Weekend Movie Selections
Beauty and the Beast Live-action version of the 1991 animated classic, starring Emma Watson and Dan Stevens in the title roles. Competently staged by Bill Condon, but does not improve on the 2D Disney original. With Luke Evans and Josh Gad. PG
Beauty and the Beast
Live-action version of the 1991 animated classic, starring Emma Watson and Dan Stevens in the title roles. Competently staged by Bill Condon, but does not improve on the 2D Disney original. With Luke Evans and Josh Gad.
PG
Get Out Jordan Peele's horror movie about a black man (Daniel Kaluuya) who heads to mansion country to meet the parents (Bradley Whitford, Catherine Keener) of his white girlfriend (Allison Williams). Conceptually clever, though not always as scary as it could be, with a winning role for Lil Rel Howery. R
20th Century Women Masterpiece of mother-child dynamics from director Mike Mills follows attempts by a single mom (Annette Bening) 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. With Billy Crudup, Greta Gerwig, and Elle Fanning. R