Cosmopolis

Cronenberg’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s novel about a young billionaire taking an apocalyptic limo ride across Manhattan is “a weird, heady and entrancing portrait of individual alienation in a super-rich, corporate world where money, sex, love, happiness and death are rapidly losing all meaning.” (Time Out London) (In other words,

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

When a group of British pensioners abandon their homeland for the promised (if not actual) luxury of the eponymous Indian hotel, the result is “charming, delightful and amusing — just what you’d expect from the star-studded cast of veterans” including Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy and Tom Wilkinson. (Empire)

The Avengers

When writer/director Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Serenity, The Cabin in the Woods) teams up with Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Black Widow, Hawkeye and The Hulk, the bad guys don’t stand a chance.

Airport ’79 – The Concorde

IT’S A DISASTER! Terrorists try to bring down the Concorde on its maiden flight, but luckily for the passengers — including Alain Delon, Susan Blakely, Robert Wagner, Sylvia (Emmanuelle) Kristel, Eddie Albert, Charo, John Davidson, Jimmie Walker and David Warner — the man in the cockpit is George Kennedy (the

Airport ’77

IT’S A DISASTER! A hijacked 747 makes an unexpected landing under 100 feet of water, leaving its passengers — including Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Brenda Vaccaro, Joseph Cotton, Olivia de Havilland, James Stewart, George Kennedy, Darren McGavin, Christopher Lee and Gil Gerard — anything but straight and in the upright

Jatt & Juliet

The Maiden Danced to Death

FILMMAKERS IN ATTENDANCE Steve returns to his native Hungary after 20 years in Canada, determined to make an international success of the dance troupe he left behind — which is now headed by his brother — in this meticulously choreographed examination of sibling rivalry and the realities of the new

Bernie

A small-town Texas mortician (Jack Black) strikes up a lifelong (though not long) friendship with a wealthy widow (Shirley MacLaine) in this based-on-a-true-story from director Linklater (School of Rock, Dazed and Confused). Jack Black’s “performance… is so weirdly sweet and restrained (even as he breaks into show-tunes) that it might

Psycho II

PSYCHO DOUBLE BILL | PRECEDED BY PSYCHO THE SAME NIGHT After 22 years in psychiatric care, Norman Bates is released, having been declared sane. He’s not. (Anthony Perkins also stars in Destroyer, playing July 20)

Steele Justice

SATURDAY NIGHT SINEMA | FREE FOR MEMBERS When the police are helpless to stop the ruthless drug lord that killed his best friend (and fellow Viet Nam veteran), it’s up to John Steele (friend of the Mayfair Martin Kove) to bring some justice back to the streets. (Which he does,