Because of embargoes (those happy little restrictions on when critics can post reviews, good or bad), a lot of our critics aren’t able to share links with you until release day. Here are some last-minute reviews for this weekend’s upcoming films. We’ve kept in all the reviews posted yesterday as well so you can have more help in deciding what to see (if you haven’t already).
Our critics have been hard at work reviewing the latest films. Here is a look at what’s coming out this weekend (in select cities, check your local listings) and what else may be in theaters right now.
Opening: July 20, 2012
Multinational Releases
The Dark Knight Rises
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Limited (United States)
30 Beats
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The Well Digger’s Daughter
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Limited (United Kingdom)
The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best
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I Am Bruce Lee
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In Your Hands
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Revenge of the Electric Car
Rich Cline @ Shadows on the Wall
- Excerpt: Less thrilling than Paine’s 2006 documentary Who Killed the Electric Car?, this follow-up takes a more personal approach
2012 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
21 Jump Street
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The Amazing Spider-Man
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American Reunion
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Beasts of the Southern Wild
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Beyond the Black Rainbow
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Casa De Mi Padre
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Chronicle
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Cocktail
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Detachment
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Family Portrait in Black and White
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God Bless America
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Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
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Haywire
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Ice Age: Continental Drift
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The Imposter
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Keyhole
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A Little Bit of Heaven
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Magic Mike
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Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present
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Moonrise Kingdom
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Neil Young Journeys
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Oslo, August 31
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The Queen of Versailles
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Red Lights
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Sacrifice
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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
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Seeking a Friend For the End of the World
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Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie
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To Rome with Love
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Trishna
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The Turin Horse
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Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection
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Wanderlust
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting
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2012 Films Not Yet In Theaters
Beauty Beneath The Dirt
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
It’s Never Too Late
Amber Wilkinson @ Eye For Film
- Excerpt: Despite its more heavy-handed aspects, Fluk shows potential behind the camera, with a good eye for framing and a bravery when it comes to giving the mood of a scene time to develop.
The King is Dead
Simon Miraudo Miraudo @ Quickflix
- Excerpt: The King is Dead has some great comic asides, and the finale paints Max and Therese into a genuinely dangerous and entertaining corner.
Papirosen
Amber Wilkinson @ Eye For Film
- Excerpt: Although never less than immersive, the documentary suffers from Solnicki’s freeform approach, which has a tendency to offer a lack of context.
The Rise and Fall of a White Collar Holligan
- Excerpt: Nevern is physical enough when the plot calls for it (which is probably less than most genre fans would like) but he aims to make his character, Mike, an everyman. Scenes of distress suggest not just anger but also vulnerability, making it easier for viewers to put themselves in his shoes, making the sort of threats that are two a penny on the big screen seem meaningful again.
Rose
Amber Wilkinson @ Eye For Film
- Excerpt: Hard-hitting period drama which although containing a carefully wrought love story, never romanticises the past.
The Runway
Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Adventurous and engaging, particularly for those who love Irish cinema
Spirit First
Phil Hall @ Film Threat
- Excerpt: A new documentary on singer/songwriter Levi Weaver.
Tchoupitoulas
- Excerpt: Tchoupitoulas posits time and space as internal experience, embracing subjectivity and uncertainty, not so much recording what happens as helping you to imagine possibilities.
The Unspeakable Act
Amber Wilkinson @ Eye For Film
- Excerpt: Sallitt brings an unusually stringent intellectual level to proceedings that marks his film out from the largely immature field of its peers.
2011 Films
The Flowers of War
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Le Havre
Jamie S. Rich @ Criterion Confessions
Machine Gun Preacher
Thomas Spurlin @ ThomasSpurlin.com
Martha Marcy May Marlene
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The Muppets
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