The Flowers of War

Christian Bale does his best work with directors who are actually good at their jobs – think Christopher Nolan's The Prestige and Batman movies, not McG's awful Terminator update. He's paired with China's Yimou Zhang (Raise the Red Lantern, House of Flying Daggers) in this historical tale of an American posing as a priest in a convent where prostitutes are taking refuge during the brutal Second Sino-Japanese War. Cinematheque. At 7:15 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.