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Based on Joyce Maynard’s 2009 novel, Labor Day marks a departure for director Jason Reitman, best known for indie-coms with a side order of snark, from Thank You For Smoking to Young Adult . A kidnap tale with minimal violence that evolves into a low-temperature romance, this is an odd …

There’s something uneasy about Roman Polanski, a man still wanted for statutory rape in the US, making a film about the apportioning of guilt in absentia. So perhaps it’s fitting that discomfort is the animating force in Carnage , an excruciating chamber comedy adapted from Yasmina Reza’s play. Set in …