Lantern set to open ‘Loving’ on Friday

As for what's happening at the the Magic Lantern this week, the only new film is a pickup from the mainstream theaters. "Loving" will open on Friday.

"Loving": Based on a real case, a mixed-race couple from Virginia (he's white, she's black) gets married and is arrested for breaking the state's miscegenation laws. Starring Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga.

Here are some critical commentaries:

Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Dispatch: "A beautiful film about daring to love, without fear or compromise."

Kate Taylor, Globe and Mail: "Negga and Edgerton make these noble people three-dimensional, turning a docile, unambitious couple with neither the self-knowledge nor the words to launch a social revolution into unlikely protagonists in the civil-rights movement."

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: "Intimate, moving and superbly underplayed, 'Loving' is every bit as soft-spoken and subtly implacable as its protagonists."