Plus, when your star is a donkey.
Whether you're looking for a tense drama about hard-hitting journalists, a wrenching document of a Marine's journey or an expressionistic story of a donkey, there's no shortage of eclectic Critic's Picks on this week's movie menu. |
In fact, there's even a movie called "The Menu," a satire of the fine-dining world starring Ralph Fiennes as a chef at an exclusive restaurant. In her review, Jeannette Catsoulis wrote, "Fiennes is fabulous as a man so determined to turn food into art that he's forgotten its very purpose." |
The investigations of The New York Times get the spotlight in "She Said," about the reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey's efforts to document sexual harassment by the movie producer Harvey Weinstein. In her review, Alexis Soloski wrote that the movie "is built solid and low to the ground." |
In Elegance Bratton's autobiographical feature debut "The Inspection," a young gay Marine has a challenging experience in basic training. A.O. Scott wrote in his review that the film is "in some respects a love story, and a love letter — ambivalent, unsentimental, but utterly sincere — to the Corps." |
And a donkey gets his close-up in the emotional "EO," from the Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski. In her review, Manohla Dargis called the film "a shocking and tender tour de force about life, love, death and the wretched disregard human beings hold toward other living creatures." |
Wherever your interests take you, enjoy the movies! |
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