Film
Ben Dickey and Alia Shawkat in Blaze.
The chances that you know the legend of Blaze Foley are slim, but this new film is likely to burnish it considerably. |
Kristen Stewart and Chloë Sevigny in Lizzie.
Chloë Sevigny’s project on ax-wielder Lizzie Borden has been gestating for years. |
Emma Thompson and Stanley Tucci in The Children Act.
Ian McEwan can’t really complain about the new movie version of his novel, since he wrote the screenplay. |
Jonathan Pryce and Glenn Close in The Wife.
Puppies becoming guide dogs, screenings of a resurrected 1970 classic, and a Glenn Close/Jonathan Pryce film. |
 The Buffalo-born actress and singer died last Friday in Hawaii at the age of 92. |
 A disturbing yet vaguely hopeful dramatization of what conversion therapy can do to young adults. |
 Emmanuel Finkiel’s film, adapted from Marguerite Duras’s book, is close to a masterpiece. |
Domhnall Gleeson in The Little Stranger.
Three new British films, all adapted from popular novels, explore the British soul with varying degrees of success in this week’s openings. |