Film Focus: ‘Nuremburg,’ ‘Sarah’s Oil,’ ‘Die, My Love’ in theaters this weekend
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Film Focus: ‘Nuremburg,’ ‘Sarah’s Oil,’ ‘Die, My Love’ in theaters this weekend

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Buffalo Movies: This weekend’s new releases in film and where to see them in WNY theaters

(Above: Rami Malek in Nuremberg (2025) via IMDB).

By M. Faust

OPENING THIS WEEK: 

ALL IS MERRY AND BRIGHT (NR) Christmas romcom from the folk who gave you VeggieTales. Starring Sally Struthers, Emily Rose, Eric Close and John O’Hurley. Directed by Cory Edwards.  Regal Quaker

CHICKEN RUN (G) 25th anniversary re-release of the puppet-animated comedy from the makers of Wallace & Gromit. With the voices of Mel Gibson, Julia Sawalha, Phil Daniels, Miranda Richardson, Jane Horrocks, Lynn Ferguson, Timothy Spall, and Imelda Staunton. Directed by Peter Lord and Nick Park. Dipson Capitol, Dipson Flix

THE CHRISTMAS RING (NR) A military widow finds new love in what only sounds like a Hallmark Channel movie. Starring Jana Kramer, Kelsey Grammer, and Benjamin Hollingsworth. Directed by Tyler Russell. Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria

CHRISTY (R) Sydney Sweeney de-glams in hopes of securing an Oscar nomination as a West Virginia girl looking to make it as a professional boxer. With Ben Foster and Merritt Wever. Directed by David Michôd (The King). AMC Market Arcade, Dipson Capitol, Dipson Flix, Dunkirk Multiplex, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria

DIE, MY LOVE (R) Jennifer Lawrence as a woman driven to madness in the Montana house where she moved with her husband and child to write a novel. With Robert Pattinson, Nick Nolte and Sissy Spacek. Directed by Lynne Ramsay (You Were Never Really Here). AMC Maple Ridge, AMC Market Arcade, Dipson Capitol, Dunkirk Multiplex, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria

DIÉS IRAÉ (NR) Indian horror movie about a yuppie dealing with the presence haunting his house. Starring Pranav Mohanlal, Sushmitha Bhat and Shine Tom Chacko. Directed by Rahul Sadasivan. Regal Transit

GRAND PRIX OF EUROPE (PG) From Germany, a cartoon feature about a mouse who wants to become a Grand Prix driver. The English voice cast includes Gemma Arterton, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Hayley Atwell and Lenny Henry. Directed by Waldemar Fast. Dipson Capitol, Dipson Flix

HAQ (NR) Indian courtroom drama based on the 1985 case in which a woman sued the husband who abandoned her and their children for monetary support. Starring Yami Gautam, Emraan Hashmi, and Sheeba Chaddha. Directed by Suparn Varma. Regal Elmwood

JATADHARA (NR) Telugu language film examining the role of myth and superstition in modern day India. Starring Sonakshi Sinha and Sudheer Babu. Directed by Venkat Kalyan. Regal Elmwood

LITTLE AMÉLIE OR THE CHARACTER OF RAIN (PG) From the reliable distributor Gkids, an acclaimed animated feature about a young Belgian girl living in post-war Japan. Directed by Liane-Cho Han Jin Kuang and Maïlys Vallade. Regal Elmwood

LOST AND FOUND IN CLEVELAND (PG-13) A la Love Actually, a comedy following five stories involving Clevelanders linked by a visiting Antiques Roadshow-ish program. Starring June Squibb, Stacy Keach, Dennis Haysbert, Martin Sheen, Jon Lovitz, Loretta Devine and Dot-Marie Jones. Directed by Keith Gerchak and Marisa Guterman. Regal Quaker, Regal Transit

NUREMBERG (PG-13) Russell Crowe as Hermann Göring preparing to face trial for war crimes, being interrogated by US Army psychiatrist Rami Malek. With Michael Shannon, Richard E. Grant, Colin Hanks and John Slattery. Directed by James Vanderbilt (Truth). Dipson Amherst, Dipson Capitol, Dunkirk Multiplex, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria

PREDATOR: BADLANDS (PG-13) Sequel. Starring Elle Fanning and Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi. Directed by Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane). AMC Maple Ridge, AMC Market Arcade, Dipson Capitol, Dipson Flix, Joylan, Dunkirk Multiplex, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Transit Drive-In (Fri-Sat only), Spotlight Theater of Warsaw

SARAH’S OIL (PG) True story of an African-American girl in Oklahoma of the early 1900s who believes there is oil under the family house. Starring Naya Desir-Johnson, Zachary Levi, and Sonequa Martin-Green. Directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh. AMC Maple Ridge, Dipson Capitol, Dunkirk Multiplex, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria

UNEXPECTED CHRISTMAS (NR) A family’s Christmas reunion goes comically awry. Starring David Ashley, Howie Bell, and Tabitha Brown. Directed by Michael Vaughn Hernandez. Regal Quaker, Regal Transit

NOW PLAYING: 

ANNIVERSARY (R) Political satire about a family whose new daughter-in-law is a leading figure in an authoritarian movement. Starring Diane Lane, Kyle Chandler, Phoebe Dynevor, McKenna Grace and Zoey Deutch. Directed by Jan Komasa (Suicide Room). Regal Transit

BAAHUBALI: THE EPIC (NR) Re-edited combination of Baahubali: The Beginning (2015) and Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (2017), two of the most successful films in Indian history. Starring Prabhas, Rana Daggubati and Anushka Shetty. Directed by S. S. Rajamouli. Regal Elmwood, Regal Transit

BLACK PHONE 2 (R) Horror sequel. Starring Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw Demián Bichir and Ethan Hawke as The Grabber. Directed by Scott Derrickson (The Exorcism of Emily Rose). AMC Maple Ridge, AMC Market Arcade, Dipson Capitol, Dipson Flix, Dunkirk Multiplex, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Transit Drive-In (Fri-Sat only)

BUGONIA (R) The new film from Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things) is a comedy about a Big Pharma executive (Emma Stone) kidnapped by a conspiracist (Jesse Plemons) who believes her to be an evil alien. With Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, and Alicia Silverstone. AMC Maple Ridge, AMC Market Arcade, Dipson Amherst, Dipson Capitol, Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria

CHAINSAW MAN – THE MOVIE: REZE ARC (R) Feature sequel to the first season of the anime series. Directed by Tatsuya Yoshihara. AMC Maple Ridge, AMC Market Arcade, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Walden Galleria

THE CONJURING: LAST RITES (R) Sequel. Starring Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson and Elliot Cowan. Directed by Michael Chaves (The Nun II). Regal Walden Galleria, Transit Drive-In (Fri-Sat only)

DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA INFINITY CASTLE (R) Proof, if there was any doubt, that anime has gone mainstream. Directed by Haruo Sotozaki and Hikaru Kondô. Regal Walden Galleria

FRANKENSTEIN (R) Guillermo del Toro’s take on the Mary Shelly classic. Sorry, none of it was filmed in Buffalo. Starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Christoph Waltz and Charles Dance. North Park

GABBY’S DOLLHOUSE: THE MOVIE (G) Feature adaptation of a Netflix series that you’re unlikely ever to have heard of unless you have very young children. Starring Laila Lockhart Kraner, Carla Tassara and Kristen Wiig. Directed by Ryan Crego (Shrek Forever After). Regal Quaker, Regal Transit

GOOD FORTUNE (R) Comedy starring Keanu Reeves as a guardian angel who switches the lives of a struggling gig worker and a venture capitalist to teach them life lessons, but then cannot switch them back. With Seth Rogan, Stephen McKinley Henderson, and Aziz Anzari, who also directed. Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (R) Director Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film, loosely inspired by the Thomas Pynchon novel Vineland, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a onetime radical who tried to summon up his former fire when his daughter is kidnapped. Co-starring Sean Penn, Benecio del Toro and Regina Hall. Regal Transit

REGRETTING YOU (PG-13) Drama about a woman and her teenaged daughter struggling to recover after the death of her husband. Starring Allison Williams, Mckenna Grace, Dave Franco, and Clancy Brown. Directed by Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars). AMC Maple Ridge, AMC Market Arcade, Aurora, Dipson Capitol, Dipson Flix, Dunkirk Multiplex, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Spotlight Theater of Warsaw (closed Mon)

ROOFMAN (R) Fact-based story of a burglar (Channing Tatum) who escaped prison and hid out in a toy store for six months. Co-starring Kirsten Dunst, LaKeith Stanfield, Juno Temple and Peter Dinklage. Directed by Derek Cianfrance (The Light Between Oceans). Regal Quaker, Regal Walden Galleria

SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE (PG-13) Boss biopic centering on the recording of his atypical 1982 album Nebraska. Starring Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Strong, Paul Walter Hauser, and Stephen Graham. Directed by Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart). AMC Maple Ridge, Dipson Amherst, Dipson Capitol, Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, 

STITCH HEAD (PG) Family-friendly animated tale about a junior grade Frankenstein-ish monster. With the voices of Asa Butterfield, Rob Brydon and Alison Steadman. Directed by Steve Hudson. Dipson Capitol, Dipson Flix, Dunkirk Multiplex, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit

TRON: ARES (PG-13) Sequel. Or reboot—so hard to keep these straight. Starring Jared Leto, Greta Lee, Jeff Bridges, Gillian Anderson, and Hasan Minhaj. Directed by Joachim Rønning (Maleficent: Mistress of Evil). AMC Maple Ridge, AMC Market Arcade, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria

TRUTH & TREASON (PG-13) When even his church tells him that he should be loyal to a political regime he knows to be corrupt, a teenage boy is faced with the costs of speaking the truth at a time when everyone he knows lives in fear. Did I mention that it’s set in Nazi Germany? Starring Ewan Horrocks, Rupert Evans, and Ferdinand McKay. Directed by Matt Whitaker. Hamburg Palace, Spotlight Theater of Warsaw

VIOLENT ENDS (R) Crime drama set in the Ozarks where a young man (Billy Magnussen) tries to break out of the cycle of violence that is his family legacy. With Alexandra Shipp, Kate Burton, Bruce McKinnon, and Nick Stahl. Directed by John-Michael Powell (Dear White People). Regal Transit, Transit Drive-In (Fri-Sat only)

ETC:

ELF (2003, PG) and A CHRISTMAS STORY (1983, PG)—Anyone can sit at home in front of the TV and watch Buddy the Elf looking for his dad in New York City or Ralphie’s quest to get a Red Ryder air rifle from Santa Claus; it takes a Buffalonian to see them at the drive-in, which you can do this weekend. Wear a sweater. Fri-Sat at dusk. Transit Drive-In

NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)—Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller starring Cary Grant as an innocent man on the run from he’s not sure who. Eva Marie Sainte is on hand to help, with James Mason and Martin Landau hovering about. Mount Rushmore, orgasmic fireworks, crop duster—you know all this already. Fri, Sat, Tues 7 pm. Screening Room

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