Weekend Movie Forecast: Taking Woodstock or The Final Destination

Japanese writer-director Hirokazu Koreeda covers family drama in Still Walking. The Village Voice's Anthony Kaufman decrees, "What's remarkable about Still Walking, Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda's seventh feature film and one every bit as sensitive as his previous triumphs After Life (1998) and Nobody Knows (2004), is that the familiar comes across as fresh. Despite recycling potential clichés—the grouchy elderly father, the disenfranchised second son—Koreeda imbues the story with such specificity, tactility, and humanity that yet another movie about a dysfunctional family reunion becomes a cinematic tone poem."