8 Out & About AMost Violent Year


(15) ABELMorales (Oscar Isaac) owns a fleet of oil transport trucks. He’s a small player but hopes to expand by clinching a deal for property on the Brooklyn waterfront that will allowhim to take delivery of oil from the river. Having put down$700,000 as a deposit, Abel has 30 days to close the transaction or the vendor keeps the downpay- ment and can sell the land to a competitor. Soon after, Abel learns one of his trucks has been hijacked and the driver Julian (Elyes Gabel) badly beaten. Union rep Bill O’Leary (Peter Gerety) asks Abel to let the drivers carry unlicenced guns but the boss objects, knowing it will take just one stray bullet to arouse the suspicions of the crusading Assistant District Attorney (David Oyelowo). Threats to Abel’s livelihood become personal, targeting his children and wife Anna (Jessica Chastain). Rating: Four stars


Ex Machina (15) NATHAN(Domhnall Gleeson) is a programmer at a high-tech firmrun by the enigmatic Caleb (Oscar Isaac). Out of the blue, Nathan wins a weekend at the CEO’s island retreat. At the compound, he learns he was hand-picked by Caleb to interrogate a functioning artificial intelligence proto- type called Ava (Alicia Vikander). Very quickly, Nathan grows emotionally attached to Ava and he is dis- tressedwhen she warns him not to trust Caleb. The pro- grammer’s emotions are fur- ther complicatedwhen he learns Ava is the latest itera- tion of the CEO’s secret work and will be scrapped to


TARGET: Jessica Chastain in A24’s A Most Violent Year


make way for a newer model. Rating: Four stars


The Gambler (15) GAMBLINGcollege profes- sor Jim Bennett (Mark Wahlberg) strides into an underground den run by one of his creditors, Mister Lee (Alvin Ing). The night ends badly, as usual, leaving Jim with seven days to find $240,000. Without enough money to stake at a table, Jim borrows $50,000 from Neville Baraka (Michael Kenneth Williams) and also turns to his mother (Jessica


Lange).Afurther loan from a hulking gangster called Frank (John Goodman) gives Jim the collateral he needs to gamble back into the black.Meanwhile, Jim sparks an affair with his pupil,Amy(Brie Larson). As time runs out for Jim to set- tle his debts, Neville warns he will killAmy. Rating: Three stars


Whiplash (15)


NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller) is determined to excel at his Manhattan


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music conservatory so he practises night and day and catches the eye of the school’s most revered teach- er, Terence Fletcher (JK Simmons). Soon after, Andrew transfers to Fletcher’s class and becomes the alternate drummer in the band behind lead player Carl (Nate Lang). When the opportunity arises for Andrew to impress, he rises to the occasion but alienates himself from the rest of the band.Agameof one-upman- ship between teacher and pupil spirals out of control


as Andrew struggles to meet the expectations of his maniacal mentor and earn the right to play at a concert in Carnegie Hall. Rating: Five stars


Wild (15) IN 1994, 26-year-old Cheryl Strayed decided to come to terms with the death of her mother by embarking on a 1,100-mile solo trek along the Pacific Crest Trail. Jean- Marc Vallee’s film opens with Cheryl (Reese Witherspoon) standing on a ridge above a breathtaking


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northern Californian vista. She removes one of her hik- ing boots and a bloodied sock then tears off a loose toenail. The jolt of pain sparks a miasma of flashbacks to Cheryl’s past and her bond with her mother Bobbi (Laura Dern),who is diag- nosed with lung cancer and dieswhen Cheryl is 22. There are scenes of domestic inti- macy and tension with her ex-husband Paul (Thomas Sadoski), and her best friend Aimee (Gaby Hoffmann). Her exhausting journey is punc- tuated by nightmarish memo- ries of Cheryl’s descent into sex and alcohol-fuelled oblivi- on – a futile effort to salve the pain of Bobbi’s death,which sounds the death knell for her marriage. Rating: Four stars


American Sniper (15) DURINGfour tours of duty in Iraq, Chris Kyle gained the reputation as the most lethal sniper in American military history, with 160 confirmed kills.When he returned home, he worked with veter- ans suffering from post-trau- matic stress disorder, but was killed by one of those veter- ans on a shooting range. His achievements are celebrated in Clint Eastwood’s biopic, which opens on a rooftop in Iraq with Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) staring downa tele- scopic sight as a womanand her young son emerge from a building. Tensions steadily cranks up as Kyle places his finger on the trigger.We rewind initially to Chris’ childhood,where he learns howto handle a gun with his fatherWayne (Ben Reed). When dreams of bull-riding turn sour, Chris enlists and attempts to outwit an elusive rival sniper called Mustafa (Sammy Sheik). Rating: Four stars


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