In film after film, John Sayles is one of the only directors out there unafraid to take a hard look at the negative influence of money and power on American society. At times that leads to heavy-handed didacticism, as with the disappointing Sunshine State, but we’ve got a good feeling about Silver City, which reunites Sayles with Chris Cooper and Kris Kristofferson, both of whom teamed with Sayles in his best film, the terrific thinking-man’s cop thriller Lone Star. Here, Cooper plays Dicky Pilager, a deeply conservative, tumble-tongued candidate for Colorado governor, who dredges up a mess of trouble when he reels in a corpse during a routine fly-fishing photo-op. 651-649-4416; www.landmarktheaters.com
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