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Weekend Movies: We Are Your Friends, Z For Zachariah, No Escape and more

We Are Your Friends is being marketed like another Entourage movie, but it’s a little more interesting and a good deal smarter. It follows a pretty familiar arc but hits the required beats with style and a couple of surprisingly well-considered performances. (Read full review here).

Opens August 28. 

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Court is a smart and absurdist drama that indicts India’s rusty legal system while exposing the social divides between generations and castes at play in the farce before the judge. A song by an aging political activist is blamed for inspiring a sewage worker to kill himself. (Read full review here).

Opens August 28.

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Z For Zachariah is a quiet, thoughtful and CGI-free post-apocalyptic drama. In a valley mysteriously untouched by the nuclear disaster that’s wiped out most of the country, the scrappy Ann (Margot Robbie) and her dog live alone on a farm. (Read full review here). 

Opens August 28.

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Learning To Drive stars Patricia Clarkson as a newly single Upper West Side book critic who finally decides to learn to drive, because her cheating husband (Jake Weber) always did it for her. Luckily, she’s just met Darwan Singh Tur (Ben Kingsley), the world’s most centred driving instructor, whose soothing quasi-spiritual presence helps her rediscover both her agency and her personal power. (Read full review here). 

Opens August 28.

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Digging For Fire stars Jake Johnson and Rosemarie DeWitt as Tim and Lee, whose bond is challenged by separation and temptation in director/co-writer Swanberg’s latest all-star version of the indie dramedies he’s been making for a decade. (Read full review here). 

Opens August 28.

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Turbo Kid is a Canada-New Zealand co-production that lovingly mashes up forgotten VHS classics like Def-Con 4 and Laserblast with the inexplicably beloved Australian teenpic BMX Bandits. In an imaginary 1997, a plucky young hero (Munro Chambers) and his perky android sidekick (Laurence Leboeuf) journey toward a battle with the one-eyed overlord (Michael Ironside) who rules their post-apocalyptic wasteland. (Read full review here). 

Opens August 28.

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No Escape is a realistic actioner that drops an American family into a violent Southeast Asian insurrection at the 20-minute mark and – barring a couple of brief breathers – keeps flight-and-fight tension high until the very end. (Read full review here).  

Opens August 28.

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Backcountry follows a big-city couple (Missy Peregrym, Jeff Roop) on an isolated weekend in Algonquin Park, where they encounter a little trouble when they venture too far into the wilderness. The first hour of writer/director Macdonald’s feature debut is a nicely drawn two-hander between the young lovers: she’s an unapologetic urbanite, he’s trying (maybe a little too hard) to show her a good time in an old camping spot, and their conflicting perspectives start to grate on each other. (Read full review here). 

Opens August 28.

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The Second Mother is a Brazilian drama about a teenager who visits her estranged mother,who left her with relatives to work as a housekeeper for a wealthy São Paulo family. (Read full review here). 

Opens August 28.

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The End Of The Tour is a fictional interpretation of the five days in 1996 when David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) accompanied author David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel) on the last leg of a tour promoting Infinite Jest. Five days is a tiny sliver of time, but it’s long enough for two people with similar interests to get to know each other and flirt with the idea of becoming friends. (Read full review here). 

Opens Friday (August 28).

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