This weekend, take a walk — on a wire thousands of feet up in the air. Or just go to a movie and experience it from your seat. KCUR's independent, foreign and documentary film critics give us the picks they deem worthy of your time.
Cynthia Haines
Mississippi Grind, R
- I think if they changed the title it might attract a larger audience, and it should — because Ben Mendelsohn's performance is just great.
Learning To Drive, R
- Patricia Clarkson is a fantastic actress. I think it's very well done, very charming. At the end I thought, if you liked I'll See You In My Dreams, you like this too.
Phoenix, PG-13
- A WWII concentration camp survivor undergoes reconstructive surgery due to a bullet wound, but her husband doesn't recognize her.
Steve Walker
Goodnight, Mommy, R
- Austria's submission for the Foreign Film Oscar is a taut, gruesome psychological thriller about twin brothers who suspect their mother is an imposter.
Mississippi Grind, R
- Ben Mendehlson is excellent as a man whose love of betting entangles him with the like-minded, more charismatic Ryan Reynolds.
Phoenix, PG-13
Bob Butler
The Martian, PG-13
- Everyone will go see it, and everyone will love it but it doesn't play dumb to anybody.
Sicario, R
- From Butler's website, butlercinemascene.com: Taylor Sheridan‘s first produced screenplay couches its sobering observations within the familiar tropes of an anti-crime drama.
The Walk, PG
- The last 30 minutes you've on the wire with him. It's terrifying.
