There’s an undeniable Richard Linklater and Before trilogyenergy to this story of two Black artists, both coming off bad breakups, who meet cute while he’s ugly crying in the bathroom of an art gallery and then spend a day walking around South London together and getting into trouble.

Writer-director Nicole Holofcener and Julie Louis-Dreyfus (who previously made 2013’s lovely Enough Said) are back together for You Hurt My Feelings, the story of an acclaimed memoirist who suffers a crisis of self-doubt when she overhears her husband saying he thinks the novel she’s working on is bad.

The only potential Best Picture nominee I saw is the aforementioned Fair Play, but it’ll have to survive what’s sure to be a brutal hot-take cycle about its approach to gender, sex, and office politics and whether its thrills were cheap or delightfully—and savagely—earned (I’m firmly in the latter camp, but consensus among major critics varied).

But those remain huge what-ifs this early in the game, and the movie could just as easily become another Sundance darling that somehow couldn’t even nab a screenplay nomination (like Eighth Grade and The Farewell, both done dirty by the Academy’s Writers Branch.)

Shortcomings, directed by Randall Park and adapted by Adrian Tomine from his acclaimed graphic novel, follows a group of Asian American characters in the Bay Area as their love lives fall apart and one of them tries to confront (or hide from) his fetish for white women.

The aforementioned A Little Prayer and Fairyland both apply, as do a disarming indie about working-class Brits called Scrapper(starring Harris Dickinson of Triangle of Sadness) and this year’s Grand Jury Prize winner, A Thousand and One, which uses a beautiful Isaac Hayes–inflected score to tell its powerful story about a troubled mother in ’90s Harlem who tries to steal her child out of the foster care system.