arts & entertainment
Opening This week: For Films Opening Dec. 2
Independent and foreign films
A
nswers to nothing (R for violence,
profanity, nudity and graphic sexu-
ality) Lost souls saga, set in L.A.,
about a miserably-married woman
(Elizabeth Mitchell) too desperate to have a
child to confront her philandering husband
(Dane Cook) about his infidelity. With
Barbara Hershey, Julie Benz and Kali
Hawk.
The big fix (Unrated) British Petroleum
expose uncovering the corruption at the root
of the ecological disaster in the Gulf of
Mexico triggered by the explosion of the
Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig.
Caitlin Plays Herself (Unrated) Offbeat
finale in Joe Swanberg’s meandering
Mumblecore trilogy (along with Silver
Bullets and Art History) revolves around a
Chicago performance artist (Caitlin
Stainken) whose boyfriend can’t get over
her appearing naked onstage during a play
about the BP oil spill. Cast includes Frank
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by Kam
Williams
V. Ross, Spencer Parsons and Megan
Mercier.
Coriolanus (R for graphic violence)
Ralph Fiennes stars in the title role of this
modernistic
reinterpretation
of
Shakespeare’s classic play about a banished
Roman general who enters an unholy
alliance with a sworn enemy (Gerard
Butler). With Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica
Chastain and Brian Cox.
grandma, a Thousand Times (Unrated)
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Kinyarwanda revisits the genocide in Rwanda
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