An animated trilogy comes to a close, a story of real-life wrestlers gets the Dwayne Johnson-approved treatment, and a final Foreign Language Film Oscar nominee comes to town just ahead of Sunday's ceremony.
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's
Never Look Away packages an epic tale of the legacy of post-Nazi Germany in a familiar "great artist biopic" structure.
MaryAnn Johanson finds
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (pictured) bringing the franchise to a disappointing conclusion.
David Riedel praises Mads Mikkelsen's central performance and the spare intensity of the survival thriller
Arctic.
Eric D. Snider appreciates the buoyant humor that elevates the rote believe-in-yourself true-sports drama of
Fighting With My Family.
Also opening this week but not screened for press: the Tim Tebow-produced inspirational family drama
Run the Race; the story of a couple's relationship flashes between past and present in
Alone/Together; and the third installment in the successful Indian
Dhamaal series,
Total Dhamaal.
In this week's cinema feature, a look at the Academy Awards' long history of infatuation with
actors in musician biopics.