12 October 2014

New to the Queue

Fall harvest:

Kirsten Dunst and Viggo Mortensen in a 50-year-old Patricia Highsmith potboiler, "The Two Faces of January."

Our boy Miles Teller and the great J.K. Simmons as student and band teacher in "Whiplash."

Has Bill Murray worn out his welcome with his shtick of the grumpy old guy befriending a kid? We'll see in "St. Vincent."

A charming documentary about a music teacher from Soviet Georgia, "Botso."

French star Mathieu Amalric spins a taught, tight (76-minute) thriller, "The Blue Room."

We're wary of biopics, but Jeremy Renner and Michael Cuesta are drawing us to the Gary Webb story, "Kill the Messenger."

We've never passed up a documentary about The Greatest: "I Am Ali."

Another doc, this one about a 15-year-old Romanian girl raising her siblings, "Waiting for August."

A cynical, satiric takedown of the art world and the music industry, "Hellaware." (Sophia Takal alert.)

A parody of faith-based fund-raisers, "Believe Me."

The quirky debut feature about a depressed dwarf actor, "The Little Tin Man."

A documentary about a Lutheran Pastor tending to migrant workers in North Dakota's oil boom, "The Overnighters."

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