Holiday Weekend Movie Forecast: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Revolutionary Road

After a critically-acclaimed run on the festival circuit, Waltz with Bashir gets a limited commercial release tomorrow. Ari Folman's animated film is an illustrated oral history based on interviews he conducted with fellow soldiers who were in war between Israel and Lebanon in the early eighties. The Village Voice's J. Hoberman calls it "a grim, deeply personal phantasmagoria... The thick-lined, near-monochromatic animation is frequently bathed in an eerie yellow light. Folman has said that his documentary was always intended to be an animated feature—the first ever made in Israel... Linking the slaughter of the Palestinians to the experience of Folman's parents in Auschwitz, the filmmaker's analyst-friend points out that 'the massacre has been with you since you were six.'"