend fling visit a rich collector and meet the hermit artist who lives on his estate. The feature starts off as a light-footed account of a deliciously prickly affair between two bright and funny people who have met their match before the story morphs into something much darker.

Director: Giuseppe Capotondi

Sometimes Always Never

Whimsical and wistful, if occasionally a little too self-consciously kooky, British comedy-drama “Sometimes Always Never” constructs a pleasant portrait of a mildly unhappy family living in the English northwest. A single widower on awkward terms these days with his son Peter, a sign painter, Alan mostly plays the game online with strangers. His enthusiasm wasn’t even dimmed by an argument over Scrabble that he believes caused his son Michael to leave home many years ago, never to be seen again. The choice of words and game strategy of one of his online opponents reminds Alan of Michael, and he starts to wonder if this ghost in the smartphone might actually be his lost son.

Director: Carl Hunter