Thanksgiving weekend is the perfect time to take in a movie, especially when you’ve got options like Pixar’s newest The Good Dinosaur, Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory in “smell-o-vision,” and Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s The Night Before. Here are all of our critics’ picks for the weekend, and there are even more movie times on our Things To Do calendar.
NEW RELEASES
1. Creed
“If you loved the original Rocky—and its heart, and the sometimes unbearable tension it provided—Creed is a fun and worthy film-going experience. And an exception to the rule that lightning never strikes in the same place twice.” -Wm. Steven Humphrey
2. The Good Dinosaur
“A boy-and-his-dog story where the boy is a talking dinosaur and the dog is a little grunting caveman, The Good Dinosaur is one of Pixar’s best.” -Erik Henriksen
3. The Winding Stream
“The Winding Stream, which first screened at Northwest Film Forum’s 2015 Local Sightings film festival, takes us to the roots of a form of music that has long expressed the conditions and feelings of many working-class white Americans: country music. The director of The Winding Stream, Beth Harrington, will attend the screenings on November 27 and 28.” -Charles Mudede
