Film Focus: Week of Nov. 28-Dec. 5, 2024
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Film Focus: Week of Nov. 28-Dec. 5, 2024

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By M. Faust

(Photo above from “Maria”: Courtesy of Netflix – © 2024 Netflix, Inc.)

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BONHOEFFER: PASTOR. SPY. ASSASSIN. (PG-13) Biographical drama about the German theologian who wrestled with his pacifist beliefs to oppose fascism during WWII. Starring Jonas Dassler, August Diehl, David Jonsson, Flula Borg. Directed by Todd Komarnicki (Resistance). AMC Market Arcade, Dunkirk Multiplex, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria

CONCLAVE (PG) Adaptation of the best-selling novel set during the Catholic Church’s secretive process to elect a new Pope. Starring Ralph Fiennes, Jacek Koman, Lucian Msamati, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, and Isabella Rossellini. Directed by Edward Berger (All Quiet on the Western Front). Dipson Amherst, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit Read M. Faust’s review here.

GLADIATOR II (R) Sequel. Starring Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, Denzel Washington, Connie Nielsen and Derek Jacobi. Directed by Ridley Scott (Napoleon). AMC Maple Ridge, AMC Market Arcade, Dipson Amherst, Dipson Capitol, Dipson Flix, Dunkirk Multiplex, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Spotlight Theater of Warsaw, Transit Drive-In (Fri-Sat only) Read M. Faust’s review here

HERETIC (R) Hugh Grant as a seemingly nice fellow who does not react well to the efforts of a pair of young Mormons (Sophie Thatcher, Chloe East) to covert him. Written and directed by the writers of A Quiet Place, Scott Beck and Bryan Woods. Regal Elmwood

MARIA (NR) Angelina Jolie as opera superstar Maria Callas in a biography directed by Pablo Larraín (Jackie). Co-starring Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher, Valeria Golino, and Kodi Smit-McPhee. North Park

MOANA 2 (PG) Animated sequel. With the voices of Auli’i Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson, Alan Tudyk, and Nicole Scherzinger. Directed by David G. Derrick Jr., Jason Hand, and Dana Ledoux Miller. AMC Maple Ridge, AMC Market Arcade, Dipson Capitol, Dipson Flix, Dipson McKinley, Dunkirk Multiplex, Hamburg Palace, Joylan, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Spotlight Theater of Warsaw, Transit Drive-In (Fri-Sat only) 

A REAL PAIN (R) Comedy-drama starring Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg (who also wrote and directed) as odd-couple cousins taking a trip to Poland to visit the home of their late grandmother and maybe work out their personal problems. With Will Sharpe, Jennifer Grey, and Kurt Egyiawan. Dipson Amherst, Regal Quaker Read M. Faust’s review here 

RED ONE (PG-13) Big budget CGI holiday movie starring Dwayne Johnson as a North Pole security agent tracking a kidnapped Santa Claus (J. K. Simmons). Co-starring Chris Evans, Lucy Liu, Bonnie Hunt, and Nick Kroll. Directed by Jake Kasdan (Jumanji: The Next Level). AMC Maple Ridge, AMC Market Arcade, Dipson Capitol, Dipson Flix, Dipson McKinley, Dunkirk Multiplex, Hamburg Palace, Joylan, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Spotlight Theater of Warsaw, Transit Drive-In (Fri-Sat only) Read M. Faust’s review here

VENOM: THE LAST DANCE (PG-13) MCU stuff. Starring Tom Hardy, Juno Temple, Alanna Ubach, Stephen Graham, Rhys Ifans and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Directed by Kelly Marcel. AMC Maple Ridge, Dipson Capitol, Dunkirk Multiplex, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Transit Drive-In (Fri-Sat only) 

WICKED (PG) Adaptation of the long running musical that tells the story of The Wizard of Oz from the point of view of the Wicked Witch. NB: This is only part one. Starring Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Jonathan Bailey, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum, and Peter Dinklage. Directed by John M. Chu (G.I. Joe: Retaliation). AMC Maple Ridge, AMC Market Arcade, Aurora, Dipson Amherst, Dipson Capitol, Dipson Flix, Dipson McKinley, Dunkirk Multiplex, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Spotlight Theater of Warsaw, Transit Drive-In (Fri-Sat only) Read the review by Mia Ciechalski here

THE WILD ROBOT (PG) Pixar animation adapted from the popular children’s books about a robot stranded on an island and the animals it befriends. Of course they are talking animals, providing voice work for Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal, Catherine O’Hara, Bill Nighy and Stephanie Hsu. Directed by Chris Sanders (The Croods). Regal Transit, Transit Drive-In (Fri-Sat only) 

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CASABLANCA (1941)—Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in what is by general consensus Hollywood’s greatest romance, if not the most popular Hollywood film of all time. With Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, S.Z. Sakall and Dooley Wilson. Directed by Michael Curtiz (Yankee Doodle Dandy). Fri, Sat, 7:30 pm. Screening Room

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)—Jimmy Stewart gets to see what life for his friends and community would have been like had he never lived in Frank Capra’s holiday classic. Co-starring Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas, Henry Travers, Beulah Bondi, Frank Faylen, Ward Bond, Gloria Grahame, H.B. Warner, Frank Albertson, Sheldon Leonard, and Charles Lane. Sat-Sun 11:30 am. North Park

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