ASHEVILLE, N.C. (828newsNOW) — There are a lot of new movies coming out. Fortunately, we have a guide to what you should see, stream or skip this August. This month, our selections include a hilarious police spoof, a Norwegian body horror fairy tale and a heartbreaking drama from A24.
You should see…
“SORRY, BABY” (2025, 103 min., directed by Eva Victor)
“Sorry, Baby” is, to be hyperbolic, one of the more beautiful movies I’ve ever seen, from script to mise en scène. Eva Victor, the film’s writer, director and star, makes it all look effortless.
Set in and around a small New England college, “Sorry, Baby” captures a young English professor named Agnes (Victor) through non-linear vignettes as she copes with something bad that happened to her at the school during her graduate program. While the melancholic, argentine setting and trauma-infused narrative seem like telltale elements of your classic bummer indie drama, this is an Eva Victor movie, and they have an authorial voice unlike anything I’ve ever seen before.
Victor’s dialogue, in particular, is so wry and dry that it feels impossible it could bring you to tears, but “Sorry, Baby” has a knack for taking you by surprise with its heartbreaking moments of poignancy. Victor has absolute control over the tone of their film, steering Agnes – and the audience watching her – through the labyrinth of this movie’s complex emotions like Ariadne led Theseus…