Date Night Picks

Will Gluck sends two love-starved strangers crashing into each other on the one night a year the rules fall away, and lets the sparks fly from there. It's breezy, warm-hearted and unashamedly romantic — the easy, grinning kind of night out where you both leave a little lighter and a little closer.

Luca Guadagnino's sun-drenched reverie follows seventeen-year-old Elio and a visiting graduate student through a summer that quietly rearranges everything. It's aching, tender and impossibly beautiful — the sort of film you'll hold hands through and think about for days. Screenings are scarce this week, so treat it as a now-or-never date.