BRITTANY RUNS A MARATHON (2019) Stream on Amazon. This comedy follows the success story of Brittany, a 27-year-old party girl who feels her life is getting away from her. When Brittany, who is played by Jillian Bell, visits her doctor in search of an Adderall prescription, she instead receives a suggestion to abandon her unhealthy lifestyle and lose 55 pounds. Deterred by a gym membership fee, Brittany instead decides to train for the New York City Marathon. Paul Downs Colaizzo directs this feel-good film with a heavy focus on physical health and not the character’s low self-esteem. “Brittany’s kneejerk self-deprecation often feels punishing not only to the character but also to the audience,” Teo Bugbee wrote in her review for The Times, adding that Bell “is working within the framework of a story that seems hellbent on robbing her character of joy.”

VITA & VIRGINIA (2019) Stream on Hulu; Rent on Amazon, Google Play, Vudu and YouTube. Inspired by a true romance and a 1994 stage play, “Vita & Virginia” tells the story of two brilliant writers: Virginia Woolf (Elizabeth Debicki) and the socialite who pursues a relationship with her, Vita Sackville-West (Gemma Arterton). Their scandalous romance, recorded through the 20 years’ worth of letters they sent to each other, incited upset from Vita’s mother, as well as both of their husbands. Despite Vita and Virginia’s real-life passion, “the movie feels muted and joyless and almost suffocatingly well-appointed,” Jeannette Catsoulis wrote in her review for The Times.