It’s Thanksgiving week and there are movies to see. Some great ones too and seven of them are covered this week by Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy. Shih-Ching Tsou, a producer of Sean Baker’s films, returns behind the camera with a unique family drama on Netflix (Left-Handed Girl) where you can also see a fascinating journalistic mystery about the Vietnam War (The Stringer: The Man Who Took The Photo). Brendan Fraser takes on a unique acting challenge in Japan (Rental Family) while Miles Teller & Elizabeth Olsen die and must figure out if they want to spend the afterlife with each other (Eternity). Chloe Zhao delivers the emotional wringer of the year (Hamnet) while Rian Johnson gives us the third chapter of his fantastic Knives Out series (Wake Up Dead Man). Finally it’s been nine years by Disney takes us back to the animal world for another timely mystery (Zootopia 2).

3:46 - Left-Handed Girl

10:32 - Rental Family

22:23 - The Stringer: The Man Who Took The Photo

31:42 - Eternity

45:43 - Hamnet

58:50 - Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

1:13:02 - Zootopia 2

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