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: May 16-18, 2014
Wide (United States)
Godzilla
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Million Dollar Arm
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Limited (United States)
Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
- Excerpt: An enlightening Danish documentary about one of the world’s most famous and creative human rights activists.
Chinese Puzzle
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
- Excerpt: A delightful French film about a writer, his many female friends and lovers, his adventures in Manhattan, and his yen for being a good father.
2014 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
3 Days to Kill
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All Cheerleaders Die
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
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App
Belle
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Blue Ruin
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier
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Cyber-Senoirs
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
- Excerpt: A touching and humorous Canadian documentary about teenage mentors who teach a group of elders how to use computers and the Internet.
Devil’s Knot
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The Double
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Draft Day
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Enemy
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Fading Gigolo
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Gambit
Betty Jo Tucker @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Excerpt: It’s a treat to watch Colin Firth demonstrate perfect comic timing and a knack for slapstick comedy in this amusing remake of the 1966 film.
The German Doctor
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God’s Pocket
Chris Barsanti @ Film Journal International
- Excerpt: John Slattery’s feature directing debut is an agreeably gritty and illusion-free dark comedy about low-rent hoods and working-class grief based on a clutch of resonant performances, particularly Philip Seymour Hoffman and Richard Jenkins.
Jonathan Richards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: There’s plenty to like about this movie – an excellent cast, a gritty sense of place, a handful of memorable scenes; but it muddles along, trying this and then that, and it’s not until deep into the movie that it decides that what it really wants to be is a dark comedy.
The Grand Budapest Hotel
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Grand Piano
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Hateship Loveship
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Ida
Bev Questad @ It’s Just Movies
- Excerpt: Pawlikowski examines life, the role of religious commitment and choices. What corrupts life? What corrupts people? Are there ways to escape our own corrupt nature?
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
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Jay & Silent Bob’s Super Groovy Cartoon Movie
- Excerpt: It may have been quite clever and hilarious a dozen or more years ago when it was conceived, written by a guy in his late 20s bucking the Hollywood system. Unfortunately, this just isn’t a movie that works in 2014.
Joe
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Justin Bieber’s Believe
Dragan Antulov @ Draxblog VI [Croatian]
The Legend of Hercules
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Like Father, Like Son
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Locke
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Moms’ Night Out
- Excerpt: “Moms’ Night Out” is the kind of movie you can take your mother to without worrying that she’ll get offended, and you can still have a good time with it.
Frank Ochieng @ Focus of New York Magazine
- Excerpt: …tedious and unimaginative. Moms’ Night Out is meant to be innocuous and filled with breezy moralistic zip but the flat shenanigans feel outrageously strained in this toothless suburban working-mommy romp.
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: here are no laughs in Moms’ Night Out. None. Nada. Zilch. Zero. Bupkis. Maybe there’s a smile, but that’s not exactly high praise. When you can say that about a comedy, it pretty much empties out the entire picture. Here’s a movie in which the only comic highpoint is a shout-out to Pinterest – it does them no favors.
The Monuments Men
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Muppets Most Wanted
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Neighbors
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Noah
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Nymphomaniac: Volumes 1 & 2
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Only Lovers Left Alive
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Palo Alto
Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: For a first feature and for a film, period, “Palo Alto” is strong stuff. It doesn’t have a big, thinly veiled statement to make, but it’s poignant, beautifully crafted, and keenly aware of what makes a teenager tick.
Pompeii
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The Sacrament
Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: A living nightmare mounted with simmering, suffocating tension and stomach-dropping intensity, “The Sacrament” would make a chilling double feature with Kevin Smith’s “Red State.” It is minimalist, all-too-real terror that pulls no punches in its visceral response.
Son of Batman
A.J. Hakari @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Stage Fright
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That Awkward Moment
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Transcendence
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Under the Skin
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2013 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
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Ender’s Game
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Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
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Saving Mr. Banks
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The Wind Rises
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2014 Films (Coming Soon)
Absence
- Excerpt: Distance—real or perceived—as the key to it all
The Babadook
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In Your Eyes
Dustin Jansick @ Way Too Indie
- Excerpt: Despite the concept being moderately interesting, poor and straightforward execution renders the film mostly ineffective.
Jimi: All Is by My Side
- Excerpt: Writer/Director Ridley, scriptwriter for “12 Years as a Slave,” captures Benjamin’s uncanny channeling in the months preceding Hendrix’s June 18, 1967, break-through performance at the Monterey Pop Festival.
The Zero Theorem
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