MOVIE OF THE WEEK (5/29/26): BACKROOMS
"Help - I cannot find a definitive way to describe what is happening in this movie!" Clark (Chitewel Ejiofor) finds himself exploring the never-ending maze that is the BACKROOMS . © 2026 A24. All Rights Reserved. CAST: Chitewel Ejiofor | Renate Reinsve | Finn Benett | Lukita Maxwell | Mark Duplass WRITER : Will Soodik DIRECTOR : Kane Parsons TRAILER: THE STORY: Clark (Chitewel Ejiofor) isn't exactly doing well. An architect by degree, he's stuck running a ho-hum furniture store that isn't doing great sales-wise. His wife Barbara also kicked him out of the house, leaving him alone – but not lonely in his estimation – pretty much all the time. His assistant manager Kat (Lukita Maxwell) and her boyfriend Bobby (Finn Bennett) help him film commercials on occasion, but there's really not much more to his life than that. He does, however, see Dr. Mary Kline (Renate Reinsve), to help deal with his mental state, herself a survivor of a traumatic childhood that occa...
