Brrr, it's cold outside. Let's warm up with a box of popcorn and a great film. Up to Date's indie, foreign and documentary film critics have some suggestions that will fire up your imagination.
Cynthia Haines
Theeb, not rated
Brooklyn, PG-13
- An young Irish immigrant is torn between her new home in Brooklyn and her life back in Ireland.
Spotlight, R
- Reporters working for the Boston Globe uncover evidence of the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal.
Steve Walker
Theeb, not rated
- Nominated for a Best Foreign Film Oscar, this Jordanian entry sets a teenage boy's coming of age story against a harsh desert.
Carol, R
- I just think it's a beautiful, sublime, moving film, capturing this conflict in this time.
Anomalisa, R
- A disillusioned man on a business trip meets an emotionally and physically-scarred woman in an Oscar-nominated tour de force of meticulous stop-motion animation.
Our critics also recommend the Jewish Film Festival. Click here for details.