WORTH SEEING
All the Money in the World: A first-rate thriller from Ridley Scott, about the Getty kidnapping in 1973, the film is highlighted by terrific performances from Michelle Williams as the victim’s mother and Christopher Plummer (a last-minute reshot substitution for Kevin Spacey) as the tightwad billionaire, J. Paul Getty. Rated R. 132 minutes.
— Mick LaSalle Darkest Hour: Gary Oldman gives the performance of his career as Winston Churchill, fighting to rally his country and inspire a war Cabinet bent on surrender, in this dramatic study of a crucial month during World War II. If Oldman doesn’t win an Oscar for this, something is very wrong around here. Rated PG-13. 125 minutes.
— Mick LaSalle The Disaster Artist: This factbased comedy, about two friends and the making of a self-financed movie in Los Angeles (“The Room”), is the funniest movie in a year of funny movies, with James Franco, who also directed, as Tommy Wiseau, a bizarre and talentless actor who decides to write and direct his own starring vehicle. Co-starring Dave Franco, and with Seth Rogen in a featured role, the movie is sidesplitting. Rated R. 103 minutes.
— Mick LaSalle I, Tonya: Craig Gillespie delivers a tonally brilliant mix of caustic comedy and genuine pathos in this uncompromising story of Tonya Harding, an Olympic skater implicated in a conspiracy to maim her chief rival. Featuring standout performances from Robbie, as Harding, and Allison Janney, as Tonya’s terrifying mother, this is one of the best of 2017. Rated R. 121 minutes. — Mick LaSalle Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle: A nominal sequel to the 1995 Robin Williams movie, this fun film is more like a mash-up of ’80s John Hughes teen films and wrong-body comedies like “Big” and “All of Me.” Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black and Karen Gillan play avatar versions of four detention-doing teens who get sucked into a video game. The action scenes are decent, but the film’s entertainment value comes from seeing adult stars playing teens very different from themselves. Rated PG-13. 119 minutes — Carla Meyer