Need something to fill the hours of your three-day weekend? Up to Date's indie, foreign and documentary film critics have a few suggestions for you.
Cynthia Haines:
Ex Machina, R
- A computer programmer is hired to test a new form of artificial intelligence.
The Wrecking Crew, PG
- Documentary about legendary studio musicians
Seymour: An Introduction, PG
- Inspirational documentary by Ethan Hawke about 88-year-old pianist Seymour Bernstein
Steve Walker:
- A beautiful yet brutal western with Michael Fassbender as a renegade outlaw who takes a Scottish teen under his wing.
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter, not rated
- A determined, maybe delusional, young woman in Tokyo plots to recover the buried briefcase of money from the movie Fargo she suspects is really where Steve Buscemi left it.
Iris, PG-13
- Infectious documentary about 93-year-old New York fashion icon Iris Apfel