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The Paperboy
It’s summer 1969 in South Florida, and a reporter’s investigating an inmate’s wrongdoings, while his younger bro’s probing a sexed-up Barbie doll. You might need a bath after Lee Daniels’s steamy film noir so scuzzy you can feel the chiggers and smell the stank. Even with the filth caked on thick, the cast — including Matthew McConaughey, John Cusack, Zac Efron, and Nicole Kidman — shines.
It’s like: A Time to Kill meets To Die For.
Take: Swamp people.
Premieres: Today
Wuthering Heights
Les Mis, Anna Karenina, O (yes, as in Odin James) — the classics are a grab bag for directors. This time, Andrea Arnold matches her lens to the quills of Emily Brontë. Arnold’s take on Catherine and her stray, Heathcliff: a billowy, visceral two hours with little dialogue and lots of wind. It isn’t for everyone, but for those with patience, it ends with quite the Mumford & Sons reward.
It’s like: Cary Fukunaga’s Jane Eyre.
Take: Raconteurs of any ilk.
Premieres: Today
The Sessions
Sundancers got the first peek at writer/director Ben Lewin’s true story about a paralyzed man who hasn’t left the sack in 30 years. Mark’s confined to an iron lung but wants to pull the plug on his virginity — so he hires a sex surrogate. John Hawkes and Helen Hunt get naked for therapeutic cupping, licking, and thrusting, and it’s the sweetest flick about poontang and polio out there.
It’s like: My Life meets The 40-Year-Old Virgin.
Take: Bare necessities.
Premieres: October 19
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Photos: Courtesy of Millennium Entertainment; Courtesy of Oscilloscope Laboratories; Courtesy of Fox Searchlight Pictures
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