MOVIES: This Week's Movies | Sept. 7, 2012
The New York Times critics on “Bachelorette,” “The Inbetweeners” and “Keep the Lights On.”
September 7, 2012
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The New York Times critics on “Bachelorette,” “The Inbetweeners” and “Keep the Lights On.”
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Sept. 7 Atonement This is director Joe Wright’s adaptation of the Ian McEwan novel about a cruelly interrupted love affair in England, set before and during World War II. High School It’s well shot, but this blunt-as-a-blunt stoner movie – about two kids who, doomed to fail a drug test, scheme to get the whole school baked on high-grade pot – is too cognitively impaired …
A scene from Ira Sachs’s film “Keep the Lights On,†about a couple in a dysfunctional relationship, featuring Thure Lindhardt and Zachary Booth.
A scene from the So Yong Kim film “For Ellen,†featuring Paul Dano as a struggling musician estranged from his wife (Margarita Levieva) but seeking to remain a part of his daughter’s life.
It must have seemed like a good idea at the time: a scenic comedy based on a hit comic novel, with a romance between Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt at its heart.
As in Suzanne Collins’s zillion-selling, post-apocalyptic novels, a teenage girl (Jennifer Lawrence) has to fight 23 other teens to the death in a televised contest.
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The New York Times critics on “The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate,†“For a Good Time, Call …
Which movies to see this weekend, Aug. 31 Robot & Frank Frank Langella finds one of his best roles in this story of an old man suffering from the beginning stages of dementia who is given a robot as part of his health care