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In Force Majeure, Swedish director Ruben Ostlund com-
pletely inverts the heroic formula of an imperiled family
discovering salvation in the overcoming of disaster,
resulting in a tight, controlled portrait of bourgeois
despair that is by turns hilarious and disturbingly itchy.
Force Majeure plays out as one long aftermath of a sin-
gle spontaneous decision, as husband and wife
Birdman rests squarely on the shoulders of one put-
upon fellow: Actor-writer-director Riggin Thomson
(Michael Keaton) is struggling to open a Broadway
adaptation of Raymond Carver’s “What We Talk About
When We Talk About Love.” He’s got all the normal prob-
lems — needy actors, budgetary concerns — as well
as an alter ego that speaks to him in the form of Bird-
man, the superhero character with which he made his
name (as Keaton himself did with Batman), years ago.
Foul-mouthed and hateful, Birdman is that voice in your
ear that tells you you’re a failure, a fraud, washed-up,
worn-out, worthless; that this arty stuff isn’t what any-
one cares about. But the false dichotomy of art versus
entertainment is just a distraction, a spare idea the film
tosses in and then leaves alone. The only conflict it’s
really interested in is one man versus himself: the part
that soars and the part that’s always looking down,
aware how far there is to fall. (Bijou Metro)
THE
EQUALIZER
8:50
5:25
IMAX: HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES 3D
[CC (PG-13) ★
1235 345 705 1020
BLACKHAT [CC,DV] (R)
800 PM 1105 PM
PADDINGTON [CC,DV] (PG)
700 PM 930 PM
THE WEDDING RINGER [CC,DV] (R)
700 PM 1000 PM
TAKEN 3 [CC,DV] (PG-13) ★
(1135 215) 455 735 1015
THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2: ANGEL OF DEATH
[CC,DV] (PG-13)
(1155 225) 505 745 1025
INTO THE WOODS [CC,DV] (PG) ★
(1225 325) 620 935
SELMA [CC,DV] (PG-13)
(1200 330) 630 935
THE GAMBLER [CC,DV] (R)
(1230) 430 715 1030
UNBROKEN [CC,DV] (PG-13)
(1215 335) 640 1000
ANNIE [CC,DV] (PG) ★
(1220 355) 710 1005
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: SECRET OF THE TOMB
[CC,DV] (PG) ★
(1140 210) 450 720 955
HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES
[CC,DV] (PG-13) ★
(1205 315) 635 950
EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS [CC,DV] (PG-13) ★
625 PM 945 PM
INHERENT VICE [CC,DV] (R)
(1130 300) 650 1010
WILD [CC,DV] (R)
(1125 220) 505 750 1035
HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY, PART 1 [CC,DV] (PG-13)
★
(1150 350) 645 940
BIG HERO 6 [CC,DV] (PG)
(1210 PM 310 PM)
INTERSTELLAR [CC,DV] (PG-13) (1145 AM 340 PM) 740 PM
PADDINGTON [CC,DV] (PG)
700 PM 930 PM
THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2: ANGEL OF DEATH
[CC,DV] (PG-13)
(130) 430 735 1010
TAKEN 3 [CC,DV] (PG-13) ★
(100) 400 700 1000
AMERICAN SNIPER [CC,DV] (R)
700 PM 1000 PM
INTO THE WOODS [CC,DV] (PG) ★
(110) 410 710 1005
UNBROKEN [CC,DV] (PG-13)
(1240 345) 645 945
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: SECRET OF THE TOMB
[CC,DV] (PG) ★
(120 PM) 420 PM
HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES
[CC,DV] (PG-13) ★
(1230 PM 335 PM) 640 PM
HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES 3D
[CC,DV] (PG-13) ★
950 PM
HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY, PART 1 [CC,DV] (PG-13)
★
(1250 PM 340 PM)
AMERICAN SNIPER (DIG) (R)
11:05, 12:35, 2:15, 3:45, 5:25,
7:00, 8:35, 10:10
ANNIE (2014) (DIG) (PG)
3:20, 10:20
BIG EYES (DIG) (PG-13)
3:55, 10:30
BIG HERO 6 (DIG) (PG)
12:20, 4:00, 6:55
BLACKHAT (DIG) (R)
12:30, 4:10, 7:35, 10:35
FOXCATCHER (DIG) (R)
12:15, 7:25
HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE
FIVE ARMIES (3D) (PG-13)
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11:50, 10:25
HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE
FIVE ARMIES (DIG) (PG-13)
3:50, 7:10
HUNGER GAMES: THE
MOCKINGJAY, PART 1 (DIG)
(PG-13)
12:10, 7:15
THE IMITATION GAME (DIG)
(PG-13)
11:05, 1:50, 4:35, 7:30, 10:15
INTO THE WOODS (DIG) (PG)
12:05, 3:40, 7:05, 10:00
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM:
SECRET OF THE TOMB (DIG)
(PG)
11:25, 2:00, 4:45, 7:50, 10:20
PADDINGTON (DIG) (PG)
11:15, 1:40, 4:05, 6:50, 9:15
SELMA (DIG) (PG-13)
12:00, 3:35, 7:05, 10:05
TAKEN 3 (DIG) (PG-13)
11:10, 12:25, 2:10, 3:25, 4:50,
6:15, 7:45, 9:05, 10:25
UNBROKEN (DIG) (PG-13)
11:55, 3:30, 7:00, 10:10
THE WEDDING RINGER (DIG)
(R)
11:20, 1:55, 4:40, 7:40, 10:15
WILD (DIG) (R)
11:00, 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05
WOMAN IN BLACK 2: ANGEL OF
DEATH (DIG) (PG-13)
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Graceful yet unsatisfying, director Jean-Marc Vallée’s
adaptation of Wild works hard to fit in all the things —
an imploding marriage, rage, grief, the attempts to find
a way out of oneself, the knowledge that you’ve lost
your way or the satisfaction that comes from letting go
— that Strayed laid out so beautifully, so carefully, in
her bestselling memoir about hiking solo more than
1,000 miles on the Pacific Crest Trail. The hike was pro-
cess, penance, challenge and more, a physical journey
that forced an interior one. The facts are heavy, gritty
and undeniable, but the film never stays with them very
long. Wild is still a good movie — and, as a film entirely
about a young woman and her decisions, something of
a rare bird. This isn’t a competitor to the book so much
as a companion piece, a way to revisit the story with a
new and glorious visual element. (Regal Valley River &
Cinemark 17)
(Johannes Kuhnke and Lisa Loven Kongsli) negotiate
the meaning of a single, spontaneous act of apparent
cowardice. The majestic peaks of the French Alps pro-
vide a background to an icy game of romantic brinks-
manship, wherein one couple struggles to find equilib-
rium based on the revelation of surprising new informa-
tion about each other. (Bijou Metro)
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7:05
THE SKELETON
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*NO SHOW - JAN 18
Selma isn’t only a beautiful film — it’s a necessary one
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7:05
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va DuVernay’s Selma starts off so calmly that, despite what history promises, it’s
a shock when the first moment of violence arrives. Four little girls walk down
the stairs of a church. You know what this means. But what happens next occurs
in a flash, a moment never explained.
What’s to explain? They’re there, and then they’re gone. It’s like the bottom
drops out of the world. At that point, a man in my theater began to cry and I’m not sure he
stopped.
Selma isn’t about those four girls, who are almost never mentioned again, but they
hover over the rest of the story, which follows Martin Luther King Jr. (David Oyelowo) at
the start of 1965, in the months leading up to the passage of the Voting Rights Act.
DuVernay’s movie has a gloriously broad scope; she and screenwriter Paul Webb somehow
stick close to King while keeping one eye on the horizon.
Through details and references, the filmmakers create a sense of something bigger than
King, bigger than Selma and bigger than one brief span of time. Here’s Lyndon B. Johnson
(Tom Wilkinson), trying to push off King’s concerns in favor of his own timeline; here’s
George Wallace (Tim Roth), making useless arguments about the way things have always
been; here’s a doomed pastor, a fiery student, a woman who tries again and again to
register to vote, even though every time, she’s shot down.
Selma is a very good movie, if one that occasionally bogs down in political explanations,
and definitely one that couldn’t find enough for its female characters to do. Oyelowo,
quietly charismatic, leads an excellent cast. DuVernay and her cinematographer, Bradford
Young, manage always to center scenes around him while never relying too heavily on
King at a pulpit or lectern; they show us a man with his people and his family, beside, not
above.
It’s not a film about a leader so much as a film about the work of leading — and a film
that asks, with every frame, how far we have and haven’t come, all these years later. This
would be a compelling film at any time, but right now, it’s more than that. It’s vital. ■
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