Because of embargoes, 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 10-12, 2015
Wide (United States)
The Gallows
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Minions
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Self/less
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Limited (United States)
Do I Sound Gay?
Andy Crump @ Birth.Movies.Death.
- Excerpt: …Thorpe’s efforts here are brisk, buoyant, and bright enough in equal measure that you feel like he could singlehandedly influence the direction of discourse on the topic of gay rights with a single seventy-odd minute documentary.
[New Today] Sarah Ward @ artsHub
The Suicide Theory
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: The Suicide Theory is funny and disturbing, and a picture that’s tough to take your eyes off once you start watching it.
[New Today] Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: A darkly humorous rumination about the primacy of fate or free will presented in the form of a twisty thriller with a smidgen of the supernatural…well worth investigating.
Tangerine
- Excerpt: [Sean Baker’s] aesthetic boasts neon vibrancy, the kind of sparks only real life can generate, but amidst the bombastic crackle of his mise en scène, he maintains a down-to-Earth naturalism.
[New Today] Stacia Kissick Jones @ She Blogged By Night
[New Today] Kristin Dreyer Kramer @ NightsAndWeekends.com
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: While Tangerine does a brilliant job of establishing a verite feel, there’s so little actual story that it becomes difficult to get involved at anything deeper than a surface level.
- Excerpt: Is there a film out right now more relevant than ‘Tangerine’?
2015 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
10,000 KM
3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets
Josh Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
Jonathan Richards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: As the nation finds itself dealing with the shock of the recent killings of nine black parishioners in a Charleston, S.C., church by a young white zealot, a film of an earlier lethal racist killing arrives in theaters.
Amy
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Animals
Josh Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
Batkid Begins
[New Today] Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: As a record of the event it’s amiable enough, but also a bit ragged and more than a little self-satisfied.
Being Evel
[New Today] Sarah Ward @ artsHub
Big Game
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Boulevard
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
- Excerpt: Robin Williams, in his last performance, as a closeted gay man who discovers that it is time to reveal his secret self.
Boychoir
Jennie Kermode @ Eye For Film
[New Today] Stefan Pape @ HeyUGuys
Chappie
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Cinderella
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Creep
[New Today] James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
[New Today] Jeremy Kibler @ Diabolique Magazine
- Excerpt: Think of it as a darker What About Bob? with even more screws loose.
The Cut
José M. Robado @ CineCrítico [Spanish]
Dark Places
Travis Hopson @ Punch Drunk Critics
- Excerpt: Despite a determined cast providing strong if somber-as-Hell performances, these Dark Places are better left in the shadows.
Dope
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Eden
Josh Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
Escobar: Paradise Lost
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Furious 7
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Gabriel
Josh Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
Good Kill
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Hungry Hearts
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I Am Chris Farley
Kristen Lopez @ Awards Circuit
Infinitely Polar Bear
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Inside Out
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Into the Grizzly Maze
Travis Hopson @ Punch Drunk Critics
- Excerpt: Grizzly and gory throwback to the man vs. nature movies of previous decades.
Jackie & Ryan
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
- Excerpt: A tender romantic drama about two music lovers who face steep and unruly challenges during hard times.
Jimmy’s Hall
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Jupiter Ascending
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Learning to Drive
José M. Robado @ CineCrítico [Spanish]
Diego Salgado @ Guía del Ocio [Spanish]
A Little Chaos
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The Look of Silence
Jonathan Richards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: Oppenheimer has been not only documenting history but making it.
Love at First Fight
Josh Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
Mad Max: Fury Road
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Mad Women
The Mafia Only Kills in Summer
Jonathan Richards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: The satire has its moments, but they don’t begin to justify the whole.
Maggie
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Magic Mike XXL
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Manglehorn
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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
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Monsters: Dark Continent
Nuno Reis @ SciFiWorld Portugal [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: “Monsters: Dark Continent” fica bastante longe do que os apreciadores da primeira parte estão à espera. Poderia conseguir novos fãs se se apresentasse honestamente como filme de guerra, mas a máscara de ficção-científica não vai ajudar nessa tarefa.
A Murder in the Park
[New Today] Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: The film is meticulous in presenting its argument…
The Nightmare
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Our Man In Tehran
Josh Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
The Overnight
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A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
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A Poem Is a Naked Person
Ron Wilkinson @ Monsters and Critics
- Excerpt: An inside look at the 1970’s Leon Russell that is not much of an inside look at all.
The Princess of France
Josh Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
Run All Night
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Seeds of Time
Josh Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
Set Fire to the Stars
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Slow West
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Stations of the Cross
Strangerland
Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema
Candice Frederick @ Reel Talk Online
Carson Lund @ Slant Magazine
- Excerpt: Director Kim Farrant is on record as having feminist aims with Strangerland, but the insistently dour tone she applies to the film fails to single out Matthew’s response to the details of Lily’s disappearance as any more distressing than Catherine’s, and the generally cartoonish thuggery of the town’s horny adolescent male population doesn’t have any bite either.
[New Today] Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: [H]as its priorities twisted.
[New Today] James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
Stray Dog
Jordan M. Smith @ IONCINEMA.com
Taken 3
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Taxi
Alan Mattli @ Facing the Bitter Truth [German]
- Excerpt: Leave it to Jafar Panahi to defy Iranian censorship not with a caustic indictment but with a lovely, playful, thoughtful, swiftly subversive, wonderfully entertaining comedy-drama.
Ted 2
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Terminator Genisys
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Testament of Youth
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Tomorrowland
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Tracers
Nuno Reis @ SciFiWorld Portugal [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: É um digno produto para o grande ecrã. Faltou algo mais sólido no argumento para que também no mercado doméstico conseguisse longevidade.
The Tribe
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Tu Dors Nicole
Josh Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
The Voices
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Welcome to New York
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What Happened, Miss Simone?
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: Nina Simone’s definition of freedom rings with the same truth as is found in her music. “What is freedom? No fear.”
While We’re Young
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Zarafa
- Excerpt: While Zarafa shares surface similarities with vintage Disney films like Aladdin and The Rescuers Down Under, it misses their machinelike narrative simplicity. The film crams a great deal of cross-country incident into its lean 78-minute runtime without sticking to an emotional through line within the sprawl
Zombeavers
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2015 Films (Coming Soon)
51 Degrees North
The Absent One
[New Today] Sarah Ward @ artsHub
Cart
Josh Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
Donald Jay Levit @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Deep Web
Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
- Excerpt: ‘Deep Web’ is a compelling documentary that explores a secret realm of the Internet and suggests a twenty-something idealist may have been unfairly prosecuted for his activities in this world.
Dum Laga Ke Haisha
[New Today] Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Fear Clinic
Nuno Reis @ SciFiWorld Portugal [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Tal como na série utiliza a figura abstracta do medo como inimigo, mas leva essa doença contagiosa para um novo patamar, dando-lhe uma componente visível e palpável, como se fosse uma maleita física. Os primeiros cinco minutos são por isso quase que uma obra independente, de nível muito superior ao resto.
A Fool
Donald Jay Levit @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
How Strange to Be Named Federico
Jonathan Richards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: Scola’s motley, affectionate tribute is going to delight Fellini fans and lovers of classic Italian cinema, but it may not mean much to the car chase audience.
Men & Chicken
Alan Mattli @ Facing the Bitter Truth [German]
- Excerpt: Ten years after ‘Adam’s Apples’, Danish director Anders Thomas Jensen proves that he has not lost his penchant for deliciously subversive grotesques.
Ruined Heart: Another Love Story Between a Criminal and a Whore
Josh Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
Socialphobia
Josh Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
Taksu
Josh Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
The Three Hikers
Josh Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
