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.
