Our Movie Critic's Weekend Selections

Big Eyes Director Tim Burton finds his dream subject: husband and wife Walter and Margaret Keane, whose paintings of saucer-eyed waifs and tearful clowns were the kitsch hit of the '60s. He claimed the images were his, but she made them. Christoph Waltz and a great Amy Adams bring the couple to life in this tale. PG-13

Mr. Turner Mike Leigh's meticulously observed chronicle of the last few decades in the life of the British artist J..M.W. Turner, with Timothy Spall grunting, grimacing and moving as the son of a London barber who becomes one of the great painters of his time. Of any time. R

Selma A powerful restaging of a crucial time in America, and the figure at its center: Martin Luther King Jr. David Oyelowo brings King to life with nuance and grace, and if director Ava DuVernay's decision to portray LBJ (Tom Wilkinson) as an antagontistic force has drawn criticism, that's almost beside the point. What matters is the depiction of King, and the portrait of a country in the throes of racial conflict. R