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Weekend Movie Selections

20th Century Women Masterpiece of mother-child dynamics from director Mike Mills (Beginners) follows attempts by a single mom (Annette Bening, who's fantastic) to tutor her son in the ways of manhood. The setting is the late 1970s, so Our Bodies Ourselves, the Talking Heads, and President Jimmy Carter's malaise speech all factor in. R

20th Century Women

Masterpiece of mother-child dynamics from director Mike Mills (

Beginners

) follows attempts by a single mom (Annette Bening, who's fantastic) to tutor her son in the ways of manhood. The setting is the late 1970s, so

Our Bodies Ourselves

, the Talking Heads, and President Jimmy Carter's malaise speech all factor in.

R

The Founder Michael Keaton is brilliant as Ray Kroc, the man who created the McDonald's fast-food empire, in this revelatory biopic that starts off as a sunny story about an underdog who makes it big but shifts halfway into a cautionary tale about corporate greed. PG-13 (strong brief profanity)

Split M. Night Shyamalan, who made something of a comeback with the small-budget found footage horror pic The Visit, continues the trend with this intensely creepy, engaging, and entertaining psychological thriller featuring a virtuosic performance by James McAvoy (The Last King of Scotland, X-Men series) as a deranged killer with 23 distinct personalities who abducts three teenage girls he plans to feed to a demonic beast he believes is emerging as his 24th personality. PG-13