‘The Nest,’ ‘Infidel,’ BTS concert film
With most of Hollywood’s big movies heading out of early fall — see you at Christmas, Wonder Woman, and whoknows-when for “Greenland” or “Candyman,” both moved to unknown dates on the calendar — theaters continue to make room for smaller releases to fill the void.
The movie theaters that have reopened, that is. More than a dozen theaters have reopened in the Milwaukee area, but six — the Oriental Theatre, the Rosebud and Times cinemas, and Marcus Theatres’ Saukville, Showtime Value and Southgate cinemas — remain closed. Film festivals, meanwhile, have gone all online.
Here are the new movies at Milwaukee-area theaters this week. Check out websites for showtimes.
‘The Nest’
Short version: In the 1980s, an ambitious commodities broker moves his family back to his native England and into a stately country manor, only to see everything, including his marriage, unravel. Writer-director Sean Durkin’s first movie since 2011’s “Martha Marcy May Marlene” stars Jude Law and Carrie Coon, the versatile actor who got her start in her student days at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and, after, American Players Theatre, Renaissance Theaterworks and Madison Repertory Theatre.
Critics’ reaction: Generally positive, thanks to “The Nest’s” aces cast. “This story about an Anglo American family fraying at the edges after a transatlantic move is a hyper-nuanced study of marriage mind games, cultural misunderstanding and stifling gender expectations,” Hollywood Reporter critic Leslie Helperin writes.
Where you can see it: The movie opens Friday in select theaters, including Marcus Theatres’ Movie Tavern Brookfield Square and North Shore cinemas.
‘Infidel’
Short version: While giving talks in Egypt, an American (Jim Caviezel) is kidnapped by agents of the Iranian government. When it becomes clear the U.S. government won’t help get him back, his wife (Claudia Karvan), a State Department official, goes to the Middle East herself. Cyrus Nowrasteh, who grew up in Madison, wrote and directed this new drama, released 12 years after his previous inside-Iran-type thriller, “The Stoning of Soraya M.”
Where you can see it: It’s showing starting Friday at AMC Mayfair Mall, Silverspot Cinema in Brookfield, and Marcus Theatres’ Hillside, Majestic, Menomonee Falls, North Shore, Ridge and South Shore cinemas.
‘Break the Silence: The Movie’
Short version: BTS, the biggest Kpop act on the planet, hit the road last year on a worldwide tour, including a stop at Chicago’s Soldier Field; this concert movie is the second documentary on the group to come out this year.
Where you can see it: It opened
Thursday, and continues this week at AMC Mayfair Mall and Marcus Theatres’ Majestic and South Shore cinemas.
Off-the-grid options
Rivoli Theatre: The community theater at W62-N567 Washington Ave. in Cedarburg, is showing Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 masterpiece “Rear Window,” with James Stewart and Grace Kelly. It’s showing at 7 p.m. Friday through next Thursday. Tickets are $4 ($2.50 on Tuesdays); see
for details.
Pop-up drive-ins
Milky Way Drive-In: The pop-up drive-in outside Franklin Field, the home of the Milwaukee Milkmen baseball team at 7035 S. Ballpark Drive, is saluting the end of the Milkmen’s season with “The Conjuring,” showing at 10:30 p.m. Friday; “It: Chapter Two,” 10:45 p.m. Saturday; “Space Jam,” 5 p.m. Sunday; “The Secret Life of Pets 2,” 6:30 p.m. next Thursday; and “The Matrix,” 9 p.m. next Thursday. Tickets are $35 per car per movie; see
for details and tickets.
Free outdoor movies
With fall officially (by some measures) starting next week, it makes sense that the summer of free community outdoor movies is ending. Here’s what looks like the last of the season under the stars (other than drive-ins).
Greendale: The last movie in the village’s series, organized by Gift of Wings, is “Abominable,” screening at dusk Saturday in Greendale Gazebo Park, 5710 Broad St.
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