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: Jul. 11-13, 2014
Wide (United States)
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
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Expanding (United States)
Begin Again
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Limited (United States)
Boyhood
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Land Ho!
David Bax @ Battleship Pretension
- Excerpt: Katz’s team-up with Martha Stephens (she made 2012’s Pilgrim Song, which I have not seen), Land Ho!, is full of respectable filmmaking acumen but contains none of the quirk that makes a movie rise above mere time-passing. It’s a pleasant enough experience on the surface but its lack of identity leaves a void into which rushes, whether intentionally or not, some of the more regrettable aspects of its lead characters.
Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: A charming comical confection and en enticing Islandic travelogue…
Long Way Down
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2014 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
22 Jump Street
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America
Dan Lybarger @ Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
- Excerpt: D’Souza seems to have a marksman’s gift for shooting himself in the foot.
A Brony Tale
Francis Rizzo III @ DVDTalk.com
- Excerpt: A breezy, well-made introduction to adults who love My Little Pony
Coherence
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Deliver Us from Evil
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The Fault in Our Stars
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The Grand Seduction
Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Charming comedy, filled with breezy Irish blarney.
Heatstroke
- Excerpt: While the characters can be irritating and problematic at times, they are not unrealistic.
Hellion
Jonathan Richards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: This troubled teenager drama gets its strength from Kat Candler’s solid writing and steady, unobtrusive direction, and especially from its cast. The standout is young Josh Wiggins.
Hellion
[New Today] Travis Hopson @ Examiner
- Excerpt: Hellion fits into something I like to call the “festival bubble”
[New Today] Tom Santilli @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: Hellion doesn’t quite hit a home run, but it stands out.
The Hornet’s Nest
Ron Wilkinson @ ItsJustMovies.com
- Excerpt: Great live action footage fails to make up for poor narration and organization.
Ilo Ilo
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The Immigrant
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Life Itself
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Locke
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A Million Ways to Die in the West
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Nymphomaniac: Volumes 1 & 2
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Obvious Child
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Palo Alto
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Radio Free Albemuth
Marina Antunes @ Quiet Earth
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: A tale of pink, pro-rock n’ roll aliens beaming hallucinatory political advice to subversives from a satellite orbiting earth, “Radio Free Albemuth” is totally baffling if you don’t know the backstory behind it. It may be even stranger if you do.
Rage
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River of Fundament
- Excerpt: ambitious, uncompromising art of the highest ordure.
The Rover
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Sabotage
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Snowpiercer
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Tammy
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They Came Together
[New Today] Jason Bailey @ Flavorwire
- Excerpt: The spoof movie may have risen from the dead, Dracula (or, more appropriately, ‘Dracula: Dead and Loving It’) style, thanks to director David Wain and his co-writer Michael Showalter, whose rom-com send-up ‘They Came Together’ is as funny a film as I’ve seen in a good, long while.
Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: Those weaned on every Meg Ryan, Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock and Katherine Heigl starrer will surely get a kick out THEY CAME TOGETHER, a spoof of romantic comedies that is just the right kind of so-stupid-it’s-funny and closer to parody than what we’ve been treated to as of late.
Transformers: Age of Extinction
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Venus in Fur
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: fleet, funny and ferocious
Matthew Lucas @ From the Front Row
- Excerpt: It’s an erotic firecracker of a movie; at once coy and vivacious, fascinating and mysterious.
Zero Theorem
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2013 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
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The Place Beyond the Pines
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Reaching for the Moon
Blake Howard @ Graffiti With Punctuation
2014 Films (Coming Soon)
Before the Winter Chill
- Excerpt: It’s sad to think that French Kristin Scott Thomas films are an endangered species.
Gabrielle
- Excerpt: The film forcefully stresses the universality of Gabrielle’s trajectory throughout, right up to the saccharine choral-concert finale—a self-consciously heart-warming cap designed to leave the audience convinced that all is right in the world.
Lekar Hum Deewana Dil
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Open Windows
Diego Salgado @ Dirigido Por [Spanish]
Real Lies
Jean-François Vandeuren @ Panorama-cinema.com [French]
