Chile Pages
I, TONYA Rated R. 120 minutes. Regal Stadium 14; Violet Crown. See review, Page 33.
BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY Not rated. 90 minutes. Center for Contemporary Arts. See review, Page 29.
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME Rated R. 130 minutes. In English, French, and Italian with subtitles. Regal Stadium 14. See review, Page 32.
THE COMMUTER In what is now a regular routine in his latter-day career, Liam Neeson plays a man who discovers that his family in danger and finds himself shouting threats to villains over a cell phone. He’s Michael MacCauley, a salesman who is contacted by a mysterious caller on his commute home and told he will be given $100,000 if he finds a hidden passenger on the train. Thus begins a complex game in which he finds himself embroiled in a criminal conspiracy. Vera Farmiga also stars. Rated PG-13. 104 minutes. Regal Stadium 14; Violet Crown. (Not reviewed)
DJANGO Not rated. 117 minutes. In French with subtitles. The Screen. See review, Page 31.
PADDINGTON 2 The overcoat-wearing, marmalade-munching bear is back for more London adventures in this sequel to the 2014 comedy, which once more finds director Paul King giving the wellloved children’s character another slick and whimsical update. This time around, Paddington is framed in the theft of a rare book and must break free from jail and prove his innocence. Hugh Bonneville and Sally Hawkins are back as the parents of Paddington’s adopted family, who work on the outside to clear Paddington’s name. Rated PG. 103 minutes. Regal Stadium 14. (Not reviewed)
THE POST Rated PG-13. 105 minutes. Regal Stadium 14; Violet Crown. See review, Page 28.
PROUD MARY In this nod to the blaxploitation films of the 1970s, Taraji P. Henson (Hidden Figures) plays a highly skilled hit woman named Mary who works for a crime family in Boston. When one of her jobs goes drastically wrong, a boy Danny (Jahi Di’Allo Winston) is orphaned. She finds herself caring for him and ultimately protecting him, through whatever violence she has to mete out. Babak Najafi (London Has Fallen) directs. Rated R. 89 minutes. Regal Stadium 14. (Not reviewed)
THE SACRIFICE Rated PG. 149 minutes. In Swedish with subtitles. Center for Contemporary Arts. See review, Page 30.
THE TRIBES OF PALOS VERDES In Brendan and Emmet Malloy’s adaptation of Joy Nicholson’s 1997 novel about a set of fraternal teenage twins, Medina (Maika Monroe) and Jim Mason (Cody Fern) move from the Midwest to a beachfront home in sunny Southern California with their doctor father (Justin Kirk) and their profoundly unhappy mother (Jennifer Garner). Medina narrates her brother’s and mother’s parallel descent into madness as she discovers her love for surfing. All of the acting is superb, as is Giles Dunning’s cinematography. Mental illness, teen sexuality, and the stress of watching one’s parents’ marriage dissolve are well-handled. But despite the thoroughly engrossing story, The Tribes of Palos Verdes suffers from too many somewhat irrelevant plot threads introduced late in the movie, which deflate the emotional power of the tragic ending. Rated R. 104 minutes. Jean Cocteau Cinema. (Jennifer Levin)
NOW IN THEATERS
ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD Director Ridley Scott isn’t slowing down at age eighty. After
Alien: Covenant in May, he now releases his second movie of the year. It’s a thriller set in 1973 in which Mark Wahlberg plays Fletcher Chase, a security guard who works for billionaire oil tycoon J. Paul Getty (Christopher Plummer). When Getty’s grandson is kidnapped, the miserly magnate refuses to spend the necessary money to bring the boy back, and his daughter (Michelle Williams) enlists Fletcher to do whatever it takes. Rated R. 132 minutes. Regal Stadium 14. (Not reviewed)
COCO Pixar Animation heads south of the border to tell a story about a boy in rural Mexico named Miguel (voiced by Anthony Gonzalez) who dreams of becoming a famous musician like his hero, the deceased Ernesto de la Cruz. Miguel’s family forbids any member from pursuing a career in music, however, because of an ancestor who left the clan for those very reasons. During a Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebration, Miguel crosses over to the Land of the Dead to seek out de la Cruz and reverse this rule. Pixar populates this afterlife with a faithful imagining of Mexican folk art that includes bright colors, lively skeletons, and spirit animals that seem to glow. As with Pixar’s best work, it’s the script that shines brightest — and this airtight example includes a number of satisfying plot twists and a helping of heart. Rated R. 109 minutes. Screens in 2-D only at Regal Stadium 14. (Robert Ker)
DARKEST HOUR Gary Oldman is extraordinary as Winston Churchill. Wreathed in fat, lumbering through the halls of Parliament or the rooms of his own sumptuous residence with a cigar lodged firmly in his mouth, the actor disappears and the legendary British wartime prime minister is all there is to see. Director Joe Wright (Atonement) gives us Britain at her darkest hour, with Adolf Hitler running roughshod over Europe and poised to cross the channel. King George VI (Ben Mendelsohn), with considerable reluctance, invites Churchill to form a cabinet. The movie shows us a man isolated and with the burden of his country’s survival squarely on his shoulders. But despite the stakes, Darkest Hour struggles to get us involved. At the end of it all, despite Oldman’s bravura performance, we are not as enlightened as we would like to be about the many contradictions of the man whose bulldog determination saved Britain. Rated PG-13. 125 minutes. Violet Crown. (Jonathan Richards)
THE FENCER This historical drama set in Estonia in the years after World War II is based on the experience of a fencer named Endel Nelis (Märt Avandi). He is in hiding from