Writer/directors helm dramas of various sorts in the relatively quiet week following Thanksgiving. This week you’ll have the chance to see the Steve McQueen drama “Shame” about a sex addict, the Takeshi Kitano crime drama “Autoreiji,” the Alrick Brown romantic drama set in war torn Rwanda “Kinyarwanda,” and the Julia Leigh erotic drama “Sleeping Beauty.”

MY PICK FOR THE WEEK: Shame

SHAME

Brandon (Michael Fassbender) is a thirtysomething New Yorker who lives a careful private life, in order to satisfy his sexual addiction. His world is turned upside down though, when his younger sis...