Opening this week: Cartoons, cannibals and more

Above : The Disney Studios animated feature “Strange World” opens this week. (Photo/Walt Disney Studios)

As usual, this Thanksgiving holiday means that movies that typically open on Friday will open early – as early as last (Tuesday) night, in fact. And there are a lot of them.

A short summary of the coming week’s openings is as follows:

“The Fabelmans” : Steven Spielberg directed and co-wrote (with Tony Kushner) this story of a young boy obsessed with filmmaking and the family issues he is forced to face.

The Washington Post’s Ann Hornaday wrote, ” ‘The Fabelmans’ does it all, with an expansive spirit and that quintessential Spielbergian combination of honesty and sentiment.”

“Glass Onions: A Knives Out Mystery” : Daniel Craig returns as detective Benoit Blanc who this time find himself at a fancy Greek resort trying to sort through the various guests and invitees to solve a murder.

Moira MacDonald of the Seattle Times wrote, “You watch ‘Glass Onion’ relaxed, feeling like you’re in good hands; everyone on-screen is clearly having a wonderful time, so you can’t help but join right in.”

“Strange World” : A family living in the fantasy world of Avalonia attempts to find a solution to the forces threatening their world. A Disney Studios animated film, it features the voices of Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal

New York Times critic Beatrice Loyaza wrote, “As with other recent animated Disney films, including ‘Raya and the Last Dragon’ and ‘Moana,’ extensive world building and superhero-style actioneering are key. But unlike those movies, ‘Strange World’ doesn’t reflect a specific region or ethnicity – it’s ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth’ as a modern, intercultural fantasia.

“Devotion” : Jonathan Majors stars as Jesse Brown, the first Black aviator in U.S. Naval history, and his friendship with wingman Tom Hudner (played by Glann Powell).

David Erlich of IndieWire wrote, “ ‘Devotion’ can be stiff and hackneyed at the best of times – it’s nothing if not a war movie that has seen too many other war movies – but it lifts a few inches off the ground whenever it locks in on the loneliness that Brown must have felt as he flew toward an aircraft carrier whose landing signal officer may have wanted him to crash, or soared in formation with people who might have been happy to shoot him down.”

“Bones and All” : Not to put it too bluntly, but Luca Guadagnino’s newest film stars Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell as young cannibals (they call themselves “eaters”) on the run.

A.O. Scott of the New York Times wrote, “Grisly as it is, ‘Bones and All’ is less a horror movie than an outlaw romance in the tradition of ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ and ‘Badlands.’ You’re more afraid of what might happen to Maren and Lee than of what they might do to anyone else.”

Which means you should opt for popcorn, not the kid who sells it to you.