That's not to knock these films on quality or suggest that anything with name actors is merely mindless escapism: Fox Searchlight's thriller The East efficiently mines suspense out of Brit Marling infiltrating Alexander Skarsgaard and Ellen Page's eco-terrorist group (at least until it goes south in its last third) and the Paul Rudd - Emile Hirsch two - hander Prince Avalanche makes the most of its pastoral settings and gently bro -
centric chattiness, to name just two.