Big Screen | The Week’s Top 5: From Halloween To Kristen Stewart To The Millennium Trilogy Finale
Each week here at indieWIRE, five recommendations for theatrical viewing pleasure are being offered up, tackling everything from new releases, to film festivals, to curated series, and events around North America. This week, a slew of Halloween related cinematic events that are occurring across North America, and four new theatrical releases, including Claude Charbol’s last film and the final entry in the Swedish “Millennium Trilogy,” make up those five best bets:
3. Welcome To The Rileys (criticWIRE page)
The best 2010 film starring Kristen Stewart, “Welcome To The Rileys” was saved from a distribution nightmare when Samuel Goldwyn picked it up from original and now defunct distributor Apparition. And with good reason: The film was warmly received at its Sundance premiere, and Stewart alongside James Gandolfini and Melissa Leo make for quite the cast. Leo and Gandolfini play Lois and Doug Riley, a couple dealing with the death of their teenage daughter. She isolates herself in their suburban home, while he messes around with a local waitress. When the waitress dies of cancer cancer, Doug escapes to New Orleans on a business trip. It’s there he meets Mallory (Stewart), a stripper who will end up salvaging both Doug and Lois’s lives.
“Satisfyingly moving if not particularly groundbreaking, ‘Rileys’ was one of two Stewart vehicles at Sundance this year,” Eric Kohn writes in his indieWIRE review. “The other, a loud, messy Joan Jette biopic called ‘The Runaways,’ implied Stewart had lost the capacity for serious dramatic roles. “Rileys” counteracted that presumption, proving that the actress does her best work when toning it down, not turning it up.”
Source => Indie Wire / Via => Pattinson Stewart Fans
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