Rami Malek The amateur.
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American agents are in danger on screens this week in a CIA thriller and a war film in Iraq, while the danger of a completely different type can be found in a cocktail restaurant during a first appointment. Elsewhere, the documentaries woven archive images from the early 1970s to paint a portrait of the life of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Here are four of the most buzzing films in theaters this weekend.
The amateur
In theaters Friday
Charlie, played by Rami Malek, knows that he is out of his depth in this revenge thriller about an analyst of CIA data trying to find and kill the people who murdered his wife. Although he can locate surveillance images faster than you can say Bourne supremacyHe has never manipulated a gun so much. He therefore requests a specific training in the mission, to meet a ridiculous.
“I do not think you can beat a 90 -year -old nun in a match against your arms,” said the boss, who is not nice, but not wrong either. Charlie is the most Nerd guy in the CIA.
However, the Nerds know things – like how to get the upper hand on top when an assassin is in a swimming pool with a suspended glass between the skyscrapers. I mean, that can’t Come often, but Charlie is ready when this is the case. He has baroque means to put an end to other killers and to consider the interference of an former corrupt CIA that he should really pursue too.
Laurence Fishburne is on site to provide good sense of the world, if necessary. Filmmaker James Hawes Guards The amateur By clicking with skill, if not plausible, through loose ends, loose characters and a little cockroaches of the CIA’s head on ethics. It seems terribly precious in the current political environment, apart from making you think – Go guys, have you heard of the CIA? – Bob Mondello
DROP
In theaters Friday
Say that you live your life and suddenly, from nowhere, you receive a random air message on your phone from a complete foreigner. You will probably ignore it and deactivate additional contact, right? Well, most of us are not characters in the thriller of Bonkers Drop.
Violet (Meghann Fahy) is a single mother whose first meeting comes out of the rails when she begins to receive more and more alarming messages from someone nearby. Then the messages continue to come, and they continue to become stranger and darker and – in the end – more personal. They become impossible to ignore, until it is indebted to the requirements of the mysterious messenger. And this mysterious messenger could be anyone else in this restaurant right now – another patron, the piano – maybe even Henry, his appointment (Brandon Sklenar). Potentially romantic dinner turns into a life or death situation. – Aisha Harris
War
In theaters Friday
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Iraq, 2006. Under the cover of the darkness, an American unit moved to a residential building, quietly taking two apartments, pruned terrified residents in a room and installing a sniper / surveillance position. It is the configuration of a heartbreaking and real mission that was rebuilt in something like the filmmaker by filmmaker Alex Garland and his co -director / writer Ray Mendoza.
Garland is the director and writer of Civil war, The portrait last year of an America divided under a third mandate president fanfaron. Mendoza is a former Seal Us Navy who was one of the men who lived through the mission in Iraq in Ramadi War.
Using his memories and those of his comrades, the film will recreate the mission-Gone-Wrong with visceral clarity-the men spotted by the forces of Al-Qaida, taking fire, calling a reservoir to evacuate them, for medical help, for a “strength spectacle” when a terrifying tributary jail fighter and granics silences and granics. The film – well played and immersive – is a trying shock for the system, although which is almost devoid of political context. The film is not really like most Hollywood war films – not to mention heroism, courage, sacrifice. War is just a war, calibrated as a cinematic cinematographic show. – Bob Mondello
One by one: John and Yoko
In IMAX theaters on Friday
In 1971, John Lennon and Yoko Ono moved from London to Manhattan and took up residence in a small apartment in Greenwich Village to be close to artists and scenaries. About a year and a half later, they made a concert for the children of the state school of Willowbrook of Staten Island, a notoriously inhuman institution that undertook the disabled development children. Lennon said that the children of Willowbrook were “almost symbolic with all pain on earth”. The couple’s effort to help – the one to one concert – was the only full concert that Lennon would give after leaving the Beatles.
Documentarians Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice -Edwards Channel surf between concert images and archive clips of these years – video and audio – illustrating the life of the couple with interviews, advertisements, news events and a recurring series of telephone calls in which Yoko and his assistant try to command 1000 hooks for one of his art works. The film focuses on its living portrait, although lower than it, of a period of juvenile rebellion on a dynamic charismatic lennon. (There are very few labels indicating who is who.) Very early on, the singer is invited to remember his previous reputation and says: “The Beatles no longer exist. I no longer want to recreate the past.”
The public will probably be happy that the filmmakers did not follow his example. – Bob Mondello
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