WORTH SEEING
Which Movies to Watch This Weekend
The Florida Project: This has a strong opening and a terrific finish, with 40 dead minutes in the middle. But it’s so original and so well-done when it’s working — a brilliant portrait of childhood as experienced inside a poverty motel in Orlando — that it’s hard to imagine anyone forgetting it. Rated R. 115 minutes. — Mick LaSalle
The Foreigner: Jackie Chan is ideally cast as a little aging fellow, living in London, whose daughter’s death turns him into a somersaulting, fist-flying killing machine. This is one of the most satisfying action movies since “Taken.” Co-starring Pierce Brosnan. Rated R. 114 minutes. — Mick LaSalle
Marshall: Chadwick Boseman plays the coolest guy in the world, who just happens to be future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, shown here as a young man in one of his earliest cases. This is a terrific courtroom drama and also a satisfying buddy movie, with Josh Gad as Marshall’s co-counsel and temperamental opposite. Rated PG-13. 118 minutes. — Mick LaSalle
The Meyerowitz Stories: Noah Baumbach’s (“The Squid and the Whale,” “Frances Ha”) study of a dysfunctional family headed by a self-centered artist (Dustin Hoffman) is his warmest film yet. Adam Sandler’s openhearted performance as the brother trying to keep things together shows he can be serious, and wonderful, onscreen. Hoffman and Ben Stiller — as the younger son — craft memorable characters as well. Not rated. 110 minutes. — Carla Meyer