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Strangerland

Married couple Matthew (Fiennes) and Catherine (Kidman) Parker are having trouble fitting in to their new lives in a remote town deep in the Australian Outback. They mostly keep to themselves, but when their two children disappear into the surrounding wilderness just as a deadly dust storm is blowing in, the parents must team up with their neighbours. With the local cop (Weaving) leading the search through the dust-choked darkness, it soon becomes clear that something sinister has happened to the two youths, and the locals begin to turn against the outsiders in their midst.

Director: Kim Farrant. Stars: Nicole Kidman, Hugo Weaving, Joseph Fiennes, Maddison Brown, Sean Keenan. 2015. 112 min. Drama.

 

Little Boy

Pepper (Salvati) is a smaller-than-normal six-year-old boy whose short stature has always been a source of mockery from his peers. His faith is strong, though, and he can often cause miracles to happen when he prays to God. When war breaks out with Japan in 1941, his father (Rapaport) enlists to serve in the Pacific, and Pepper prays harder than he ever has for a miracle to bring him home. His priest, however, tells him that his prayers won't work if he holds any hatred in his heart, and that his hatred for the Japanese that his father is fighting is disconnecting him from God. At the priest's urging, Pepper starts to befriend the only Japanese man in town (Tagawa), a man now universally feared and reviled by the locals.

Director: Alejandro Monteverde. Stars: Emily Watson, Kevin James, Jakob Salvati, Michael Rapaport, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa. 2015. 106 min. Drama.

 

5 to 7

Brian (Yelchin) is an aspiring writer living in the Big Apple who bumps into a beautiful French woman (Thirlby) in front of a hotel one fateful day. Though she is a decade older than he is, the two strangers hit it off well, and she tells him that she wants to see him again, but that she's only available between 5 and 7 p.m. It turns out that she's the wife of a diplomat, and the two begin a passionate affair.

Director: Victor Levin. Stars: Olivia Thirlby, Anton Yelchin, Glenn Close. 2015. 95 min. Drama.