Ghost in the Shell Looks Great, but Rings Hollow

This week at the movies, we have Scarlett Johansson in the future (Ghost in the Shell, co-starring Michael Pitt) and Alec Baldwin in a diaper (The Boss Baby, with voice work from Steve Buscemi). What are the critics saying?

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Harlots: Season 1

92%

Harlots uses its titillating subject matter to draw the viewer into a deeper drama about the intersection of survival, business, and family.

Imaginary Mary: Season 1

27%

Imaginary Mary‘s appealing cast is canceled out by uninspired material and a ridiculous premise whose deficiencies are compounded by an unfunny, ill-advised CGI creature.

Also Opening This Week In Limited Release

• , a documentary profile of the director and his art, is at 100 percent.
• , which finds filmmaker Petra Epperlein taking a look back at her childhood in East Germany — and her father’s suicide — is at 93 percent.
• , a documentary look at the lives of young women in Brooklyn, is at 91 percent.
• , in which a pair of boarding school students are stalked by an evil presence, is at 74 percent.
• , a documentary look at the tragic aftermath of a woman’s mental illness, is at 67 percent.
• , starring Nathan Lane as a psychiatrist trying to nudge a young genius (Bel Powley) out of her shell, is at 64 percent.
• , about three people drawn together in the wake of a catastrophic epidemic, is at 63 percent.
• , starring Jessica Chastain in a fact-based drama about Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II, is at 56 percent.
• , a dramatization of the real-life friendship between painter Paul Cézanne and writer Emile Zola, is at 50 percent.
• , about a couple whose escape to the Bahamas is nowhere near as idyllic as they’d planned, is at 38 percent.
• , about a Cold War spy who falls for her Communist quarry, is at 11 percent.