What to Watch This Weekend

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THE WITCH – When their crops fail, members of a New England farming family look for someone to blame and soon start sewing seeds of doubt about each other. The eldest daughter is accused by her siblings of being a witch, and the paranoid clan also start to believe that their goat, Black Philip, is the devil in disguise. Can they end the in-fighting and get back to farming before the family business goes under?

RISEN – In this biblical thriller, a high-ranking Roman military official seems poised for further promotion when ordered by Pontius Pilate to turn detective and find the body of Jesus, whose corpse has vanished from its tomb and prompted Christ’s followers to predict a return from the dead. When the officer’s investigation leads nowhere, his faith in the miraculous blossoms and he begins to suspect there’s a whole lot more to life than just his job in the military.

RACE – Third Reich filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl is pressured by her boss, Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, to cut black American athlete Jesse Owens out of Germany’s official documentary film of the upcoming 1936 Olympics. Meanwhile, Owens has to decide if he should boycott the games as a political protest or take part and try to prove that he’s the world’s greatest track-and-field athlete.

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