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NOVEMBER 23, 2017

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“MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS” ((PG-13) [VIOLENCE AND THEMATIC ELEMENTS.] — After the legendary Orient Express luxury train leaves Istanbul in 1934 and an unsavory child killer (Johnny Depp) is found murdered in this love-it-or-hate-it, well-acted, unevenly paced, dialogue-heavy, thoughtprovoking, 114-minute remake of the 1974 classic film based on Agatha Christie’s 1934 mystery novel and highlighted by gorgeous cinematography and striking period wardrobe, the famous, meticulous, mustache-sporting detective Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) begins to investigate the murder and to interview possible suspects (Judi Dench, Derek Jacobi, Michelle Pfeiffer, Penélope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Josh Gad, Lucy Boynton, Daisy Ridley, Leslie Odom Jr., Tom Bateman, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Sergei Polunin and Ziad Abaza) while on board the stalled train in an attempt to deduce who stabbed the victim to death.

SUNRISE / SUNSET

WEATHER TIDBIT

Wed Nov.

7:20

4:37

Thu Nov.

7:21

4:37

Fri

Nov.

7:23

4:36

Sat Nov.

7:24

4:35

Sun Nov.

7:25

4:35

I haven’t really “officially” released my winter forecast, so I might as well this week. We got off to a quick start to the snow season with several inches in October, but since then snow has been scarce. In fact, there doesn’t appear to be a Thanksgiving day storm in the forecast. Despite all this, I think we’ll receive 60 plus inches. Temperatures have rebounded after a cold start in early November, and it would be easy to say warmer than normal winter given our current climate situation. Despite this, I’m leaning toward a colder than normal winter.

Mon Nov.

7:26

4:34

SIDE NOTE

Tue Nov.

7:27

4:34

Crossword

[LANGUAGE THROUGHOUT INCLUDING SOME SEXUAL REFERENCES.] — After a widowed Naval exchange stocking clerk (Steve Carell) learns that his only son died while serving in Iraq in this touching, captivating, well-acted, quirky, unevenly paced, witty, 124-minute sequel to “The Last Detail,” the former Navy medic finds his two Vietnam Marine buddies, a heavy-drinking Virginia bar owner (Bryan Cranston) and a married preacher (Laurence Fishburne) in 2003, and they go on one wacky detour after another when he asks them to help him bury his son in New Hampshire after ignoring the advice of a hard-nosed colonel (Yul Vazquez) to bury him at Arlington Cemetery, and accept the help of his son’s friend (J. Quinton Johnson), who was with him when he died.

[THEMATIC ELEMENTS, INCLUDING BULLYING, AND SOME MILD LANGUAGE.] — A touching, inspirational, heartwarming, 113-minute film based on R.J. Palacio’s bestselling novel in which a smart, facially disfigured fifth-grader (Jacob Tremblay) who lives with his parents (Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson) and older sister (Izabela Vidovic) in New York City, tries desperately to navigate his first days at his prep school with the help of a compassionate principal (Mandy Patinkin) and to fit in with other students (Noah Jupe, Millie Davis, Bryce Gheisar, Ty Consiglio, et al.) when some of them bully and ostracize him.

WENDY SCHADEWALD The preceding films were reviewed by Wendy Schadewald, who has been a Twin Cities film critic since 1986. To see more of her film reviews, log on to www.shortredheadreelreviews.com

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“LADY BIRD” (R)

“WONDER” (PG)

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“LAST FLAG FLYING” (R)

[LANGUAGE, SEXUAL CONTENT, BRIEF GRAPHIC NUDITY AND TEEN PARTYING.] — An engaging, realistic, down-to-earth, star-dotted (Lois Smith, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Bob Stephenson, Jake McDorman and Andy Buckley), coming-of-age, 93-minute comedic drama that follows the senior year in 2003 of a Catholic high school student (Saoirse Ronan) who lives with her middle-class parents (Laurie Metcalf and Tracy Letts) and grocery clerk brother (Jordan Rodrigues) in Sacramento, as she dreams of attending college on the East Coast, struggles with her relationship with her best friend (Beanie Feldstein) after she begins to hang out with a popular student (Odeya Rush), and explores the dating scene when she meets a handsome student (Lucas Hedges) during auditions for the school musical and later an immature, free-spirited musician (Timothée Chalamet) to whom she loses her virginity.

WEEKLY AVERAGES NOV. 22 - 28, 2017

CLUES ACROSS

1. Female deer 4. Unfashionable people 8. Entranceway 10. Courteous 11. Level 12. Deli meat 13. Details 15. Stole 16. A genus of bee 17. Expressed as digits 18. Your child’s daughter 21. __ and flow 22. Small amount 23. Revolutions per minute 24. Criticize 25. Snake-like fish 26. Cooling mechanism 27. Inquiry 34. Engage in political activity 35. The lowest adult male singing voice 36. Endings 37. Irises 38. The highest parts 39. Kimono sashes 40. Bewilders 41. Mentally healthy 42. Used to traverse snow 43. Inflamed

CLUES DOWN

1. Adventurous 2. Deliverer of speeches 3. Skin condition 4. Widened 5. James Cameron ﬁlm 6. The 3rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet 7. Moved along a surface 9. Pharmacological agent 10. Charity 12. Seeing someone famous 14. Not happy 15. Farm animal 17. Give a nickname to 19. Uses up 20. Type of missile (abbr.) 23. Criticizes 24. Midwife 25. Entwined 26. Supervises interstate commerce 27. A way to convert 28. Female sibling 29. TV network 30. Tropical Asian plant 31. Line on a map 32. Denotes songbirds 33. Made publicly known 34. He devise

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