Paul Sparks & Caitlin FitzGerald in Lost on a Mountain in Maine Credit: Courtesy of Blue Fox Entertainment

new in theaters

ABSOLUTION: Liam Neeson stars in this crime thriller as an aging gangster trying to right past wrongs. Hans Petter Moland (Cold Pursuit) directed. (112 min, R. Essex, Majestic)

HERE: The latest from director Robert Zemeckis follows the events on a single plot of land as time passes and different people make it a home. Tom Hanks, Robin Wright and Paul Bettany star. (104 min, PG-13. Capitol, Essex, Majestic)

HITPIG: Berkeley Breathed is among the writers of this animated comedy about a porcine bounty hunter (voice of Jason Sudeikis) pursuing a dancing elephant. With Andy Serkis and Rainn Wilson. (86 min, PG. Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Paramount)

LOST ON A MOUNTAIN IN MAINE: Based on a true story, this adventure drama from director Andrew Boodhoo Kightlinger is the riveting survival tale of a 12-year-old (Luke David Blumm) who becomes stranded on Mount Katahdin. (98 min, PG. Capitol, Essex, Roxy)

currently playing

THE APPRENTICE ★★★ Sebastian Stan plays the young Donald Trump in this biopic about his real estate dealings; Maria Bakalova is Ivana. Ali Abbasi (Border) directed. (120 min, R. Roxy)

BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE ★★★1/2 A grown-up Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder) must save her daughter in this Tim Burton fantasy sequel, partially shot in Vermont. (104 min, PG-13. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Sunset; reviewed 9/11)

CONCLAVE ★★★★ A conspiracy interferes with the selection of a new pope in this thriller starring Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci, directed by Edward Berger. (120 min, PG. Majestic)

DAYTIME REVOLUTION ★★★1/2 Erik Nelson’s documentary revisits what happened when John Lennon and Yoko Ono hosted “The Mike Douglas Show” for a week in 1972. (108 min, NR. Catamount)

A DIFFERENT MAN ★★★★ An aspiring actor (Sebastian Stan) regrets his drastic plastic surgery and fixates on his old face in this Golden Berlin Bear nominee from director Aaron Schimberg. (112 min, R. Savoy)

EXHIBITING FORGIVENESS: An artist faces a reckoning with his estranged father in this Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize nominee, directed by Titus Kaphar and starring André Holland and John Earl Jelks. (117 min, R. Savoy)

JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX ★★★ Gotham City’s notorious institutionalized spree killer (Joaquin Phoenix) finds love (Lady Gaga) in Todd Phillips’ comic-book-adjacent musical sequel. (138 min, R. Playhouse; reviewed 10/9)

THE OUTRUN ★★★1/2 Saoirse Ronan plays a woman who returns to her Orkney Island birthplace to confront her past in this festival fave drama from Nora Fingscheidt. (188 min, R. Savoy)

RUMOURS ★★★1/2 Canadian experimentalist Guy Maddin codirected this dark comedy about a G7 summit turned weird. Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander and Charles Dance play world leaders. (103 min, R. Savoy)

SATURDAY NIGHT ★★★1/2 Jason Reitman’s comedy-drama chronicles the 90 minutes before the 1975 premiere of “Saturday Night Live.” Gabriel LaBelle and Rachel Sennott star. (109 min, R. Big Picture, Essex, Majestic, Playhouse, Roxy; reviewed 10/16)

SMILE 2 ★★★1/2 In the sequel to the horror hit, a pop star (Naomi Scott) is stalked by … a cheery expression? With Kyle Gallner and Drew Barrymore; Parker Finn again directed. (127 min, R. Bijou, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Paramount, Roxy, Star, Sunset, Welden)

THE SUBSTANCE ★★★★1/2 Coralie Fargeat (Revenge) wrote and directed this horror drama about a celebrity (Demi Moore) seeking the fountain of youth, also starring Margaret Qualley. (140 min, R. Roxy; reviewed 9/25)

TERRIFIER 3 ★★★ Art the Clown (David Howard Thornton) gets his own holiday movie in the third installment of this cult gore-fest. “Unrated” means don’t bring kids. Damien Leone directed. (125 min, NR. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Roxy, Stowe, Sunset)

VENOM: THE LAST DANCE ★★ Tom Hardy returns as the Marvel Comics character in a complicated relationship with an alien symbiote. Kelly Marcel directed. (109 min, PG-13. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Paramount, Roxy, Star, Stowe, Sunset, Welden)

WE LIVE IN TIME ★★★1/2 John Crowley (Brooklyn) directed this romance starring Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh, with the nonlinear action spanning decades. (107 min, R. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Roxy, Savoy, Star; reviewed 10/30)

WHITE BIRD ★★1/2 A boy learns life lessons from his grandmother’s story of escaping Nazi-occupied France in this family drama. (120 min, PG-13. Big Picture)

THE WILD ROBOT ★★★★1/2 A shipwrecked robot becomes caretaker to an orphaned gosling in this animated family adventure from Chris Sanders, with the voices of Lupita Nyong’o and Pedro Pascal. (101 min, PG. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Star, Stowe)

older films and special screenings

THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER (Essex, Star; Sat only)

ELF (Sunset)

GOODBOY (Savoy, Sat only)

HOCUS POCUS (Majestic, Welden, Sunset)

JOHN WICK: 10TH ANNIVERSARY (Essex, Sun only)

KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE (Essex, Wed 30 only)

THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (Sunset)

NOVEMBER (Catamount, Wed 30 only)

PUPPY LOVE (Savoy, Wed 6 only)

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (Roxy, Savoy)

open theaters

(* = upcoming schedule for theater was not available at press time)

This article appears in Oct 30 – Nov 5, 2024.

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Margot Harrison is a consulting editor and film critic at Seven Days. Her film reviews appear every week in the paper and online. In 2024, she won the Jim Ridley Award for arts criticism from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia. Her book reviews...