WORTH SEEING
Which Movies to Watch This Weekend
Donald Cried: This is an interesting and original film about a guy who goes back to his hometown for a day and is thrown together with a peculiar friend who never left. Donald, the peculiar friend, is a singular creation, played by director Kris Avedisian. Not rated. 82 minutes.
— Mick LaSalle Kong: Skull Island: Kong never looked so good as in this well-directed, well-acted, imaginatively crafted and very respectably written revisit of the King Kong story, this time on his native habitat of Skull Island. Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Brie Larson, John Goodman and Tom Hiddleston. Directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts. Rated PG-13. 120 minutes.
— Mick LaSalle The Lego Batman Movie: The animated comedy is less awesome than its predecessor, but it’s a clever, well-paced, selfaware and completely satisfying kind of less awesome. It takes the most entertaining secondary character from “The Lego Movie,” then builds 104 minutes around him with little fatigue. All inferior sequels should be as fun as this one. Rated PG. 104 minutes.
— Peter Hartlaub Logan: The ninth appearance by Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine in 17 years takes a huge tone shift from the relatively bloodless earlier X-Men films, going berserk in its own moody and ultraviolent direction. Jackman and director James Mangold create something great here, upsetting comic book norms without losing entertainment value. Rated R. 141 minutes.
— Peter Hartlaub