![]() THE PEOPLE WE HATE AT THE WEDDING Nuptials become the occasion for an airing of intrafamilial loathing and reconciliation in a comedy that stars Kristen Bell and Ben Platt as siblings and Allison Janney as the matriarch. He resorts to great lengths to go 200 meters. 18 in theaters)Ģ00 METERS A Palestinian construction worker trying to visit his son at an Israeli hospital is refused exit from the West Bank. But the chef (Ralph Fiennes) has a gruesome concept in store. THE MENU Mark Mylod, a regular director on “Succession,” is at the helm of this class satire, in which a supercilious gourmand (Nicholas Hoult) and his date (Anya Taylor-Joy) travel to an island for an evening of rarefied cuisine. LOVE, CHARLIE Wolfgang Puck, Emeril Lagasse and Grant Achatz are among the chefs who discuss the influential Chicago restaurateur Charlie Trotter in this documentary. Jeremy Pope plays Bratton’s alter ego, with Raúl Castillo as a sympathetic superior, Bokeem Woodbine as a sergeant and Gabrielle Union as the protagonist’s mother. ![]() THE INSPECTION For his first dramatic feature, Elegance Bratton, who has worked as a documentarian and street photographer, wrote and directed this autobiographically inspired film about a gay Black man’s time in basic training in the Marines, and the homophobia in an environment where enlistees expect to be terrorized. There are three directors: Ursula Pürrer, A. 18 in theaters)įLAMING EARS This underground sci-feature feature, receiving a belated release three decades after its completion, takes place in the year 2700 in a city entirely populated by lesbians. When Skolimowski shared the jury prize at Cannes, he thanked all six donkeys who played the role. 18 on Apple TV+)ĮO The Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski riffs, with a bit of a hallucinatory spin, on Robert Bresson’s French classic “Au Hasard Balthazar” with the tale of an itinerant donkey who along its journeys becomes a passive witness to human cruelty. Will Ferrell plays the Ghost of Christmas Present and Ryan Reynolds the movie’s Scrooge surrogate, Clint Briggs. But what if it wasn’t? What if Charles Dickens made a mistake by focusing on Scrooge, instead of the ghosts who visit him? The “Greatest Showman” songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul rectify that error in this new musical comedy. SPIRITED Sure, “A Christmas Carol” might seem like a timeless story. The son and the daughter - the titular Sam and Kate - fall for each other. SAM & KATE The real-life father and son Dustin Hoffman and Jake Hoffman and the real-life mother and daughter Sissy Spacek and Schuyler Fisk play father and son and mother and daughter onscreen. Events are seen from the vantage points of American and Afghan soldiers and through the eyes of civilians. RETROGRADE Matthew Heineman ( “Cartel Land”) directed this documentary on the end of the war in Afghanistan. NOTHING LASTS FOREVER The documentarian Jason Kohn ( “Manda Bala”) presents an exposé of how synthetic diamonds have infiltrated the market for gems, and how the concept of authenticity may be losing whatever meaning it had. MY FATHER’S DRAGON Ruth Stiles Gannett’s 1948 children’s book - about a boy who ventures off to rescue a baby dragon - becomes an animated film directed by Nora Twomey, of the Oscar-nominated “The Breadwinner.” (Nov.
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