Which movies to watch this weekend, Sept. 16
Which movies to watch this weekend, Sept. 16
Hell or High Water:
An exceptionally good modern Western, focusing on two bank-robbing brothers (Chris Pine, Ben Foster) pursued by a pair of Texas Rangers (Jeff Bridges, Gil Birmingham) across dusty and economically depressed West Texas.
Weighty themes are examined here — the law, racial issues, American history, family loyalty, institutional responsibility — but there are some very humorous moments, as well.
Michelle and Barack Obama’s first date, in 1989, is the subject of this fictional but fact-based dramatization, a charming film if you like Obama and are starting to miss him already.
Parker Sawyers gradually becomes the Obama we know over the course of the film.
In this Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger biopic, director Clint Eastwood makes a pretty convincing argument that the pilot who landed a plane on the Hudson River was even more heroic than he was portrayed in the aftermath of the accident.
There are flaws — the government suits are excessively villainous — but the results are crowd-pleasing.