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Outlaw King

Sir Robert the Bruce (a steely-eyed Chris Pine) fights to free Scotland from the despotic clutches of England’s King Edward I.

Every Act of Life

A delightful recap of the career of one of the most prolific playwrights of our time, Terrence McNally.

Fail State

A serious, sober, and engrossing documentary about worthless degrees and backbreaking debt.

The Cakemaker

A complex story of love and mourning (with a lot of pastry porn, for those titillated by the film’s title).

Mario

Using professional soccer as its setting, this German film asks the timely question of whether homosexuality can ever be accepted in professional sports.

The Sentence

As a depiction of how a family overcomes a most unimaginable crisis, this documentary is triumphant. As a call for criminal justice reform, it is powerful and convincing.