Up To A Certain Point

Plus: Wendy and Lucy and Watchmen

By Volcano Staff on March 5, 2009

UP TO A CERTAIN POINT: A Cuban filmmaker writing a script about the social problem of machismo in Cuban society falls in love with a pioneering female dockworker. (NR) – Bill White


WENDY AND LUCY: Michelle Williams plays a lonely and brave young woman, bound for uncertain reasons to Alaska, whose car breaks down in Oregon and who loses the dog who is her only companion. Broke, hungry, she wanders an unfamiliar town, is threatened once but is mostly befriended, in an evocation of resolve in the face of emptiness. Sad and beautiful. Directed by Kelly Reichardt. Rated R. Three and a half stars — Roger Ebert


WATCHMEN: After the revelation of The Dark Knight, here is Watchmen, another bold exercise in the liberation of the superhero movie. It’s a compelling visceral film — sound, images and characters combined into a decidedly odd visual experience that evokes the feel of a graphic novel. It seems charged from within by its power as a fable; we sense it’s not interested in a plot so much as with the dilemma of functioning in a world losing hope. Rated R. Four stars — RE