Provoked (not rated)
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Who’s in it: Aishwarya Rai, Miranda Richardson, Robbie Coltrane, Rebecca Pidgeon
What it’s about: The based-on-a-true-story look at the case of West London immigrant and battered wife Kiranjit Ahluwalia (Rai), who killed her husband by setting him on fire in 1989. She was given life in prison, where her cellmate (Richardson) shows the newcomer the ropes.
Worth watching? **
“It isn’t a total surprise then that [director Jag] Mundhra and the film’s writers have turned an important story into a soapy sermon, bringing up issues of xenophobia and sexism only to largely ignore them in favor of cornball emotionalism.”
Everything’s Gone Green (R)
Who’s in it: Paulo Costanzo, Steph Song, JR Bourne
What it’s about: A writer (Costanzo) who profiles lottery winners meets an attractive girl named Ming (Song) while whale-watching. In his journey through a culture of scammers he also meets Ming’s boyfriend, Brice (Bourne), and learns how easy it is to be corrupted.
Worth watching? ***
“Douglas Coupland’s ecologically misnomered script aspires to be off-center, even as it keeps tilting toward the middle of brow. But Fox’s ensemble … exudes easy, impish charm.”
New this week:
– “Shrek the Third”
– “Provoked”
– “Fay Grim”
– “Brand Upon the Brain”
– “Sacco and Vanzetti”
– “Everything’s Gone Green”
Out next week
– “Pirates of the Caribbean: at World’s End”
– “Once”
– “Bug”
– “Chalk”
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– “Paris Je T’aime”
– “Poison Friends”