CAUSEWAY.

 Terrific performances from Jennifer Lawrence and Brian Tyree Henry raise this quiet, powerful character piece to an altogether higher plain than it might otherwise have reached without them. She's a former soldier trying to adjust to civilian life having returned from Afghanistan with a brain injury and he's the mechanic who becomes her friend.

"Causeway" isn't quite a two-character piece; there's fine work, too, from Jayne Houdyshell as a rehabilitation counsellor, Linda Emond as Lawrence's slighty flaky mother and Stephen McKinley Henderson as a neurosurgeon but it is Lawrence and Henry who carry the picture. Despite the downbeat and serious nature of the subject matter there are no big dramas on display. This is a picture of ordinary people living ordinary lives and it really is very engaging.