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natural and is hampered by a treacly score. It’s still an affecting journey, lifted by memorable photography, wonderful performances, and the novel experience of seeing a European film set in New Mexico. Skype Q & A with Beumer follows the 12:45 p.m. Saturday, May 17, screening. Not rated. 96 minutes. In English and Dutch with subtitles. Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe. (Robert Ker) See review, Page 51. PERfORMANCE AT THE SCREEN The series of high-definition screenings continues with a dance performance celebrating the choreography of Crystal Pite, from Nederlands Dans Theater in The Hague. 11 a.m. Sunday, May 19, only. Not rated. 90 minutes. The Screen, Santa Fe. (Not reviewed)
Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, and Bradley Cooper in The Hangover Part III, at Regal Stadium 14 in Santa Fe and DreamCatcher in Española
opening this week THE HANGOVER PART III The pack is back! Again! The Hangover Part II was roundly criticized for being a poor copy of the first film. Will the third installment tread the same ground? Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Justin Bartha, and Zach Galifianakis play four middle-aged men who head to Las Vegas and get into some wild adventures. Maybe the filmmakers are hoping you’ll get drunk and forget you saw the first two films. Opens Wednesday, May 22. Rated R. 100 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española; Storyteller, Taos. (Not reviewed) fAST & fURIOUS 6 Agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) offers professional criminal Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his crew full pardons if they agree to help him take down an organization led by a former British officer turned criminal mastermind. Opens Thursday, May 23. Regal DeVargas; Regal
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Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española; Storyteller, Taos. (Not reviewed) THE ICEMAN Michael Shannon’s popularity is on the rise, primarily by virtue of how good he is at portraying men who alternate between creepiness and kindness. It’s ideal, then, that he should star in this based-on-true-events tale of Richard Kuklinski, a hitman who went home to his family every night for decades and kept the truth about his day job hidden from them. Ray Liotta, an actor who once played the kind of roles that Shannon currently gets, plays Kuklinski’s mob contact. Rated R. 105 minutes. Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. (Not reviewed) JACKIE Dutch director Antoinette Beumer casts two actresses from her country (reallife sisters Carice and Jelka van Houten) as adopted sisters who, upon hearing that their genetic mother (Holly Hunter) needs serious physical therapy, travel to New Mexico to meet her for the first time. At first, they don’t get along, but it’s nothing a little road trip can’t cure. They learn how to become a family through a familiar plot that unfolds too quickly to feel
THE RELUCTANT fUNDAMENTALIST Indian director Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding), based in New York, has taken The Reluctant Fundamentalist, an international bestseller by the Pakistani/British writer Mohsin Hamid, and ramped it up into a psychological and political thriller that is rich in complexity and taut with tension. Riz Ahmed (Trishna) is excellent as Changez, a young Pakistani torn between the fundamentals of two worlds: the sky’s-the-limit opportunities of the American capitalist system and the poverty, tradition, and unrest of his Pakistani roots. Nair delivers a fascinating exploration of duality and perspective. With Liev Schreiber, Kate Hudson, and Kiefer Sutherland. Rated R. 128 minutes. The Screen, Santa Fe. ( Jonathan Richards) See review, Page 48. THE SOURCE fAMILy Communes were all the rage during the countercultural revolution of the 1960s and ’70s, but few were as attractive, sexually active, or musically inclined as Father Yod (aka Jim Baker) and his Source Family. Baker, a man with a checkered past, began gathering devotees at his successful Source restaurant in Los Angeles in 1970, attracting them with peaceand-love soliloquies, implied promises of sex (he called it balling), and only one inhalation of “magic herb” each morning. Soon the members all moved in together. Filmmakers Maria Demopoulos and Jodi Wille use period footage and recent interviews to make Father Yod’s devotees, if not the father himself, sympathetic. There are a number of lessons to be learned here — not the least of which is that utopia never lasts — but only if you read between the lines. Not rated. 98 minutes. Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe. (Bill Kohlhaase) See review, Page 49.