NEW MOVIES

Cop Car: Kevin Bacon stars as a vicious sheriff in hot pursuit of the two 10-year-old boys who stole his car in this gripping chase thriller. Rated R. The Diary of a Teenage Girl: Infatuated with her mother’s boyfriend (Alexander Skarsgard) and intent on exploring her blossoming sexuality, 15-year-old Minnie (Bel Powley) is eager to grow up fast in 1970s San Francisco in Marielle Heller’s coming-of-age drama, adapted from Phoebe Gloeckner’s novel. Rated R. Final Girl: In this thriller, four young men who delight in luring young girls into the woods to hunt and kill them are unaware that their latest would-be victim (Abigail Breslin) is a trained assassin. Rated R. Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet: A repressive government targets a dissident poet (Liam Neeson) while his housekeeper (Salma Hayek) tries to keep her young daughter (Quvenzhané Wallis) out of trouble in this animated fable that uses the story as a spine to explore Gibran’s classic work. Roger Allers, Nina Paley and Bill Plympton are among the nine people who direct various sections. Rated PG. Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck: Brett Morgen employs home movies, audio recordings, journal entries, art and photos to spin the tale of Kurt Cobain’s life and stardom

with Nirvana. Not rated. The Man From U.N.C.L.E.: Henry Cavill is Napoleon Solo and Armie Hammer is Illya Kuryakin, secret agents fighting the Cold War, in Guy Ritchie’s reboot of the 1960s TV series. Rated PG-13. People Places Things: A graphic artist and teacher ( Jemaine Clement) is trying to navigate life as a recently single dad when one of his students ( Jessica Williams) tries to fix him up with her mother (Regina Hall) in this romantic comedy. Rated R. Straight Outta Compton: Ice Cube and Dr. Dre are producers of this biopic that spins the origin story of how they, as teenagers, hooked up with Eazy-E to form the pioneering rap group NWA. O’Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins and Jason Mitchell star as Cube, Dre and E, while Paul Giamatti and R. Marcus Taylor play talent manager Jerry Heller and Death Row Records co-founder Suge Knight. Rated R. Tom at the Farm: Filmmaker Xavier Dolan stars in his own thriller about a young man, Tom, who travels to his late lover, Guillaume’s, home for his funeral, only to discover that his boyfriend had kept his sexuality secret from his mother (Lise Roy). Guillaume’s brute of a big brother, Francis (Pierre-Yves Cardinal), is determined to keep Mom in the dark, even as he is just as determined to keep Tom on the farm. Not rated.