This weekend, skip the new Langdon movie, Inferno, (unless it’s free and you’re trapped on a plane) and instead watch one of our critics’ picks. See them all below, like the must-see movie of the week, Moonlight, or the sexiest option out there: the 12th Annual HUMP! Film Festival. As always, check out our complete movie times calendar and film events calendar for even more options.
NEW RELEASES
1. Doctor Strange
The psychedelic visuals, the clever asides, the pure pleasure of having as good an actor as Cumberbatch at the center of a silly superhero epic—all of that cast a spell on me, and I came out of the theater utterly content. Doctor Strange might have a lot of baggage, but more than anything else, it’s fun. SUZETTE SMITH
CLOSING AND LIMITED RUNS
Thursday
2. Dancer
Steven Cantor’s Dancer plays like a PBS installment of Behind the Music with ballet standing in for rock and roll—and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Like Mikhail Baryshnikov, Ukraine-born Sergei Polunin has an angular face, crystalline eyes, and the awe-inspiring ability to fly through the air with ease. His mother, Galina, claims he was so flexible from birth that it alarmed her nurse. He used that skill as a gymnast before switching to ballet. KATHY FENNESSY
Sundance Cinemas
