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: Dec. 25-29, 2013
Multinational Releases
47 Ronin
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
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Wide (United States)
Grudge Match
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The Wolf of Wall Street
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Limited (United States)
Expanding (United States)
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
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August: Osage County
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The Invisible Woman
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Lone Survivor
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2014 Films (Coming Soon)
One Chance
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
- Excerpt: True story of a talented singer who yearns to sing opera and is encouraged in his dreams by a caring, creative, and enthusiastic wife.
2013 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
12 Years a Slave
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The Act of Killing
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A.K.A. Doc Pomus
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American Hustle
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Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
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At Berkeley
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Blackfish
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Blue Is the Warmest Color
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Captain Phillips
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The Company You Keep
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Delivery Man
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Don Jon
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Ender’s Game
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Enough Said
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Faust
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Frozen
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G.I. Joe: Retaliation
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The Great Beauty
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Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
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Her
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
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Hours
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
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Inside Llewyn Davis
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Labor Day
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Lovelace
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The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
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Much Ado About Nothing
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Nebraska
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Only God Forgives
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Out of the Furnace
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The Past
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Planes
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R.I.P.D.
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Saving Mr. Banks
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The Spectacular Now
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A Touch of Sin
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Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas
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Walking with Dinosaurs
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2013 Films Not Yet In Theaters
Children of the Night
[New Today] Andrew Wyatt @ Gateway Cinephile
- Excerpt: That Children of the Night manages to be an edifying experience has less to do with its characteristics as cinema than with the bottomless awe found in the astonishing images of galaxies, clusters, and nebulae.
Here.Us.Now.
[New Today] Phil Hall @ Film Threat
- Excerpt: Compelling documentary on research into rare diseases
The House That Jack Built
[New Today] Andrew Wyatt @ Gateway Cinephile
- Excerpt: The House That Jack Built is a rich slice of droll family drama, one that offers a compelling depiction of the breakdown and adjustment of a man’s sanguine expectations for his life.
Odd Thomas
[New Today] Travis Hopson @ Punch Drunk Critics
- Excerpt: Sommers, who adapted the screenplay himself, clearly has a passion for the material and Koontz’s bizarre short order cook.
The Projectionist
[New Today] Phil Hall @ Film Threat
- Excerpt: Highly impressive indie thriller
