Or die trying

Pre-holiday weekend early closing double feature

Slow West

Crit

In case you hadn't yet figured it out, the nearly final montage makes it clear that no matter how the 21st century has redefined the western as something quirky and antiheroic and myth remaking, the old West was most efficient as a killing field.

Jay (Kodi Smit-McPhee) is the young naïf, in the New World looking for his one true Rose, who has come to America with her father after an "accident" forced them to flee Scotland. Silas (Michael Fassbinder) is the thoroughly disillusioned bounty hunter, who becomes Jay's chaperon while pursuing his own agenda.

Spoiler alert: bad things happen.

Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann (The 100-year-old man who climbed out the window and disappeared

Crit

An determinedly quirky and whimsical and off-beat tale of a sort of pyrotechnic Swedish Zelig--a tale, in fact, that works so hard being quirky and whimsical and off-beat that after amusing me for about 10 minutes, it annoyed me for the next hour and left me thoroughly exhausted by the end of its overlong 114-minute running time.

Trailers

• Infinitely Polar Bear--Bipolar Dad raising two adorable (oh: and racially mixed, thus making them even more adorable) daughters while Mom pursues career opportunities in the big city.
• Mr. Holmes--Sherlock is senile, but on the other hand, he's also Ian McKellen.