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This week’s openings: Boxers, monsters and dinosaurs

Nathan Weinbender

Movie times were posted a little late this week – let’s just go ahead and blame the wind storm – but it looks like the last of the new releases have been announced, and just in time for Turkey Day.

Correction: The weeks Magic Lantern releases were incorrectly listed as opening Friday. The theater is closed for the week and re-opens on Saturday the 28th, which is when the new films will screen.

Wednesday:

“Brooklyn” – Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan stars as an idealistic Irish girl who must decide between homelands after immigrating to New York in the 1950s. Scripted by Nick Hornby from Colm Toibin’s novel, this one’s getting considerable awards buzz.

“Creed” – Sly Stallone is back for round seven as Rocky Balboa, and this time he’s training aspiring boxer Adonis Johnson (Michael B. Jordan), the son of the late Apollo Creed. Directed by Ryan Coogler, whose debut feature “Fruitvale Station” made Jordan a star.

“The Good Dinosaur” – Pixar’s second animated release of the year (following the brilliant “Inside Out”) imagines what the world would be like had that asteroid never wiped out the dinos. Sam Elliott, Frances McDormand, Anna Paquin, Jeffrey Wright, Steve Zahn and (of course) John Ratzenberger provide voices.

“Victor Frankenstein” – The billionth reworking of Mary Shelley’s gothic masterpiece, this time told from the perspective of Frankenstein’s lab assistant Igor. (Or is it pronounced Eye-gore?) James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe star.

Saturday:

(The only non-Wednesday openings this week are at the Magic Lantern, which also picks up a second run of the historical drama “Suffragette.”)

“Finders Keepers” – Proving that truth is, indeed, stranger than fiction, this documentary recalls the strange story of a grill, a storage auction and a missing amputated leg.

“Meet the Patels” – Director Ravi Patel turns the camera on himself as his traditional Indian parents set him up with potential spouses. This comic documentary won audience awards at the Traverse City and Los Angeles Film Festivals.

“Trumbo” – The inimitable Bryan Cranston plays renowned screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who was blacklisted from Hollywood in the 1940s and penned classics like “Roman Holiday” and “Spartacus” under pseudonyms. The all-star cast is rounded out by Diane Lane, John Goodman, Louis C.K. and Helen Mirren.

The trailer for “Trumbo”: