MAY 11

BEAST Jessie Buckley, who earned raves for her performance at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall, plays a young woman on the island of Jersey whose new crush (Johnny Flynn) may be a serial killer. Michael Pearce directed, in his first feature.

BOOM FOR REAL: THE LATE TEENAGE YEARS OF JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT Jean-Michel Basquiat has been the subject of other films (the documentary “Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child”; Julian Schnabel’s biopic “Basquiat”). But Sara Driver, who as a filmmaker swam in the same downtown scene in the 1980s, is bound to bring something special to this account of how he discovered his sensibility as an artist.

BREAKING IN Gabrielle Union plays a mother who discovers that her late father’s house gives the apartment in “Panic Room” a run for its money in the security department. In keeping with Murphy’s law, the home comes under siege; Ms. Union’s character has to save her children after they are taken hostage. James McTeigue (“V for Vendetta”) directed.