In this week’s issue Ben Sachs reviews Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus, a new Chilean feature by Sebastian Silva (The Maid) in which Michael Cera talks some pals into going in search of a hallucinogenic desert plant, and I review Rufus Norris’s Broken, a British reworking of To Kill a Mockingbird starring Tim Roth and Cillian Murphy. We’ve also got recommended reviews for Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale Station, which re-creates the 2009 killing of an unarmed Oakland man by transit police, and Chad Hartigan's This Is Martin Bonner, about two isolated middle-aged men inching toward friendship.…
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