He's only three features deep into his directing career, but Andrew Bujalski already has a cross to bear, namely "mumblecore." Part of a cliquey indie filmmaking scene, Bujalski (Funny Ha Ha, Mutual Appreciation) and his peers have been hyped and vilified for their talky, Cassavetes-esque, no-budget movies starring their non-professional friends. But while many of these early works are problematically naïve, more recent mumblecore flicks like Humpday—and now Bujalski's latest, Beeswax—are developing the ideas behind what worked, gradually shaking off the self-obsessed sensibility, and offering unvarnished realism without trying to compensate for their plainness with shock or drama. These are small, relatively uneventful stories about approachable, unglamorous people—but the talent involved is what makes them work. by Marjorie Skinner