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The English singer, producer, and d.j. Nia Archives stands astatine the forefront of the modern U.K. rave scene, moving chiefly successful jungle and drum and bass. A uncommon prima successful a behind-the-decks profession, she is some bellwether and ambassador for 1 of the much niche euphony communities. Her 2024 début album, “Silence Is Loud,” sought to blend jungle with the Britpop of bands specified arsenic Blur and Oasis, and its much reined-in dependable allowed for the benignant of clearheaded introspection that astir deed the creation level to avoid. In 2025, she launched her statement Up Ya Archives for “everything caller gen junglism,” and, aboriginal this year, she’s releasing “Emotional Junglist,” which promises to proceed her long-running subversion of raver norms.—Sheldon Pearce (Bowery Ballroom; May 21.)

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For her archetypal feature, Aleshea Harris adapted and directed her 2018 play “Is God Is.” The movie is simply a furious revenge thriller, successful which 2 young women, fraternal twins, Racine (Kara Young) and Anaia (Mallori Johnson), who person grievous pain scars from aboriginal childhood, are summoned to the bedside of their parent (Vivica A. Fox), whom they telephone God, and who is likewise scarred. God reveals that the perpetrator is their long-absent father—and she orders them to find him and termination him. The sisters’ ngo involves a unsafe and convulsive roadworthy trip; the fierce Racine outdoes the delicate Anaia successful her bloodlust, and the drama, reminiscent of classical tragedy, resounds with mythopoetic overtones. If the results are longer connected enactment than connected substance, they’re nevertheless harrowing and haunting.—Richard Brody (In wide release.)

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The sardonic drama “Clockwatchers,” from 1997, observes bureau beingness from the position of 4 secretarial temps whose regular tribulations uncover bureaucratic absurdities and cruelties successful action. Iris (Toni Collette), a caller temp astatine a recognition company, rapidly bonds with her colleagues: Margaret (Parker Posey), whose derision is matched by ambition; Paula (Lisa Kudrow), an aspiring histrion whose optimism masks despair; and Jane (Alanna Ubach), whose dreams halfway connected her impending marriage. The women are blithely dismissive of their tedious work, but their relationships fray nether caller stresses—including intrusive surveillance. The director, Jill Sprecher, films these antics similar a live-action cartoon, with giddy images and spritzy performances that are nevertheless poignant.—R.B. (Metrograph, May 17, introduced by John Early, and streaming connected the Criterion Channel.)