Weekend Movie Forecast: Inglourious Basterds or Passing Strange

Five Minutes of Heaven stars Liam Neeson as an Irish Protestant who, in 1975, fatally shot a Catholic dock worker in his home as he watched TV with his 11-year-old brother. The film takes place years later and centers on a televised meeting of reconciliation between the two, but the kid brother has revenge on his mind. Manohla Dargis at the Times calls it "a feature-length talkathon built on a sketchy premise, some unpersuasive psychology, a pinch of politics and strong star turns from Liam Neeson and James Nesbitt... Everyone has their own good reasons, as Jean Renoir puts it in The Rules of the Game. Alistair and Joe have their reasons, but too many seem to have been contrived for this movie."