New this week
A Walk in the Woods
89 R Robert Redford plays a celebrated travel writer who, instead of retiring to enjoy his loving and beautiful wife (Emma Thompson) and large and happy family, challenges himself to hike the rugged Appalachian Trail, accompanied by his long-lost former friend (Nick Nolte), a down-on-his-luck serial philanderer who sees the trip as a way to sneak out of paying some debts and sneak into one last adventure before it's too late. With Mary Steenburgen, Nick Offerman, Kristen Schaal, Chrystee Pharris, Sandra Ellis Lafferty; directed by Ken Kwapis. (104 minutes) Opened Wednesday
Phoenix
90 PG-13 Nina Hoss plays a German-Jewish nightclub singer who has survived a concentration camp, and who, unrecognizable after undergoing reconstructive surgery to fix her face, disfigured by a bullet wound, plays a dangerous game of duplicity and disguise in post-World War II Berlin to discover if her former husband (Ronald Zehrfeld) was the one who betrayed her to the Nazis. In German with English subtitles. With Nina Kunzendorf, Michael Maertens, Imogen Kogge; directed by Christian Petzold. (98 minutes)
The Transporter Refueled
PG-13 Ed Skrein takes over the role of Frank Martin, former special-ops mercenary, now living a less perilous life transporting classified packages for questionable people until a cunning femme-fatale (Loan Chabanol) and her three seductive sidekicks hire him to orchestrate a massive bank heist. With Ray Stevenson, Gabriella Wright, Tatiana Pajkovic, Wenxia Yu; directed by Camille Delamarre. (96 minutes)
MovieStyle on 09/04/2015