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: Aug. 15-17, 2014
Wide (United States)
The Expendables 3
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The Giver
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Expanding (United States)
Boyhood
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Magic in the Moonlight
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What If
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Limited (United States)
Frank
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: a funny, goofy movie with some serious things to say about art and madness, band dynamics, broken dreams and selling out.
The Trip to Italy
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
- Excerpt: More very funny impersonations from Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan.
Daniel Carlson @ Movie Mezzanine
2014 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
About Alex
Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: And that it could be a grandchild to that 1983 homecoming classic is neither here nor there because, whether or not it will grow with age, “About Alex” is still a satisfyingly smart and low-key slice-of-life of the moment.
America
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: What is promised in the film’s title is an issue that is asked but quickly abandoned. Truthfully, America: Imagine the World Without Her should really be called “Should America Be Ashamed of Itself?” That’s actually a more potent question.
At the Devil’s Door
Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: Classily executed and often indelibly creepy, AT THE DEVIL’S DOOR fills one with dread and the pleasure that a horror film can be an emotionally visceral experience rather than a copy-and-paste job. Best left to go into completely cold and be led blindly down its insidious path.
Calvary
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Chef
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Dinosaur 13
Kenji Fujishima @ Slant Magazine
MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: A bittersweet reminder that while the scientific method may be coolly rational, the people who do science are deeply emotionally caught up in their work.
Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods
- Excerpt: This is undoubtedly the weirdest Dragon Ball Z story I’ve ever seen and that’s really saying something.
Fifi Howls from Happiness
Bev Questad @ It’s Just Movies
- Excerpt: Mohassess creates us as he sees us. Bodies obsessed with basic instinctual needs tussling in conflict.
Filth
José Arce @ LaButaca.net [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Arrolladora adaptación de la novela de Irvine Welsh menos cochina que su referente, sí, pero perfectamente fiel a sí misma en su salvajismo desaforado. No pasará a la historia, pero es recomendable.
Finding Fela!
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Finding Fela! the documentary is almost as much a paradox as the man himself, stuffed full of information but leaving nagging questions, making us move to the music before hammering us into submission.
Guardians of the Galaxy
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The Hundred-Foot Journey
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Into the Storm
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Lucy
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The Maid’s Room
Josh Spiegel @ Movie Mezzanine
Mr. X
- Excerpt: For a life beyond mere DVD supplementary material, Mr. X could use a dose of rigor to balance out its steady stream of congratulatory pit stops.
Siddharth
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Writer/director/editor Richie Mehta (“Amal”) has created a modern day “Bicycle Thieves” with this devastating tale of an illiterate man trying to find his son with next to nothing to go on amidst the teaming masses of India.
Step Up: All In
Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Without Channing Tatum,, this franchise falters, except for the dance sequences.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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Under the Skin
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A Will for the Woods
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
- Excerpt: An enlightening look at the Green Burial Movement and its ecological and spiritual dimensions.
2014 Films (Coming Soon)
Miss Violence
Dustin Jansick @ Way Too Indie
- Excerpt: Deserves credit for pushing boundaries, regardless if those boundaries actually needed to be explored or not.
