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Up To Date's Indie, Foreign & Doc Critics' 'Three To See,' August 12-14

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Some days are harder than others, but a little help from a loved one — or a stranger — can make all the difference. What better way to repay the favor than treating your friend to a film? This week, Up To Date's indie, foreign and documentary film critics have a selection of movies about vulnerable people in a seemingly callous world. 

Cynthia Haines

The Innocents, PG-13

  • As World War II draws to a close, a no-nonsense French Red Cross medic comes to the aid of several very pregnant nuns — victims of Soviet soldiers — sequestered in their convent.

Hunt for the Wilderpeople, PG-13

  • A national manhunt is launched when a defiant city kid, Ricky, goes missing in the woods with his reluctant foster uncle, Hector.

Tallulah, Not rated

  • Ellen Page plays a drifter who enlists her boyfriend's mom to help raise a baby she's kidnapped from its neglectful mother.

Steve Walker

Indignation, R

  • An erudite adaptation of a Philip Roth novel about a Jewish college student circa 1951 encountering anti-Semitism and gender double standards.

Gleason, R

  • A blunt, unsanitized documentary chronicling the devastating toll ALS takes on former NLF player Steve Gleason and his family.

The Innocents, PG-13

  • In this powerful French film set in Poland during World War II, lies, cover-ups, and infanticide permeate a convent found to harbor seven pregnant nuns.
Since 1998, Steve Walker has contributed stories and interviews about theater, visual arts, and music as an arts reporter at KCUR. He's also one of Up to Date's regular trio of critics who discuss the latest in art, independent and documentary films playing on area screens.
As culture editor, I oversee KCUR’s coverage of race, culture, the arts, food and sports. I work with reporters to make sure our stories reflect the fullest view of the place we call home, so listeners and readers feel primed to explore the places, projects and people who make up a vibrant Kansas City. Email me at luke@kcur.org.