KC movie guide: ‘All Saints’ keeps the faith, ‘Leap’ stumbles, ‘Ingrid’ entertains
Opening this week:
“All Saints”: In this true story, John Corbett plays the pastor of a dying Tennessee church that finds new hope in an unexpected direction. Rated PG. Time: 1:48. ☆☆
“Leap!”: Elle Fanning and Dane DeHaan voice this animated tale of an orphan girl who dreams of becoming a ballerina in Paris. Rated PG. Time: 1:29. ☆☆ 1/2
“Ingrid Goes West”: In this pop culture satire, a loner (Aubrey Plaza) becomes obsessed with an Instagram celebrity (Elizabeth Olsen) and begins stalking her. Rated R. Time: 1:37. ☆☆☆
“Birth of the Dragon”: Biopic about street fighter-turned-actor Bruce Lee in his early days in ’60s San Francisco. Rated PG-13. Time: 1:43. ☆☆
“The Trip to Spain”: Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan reteam for this third culinary adventure about slightly fictional versions of themselves indulging in a food-oriented travelogue. Not rated. Time: 1:48. At Rio, Tivoli. ☆☆☆
“Harold & Lillian”: Documentary about Harold and Lillian Michelson, a Hollywood storyboard artist and film researcher, respectively, who quietly contributed to iconic movies. Not rated. Time: 1:34. At Tivoli. ☆☆☆
“Good Time”: “Twilight” escapee Robert Pattinson gets down and dirty as a low-life would-be bank robber trying to get his brother out of prison. Rated R. Time: 1:40. ☆☆
“The Only Living Boy in New York”: A spoiled young man discovers that his father (Pierce Brosnan) is cheating on his mother (Cynthia Nixon). Rated R. Time: 1:28. ☆☆
Also showing:
Rated ☆☆☆
“Baby Driver”: Ansel Elgort is a getaway driver who agrees to a difficult heist with Jon Hamm, Jamie Foxx and Kevin Spacey. Rated R. Time: 1:53. (6/28)
“The Big Sick”: Kumail Nanjiani (“Silicon Valley”) tells the true story of how his girlfriend Emily (Zoe Kazan) — now his wife — went into a coma. Holly Hunter and Ray Romano play her parents. Rated R. Time: 1:59. (7/7)
“Detroit”: Kathryn Bigelow, who won an Oscar for “The Hurt Locker,” commemorates the 50th anniversary of this city’s riots with a drama about those events, starring John Boyega and Anthony Mackie. Rated R. Time: 2:22. (8/4)
“Dunkirk”: Writer/director Christopher Nolan takes us to the French coast of World War II, where Allied forces (including Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hardy and Harry Styles) are looking for escape. Rated PG-13. Time: 1:47. (7/21)
“Girls Trip”: Regina Hall, Jada Pinkett Smith, Queen Latifah and Tiffany Haddish road trip their way into trouble. Rated R. Time: 2:02. (7/21)
“Maudie”: A fact-based story of Maud Lewis (Sally Hawkins), a folk art painter who lived in rural Nova Scotia with her curmudgeon of a husband (Ethan Hawke). Rated PG-13. Time: 1:55. At the Glenwood Arts. (7/21)
“The Midwife”: A midwife gets unexpected news from her father’s former mistress (Catherine Deneuve). In French with subtitles. Not rated. Time: 1:57. At the Tivoli. (8/18)
“Spider-Man: Homecoming”: We met this incarnation of Peter Parker (Tom Holland) in the last Avengers flick. Now he gets his own movie — and villain, Vulture (Michael Keaton). Rated PG-13. Time: 2:13. (7/7)
“Whose Streets?”: Documentary revisits the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., through the eyes of protesters. Rated R. Time: 1:30. At the Tivoli. (8/18)
“Wind River”: Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen try to solve a murder on a Native American reservation. Rated R. Time: 1:47. (8/18)
Rated ☆☆ 1/2
“Atomic Blonde”: Charlize Theron is a lethal 1980s British secret agent dropped into Berlin to investigate a spy ring. Rated R. Time: 1:45. (7/28)
“Brigsby Bear”: Twenty-something James (Kyle Mooney of “Saturday Night Live”) lives in a bunker with his parents (Mark Hamill and Jane Adams) watching tapes of an old kids’ show. And then everything changes. Rated PG-13. Time: 1:40.
“The Glass Castle”: Jeannette Walls’ best-selling memoir about growing up in a dysfunctional family becomes a star-filled movie, with Brie Larson as the grown-up Jeannette and Woody Harrelson and Naomi Watts as her eccentric parents. Rated PG-13. Time: 2:07. (8/11)
“Logan Lucky”: Channing Tatum, Adam Driver and Riley Keough plan a heist during a NASCAR race. Steven Soderbergh, who awhile ago insisted he was retiring, is back to direct. Rated PG-13. Time: 1:59. (8/18)
“Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets”: Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne are space cops in an eye-popping intergalactic city. Director Luc Besson (“The Fifth Element”) adapts the French graphic novel. Rated PG-13. Time: 2:17. (7/21)
“War for the Planet of the Apes”: In this third installment, Caesar (Andy Serkis) gets angry as he guides his apes in a battle against humans, led by a brutal Woody Harrelson. Rated PG-13. Time: 2:13. (7/14)
“Wonder Woman”: Gal Gadot stars in this origin story of the superhero’s Amazonian homeland and her valiant deeds in World War I. Directed by Patty Jenkins (who grew up in Lawrence). Rated PG-13. Time: 2:21. (6/2)
Rated ☆☆
“Annabelle: Creation”: The possessed doll lives on. Rated R. Time: 1:49. (8/11)
“Despicable Me 3”: Gru (Steve Carell) reunites with his long-lost twin brother Dru (also voiced by Carell), who tries to lure him back to his dastardly ways. Rated PG. Time: 1:30. (6/30)
“The Emoji Movie”: An animated adventure about the doo-dads on your phone. Why we care: KC’s Rob Riggle voices an ice cream cone, and Patrick Stewart is Poop. Rated PG. Time: 1:26. (7/28)
“The Hitman’s Bodyguard”: Ryan Reynolds is an agent assigned to protect assassin Samuel L. Jackson from Gary Oldman. Rated R. Time: 1:51. (8/18)
Rated ☆ 1/2
“The Dark Tower”: Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey are locked in battle in this adaptation of Stephen King’s sci-fi Western. Rated PG-13. Time: 1:35. (8/4)
“The Nut Job 2: Nutty By Nature”: Will Arnett and his animated pals try to stop a developer from destroying their home. Rated PG. Time: 1:35. (8/11)
Rated ☆
“Kidnap”: When her son is kidnapped, a single mom (Halle Berry) doesn’t want to wait for the police. She jumps in her minivan and sets off in pursuit. Rated R. Time: 1:34. (8/4)
Sharon Hoffmann: 816-234-4457, @Sharonakc
This story was originally published August 24, 2017 at 2:08 PM with the headline "KC movie guide: ‘All Saints’ keeps the faith, ‘Leap’ stumbles, ‘Ingrid’ entertains."