Saturday, November 30, 2013

Leviathan, Saving Mr Banks, Carrie: this week's new films

Leviathan | Saving Mr Banks | Carrie | Jeune & Jolie | Marius, Fanny | Saving Santa | The Best Man Holiday | Free Birds | Day Of The Flowers | Life's A Breeze

Leviathan (12A)
(Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel, 2012, Fra/UK/US) 87 mins

An arthouse fishing-trawler documentary sounds like a practical joke, but this takes us to places we've never before – into the ocean depths and back out on to the decks with the catch. It's a series of dark, semi-abstract tableaux full of flapping fish, clanking machinery and tattooed fishermen doing wet, gory work. It's easy to forget this is real life you're watching.

Saving Mr Banks (PG)
(John Lee Hancock, 2013, US) Tom Hanks, Emma Thompson. 125 mins

How Walt Disney came to make Mary Poppins was hardly a pressing movie mystery, and one suspects a spoonful of drama has been added, but the leads are eminently watchable.

Carrie (15)
(Kimberly Peirce, 2013, US) Chloë Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore. 100 mins

Brian De Palma's schoolgirl horror hardly needed fixing, and this earnest update brings little new to the paranormal prom.

Jeune & Jolie (18)
(François Ozon, 2013, Fra) Marine Vacth, Géraldine Pailhas. 94 mins

More French female nubility after Blue Is The Warmest Colour, this time a teen with a secret life as a prostitute.

Marius, Fanny (NC)
(Daniel Auteuil, 2013, Fra) Raphaël Personnaz, Victoire Bélézy, Daniel Auteuil. 94 mins/102 mins

Auteuil adapts Pagnol's Marseilles trilogy.

Saving Santa (U)
(Leon Joosen, Aaron Seelman, 2013, UK) Martin Freeman, Tim Curry. 82 mins

An elf saves Christmas in this cheaply animated kiddies' comedy.

The Best Man Holiday (15)
(Malcolm D Lee, 2013, US) Morris Chestnut, Taye Diggs, Regina Hall, Terrence Howard. 123 mins

The cast of 1999's The Best Man reunite for more relaxed dramedy.

Free Birds (U)
(Jimmy Hayward, 2013, US) Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson, Amy Poehler. 91 mins

Time-travelling turkeys try to alter their Thanksgivings in this low-rent animation.

Day Of The Flowers (15)
(John Roberts, 2013, UK/Cub) Eva Birthistle, Carlos Acosta. 99 mins

Two Scottish sisters travel to Cuba for unassuming cross-cultural escapades.

Life's A Breeze (15)
(Lance Daly, 2013, Ire) Kelly Thornton. 83 mins

Realist laughs as a cash-strapped Dublin family seek their fortune.

Dirty Wars (15)
(Richard Rowley, 2013, US) Jeremy Scahill, 86 mins

Fearless investigation into America's secret death squads and the ever-expanding war on terror.

No Fixed Abode (NC)
(Steve Rainbow, 2012, UK) Patrick Baladi, Saskia Butler, Sean Connolly. 70 mins

A family man wakes up in a homeless hostel in this low-budget drama.

Who Needs Enemies (18)
(Peter Stylianou, 2013, UK) Michael McKell. 91 mins

Staple Brit gangster ingredients rearranged into a passable revenge thriller.

Bullett Raja (15)
(Tigmanshu Dhulia, 2013, Ind) Saif Ali Khan. 135 mins

Trigger-happy Bollywood action nonsense.

Out from Friday

Kill Your Darlings

Daniel Radcliffe plays Allen Ginsberg.

Nebraska

Bruce Dern takes a soulful road trip.

Frozen

Disney thaws out the Snow Queen.

Oldboy

Josh Brolin leads Spike Lee's remake.

Black Nativity

Forest Whitaker, Nas and Mary J Blige in a New York musical.

Homefront

A small town gangs up on Jason Statham.

Getaway

Ethan Hawke in a car-chase kidnap thriller.

Powder Room

In the ladies' with Sheridan Smith.

The Patience Stone

Portrait of an Afghani marriage.

Big Bad Wolves

Israeli killer thriller.

Floating Skyscrapers

A Polish swimmer grapples with his sexual orientation.

A Long Way From Home

A couple are shaken out of their French retirement.

Klown

Comedy about a hopeless would-be dad.

Rough Cut

A fake 1970s horror movie is remade.

Scatter My Ashes At Bergdorf's

Doc celebrating the New York store.

The Swell Season

Catch up with the Once musician.

This Ain't California

Semi-doc on skateboarding in 1980s East Germany.

Rambo Rajkumar

Hindi action comedy.

Coming soon

In two weeks... Middle Earth's middle section, The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug

In three weeks... Will Ferrell returns in Anchorman 2… Christian Bale and Bradley Cooper do disco and go undercover in American Hustle

In a month... Keanu Reeves in samurai fantasy 47 Ronin… Ben Stiller relives The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty


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