WORTH SEEING

Which Movies to Watch This Weekend

Columbus: This gem of a romantic dramedy, about a translator stuck in a small Indiana town, beautifully illuminates not only the local architecture but also the characters that inhabit it. The film has a quiet wavelength all of its own, but thanks to excellent directing and acting, that wavelength always remains accessible. Not rated. 100 minutes.

— David Lewis

The Glass Castle: Though this filmed rendering of Jeannette Walls’ memoir, about her troubled childhood growing up with an erratic father, goes a little soft in the end, it’s all the same a dramatic portrait of the terrors of childhood, as seen from a child’s perspective. Rated PG-13. 127 minutes. — Mick LaSalle Menashe: Set in a Brooklyn Hasidic community, this is the moving story of a widower who runs afoul of his ultra-Orthodox family and neighbors because of his desire to raise his son as a single dad. It’s a compelling portrayal of a closed society. Rated PG. 82 minutes. In Yiddish with English subtitles.

— Walter Addiego

Wind River: Taylor Sheridan wrote and directed this crime drama, about the FBI investigating a murder on an Indian reservation. The story is conventional, but the setting and the treatment — with its emphasis on the snowy location and the specifics of the culture — turn this into an interesting and satisfying experience. Rated R. 107 minutes. — Mick LaSalle

Fred Hayes / The Weinstein Company Jeremy Renner stars in “Wind River,” a satisfying crime drama about an FBI investigation on a Wyoming Indian reservation.