It’s been a long week. You deserve some escapist fun this weekend, particularly in the form of hiding out in a movie theater and watching one of these films recommended by our critics. Plus, find complete listings for movie times on our Things To Do calendar.
NEW RELEASES
1. Brooklyn
“It’s refreshing to see this largely internal, cerebral journey of an introverted young woman play out onscreen, and Nick Hornby’s screenplay, never afraid of sentimentality, keeps such a contained narrative from feeling too cold or distant. That’s right: Brooklyn is good because it’s so wholesome, so emotive, so free of irony, without qualifiers, and your grandma will probably like it a lot.” -Megan Burbank
2. Heart of A Dog
“If you’ve doubted Laurie Anderson’s Renaissance woman credentials, her great new autobiographical film Heart of a Dog will convince you otherwise. She directed, wrote, scored, coproduced, coshot, and did the voice-over for this elegiac tone poem about love, death, and dealing with loss.” -Dave Segal
3. In Jackson Heights
“Seattle needs to sit down and watch this documentary. Wiseman’s film turns out to be a document of a world entering its last days. The rich mix of cultures he meticulously and even impersonally captures will become a thing of the past. You have to wonder how bad it’s going to have to get in Seattle before someone does something about it.” -Charles Mudede
