Six films to watch this week

Covid lockdown satire ‘Eddington’ stars Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal; campus-set ‘Sorry, Baby’ delicately handles trauma; ‘The Life of Chuck’ combines the apocalypse and Tom Hiddleston dancing; Gaza documentary ‘Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk’ follows a Gazan photojournalist killed by an IDF air strike; dating satire ‘Materialists’ stars Dakota Johnson; things get sticky in body horror ‘Together’ — reviews by Danny Leigh

Eddington film review — Covid and culture wars fuel a frantic black comedy
Conservative sheriff Joaquin Phoenix and liberal mayor Pedro Pascal clash messily in Ari Aster’s pointedly deranged satire
Sorry, Baby film review — a frank and even funny tale of trauma and friendship
Eva Victor deftly directs and stars as a New England student who refuses to be defined by the crime against her
The Life of Chuck film review — Tom Hiddleston dances in the face of apocalypse
The actor stretches himself as a Midwestern accountant confronted with mortality in a twisty Stephen King-based story
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk film review — glimpses of a Gazan life lived under fire
Sepideh Farsi’s haunting documentary captures her friendship with photojournalist Fatma Hassona before her death in an IDF air strike
Materialists film review — Dakota Johnson in a Manhattan dating satire that could do better
Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans struggle for chemistry in Celine Song’s seductive but flawed love-triangle movie
Together film review — what if David Cronenberg had made a millennial romcom?
Alison Brie and Dave Franco star as a couple joined at the hip, lips, genitals and everything else in this ingeniously icky horror