Critic’s Choice: Whit Stillman/Jane Austen pairing among this week’s film picks, July 29-Aug. 4

Movie recommendations from critics Kenneth Turan, Justin Chang and other reviewers.

Café Society Woody Allen’s new film, starring Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart and Steve Carell, is of course funny but it also ends up, almost without our realizing it, trafficking in memory, regret and the fate of relationships in a world of romantic melancholy. (Kenneth Turan) PG-13.

Hunt for the Wilderpeople This wonderful New Zealand film has a gently absurdist quality, a simultaneously sweet and subversive sensibility all its own, mixing warmth, adventure and comedy in ways that consistently surprise. Don’t miss it. (Kenneth Turan) PG-13.

The Innocents Anne Fontaine’s post-World War II drama involving a Polish convent and a French female doctor proves yet again that though moral and spiritual questions may not sound spellbinding, they often provide the most absorbing movie experiences. (Kenneth Turan) NR.

The Jungle Book By turns sweetly amusing and scarily unnerving, crammed with story, song and computer-generated visual splendors, this revisiting of the old Rudyard Kipling tales aims to be a model of modern crowd-pleasing entertainment. (Kenneth Turan) PG.

The Lobster Yorgos Lanthimos’ hypnotically strange and suggestive new film is very much its own brand of horror movie as well as a deranged thought experiment, a stealth love story and a witty dismantling of the usual barriers separating man from beast. (Justin Chang) R.

Love & Friendship Whit Stillman has finally made a full-fledged Jane Austen adaptation, a master class on the art of comic timing, taking the author’s early epistolary novella and infusing it with his own droll, mocking spirit and expert way of looking behind societal facades. (Glenn Whipp) PG.

Maggie’s Plan Rebecca Miller’s dramedy is sweet but analytical and pragmatic in its approach to exploring the ways of navigating partnership, parenthood and personal values. (Katie Walsh) R.

The Music of Strangers It was a given that this Morgan Neville documentary would feature fine music by cellist Yo-Yo Ma, but it’s as concerned with emotion as it is with performance, investigating how so much joyous music was able to come out of exploration, disturbance, even pain. (Kenneth Turan) NR.

The Neon Demon A Helmut Newton fever dream by way of a Dario Argento splatter flick, Nicolas Winding Refn’s hypnotically beautiful thriller stars Elle Fanning as a young woman trapped in a murderously deranged corner of the Los Angeles fashion industry. (Justin Chang) R.

Our Little Sister A delicate, unforced meditation on the joy and wonder of ordinary life, this film’s ability to move audiences without apparent effort must be experienced to be fully appreciated and understood. (Kenneth Turan) PG.