Do movies take the temperature of the times we live in? It hardly seems likely given the average production lead of most films — two years or more — and the unlikelihood of any project to get green-lit in the first place. Yet some movie seasons seem to ennoble and soothe, while others bedevil us with angsts that seem to leak in from outside the screen. Fall 2013 is one of the latter. With the global world order in disarray and our path forward — as individuals, a nation, a species — frustratingly unclear, our filmed entertainments hold up a mirror to the turmoil.
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