This week's movie openings

August 6, 2017 at 3:23AM
Woody Harrelson as "Rex Walls" and Ella Anderson as "Young Jeannette" in THE GLASS CASTLE. Photo by Jake Giles Netter.
Woody Harrelson and Ella Anderson star in “The Glass Castle.” (The Minnesota Star Tribune)
opening Friday

Afterimage (not rated) The story of charismatic painter Wladyslaw Strzeminski.

Annabelle: Creation (R) After the death of their daughter, a dollmaker and his wife become the target of a possessed doll.

Brigsby Bear (PG-13) Upon being freed from the kidnappers he thought were his parents, a man (Kyle Mooney) sets out to make a movie.

Escapes (not rated) A chronicle of the life of Blade Runner screenwriter Hampton Fancher.

The Glass Castle (PG-13) A girl comes of age in a dysfunctional, poverty-stricken family. Based on Jeannette Walls' memoir; starring Brie Larson, Naomi Watts and Woody Harrelson.

The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature (PG) Surly and his friends must stop Oakton's mayor from destroying their home.

Step (PG) The senior year of a girls' high-school dance team in inner-city Baltimore.

Wind River (R) An FBI agent teams with a game tracker to investigate a murder on a Native American reservation.

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