Thanksgiving is right around the corner. Whether you're looking for a break from grocery shopping, baking, or ornery relatives, Up To Date has the solution; our indie, foreign and documentary film critics are back with movie recommendations for the weekend. Check them out while they're still showing on area screens.
Cynthia Haines
Moonlight, R
- The story of a young black man struggling to find and accept himself while growing up in a rough neighborhood in Miami.
The Handmaiden, Not rated
- A Korean film noir detailing the story of the handmaiden secretly involved in a plot to defraud her Japanese heiress.
Loving, PG-13
- The story behind an interracial couple, whose arrest would lead to the landmark Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia, which outlawed restrictions on mixed-race marriages.
Steve Walker
The Handmaiden, Not rated
- In both Japanese and Korean, Chan-Wook's intricately plotted and gorgeously shot combination of film noir and melodrama riffs on a domestic worker's aspirational dream to marry into money.
Christine, R
- A harrowing biopic about Christine Chubbuck, the Sarasota, Florida, TV news reporter whose depressive spiral led to her live suicide on the air in 1974.
Moonlight, R
- After surviving vicious bullying in school and neglect from a drug-addict mother, a black boy in the Miami projects grows into manhood struggling with sexuality and intimacy.
