WORTH SEEING

Which Movies to Watch This Weekend

Dunkirk: Christopher Nolan’s career-best film tells the story of World War II’s harrowing Dunkirk evacuation as experienced on land, sea and air. It’s inspired filmmaking from the first frame. Rated PG-13. 107 minutes.

— Mick LaSalle Escapes: Hampton Fancher’s most famous credit is as writer of “Blade Runner,” but that’s just one brief stop in the raconteur’s prodigious career and life. “Escapes” director-editor Michael Almereyda matches filmmaking style with his subject. The result is a small but layered portrait of a complicated talent. Not rated. 89 minutes.

— Peter Hartlaub The Hitman’s Bodyguard: This is a pleasing action comedy, starring Samuel L. Jackson, as a hit man who needs to be escorted to the Hague (to testify in court) and the bodyguard assigned to protect him (Ryan Reynolds). Jackson and Reynolds make a good pair, and they get strong comic support by Salma Hayek, as Jackson’s impossibly profane, assertive wife. Rated R. 118 minutes. — Mick LaSalle The Trip to Spain: This is the third installment in the series of foodie travelogues with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon — who play lightly fictionalized versions of themselves — and it’s a return to form after its predecessor, “The Trip to Italy.” The men indulge in the usual banter and celeb impersonations, but more somber notes are sounded, especially regarding the Coogan figure. Not rated. 108 minutes.

Melinda Sue Gordon / Associated Press Kenneth Branagh plays a commander who helps to oversee the evacuation of British troops in Christopher Nolan’s World War II film “Dunkirk.”