Other holiday releases
Tron: Legacy; True Grit; Somewhere
Tron: Legacy
This sequel to a 1982 sci-fi classic isn’t just “another attempt to mine ’80s nostalgia,” said Time Out Chicago. You know the 3-D update has got to be good if Jeff Bridges agreed to reprise his role as a computer hacker trapped inside a digital universe. Bridges never works just for a paycheck. Opens Dec. 17
True Grit
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Joel and Ethan Coen, masters of the post-modern Western, are this time giving us “the real McCoy,” said The Philadelphia Inquirer. The brothers’ alternate read on a 1969 John Wayne movie also has Bridges—here playing a “grizzled lawman” who helps a headstrong girl find her father’s murderer. Opens Dec. 22
Somewhere
Stephen Dorff stars in Sofia Coppola’s latest, about an actor rescued from an empty Hollywood existence by his teenage daughter. Like Coppola’s Lost in Translation, said the A.V. Club, Somewhere relies heavily on mood, so you’ll likely find it “either beautifully melancholy or arid and pretentious.” Opens Dec. 22 (limited)
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