Elian,
directed by Ross McDonnell and Tim Golden
(not rated, 1 hour, 48 minutes)
This gripping, relevant and well-researched personal/political documentary, an audience favorite at the Tribeca Film Festival in April, reveals previously unknown details about a 5-year-old Cuban boy named Elian Gonzalez who, on Thanksgiving in 1999, was found floating on an inner tube off the coast of Florida.
His discovery led to a bitter custody battle between his Cuban father and U.S. relatives, as well as revelations of the ill-tempered relationship between the United States and Cuba. Includes an interview with Elian, who's now 23 years old.
A Good American (not rated, 1 hour, 40 minutes) An effective, detailed and revealing documentary concerning Bill Binney, a cryptologist and National Security agency analyst who developed a sophisticated program for gathering data capable of providing clues about potential terrorist threats that, in his opinion, could have prevented the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001. With Diane Roark, Jesselyn Radack, Ed Loomis; directed by Friedrich Moser.
The Autopsy of Jane Doe (R, 1 hour, 39 minutes) A spare, compelling jaw-dropper of a horror thriller in which a father and son team of coroners (Brian Cox, Emile Hirsch) receive a body at the morgue of a young woman, found in the basement of a home of a murdered family, that's oddly untouched by trauma. As they struggle to make sense of increasingly disturbing discoveries in their search to uncover how she met her fate, they are forced to consider that she may not be dead. With Ophelia Lovibond, Olwen Kelly, Parker Sawyers; directed by Andre Ovredal.
T2 Trainspotting (R, 1 hour, 57 minutes) The gang from the original ultimate 1996 drug-abusing film -- Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner, Robert Carlyle -- are back, with Renton (McGregor), now clean and sober and living in Amsterdam, returning to his home town of Edinburgh, where he finds the same problems of double-crossing, thievery, self-destructive habits, revenge plots and bad behavior still abide. As do Scottish accents. With Kelly Macdonald, Shirley Henderson; directed by Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, Steve Jobs).
Saban's Power Rangers (PG-13, 2 hours, 4 minutes) A nostalgic kid-focused superhero fantasy (celebrating and expanding upon the 1990s TV series) in which some charmingly odd California high school students who don't quite fit in with everybody else use their extra-special abilities to save the world from evil witch Rita Repulsa. With Bryan Cranston, Jason David Frank, Naomi Scott, Dacre Montgomery, Bill Hader, Elizabeth Banks; directed by Dean Israelite.
CHIPS (R, 101 minutes) A miserably lame, raunchy, incoherent comedy in which Dax Shepard and Michael Pena play a couple of nitwits who join the California High Patrol in Los Angeles and become partners, despite their obviously different approaches to life and work. With Kristen Bell, Jessica McNamee, Adam Brody, Ryan Hansen; directed by Dax Shepard.
The Belko Experiment (R, 1 hour, 22 minutes) Gory, claustrophobic and visceral, this horror creepfest describes a paranoia-packed social experiment that requires 80 bored American worker drones to experience a particularly nonboring day. It starts when they're noisily locked in their high-rise corporate office in Bogota, Colombia, and bossed around by a remote voice on an intercom concerning a depraved game of kill or be killed. The reason? Unknown. With John Gallagher Jr., Michael Rooker, Adria Arjona, Sean Gunn, Tony Goldwyn; directed by Greg McLean.
MovieStyle on 06/30/2017