Your Weekend Preview: What To See (And What To Skip) In The Theatres This Weekend

By Original-Cin Staff

“Nobody f*cks with the Jesus,” said Jesus Quintanta in The Big Lebowski. Except perhaps “the Jesus” himself, a.k.a. actor John Turturro, who reprises his role as the excitable Puerto Rican bowler and directs himself in The Big Lebowski spin-off, The Jesus Rolls (Rating: C-), along with a Susan Sarandon, Bobby Cannavale, Audrey Tautou, Tim Blake Nelson, Jon Hamm and Pete Davidson.

Reviewer Thom Ernst says the Jesus Quintana of The Big Lebowski abides but the spinoff is, depending on the level of your expectations, either a split or a gutter ball.

A scene from The Jesus Rolls.

We get more film history–mining in Seberg (Rating: B-), a drama starring Kristen Stewart as Jean Seberg, the iconic star of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless. The film charts the period following her return to the United States when Seberg was ruthlessly persecuted by the FBI because of her links to the Black Panthers. Though well-cast, says reviewer Kim Hughes, the film is shallow on back story and motivations. Nice 60s frocks, though.

Once more to the movie archives for the newest adaptation of H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man (Rating: B) from Leigh Whannell (writer of Saw), which Thom Ernst says is a suspenseful B-movie featuring a persuasively terrified Elizabeth Moss as a woman stalked by a former boyfriend no one but she can see.

Linda Barnard reviews Albert Shin’s quirkily entertaining Disappearance at Clifton Hill (Rating: B), chronicling two adult sisters seeking the truth about an uncertain memory of a child kidnapping, with David Cronenberg as the town’s know-it-all local podcaster. Our Bonnie Laufer Krebs talks to the film’s stars Tuppence Middleton and Hannah Gross about shooting in the off-season tourist town.

Finally, from Russia with trauma comes the much-awarded historical drama Beanpole (Rating: A) by 28-year-old Kantemir Balagov. It’s about Ira and Masha, two young women who survived the siege of Leningrad and struggle to find meaning and intimacy in a shattered world, in a film reviewer Liam Lacey describes as original and, intermittently, startlingly beautiful.

Have a great Leap-End.