Curt on the movies

Robert Pattinson plays Mickey, an expendable who lives and dies and lives again in the name of research as part of a future space colony in Bong Joon-ho’s ‘Mickey 17’.

In ‘Last Breath’, a crew of deep sea divers must scramble to save the life of one of their own, who is stranded at the bottom of the North Sea.

A toy monkey from hell brings death and chaos as it’s handed down through generations of the Shelburn family in ‘The Monkey’, the new horror comedy from Osgood Perkins.

In ‘Nickel Boys’, two teenage boys build a friendship and attempt to survive a racist reform school in the Deep South.

In Greg Kwedar’s ‘Sing Sing’, inmates of a maximum security prison join a theater program to escape and process their struggles.

An elegant character study, driven by strong performances, ‘A Real Pain’ shows how our ancestry haunts us, but doesn’t erase our present anxieties.