In Theaters: November 3, 2017

There are only two new wide releases this weekend.

LBJ

Oscar bait.

Lyndon B. Johnson was Vice President under John F. Kennedy.  Of course, Big Shot Critic readers know that already, because my audience is sophisticated.

LBJ became President of the USA when JFK was KIA.  This was covered by NBC, CBS, the BBC, and ABC.  FYI, the FBI, CIA, and NSA all claim it was LHO, but he was also KIA, and the real shooter is MIA IMO. DYF?

Anyway, what is Lyndon Johnson known for?  Why is there a movie about him?  He's known for becoming President via the death of another, and there's a movie about him because all the more dramatic presidents have movies already.

LBJ is rated R for language.

Thor: Ragnarok

The conclusion to the trilogies of Marvel's phase one heroes (Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor).

It's hard to see what Marvel is going for with Thor: Ragnarok besides a plain old rip-roarin' good time.  And that worries me.  I'm worried this movie will be really good once, and then eventually just okay with repeat viewings, because you know all the jokes.  There are worse fates for a movie, and I might be wrong anyway.  It certainly looks worth seeing once.

In this installment of Thor, we don't have Jane Foster.  Also, the tone is wildly different (with emphasis on "wild").  The first two Thor movies were the runts of Marvel's movie litter, so they decided to go another direction with this one.  Thor will still be battling forces of evil, but count on him to be having a lot more fun doing it this time.

Thor: Ragnarok is rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, and brief suggestive material.

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