Wonderstruck, Only the Brave, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), The Paris Opera, Jane

Wonderstruck

Only the Brave

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

The Paris Opera

Jane

A mixed bag as we approach the last two months of 2017 and what should be a plethora of Oscar contenders:

Hail Caesar!, Rams

Hail, Caesar!

Rams (Hrútar)





Capsules as we flip the calendar to February:

Black Mass, Everest, Sicario, Pawn Sacrifice, The New Girlfriend, Breathe, Peace Officer, A Reunion

Black Mass

Everest



Sicario

Pawn Sacrifice



The New Girlfriend

Breathe



Peace Officer

A Reunion






The fall film season kicks off in earnest:

Inherent Vice, Maps to the Stars, Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks

Inherent Vice

Maps to the Stars



Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks

Capsule reviews on the rest of the week's new features:

Labor Day

Writer-director Jason Reitman's "Labor Day" is like a short story you can't put down, with an immediacy born of a deeply felt sense of time and place and a leanness and economy of storytelling.

Oldboy

A lot of would-be cineastes have reflexively pooh-poohed Spike Lee’s remake of the Korean film “Oldboy,” but I prefer Lee’s version.

Gangster Squad

The new year starts with a bang – zillions of ‘em – in “Zombieland” director Ruben Fleischer’s postwar-L.A. “Gangster Squad,” an unexpectedly pleasurable entertainment made with copious amounts of humor and a lightness of spirit never hinted at in the trailers.