Highlights of the AFI Festival

Following are capsule reviews of a selection of today’s screenings in the American Film Institute Los Angeles International Film Festival at the Cineplex Odeon Century Plaza Cinemas:

‘Serving Two Masters’

United States, 1988, 88 minutes 6:45 p.m. The dramatic juxtaposition of two blacks, once friends, on divergent paths: one became a natty executive and spokesman for a corporation dealing with South Africa, the other a homeless ex-priest spouting crazed-sounding sermons against the system. A good idea--but director-writer-editor et al. Edward Tim Lewis doesn’t really surmount the difficulties of a low budget and pat ironies; this film needs more rage. The short, Matia Karrell’s “Cadillac Dreams,” a little family drama about youth gangs, is predictable but extremely well executed.