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THE WILD PEAR TREE
At three-plus hours, Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s The Wild Pear Tree tries the audience with a rambling character study of an aspiring writer reckoning with his father’s gambling addition. That sprawl, which worked so effectively in Ceylan’s masterpiece Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, feels excessive here, although the central character of Sinan (Dolgu Demirkol) is meant to test your patience. He’s arrogant, argumentative, and convinced of his own genius, but Ceylan continually puts him up against the limits of geography and genetics. There are a couple breathtaking sequences here, and despite long stretches where you want to throttle the protagonist, The Wild Pear Tree’s autumnal greens and browns are beautiful enough to tide you over. Fri March 15, 5 pm, Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 SW Park; Sat March 16, 3 pm, Cinemagic, 2021 SE Hawthorne

There are two very important things about this:

1) This trailer contains even more hints that in a post-Endgame universe, Captain Motherfucking Marvel will be the leader of the Avengers, probably palling around with around Doctor Strange and Black Panther and hopefully Black Widow, and Carol Danvers as President of the Avengers is something I CANNOT WAIT TO SEE (get the fuck outta here, Tony, you're fuckin' done)

2) IS CAPTAIN AMERICA'S BEARD MADE FROM HAWKEYE'S SIDE HAIR???

Is "side hair" the correct term for it? Who can say, really. (A barber could. —Ed.)

Triple Frontier Netflix

Welcome to What to Watch This Weekend™, a weekly post in which I tell you what to watch this weekend! I will continue doing this post until you have watched everything you should watch.

Shrill, the Hulu series based on former Mercury contributor Lindy West’s bestseller, is now on Hulu! Mercury Arts Editor Suzette Smith says that, "surprising no one, it's super funny."

The weird, great Fantastic Planet is at the Hollywood Theatre on Sat March 16. "It’s been described as a mixture of Salvador Dali, Hieronymous Bosch, and Terry Gilliam," says Senior Editor Ned Lannamann of the 1973 film, "and that drool-inducing assessment is not far off."

Styx, which Ned calls a "lean maritime thriller," is at the Living Room Theaters starting Fri March 15. "It’s suspenseful as all hell," Ned adds, "but it’s intensely emotional, too."

On Netflix, two new films are streaming that weren't screened for the Mercury, but we're definitely curious about both of 'em:

Love, Death & Robots sees David Fincher teaming up with Deadpool director and visual effects artist Tim Miller for a promising collection of sci-fi animated shorts for mature audiences.