Weekend Movie Forecast: Where the Wild Things Are or Black Dynamite

Set in Palestine in 1947, The Little Traitor concerns an unlikely friendship between a British soldier, played by the amazing Alfred Molina, and Jewish boy in occupied Palestine. The Hollywood Reporter's Lewis Beale writes, "Despite this promising subject matter, the film runs out of steam two-thirds of the way through and becomes a sort of Palestinian Porky's, ending with a fast-forward 30 years into the future that is confusing and abrupt... The tale of this mismatched pair—the occupier and the occupied—is engaging enough and a nice little lesson in the common threads that bind us all. But by changing course and rushing its ending, Traitor' blows its message—and the audience's sympathy."