A disappointing box-office summer winds to a close with only a few small releases, and one 40-year-old blockbuster worth revisiting.
Writer/director Lake Bell's ensemble comedy gets bogged down in an exaggerated premise in
I Do ... Until I Don't (pictured). The classic French clowning tradition gets an enjoyably silly contemporary updating in
Lost in Paris. The Sundance crowd-pleaser
Patti Cake$ takes a familiar underdog-artist premise and invests it with at least a little fresh energy and a solid lead performance.
In this week's feature, the 40th-anniversary theatrical re-release of
Close Encounters of the Third Kind shows why it's a story we need right now.
Also opening this week, but not screened for critics: the long-delayed period romantic drama
Tulip Fever; a trio of long-time friends is thrown for a loop when one of them comes out as gay in the Spanish-language comedy
Hazlo Como Hombre.