Our critics have been hard at work reviewing the latest films. Here is a look at what’s coming out this weekend (in select cities, check your local listings) and what else may be in theaters right now.
Opening: Nov. 6-8, 2015
Wide (United States)
The Peanuts Movie
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Spectre
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Limited (United States)
Brooklyn
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In Jackson Heights
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
- Excerpt: A fascinating documentary that immerses us in a diverse and lively Queens neighborhood where community activism is alive and well.
Miss You Already
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: …isn’t entirely free of genre cliche, but screenwriter Morwenna Banks has created a protagonist whose vanity and selfishness is exacerbated by her cancer diagnosis, a bold move which gives the film an emotional reality.
Blake Howard @ Graffiti With Punctuation
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
David Bax @ Battleship Pretension
- Excerpt: Why, through everything she experienced and suffered, was Guggenheim “addicted” to art? That should be fertile ground to explore but Vreeland is content to offer simply that it’s because her subject was “lonely.”
Spotlight
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Theeb
Trumbo
Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Bryan Cranston delivers a powerhouse performance in this eloquent bio-pic, delineating the most shameful period in Hollywood history.
2015 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
99 Homes
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The Armor of Light
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
- Excerpt: A conscience stirring documentary about two Christians and their crusade for gun control.
The Assassin
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Beasts of No Nation
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Black Mass
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Blind
Jonathan Richards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: For most of us blessed with functional eyesight, that visual sense is a major factor tethering us to our concept of reality. The sudden loss of sight, Norwegian filmmaker Eskil Vogt suggests, can leave a person unmoored.
Bone Tomahawk
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Bridge of Spies
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Burnt
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Coming Home
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Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
Jonathan Richards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: There’s a lot of hysterical laughter in the clips and stories on display here, and in the reminiscences of the players. But ultimately, if you were around at all for that Camelot of comedy, this documentary will leave you feeling more reminded than enlightened.
Experimenter
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Flowers
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
- Excerpt: An alluring drama of love and loss that will bloom in your consciousness and soul.
Frame by Frame
David Bax @ Battleship Pretension
- Excerpt: As befits a documentary on such a subject, Frame by Frame is beautiful to look at. The cinematography (by the directors) exhibits a professional’s understanding of composition.
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
- Excerpt: Since Going Clear opts for sensationalism, it can be too readily rejected as propaganda by Miscavige and his ilk – a calmer, less speculative film would be harder to ignore. It is a riveting watch, but I doubt it will have much of an effect.
Horse Money
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: The artistic value is high, but the story is so vague, insular and shadowy that, unless you’re an expatriate Cape Verdean intellectual or a careful follower of director Pedro Costa’s career, there’s not much to latch on to.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2
Courtney Howard @ FreshFiction.tv
- Excerpt: Filled with genuine thrills, gripping tension and rallying hero moments galore, the trilogy comes to a close in epic fashion, befitting its awesome heroine.
Inside Out
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Jem and the Holograms
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Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet
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The Last Witch Hunter
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The Leisure Class
Sarah D Bunting @ Previously.TV
Making Rounds
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
- Excerpt: A healing and helpful medical documentary with fresh insights on the importance of the patient-physician relationship.
The Martian
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Nasty Baby
Betty Jo Tucker @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Our Brand Is Crisis
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Parabellum
- Excerpt: The film has nothing to say and has chosen a very demanding and exploratory way of saying it. Haneke without the brain, Parabellum finishes up looking quite silly and it gets pretty dull.
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension
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Paul Taylor: Creative Domain
Jonathan Richards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: It will appeal mostly to dance aficionados; for the less passionate, it would be like someone not interested in tennis watching a documentary about Roger Federer doing stretches and calisthenics and drills in preparation for Wimbledon. The genius is apparent, but the process is not for everyone.
The Pearl Button
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Patricio Guzmán, whose latest is a companion piece to his extraordinary last film, “Nostalgia for the Light,” is some kind of cosmic, philosophical, naturalist historian with a keen talent for expressing his deeply humanist, spiritual ideas in cinematic terms.
Rock the Kasbah
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Room
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Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
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Spy
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Steve Jobs
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Suffragette
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Tales of Halloween
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Time Out of Mind
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Tokyo Tribe
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Truth
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We Come As Friends
Jonathan Richards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: The Sudan is big, unruly, magnificent, chaotic, sometimes beautiful, often painful. This movie is a lot like that too.
Woman in Gold
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The Woods
- Excerpt: Hardy has vision and creativity to spare, as well as an eye for sharp, lush visuals, though you may be too busy quivering under the film’s spell to fully appreciate them.
Z for Zachariah
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2015 Films (Coming Soon)
Cub
Daniel Lackey @ The Nightmare Gallery
Flesh for the Inferno
Haraamkhor
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Hetman
Vadym Grygoriev @ kinoblog.com [Ukrainian]
How to Win at Checkers (Every Time)
Jonathan Richards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: The real strength of the picture is in the loving relationship between the two brothers, and especially Chutikul’s warm, moving performance as Ek.
Jeff Lowe’s Metanoia
Derek Deskins @ Next Projection
- Excerpt: Jeff Lowe’s Metanoia has the visuals of a museum IMAX film and the heart that was so often missing.
NN
- Excerpt: Peru’s Oscar submission has good intentions, but little drama.
The Notorious Mr. Bout
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: He’s far from a kingpin and yet his success altered perception into believing he was. This is the angle I hoped to learn rather than the basic history lesson into his illegal deeds that’s ultimately supplied.
Of Dogs and Men
Derek Deskins @ Next Projection
- Excerpt: Most will find it hard to watch and some may argue that Ozias is being a bit manipulative in his insistence to show the atrocities in their entirety. However, to Ozias’ credit, to spare the viewer of facing the problem and incidents head on, would be a disservice to the cause.
Paperback
Derek Deskins @ Next Projection
- Excerpt: Paperback and its fearless leader Adam Bowers refuse to succumb to mediocrity. It is a film removed from time, one that is a combination of 70s intellectualism, 90s indie auterism, and the sarcastic search for self that seems appropriate for today.
Remember
She’s the Best Thing In It
Jonathan Richards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: She’s an actress who believes in disappearing into her roles, and keeping her own personality out of the spotlight
Truman
Diego Salgado @ Guía del Ocio [Spanish]
Until 20
- Excerpt: Googling “James Ragan” will give you articles about his story. The beautiful and affecting documentary UNTIL 20 lets him tell it to you.
