Absurd Accident: The Chinese indie crime comedy, the debut by director Li Yuhe about a puzzling crime in a rural small town, has been compared to movies by
Absurd Accident: The Chinese indie crime comedy, the debut by director Li Yuhe about a puzzling crime in a rural small town, has been compared to movies by the Coen brothers. Not rated. At the 4 Star Theatre.
Annabelle: Creation: A nun and several girls from a closed orphanage move in with the bereaved dollmaker, his wife and the possessed doll in this horror sequel starring Stephanie Sigman, Talitha Bateman, Anthony LaPaglia and Miranda Otto. Rated R.
Columbus: The son of a renowned architecture scholar forges an unexpected intimacy with a young architecture enthusiast in a visually striking, gentle romantic drama written and directed by Kogonada, who appears in person at select screenings Aug. 11-12. Not rated. At the Opera Plaza.
False Confessions: The French dramedy stars Isabelle Huppert as a wealthy widow who unwittingly hires a smitten younger man (Louis Garrel) as her accountant. Not rated. At the Opera Plaza.
The Glass Castle: Brie Larson stars as a young woman who strives to find her own way after growing up in a close-knit unorthodox family in the film based on Jeannette Walls’ best-selling memoir. Rated PG-13.
In This Corner of the World: A young woman moves to a small town near Hiroshima in 1944 in an animated tale based on the manga by Fumiyo Kouno in Japanese with English subtitles. Rated PG-13. At Century SF Centre.
Menashe: The film by Joshua Z Weinstein set in New York’s Hasidic community is about a kind but hapless clerk who tries to maintain custody of his son after his wife passes away. Rated PG. At the Embarcadero.
The Nut Job 2-Nutty by Nature: The follow-up to the 2014 animated comedy finds Surly Squirrel and friends fighting to save their park from development; the film includes voices by Will Arnett, Katherine Heigl and Maya Rudolph. Rated PG.
Once Upon a Time: Over the course of a millennium, a goddess is sent to the mortal world where she falls in love and encounters an old enemy in the Chinese film starring Yang Yang, Yifei Liu and Yikuan Ya. Not rated. At AMC Metreon.
The Only Living Boy in New York: An eccentric neighbor shares his wisdom with a recent college grad, whose life is complicated by his father’s mistress in the movie starring Kate Beckinsale, Pierce Brosnan, Kiersey Clemons, Cynthia Nixon, Callum Turner, and Jeff Bridges. Rated R.
A Taxi Driver: In 1980 Korea, a cabbie takes a foreign journalist to Gwangju where they find themselves in the midst of a military siege in the Korean film directed by Jang Hoon. Not rated. At AMC Van Ness.
Whose Streets?: The documentary by Sabaah Folayan is an account of the Ferguson, Mo. uprising as told by the people who lived it, looking at how the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown inspired a community to fight back. Not rated. At the Embarcadero.
Wind River: The action-adventure film stars Elizabeth Olsen as a rookie FBI agent who teams with a town’s veteran game tracker (Jeremy Renner) to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation. Rated R. At the Century SF Centre 9 and Kabuki.
