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Crisis is a political crime thriller, written and directed by Nicholas Jarecki ( Arbitrage). Its three interconnected segments deal with the legal and illegal drug business. One of the narrative strands is particularly hard-hitting and compelling, pointing to the profiteering and homicidal activities of the giant pharmaceutical companies. The movie was the highest-grossing independent film at the US box office on its opening weekend and became the highest-grossing film playing in limited release. Crisis opens with the arrest of a young drug runner illegally crossing the US-Canada border south...

Check out the new DVDs, Blu-rays and streaming shows (Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, BritBox, Disney+, Acorn TV and more) coming out this week, including Crisis starring Evangeline Lilly and Gary Oldman . ~Alexandra Heilbron Crisis – Searching for her missing son, Claire (Evangeline Lilly), who is recovering from an oxycodone addiction, discovers that a boy caught smuggling drugs at the border was her son. Meanwhile, Dr. Tyrone Brower (Gary Oldman), who works for a drug company at the forefront of a new “non-addictive” painkiller medication, discovers that their new drug is causing lab ...

February 26, 2021 CRISIS is a well-intentioned and-well shot – on 35mm, no less – thriller about the opioid epidemic. Director/writer Nicholas Jarecki has a lot on his mind here – so much, in fact, that he’s got three distinct plotlines running here. One of these never links up with the other two, which is among the film’s several problems. A serene, snowy landscape is interrupted by the hectic arrest of a young drug smuggler at the U.S./Canada border south of Montreal. Then we’re in Detroit, where grumpy high-level drug dealer Jake Kelly (Armie Hammer) turns out to be an even gr...

Photo: Philippe Bosse “Crisis,” the thoughtful film directed and written by Nicholas Jarecki, is definitely worth your consideration. Timing, as has long been said, is everything and this film should have been blessed by the timing of the revelations into the OxyContin industry and the part played by Purdue Pharmaceuticals and the Sackler family. Instead it is damned by the timing of the sexual abuse allegations against the film’s star, Armie Hammer. Still, in a baby with the bathwater comparison, the message and the storytelling in “Crisis” should override the ick factor. “Crisis...

RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON: 3 ½ STARS If you look on IMDb, there are dozens of titles containing the phrase “dragon slayer.” Movie dragons, by and large have been of the Smaug variety, a beast “The Hobbit” author J.R.R. Tolkien described as “a most specially greedy, strong and wicked worm.” There are exceptions of course, like the “How to Train Your Dragon” creatures and the wyvern in “The Reluctant Dragon” who would rather recite poetry than cause havoc. “You’ve got to be mad to breathe fire,” he says, “but I’m not mad at anybody.” This week we can add Sisu...