Movies

Film (2012)
Written and Directed
by Jeff Nichols
With Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Sam Shepard
A superbly wrought film about a man on the edge encountered by two fourteen year old boys and the various attempts at love, devotion and self-reliance which surface in the wake of their meeting.

Film (2013)
Written and directed by
Brian Helgeland
With Chadwick Boseman,
Harrison Ford, Nicole Beharie
An astoundingly good telling of the story of Jackie Robinson, the first black man to play major league baseball, and Branch Rickey, the manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers who signed him.

Film (2013)
Directed by Paul Weitz
With Tina Fey, Gloria Reuben, Paul Rudd, Wallace Shawn,Lily Tomlin
An entertaining-enough romantic comedy about parents, children and the stresses of college admissions, featuring a quartet of great comic actors.

Film (2012)
Directed by Pablo Larraín
With Gael García Bernal
In 1988, fifteen years into the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, as a result of international pressure, a public referendum was held to determine whether the regime should be reinstated for another eight years or yield to the political opposition. This film is the story of the people involved in the advertising campaign for the opposition camp, the “NO” side, in the period leading up to the vote.

Film (2012)
Directed by Cate Shortland
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
A semi-verbal, impressionistic treatment of a group of children traveling through Germany at the end of World War II.