Stuffed with turkey and exhausted from shopping? Chill out the rest of your holiday weekend with these suggestions from Up to Date's indie, foreign and documentary film critics:
Cynthia Haines
Brooklyn, PG-13
Room, R
- A young woman and her son are imprisoned in a shed.
Spotlight, R
- Reporters working for the Boston Globe uncover evidence of the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal.
Steve Walker
Spotlight, R
- Smart and suspenseful account of how Boston Globe reporters (including Mark Ruffalo) painstakingly uncovered the trail of pedophile priests
Brooklyn, PG-13
- Saoirse Ronan is charming as an Irish girl on the cusp of womanhood adapting to America.
Trumbo, R
- Bryan Cranston plays acclaimed screenwriter Dalton Trumbo set against the anti-communist fervor of the 1950s.