In this week’s issue Leor Galil takes a hard look at Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq, which opens Friday after considerable hubbub. And we’ve got capsule reviews of: The Armor of Light, a documentary about a rabidly pro-life evangelical leader who becomes a convert to gun control; Creed, the new Rocky sequel, written and directed by Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station); The Dark Valley, a German western about a vendetta playing out in a frontier town; The Forbidden Room, the latest camp fantasia from Canadian director Guy Maddin (The Saddest Music in the World); James White, a powerful indie drama with Christopher Abbott and Cynthia Nixon; Janis: Little Girl Blue, a new documentary portrait of Janis Joplin; Legend, starring Tom Hardy as the British gangsters Ronnie and Reggie Kray; Movement + Location, a low-budget sci-fi drama about time travelers; and The Office, a Chinese musical from crime-movie specialist Johnnie To (Election, Sparrow).
