Featured Film:

The Post at the Pacific Place

The weirdest movie month of the year, the time when studios both expand their biggest award-hopefuls and dump their trashiest genre fare, begins this week with the latest from Steven Spielberg, playing exclusively at the Pacific Place. It’s the story of the second newspaper to publish excerpts from Daniel Ellsberg’s Pentagon Papers, the classified history of US involvement in Vietnam, and of the internal conflicts between the Washington Post’s publisher, Meryl Streep’s Katharine Graham and its editor, Tom Hanks. This is the kind of sturdy liberal procedural Spielberg has excelled at in recent years, and while it doesn’t hit the heights of Lincoln and is vastly more self-important than Bridge of Spies, it does work as a stealth reunion of Mr. Show. I reviewed it back in December.

Playing This Week:

AMC Alderwood:

Hostiles (Scott Cooper) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Along With The Gods: The Two Worlds (Kim Yong-hwa) Fri-Thurs

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

The Florida Project (Sean Baker) Fri-Thurs Our Review Our Other Review

Central Cinema:

Labyrinth (Jim Henson, 1986) Fri-Mon Sing-along Monday
Deadpool (Tim Miller, 2016) Fri-Sun

Century Federal Way:

Along With The Gods: The Two Worlds (Kim Yong-hwa) Fri-Thurs

Grand Cinema:

Thelma (Joachim Trier) Sat Only
God’s Own Country (Francis Lee) Tues Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

The Square (Ruben Östlund) Fri-Thurs
Saturday Secret Matinee: Alien Invasion! Sat Only 16mm

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino) Fri-Thurs
I, Tonya (Craig Gillespie) Fri-Thurs
Hostiles (Scott Cooper) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Velaikkaran (Mohan Raja) Fri-Thurs
Okka Kshanam (VI Anand) Fri-Thurs
Tiger Zinda Hai (Ali Abbas Zafar) Fri-Thurs

Regal Meridian:

Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino) Fri-Thurs
Goldbuster (Sandra Ng) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Hanson and the Beast (Yang Xiao) Fri-Thurs
Hostiles (Scott Cooper) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Northwest Film Forum:

Bugs (Andreas Johnsen) Fri-Sun
Félicité (Alain Gomis) Fri-Sun
Aida’s Secrets (Alan Schwarz & Saul Schwarz) Weds-Sun

AMC Pacific Place:

The Post (Steven Spielberg) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Youth (Feng Xiaogang) Fri-Thurs
Ex Files 3 (Tian Yusheng) Fri-Thurs

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Tiger Zinda Hai (Ali Abbas Zafar) Fri-Thurs

AMC Seattle:

Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino) Fri-Thurs
I, Tonya (Craig Gillespie) Fri-Thurs

Seattle Art Museum:

Summer with Monika (Ingmar Bergman, 1953) Thurs Only

SIFF Uptown:

Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino) Fri-Thurs
I, Tonya (Craig Gillespie) Fri-Thurs
Borg vs. McEnroe (Janus Metz) Thurs Only

In Wide Release:

The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson) Our Review Our Podcast
Downsizing (Alexander Payne) Our Review
The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro) Our Review
Pitch Perfect 3 (Trish Sie) Our Review
Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig) Our Review
The Disaster Artist (James Franco) Our Review
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh) Our Review