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It's a light first week of 2019 in theaters, with one new wide release and the local opening of two of the best films of 2018.
Hirokazu Kore-eda's
Shoplifters (pictured) showcases the director's creative sweet spot balancing sentimentality with acidic social conscience.
Eric D. Snider appreciates the good-natured, funhouse sensibility of the horror thriller
Escape Room.
In this week's feature review, Barry Jenkins adapts
If Beale Street Could Talk as a rapturous, tragic mix of love story and injustice story.