Our Movie Critic's Weekend Selections

Jimi: All Is By My Side OutKast's André Benjamin channels Sixties rock god Jimi Hendrix in John Ridley's doc-style, fly-on-the-wall dramatization of the not-yet-a-legend's pivotal trip to London, where he meets a girl, a manager, and the two Afroed English guys who would become his band. With Imogen Poots and Hayley Atwell, and a wealth of Sixties rock and R & B. R

Boyhood Richard Linklater's low-key masterpiece follows a Texas kid (newcomer Ellar Coltrane) from grade school to college dorm, reconvening cast and crew a few weeks every year for 12 years. The faces and features of the actors - children and adults - change, and good stuff, bad stuff, the funny, the sad, transformative, banal, happen in real time. Because, for once, in the movies, time is real. With Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke. R

Love Is Strange John Lithgow and Alfred Molina play a longtime couple whose modest, comfortable New York City life is upended when they decide to take advantage of the new gay marriage laws and officially get hitched. Hassles and heartbreak ensue. R