By Chip Chandler — Digital Content Producer

In Amarillo theaters this week: A familiar killer returns, George Clooney and Matt Damon tackle suburban life, and Miles Teller soldiers on. Plus, a special Nightmare haunts theaters.

Opening Friday

Jigsaw

As bodies slaughtered in gruesome manners start stacking up, officials start to suspect that the believed-dead Jigsaw killer is back in action. No reviews yet for the latest installment of the Saw franchise, but you know it'll be bloody. (R for sequences of grisly bloody violence and torture, and for language; click here for showtimes at United Artists Amarillo Star 14, 8275 W. Amarillo Blvd., and Cinemark Hollywood 16, 9100 Canyon Drive.)

Let There Be Light

Kevin Sorbo directs and stars in this faith-based film as an atheist who finds faith after a near-death experience in a car accident. (PG-13 for some thematic material including alcohol and drug issues; click here for showtimes at Hollywood 16)

Suburbicon

The Coen Brothers started, then set aside, this script satirizing 1950s American complacency, then George Clooney and frequent filmmaking partner Grant Heslov added more to it for Clooney's latest directorial effort. Matt Damon stars as a suburban dad, whose wife (Julianne Moore) is killed by men breaking into their house in the middle of the night; her twin sister (Moore again) comes to pick up the slack. Damon's character, naturally, knows more than he's letting on about the death — or, at least, that's what Oscar Isaac's insurance investigator suspects. Added on top of that is a plot about a black family moving into the previously all-white neighborhood. The two halfs don't coalesce to a solid whole, according to most critics: "There’s probably a good dark comedy to be made from, or about, our current nightmare of ignorance, hatred and bigotry. But don’t make it cute. America’s not in the mood," writes Time's Stephanie Zacharek. (R for violence, language and some sexuality; click here for showtimes at Amarillo Star 14 and Hollywood 16)

Thank You for Your Service

A group of U.S. soldiers (including Miles Teller) struggles to re-integrate to regular life after serving in Iraq in this new film by Jason Hall, who wrote American Sniper. Reviews are mixed but OK: "Beyond its best little moments, the movie is addressing a serious issue, and it feels awfully churlish to complain that its earnest depictions of soldiers in psychological pain isn’t novel enough ... or that the movie doesn’t have much to say about the Iraq War in particular, or that it eventually tries to pass off a lack of resolution as an abbreviated happy ending. But these stumbling blocks do stack up, standing in the way of Hall’s best intentions," writes The AV Club's Jesse Hassenger. (R for strong violent content, language throughout, some sexuality, drug material and brief nudity; click here for showtimes at Amarillo Star 14 and Hollywood 16)

Opening Wednesday

A Bad Mom's Christmas

This sequel starring Kristen Bell, Kathryn Hahn and Mila Kunis finds the mamas revolting against holiday expectations — and battling with their own visiting madres (Cheryl Hines, Susan Sarandon and Christine Baranski), as well. No reviews are out yet. (R for crude sexual content and language throughout, and some drug use; click here for showtimes at Amarillo Star 14 and Hollywood 16)

Opening Thursday

Thor: Ragnarok

The highly anticipated adventure with the Norse god of thunder (Chris Hemsworth), the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) and more hits theaters with a fan event at the Amarillo Star 14 and Hollywood 16 offering the chance to see the film an hour early with extra content and collectibles. So far, reviews have been great: "Both the banter and the fighting, it should be noted, are excellent, so whether you go to superhero movies for the glossy escapism or the pulse-pounding action, you’ll get your large soda’s worth," writes The Wrap's Alonso Duralde. (PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, and brief suggestive material; click here for showtimes at Amarillo Star 14 and Hollywood 16)

Special engagements

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Tim Burton's stop-motion classic returns to theaters for a limited run, screening at 2 and 7 p.m. Friday through Tuesday at the Amarillo Star 14. (PG for some scary images)

Hotel Transylvania

This 2012 kid-friendly animated Halloween film is the centerpiece of the Halloween Carnival at Tascosa Drive-In. The party also will feature prizes, food, toys and more, including prizes for best trunk-or-treat car and best costume. It runs 5 to 11 p.m. Saturday at the drive-in, 1999 Dumas Drive. Admission is $10 per carload. Call 806-383-3882. (PG for some rude humor, action and scary images)

Chasing Trane

The Amarillo College Department of Music and Panhandle PBS will team for this Indie Lens Pop-Up screening of a film about iconic jazz great John Coltrane. The Jim Laughlin Jazz Quartet will perform before the film. (6:30 p.m. Nov. 2, AC Concert Hall Theatre on the Washington Street campus. Free. 806-371-5340 or 806-371-5479)

Still in theaters

All Saints (Premiere Cinemas Westgate Mall 6, 7701 W. Interstate 40); American Made (H-16); Blade Runner 2049 (H-16);  Despicable Me 3 (WM-6); Flatliners (WM-6); The Foreigner (AS-14, H-16); Geostorm (AS-14, H-16); Happy Death Day (AS-14, H-16); The Hitman's Bodyguard (WM-6); It (AS-14, H-16); The Mountain Between Us (AS-14, H-16); My Little Pony: The Movie (H-16); The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature (WM-6); Only the Brave (AS-14, H-16); Same Kind of Different As Me (AS-14, H-16); The Snowman (AS-14, H-16); Spider-Man: Homecoming (WM-6); Tyler Perry's Boo 2! A Madea Halloween (AS-14, H-16); and Victoria and Abdul (H-16). (Click on titles for my reviews and on theaters for showtimes.)

Chip Chandler is a digital content producer for Panhandle PBS. He can be contacted at Chip.Chandler@actx.edu, at @chipchandler1 on Twitter and on Facebook.