Freeze Frame: “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” (R), “Sasquatch Sunset” (R), “The Beast” (Not rated), “The Greatest Hits” (PG-13)

Director Guy Ritchie’s paints with very broad strokes for his wacky action comedy “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.” Henry Cavill and Alan Ritchson lead the cast as criminal mercenaries recruited by Winston Churchill to secretly disable Nazi ships in Africa that supplied their deadly U-boats. The action is too exaggerated to make this a credible depiction of actual events, but it’s an entertaining fabrication just the same.

You have to tune into a certain twisted sense of humor to get much out of the bizarre absurdist ecological comedy, “Sasquatch Sunset.” Jesse Eisenberg and Riley Keough star in the tale of a small family of Bigfoot creatures who struggle to survive over one calendar year. If you think that sex and scatology among wild animals is hilarious, then “Sasquatch Sunset” is the movie for you. Count me out.

If David Lynch had directed “Somewhere in Time,” it might have looked a bit like Bertrand Bonello’s “The Beast.” Lea Seydoux and George MacKay star in a sci-fi horror tale inspired by Henry James’ novella, “The Beast in the Jungle.” A woman undergoes a procedure to have consciousness of her past lives wiped from her DNA. “The Beast” is clever and creepy but it’s undermined by stilted dialogue in the final act.

In the Hulu time travel romance “The Greatest Hits,” Lucy Boynton plays a deeply troubled young woman who is mystically transported to the past whenever she hears a song that she and her deceased boyfriend first heard. Can she change the past to save him, or should she move on to a new romance? It doesn’t all work, but a likable cast and tuneful soundtrack make “The Greatest Hits” an agreeable distraction.

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