I Liked All 4 Today

I thought techo-thrillers were a thing of the past but this German reinterpretation also draws on "The Usual Suspects" "Fight Club" and "Primal Fear" for that extra jolt.  Hell, Tom Schilling even looks like Edward Norton.  Try as you might to read the telegraphed punches, it's likely you will really enjoy the techno-knockout.

The longest title of the fest turns out to be the funniest as well.  Thankfully there were subtitles because you would be hard pressed to hear half the dialogue for the raucous laughter, my own included.  On the day of his 100th birthday, as the staff and other residents of the elder-care facility are preparing him a party, Allan decides to climb out the window and lead us on a hilarious joy ride of rich dark humor and pratfall inanity.  Don't miss this sidesplitting laugh-fest. 

No laughter here, but biting satire and questions of what value means.  A single father with a dying teenage daughter, a darkly submissive and bored housewife, her shrink husband and a elderly retired teacher with a very dark past collide in  a series of brutal and puzzling episodes of what we will do for money and why.  Not for the faint of heart but brilliant movie making.

And Effie Gray.  This gorgeous costume drama of ill-fated romance and dashed dreams revolves around the young wife of Victorian art critic, John Ruskin.  After 6 unconsummated years of marriage and with the advice Lady Eastlake, the always wonderful Emma Thompson, she creates a scandal filing for and receiving an annulment.  Her new love interest is the Pre-Raphaelite painter, John Everett Millais.  The film perfectly captures the light, color and formality of this wonderful movement and Dakota Fanning is the woman in the paintings.