Artsies:
Adam – Not screened by me
Awkward teen Adam spends his last high school summer with his big sister, who throws herself into NYC’s lesbian and trans activist scene. In this coming-of-age comedy, Adam and those around him encounter love, friendship and hard truths. Read More
Director: Rhys Ernst
Starring: Nicholas Alexander, Bobbi Salvör Menuez, Margaret Qualley
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice – 3 1/2 stars
With one of the most memorably stunning voices that has ever hit the airwaves, Linda Ronstadt burst onto the 1960s folk rock music scene in her early twenties. Read More
Directors: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Starring: Linda Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt, Dolly Parton
Fartsies:
Hustlers — TBD (seeing it Wednesday)
Inspired by the viral New York Magazine article, Hustlers follows a crew of savvy former strip club employees who band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients. Read More
Director: Lorene Scafaria
Starring: Constance Wu, Jennifer Lopez, Julia Stiles
Official Secrets — TBD (seeing it Wednesday)
The true story of a British whistleblower who leaked information to the press about an illegal NSA spy operation designed to push the UN Security Council into sanctioning the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Read More
Director: Gavin Hood
Starring: Indira Varma, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode
The Goldfinch – 1 1/2 stars
A boy in New York is taken in by a wealthy Upper East Side family after his mother is killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Read More
Director: John Crowley
Starring: Finn Wolfhard, Nicole Kidman, Sarah Paulson
Out of Liberty – 3 stars
Winter 1839. LIBERTY, MISSOURI. Local jailer, Samuel Tillery (Jasen Wade) is tasked with watching Missouri’s most wanted men as they await their upcoming hearing. Caught between the local Missourians’ increased drive to remove the prisoners, and the prisoners’ desperate efforts to survive, Tillery is pushed beyond what any lawman can endure. Based on actual recorded accounts, OUT OF LIBERTY is an intense, evocative western, with an outcome you have to see to believe. Read More
Director: Garrett Batty
Starring: Larry Bagby, Corbin Allred, Adam Johnson
Freaks – 3 1/2 stars
A bold girl discovers a bizarre, threatening, and mysterious new world beyond her front door after she escapes her father’s protective and paranoid control. Read More
Directors: Zach Lipovsky, Adam B. Stein
Starring: Emile Hirsch, Bruce Dern, Lexy Kolker
Brittany Runs a Marathon – 3 1/2 stars
A young woman decides to make positive changes in her life by training for the New York City Marathon. Read More
Director: Paul Downs Colaizzo
Starring: Jillian Bell, Jennifer Dundas, Patch Darragh
Opening next week:
— Ad Astra
— Aquarela
— Before You Know It
— Downton Abbey
— Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins
— Rambo: Last Blood
— Sundance Shorts Film Tour
— The Wedding Year
