Fridays openings: Monsters, murder, talking trees

Above : “Last Night in Soho” is one of several films opening on Friday. (Photo/Focus Features)

I’ve already written about “The French Dispatch,” the Wes Anderson film that opens on Friday at AMC River Park Square, Village Centre Wandermere and the Magic Lantern Theatre.

But a number of other films are opening, too:

“Antlers” : Keri Russell stars as a middle-school teacher living in a small Oregon town who runs into an ancient creature with ties to indigenous legends.

John DeFore , Hollywood Reporter: “The troubles of rural America (and, therefore, America as a whole) are understood to be an integral part of the scene here, but this is a story of horrors endured by specific fathers and children, specific pairs of siblings.”

“Last Night in Soho” : A fashion designer wannabe heads to London where she morphs back to the 1960s and encounters a murder mystery.

Cary Darling , Houston Chronicle: “A couple of jump scares aside, it isn’t particularly frightening. But, like the miniskirt, the Nehru jacket and the Jaguar XK-E, it is distinctive.”

“A Mouthful of Air” : A new mother and children’s author (Amanda Seyfried) documents her descent into, and rise from, depression.

No advance reviews available.

“My Hero Academia: World Heroes’ Mission” : In this Japanese-made animated film, a group of superheroes attempts to run down the mastermind behind an act of terrorism.

E.J. Moreno , Flickering myth: “ ‘My Hero Academia’ remains one of the most accessible anime franchises, with the new film being perfectly crafted to delight fans and newcomers.”

“The Hidden Lives of Trees” (at the Magic Lantern only): A documentary study exploring the thesis that forester Peter Wohlleben put forth in a 2015 book that trees can communicate with one another.

Devika Girish , New York Times: “What the film successfully imparts is not so much scientific certainty as an affecting sense of curiosity and reverence, which Wohlleben deploys to a pragmatic end: to argue for the ecological management of forests, which would ensure their communal health and longevity, and therefore that of humankind.”

That’s it for the moment. So go, wear a mask, see a movie. And enjoy.