Thank You for Your Service (pictured) sensitively explores traumatized veterans returning home, but gives short shrift to the struggles of their families. Director/co-writer George Clooney's Suburbicon awkwardly pastes a Coen brothers morality tale onto a heavy-elbowed jab at 1950s white suburban hypocrisy. The dazzling visual gimmick of Loving Vincent—hand-painting a tale related to the mysterious death of Vincent van Gogh—ultimately overwhelms its narrative.
Eric D. Snider finds a respectable enough exploitation flick, as these things go, in the return of Saw's moralist murderer in Jigsaw. The suspense thriller All I See Is You stylishly spins its wheels while never making it clear what the movie is about.
In this week's feature review, the origin story of Winnie-the-Pooh becomes yet another tale of a sad British writer in Goodbye Christopher Robin.
Also opening this week, but not screened for press: An atheist's near-death experience sets him on a course of Christian conversion as Kevin Sorbo directs and stars in Let There Be Light.