Where to Find It: In selected theaters onlyĪnderson re-creates the Encino of his childhood with much affection and attention to detail. “House of Gucci” is an icepick docudrama that has a great deal of fun with its grand roster of ambitious scoundrels, but it’s never less than a straight-faced and nimbly accomplished movie. There are moments in the film that will make your jaw drop and moments you’ll laugh at the sheer audacity of what you’re seeing, but just because the characters in a drama behave in an over-the-top shameless manner doesn’t mean that the film that’s observing them is over-the-top.
It’s the 60th animated feature produced by the Walt Disney company, and to borrow a phrase from the old Disney TV series, it’s set in a wonderful world of color - a rapturously imagined, rainbow-gorgeous village tucked inside the misty green mountains of Colombia, where the members of the Madrigal family lead a magical existence. The film is a lively, lovely, lushly enveloping digitally animated musical fairy tale. The film adaptation pursues a kind of cinematic stillness to match Murakami’s plain, serene prose, and takes things suitably slow - this is the kind of film where the opening credits arrive 40 minutes in - as it ponders just how much time can heal all wounds. It’s a grief-stricken marriage story enfolded in a corrupted friendship study, related in turn via a separate tale of odd-couple companionship, all told in fewer than 40 pages. Haruki Murakami’s short story “Drive My Car” is a sleek, streamlined slip of a thing that nonetheless, in the author’s signature style, packs an awful lot into its lean sentences. 26 Exclusively in Theatersĭrive My Car (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi) CRITIC’S PICK
Find more movies and TV shows to stream here. Here’s a rundown of the films opening this week that Variety has covered, along with information on where you can watch them. Let Variety help you find that next well-earned bit of escapism, whether it’s the highly anticipated “ House of Gucci” or the timely Thanksgiving drama “ The Humans.”
Fall movie season is upon us - though the release schedule has never been more confusing, with some blockbusters heading directly to streaming, others in theaters only and various independent films mixing up strategies between theaters, streaming and VOD releases.