On Demand picks

BAD COMPANY

(Encore on Comcast) A shy teenager (the remarkable Maud Forget) falls in with the fast crowd and proves more adept at decadence than they. As an antidote to the insipid antics of teenagers in American movies, the film’s a welcome jolt. As a tale of adolescent sexuality warped by passion, though, it’s less compelling and more exploitative than it thinks. (Unrated, through Dec. 2)

TY BURR

PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE

(Starz on Comcast) Gone are the epic San Fernando Valley metaphysics of “Boogie Nights’’ and “Magnolia’’ — Paul Thomas Anderson has smaller fish to fry. An off-kilter, deeply touching comedy of eros, the movie stars Adam Sandler as a man-child backing into a romance with the slightly more worldly Emily Watson. Brilliantly, Sandler plays the part as he would any of his comic dolts, but with all the panicky sadness on the surface. (R, through Oct. 7) TY BURR