Your weekend preview: What to see (and what to skip) in theatres this week
ReviewJim SlotekCate Blanchett, Where'd You Go Bernadette?, Billy Crudup, Emma Nelson, Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams, After the Wedding, Susanne Bier, Good Boys, Blinded by the Light, Sarfraz Manzoor, Gurinder Chadha, 47 Meters Down: Uncaged, Mine 9, Cold Case Hammarskjöld, Mads Brügger
Where'd You Go, Bernadette: Richard Linklater's screwball comedy eventually shows its heart
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekWhere'd You Go Bernadette?, Cate Blanchett, Maria Semple, Richard Linklater, Emma Nelson, Troian Bellisario, Zoe Chao, Runaway moms, Q&A interviews, Domestic inner turmoil, Dazed and Confused, Everybody Wants Some!!, Judy Greer, Kristen Wiig
Good Boys: Tweens-Go-Wild Comedy a Bawdy (Sometimes Icky) Look at Growing Up
ReviewGood Boys, Tweens, Tween comedy, Gene Stupnitsky, Jacob Tremblay, Keith L Williams, Brady Noon, Superbad, Coming-of-age stories, Profane, Comedy
Blinded by the Light: 80s-Era Coming of Age Tale Buoyed by Bollywood-ized Boss
47 Meters Down: Uncaged - Sharks vs Mean Girls Is No Fun At All
Review47 Meters Down: Uncaged, Horror, slasher flick, Sequel, Sistine Rose Stallone, Brianne Tju, Brec Bassinger, Sophie Nelisse, John Corbett, Nia Long, Corinne Foxx, Johannes Roberts
Cold Case Hammarskjöld: Oddball Documentary Equal Parts John LeCarre, Morgan Spurlock
After the Wedding: American remake of Danish Oscar-nom lacks emotional payoff
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekAfter the Wedding, American remakes of foreign films, Michelle Williams, Julianne Moore, Abby Quinn, Billy Crudup, Rolf Lassgård, Mads Mikkelsen, Bart Freundlich, Domestic drama
Mine 9: Appalachian disaster indie drama is a horribly plausible horror, with darkness as its chief special effect
ReviewJim SlotekMine 9, Coal mining drama, Appalachia, King Coal, Eddie Mensore, Terry Serpico, Mining disasters, Drew Starkey, Annie Thrash, Clint James, Erin Elizabeth Burns
Original-Cin Q&A: Cate Blanchett talks 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette', conflictedness, Richard Linklater and leaf blowers
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InterviewJim SlotekWhere'd You Go Bernadette?, Cate Blanchett, Maria Semple, Richard Linklater, Emma Nelson, Troian Bellisario, Zoe Chao, Runaway moms, Q&A interviews, Domestic inner turmoil
The Kitchen: A plethora of underserved characters and an uneven tone makes for one undercooked fem-mob movie
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekThe Kitchen, Elizabeth Moss, Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, Female mob movie, DC comics, DC Vertigo, Ollie Masters, Ming Doyle, Andrea Berloff, Myk Watford, Domhnall Gleeson
Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark: Guillermo del Toro-Produced Creep Show Thin but Jumpy
Your weekend preview: What to see (and what to skip) in theatres this week
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ReviewJim SlotekWeekly Roundup, Luce, J.C. Lee, Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Octavia Spencer, Guillermo del Toro, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Casey Affleck Light of My Life, Anna Pniowsky, Mike Wallace is Here, 60 Minutes, The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein, Kevin Costner, Milo Ventimiglia, Amanda Seyfried
Light of My Life: Casey Affleck’s Dystopian Drama an Alternate Look at Parental Love
Mike Wallace Is Here: Doc on Legendarily Tough TV Newsman Especially Timely
Luce: Race, privilege, high school and suspicion make for a provocative brew in this worthy stage adaption
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekLuce, Race and privilege, Mixed race adoptions, Third World adoptees, J.C. Lee, Plays adapted as films, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, Tim Roth, Norbert Leo Butz
The Art of Racing in the Rain: Adaptation of best-selling dog novel full of awww, if not wonder
ReviewJim SlotekDog movies, The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein, Simon Curtis, My Week With Marilyn, Woman in Gold, Marley and Me, A Dogs Journey, Kevin Costner, Reincarnation, Amanda Seyfried, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Talking dogs, Kathy Baker, Martin Donovan, Auto Racing, Ayrton Senna
Your Weekend Preview: What To See (And What To Skip) In The Theatres
David Crosby: Remember My Name - A folk-rock lion in winter unflinchingly faces himself and his past
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekDavid Crosby, David Crosby: Remember My Name., Rock documentaries, The Byrds, Crosby, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, A.J. Eaton, Cameron Crowe, Joni Mitchell, Laurel Canyon rock scene, The Grateful Dead
Honeyland: Doc about a bee-keeping Macedonian peasant achieves real-life fable status
ReviewJim SlotekHoneyland, Hatidze Muratova, Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov, Traditional European beekeeping, Macedonia, Skopje, Hussein Sam, documentary, Fejmi Daut, Samir Ljuma, Ecological allegory
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw - The Rock lightens the overlong, same-old heavy-handed formula
ReviewJim SlotekFast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw., Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Jason Statham, Fast & Furious franchise, David Leitch, Deadpool 2, Atomic Blonde, Idiocracy, Idris Elba, MI6, Vanessa Kirby, Samoa, Chase scenes, Action movies, Fight scenes
