These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include the documentary “Aftershock,” about black maternal mortality, and “Silver Dollar Road,” about the fight over black property, but also lighter fare: the classic “Ace in the Hole,” nearly forgotten “Carny,” a “Texas Chain Saw” sequel and Sinister Cinema, a screening of the local horror shorts.

Robert De Niro seems minted for a villainous role in Martin Scorsese’s latest period epic, based on a nonfiction book recounting the 1920s oil plot behind the killing of at least 60 members of the Osage Nation.

These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include Independent Film Festival Boston picks, “Godard Cinema,” more Scorsese-DiCaprio and Halloween-worthy chillers such as “The Others” and the original “Child’s Play,” as well as an effective vampire doc (or is it). But the movie not to miss is “The Burial.”

Tense couples make for riveting drama, whether it’s the promotion of one partner over the other or, even more out there, one who gets selected for a multiyear post on an space station while the other has to remain in the barren dust bowl of the Midwest.

These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include picks from “The Queer Film Guide” at The Brattle and an Indigenous People’s Day double feature, Jane Eyre plus zombies and more October-worthy attempts at scares, from Freddy Krueger to a new “Exorcist.” Also: “Flora and Son” and Free tickets to “Foe” in Kendall Square.

These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include the chilling new “Megalomaniac” from Belgium and thought-provoking “The Hole in the Fence” from Mexico, as well as repertory fare that includes Scorsese’s “Shutter Island” and silent films such as Buster Keaton’s “Three Ages.”

Hard to believe it’s been 40 years since Jonathan Demme’s “Stop Making Sense” came out and took its place as one of the best rock-docs ever made.

These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include Christopher Walken greats from the 1980s and Jeanet/Caro’s “City of Lost Children” as well as the 50-year rerelease run of Talking Heads’ “Stop Making Sense,” Ford’s “Fugitive” and new works: “Dumb Money” and the smart, scary “It Lives Inside.”

These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include Brattle premieres of “Scrapper” and “The Elephant 6 Recording Co.,” lesser-known Steven Soderbergh and one his greats, works from Japan and Chile and new fare from the great “Cassandro” to the tale of a cook’s rise and fall.

These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include a “Dirty Stories of Jean Eustache” series out of France at The Brattle and fascinating Portuguese, Chilean and Japanese works at the HFA. And don’t miss the doc about the UFO sighting in Zimbabwe.