A mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird.

A mother (Julia Louis-Dreyfus, in a profoundly moving performance) and her teenage daughter (Lola Petticrew) must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird. From debut filmmaker Daina O. Pusic, Tuesday is a heart-rending fairy tale about the echoes of loss and finding resilience in the unexpected.—A24 Films

With her terminally ill daughter, Tuesday, inching closer to the inevitable, her mother, Zora, struggles to keep her life from falling apart. On the brink of exhausting her limited resources and constantly in denial, Zora must brace herself for the unthinkable when the personification of omnipotent death arrives to collect 15-year-old Tuesday. Now, the end is near. As mortal Zora tries to reason with the unfathomable force, begging for extra time, the pained mother must confront the abrupt finality of death and an unfair truth: tomorrow was never ours to keep.—Nick Riganas