Jia Zhang-ke's A Touch of Sin, which took best screenplay at this year's Cannes Film Festival, opens Friday at Music Box; our long review is here. We also recommend Alexander Payne's Nebraska, about an old man (Bruce Dern) and his grown son (Will Forte) driving cross-country to claim a sweepstakes prize, and Stephen Frears's Philomena (opening Wednesday, November 27), about an elderly Irish woman (Judi Dench) and a British journalist (Steve Coogan) trying to track down the son she gave up for adoption a half-century earlier.…
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