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Beginners Ewan McGregor is a Los Angeles graphic designer coming to terms with the belated news that his father (Christopher Plummer) is gay, coming to terms with falling in love with Melanie Laurent, and coming to terms with a new housemate, a Jack Russell terrier. A quietly funny, heartfelt, and pitch-perfect autobiographical film from Mike Mills. R

Beginners

Ewan McGregor is a Los Angeles graphic designer coming to terms with the belated news that his father (Christopher Plummer) is gay, coming to terms with falling in love with Melanie Laurent, and coming to terms with a new housemate, a Jack Russell terrier. A quietly funny, heartfelt, and pitch-perfect autobiographical film from Mike Mills.

R

Buck Even if you've never been on a horse, and never intend to be, Cindy Meehl's portrait of "horse gentler" Dan M. "Buck" Brannaman - the real-life inspiration for The Horse Whisperer - is well worth checking out. A lifelong cowboy, but also the victim of brutal child abuse, Buck roams the West, working his magic on colts and mares, and on the people who line up for his training sessions. He's a Zen master in chaps. A moving, insightful film. PG

Tabloid Errol Morris investigates a sex scandal that sent the British press - and public - into throes of voyeuristic giddiness back in the '70s, revisiting the woman at the eye of the storm, a bright-eyed and somewhat bizarre former beauty queen. A great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction doc. Fast, funny, and out of control. R