OPENING Empire Waist. A plus-sized, insecure teen's talent for fashion is discovered by her confident, plus-sized classmate, forcing her into the spotlight and into the path of both bullies and new friends in this movie that wasn't screened in advance for critics. PG-13.
(Grand). Howl's Moving Castle. Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki's story of a girl turned into a 90-year-old woman who has to go to a castle to break the spell returns to theaters on its 20th anniversary.
PG. (Grand). Grade: A Lee.
Kate Winslet transforms into Vogue photographer Elizabeth “Lee” Miller, who captured extraordinary images from the World War II frontlines, in this respectable, if standard biopic. R. (Grand).
Grade: B Megalopolis. A conservative politician and a forward-thinking urban designer clash over a mythic city’s future with unwieldy results in director Francis Ford Coppola's deeply personal, but sloppy allegory on his relationship to art. R.
(Grand). Grade: B People are also reading..
. The Mother of All Lies. This award-winning Moroccan documentary looks at a family history and that of the country through the memories triggered by a cardboard miniature reconstruction of a Casablanca neighborhood.
Unrated. (Ross) Grade: A My Old Ass. A teenage girl hallucinates her 39-year-old self to get advice on living her life in this supernatural twist on the coming-of-age story.
R. (Grand). Grade: B Vindicating Trump.
Right-wing conspiracy theorist Dinesh D'Souza looks at the political an.
