
MOVEMENT AND LOCATION Kim (Bodine Boling) is making a nice life for herself in Brooklyn, even if she is a time traveler from 400 years in the future. In this sequel, Dylan O’Brien is back as their handsome young leader, Wes Ball returns as director, and the obstacle-filled world known as the Scorch looks a little like Manhattan if it had been abandoned, sunburned and smothered in desert sand. MAZE RUNNER: THE SCORCH TRIALS “You kids wouldn’t last one day out in the Scorch,” a haughty grown-up tells the teenagers who managed to escape the Glade in the first “Maze Runner” movie. THE MARTIAL ARTS KID Michael Baumgarten’s coming-of-age family film stars Jansen Panettiere (Hayden’s younger brother) as an Ohio teenager who moves to Florida and has to learn martial arts to defend himself from a bully.
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But how free a spirit can she be if she gets upset when he misses the toilet bowl? Nikhil Advani directed this romance with a twist. KATTI BATTI In India, a serious young architect and a free spirit fall in love. The weird thing is that the trick-or-treaters at the front door want her baby. HELLIONS Well, 17-year-old Dora’s Halloween is ruined. With Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Michael Kelly and Emily Watson. Jake Gyllenhaal and Jason Clarke’s characters encounter devastating snowstorms instead in Baltasar Kormakur’s obsession-and-survival adventure about real-life attempts to scale the planet’s highest mountain.

The final film in the German-Turkish director Fatih Akin’s love, death and the Devil trilogy, after “Head On” and “The Edge of Heaven.”ĮVEREST If you’re going to climb Mount Everest, the first thing you hope for is decent weather. THE CUT Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, this drama starring Tahar Rahim follows one survivor’s journey through the Ottoman Empire and beyond, beginning in 1915. Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion directed. Elijah Wood, Alison Pill, Rainn Wilson, Nasim Pedrad and Jack McBrayer play teachers who band together to try to save themselves. The lunches turn elementary-school kids into angry, people-eating zombies. School cafeterias may have junk-food problems and general nutrition challenges, but the results in this horror comedy are ridiculous. Scott Cooper (“Crazy Heart”) directed.ĬOOTIES The chicken nuggets did it. Depp looks like as an old bald guy in this tale of a crook from a seemingly good family. informant in the 1970s and made hiding from the law into an art form. Fox and Seth Rogen.īLACK MASS Johnny Depp stars in this crime drama as Whitey Bulger, the tough South Boston mobster who turned F.B.I. In this documentary, he sets out to smash stereotypes by talking to an assortment of famous fellow Canadians, including Mike Myers, Michael J.


Gaby Dellal directed.īEING CANADIAN Robert Cohen, a nice boy born in Calgary, Alberta, feels bad about what people think of his native land. Naomi Watts is his single mother, who needs the father’s permission for hormone therapy. Susan Sarandon is his live-in lesbian grandmother, who has trouble with his decision.

West, making her feature directing debut, for “an easygoing, perceptive sense of character and place” and “an almost complete allergy to cliché.”ĪBOUT RAY The fall’s first big transgender drama (there are more to come), with Elle Fanning as the title teenager transitioning from Ramona. Scott, writing in The New York Times, praised it and Ms. When the film, a slice of American regional realism, was at New Directors/New Films this year, A. TIRED MOONLIGHT The filmmaker Britni West goes back to her Montana hometown and follows several characters through the little crises in their lives.
