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Weekend Movies: The Martian, The Walk, Jafar Panahi’s Taxi and more

The Iron Giant: Signature Edition returns to the screen in a gorgeous new restoration ahead of a long-overdue Blu-ray release. Bird’s 1999 masterwork – about a lonely kid named Hogarth (voiced by Eli Marienthal) and the giant alien robot (Vin Diesel) who becomes his best friend – is still a stunner, fusing hand-drawn and digital animation to tremendous effect. (See full review here)

Opens October 2. See listings

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Jafar Panahi’s Taxi is the Iranian filmmaker’s third film while living under a state filmmaking ban. To get around this restriction, he shoots entirely inside a taxi. (See full review here)

Opens October 2. See listings

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The Martian is a thrilling adaptation of Andy Weir’s novel about a NASA astronaut, Mark Watney (Matt Damon), who’s stranded on Mars and must find his way back to Earth. He hopes to do this through scientific know-how as well as the combined efforts of the crew that left him behind and the brain power down in Houston. (See full review here)

Opens October 2. See listings

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The Walk may be flawed as a drama, but that doesn’t actually matter: as with Titanic and Avatar, it’s first and foremost an experience. And on that level it delivers the goods, recreating Philippe Petit’s 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center with vertiginous, almost photo-realistic precision. (See full review here)

Opens October 2. See listings

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Finders Keepers takes the ludicrous true-life story of two North Carolina men fighting over possession of a mummified leg and slowly unpacks it to find genuine pathos and sorrow. John Wood lost his left leg in the plane crash that killed his father, and wanted to keep it as a sort of memorial to that day. (See full review here)

Opens October 2. See listings

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Mission To Lars shows it’s possible to do a good thing and still make a really bad documentary about it. English journalist Kate Spicer and her brother William made Mission To Lars about their quest to help their brother Tom meet Lars Ulrich, the drummer for Metallica. (See full review here)

Opens October 2. See listings

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Coming Home is Away From Her meets Doctor Zhivago set against China’s Cultural Revolution. Chen Daoming stars as Lu, a “rightist” political prisoner released after more than a decade to find his family torn apart and his wife, Feng (Gong Li), suffering from amnesia and unable to recognize him. (See full review here)

Opens October 2. See listings

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Talvar (Guilty) is a true-crime procedural about a sensational double homicide that is fuelled by anger, mostly directed toward India’s legal system. If anyone there actually followed pro­cedure, this tragic and frustrating case might have been solved. (See full review here)

Opens October 2. See listings

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