True crime, teen moms and global tragedy in cinemas this week
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A true crime thriller with black-comic energy, a generation-spanning tale of Palestinian dislocation, babies having babies in Belgium, and a colonial trail of tears that circumnavigates the globe — 2026 is getting off to a robust cinematic start.
And there's still time to catch colorful holiday awards contenders — from pink and green witches, to songs sung blue, to ping pong balls glowing orange — before Sunday's Golden Globes.
Dead Man's Wire
In limited theaters Friday, expands next week
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Gus Van Sant's whip-smart true-crime dramatization of a 1970s hostage incident nods, on occasion, to Sidney Lumet's Dog Day Afternoon, while crackling with a black-comic energy all its own. On February 8, 1977, Indianapolis businessman Tony Kiritzis (Bill Skarsgård) kidnapped Richard Hall, a mortgage company president (Stranger Things' Dacre Montgomery), claiming that Hall's company had sabotaged his real estate investment. Kiritzis rigged a 12-gauge shotgun with a hair-trigger "dead man's wire" around Hall's neck, ensurin
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