CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK

Yauch’s small victories lost amid ‘Avengers’ weekend

- The late Adam Yauch and his film company produced small, weird, and unheralded movies such as “Wendy and Lucy,” with Michelle Williams; “We Need to Talk About Kevin,” starring Tilda Swinton and Rocky Duer; the Banksy film “Exit Through the Gift Shop” and “The Messenger,” with Woody Harrelson and Ben Foster.

(NICOLE BENGIVENO/NEW YORK TIMES)