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A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD On the heels of the 2018 Mr. Rogers documentary Won’t You Be
My Neighbor? comes this full biopic treatment of the children’s television icon. Tom Hanks dons the cardigan sweaters of Fred Rogers in this telling of his life and career, shown here through the lens of his friendship with the journalist Tom Junod. Junod (whose name is changed to Lloyd Vogel in this film, where he is played by Matthew Rhys), approaches the assignment to cover Rogers with cynicism that is eventually melted away. Biopic, rated PG, 108 minutes, Regal Stadium 14 and Violet Crown. (Not reviewed)
FROZEN II The 2013 blockbuster Frozen gets its long-awaited sequel, so if you’re a parent who has heard the song “Let it Go” hundreds of times, prepare to open your wallets and let go of your money. This story takes place three years after the first, and concerns the magical powers possessed by Queen Elsa (voiced by Idina Menzel). When Elsa hears strange sounds calling her from the north, she joins her sister Anna (Kristen Bell), Anna’s boyfriend Kristoff (Jonathan Groff), and the talking snowman Olaf (Josh Gad) on a journey to learn of her secret origins and save their kingdom. Animated adventure, rated PG, 103 minutes, screens in 3D and 2D at Regal Stadium 14 and Violet Crown, screens in 2D only at Regal Santa Fe 6. (Not reviewed)
THE IRISHMAN Crime drama, rated R, 209 minutes, The Screen and Violet Crown. See review, Page 36.
KNIVES OUT Writer and director Rian Johnson (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) takes a break from galactic adventures to dial the stakes down into a simple whodunit. Daniel Craig plays Detective Benoit Blanc, a private eye who is called upon to investigate the murder of crime novelist Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer). The suspects? His family members, who are played by Toni Colette, Jamie Lee Curtis, Chris Evans, Don Johnson, Katherine Langford, Michael Shannon, and others. Mystery, rated PG-13, 130 minutes, Regal Stadium 14 and Violet Crown. (Not reviewed)
QUEEN & SLIM A Thelma and Louise or Bonnie and Clyde for contemporary African Americans, this movie focuses on a man named Slim (Daniel Kaluuya of Get Out fame) and a woman named Queen (Jodie Turner-Smith) whose first date takes a sharp turn when a police officer pulls them over. When the situation escalates, Slim kills the cop, and the couple soon finds themselves celebrities on the run. Flea, Chloë Sevigny, and Sturgill Simpson also star. Opens Wednesday, Nov. 27. Drama, rated R, 132 minutes, Regal Stadium 14. (Not reviewed)
21 BRIDGES Chadwick Boseman plays a detective tasked with finding two cop killers (played by Stephan James and Taylor Kitsch). As he conducts the search, he tugs at the thread of a massive conspiracy and a criminal empire that implicates the police force. He shuts down all of the bridges leading out of Manhattan, putting the city on total lockdown for his emerging game of cat and mouse. Action, rated R, 99 minutes, Regal Stadium 14. (Not reviewed)
WHERE’S MY ROY COHN? The first thing you notice are the dead eyes. They’re the eyes of a psychopath, hooded eyes that observe and measure untroubled by any glimmer of empathy. They’re the eyes of Roy Cohn, who spearheaded the prosecution of the Rosenbergs, who served as chief counsel to Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s red-baiting reign of terror, who trampled professional standards until he was finally disbarred for unethical conduct, and who denied to his last breath his homosexuality and the AIDS virus that was gnawing away his life. Director Matt Tyrnauer uses interview and clips of old newsreels and television appearances to paint a damning picture of the man, and to draw an implicit line between his two most famous creatures: McCarthy, and the man who now occupies the Oval Office, Donald J. Trump. The film’s title is drawn from Trump’s plaintive outburst when his then- attorney general, Jeff Sessions, recused himself from the Russia investigation. But the Trump-Cohn relationship, while its implications permeate the film, doesn’t dominate its narrative. Tyrnauer marshals his sources to assemble a picture of a brilliant man without a conscience for whom winning, by any means, was all that mattered. Documentary, rated PG-13, 97 minutes, Center for Contemporary Arts (Jonathan Richards)