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: Jan. 29-31, 2016
Wide (United States)
Fifty Shades of Black
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The Finest Hours
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Kung Fu Panda 3
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Limited (United States)
88th Oscars: Nominated Shorts
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
(Animation) Courtney Howard @ FreshFiction.tv
(Live-Action) Courtney Howard @ FreshFiction.tv
2015 & 2016 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
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The 33
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45 Years
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400 Days
Allyson Johnson @ TheYoungFolks.com
The 5th Wave
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Advantageous
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Amy
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Anesthesia
Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: A discourse on existential angst in the modern world, the ensemble piece comes across as sadly familiar, and as emotionally desiccated as its pallid characters.
The Assassin
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B.C. Butcher
Mike McGranaghan @ Daily Grindhouse
- Excerpt: A great introduction to 17-year-old Kansas Bowling, a filmmaker of real promise.
Backtrack
Jennie Kermode @ Eye For Film
Stefan Pape @ HeyUGuys
The Big Short
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Bleak Street
Ron Wilkinson @ Monsters and Critics
- Excerpt: Every shadow becomes a dagger, every fire escape a prison in this beautiful B&W noir.
The Boy
- Excerpt: Highly recommended if you enjoy shouting at movie characters about how stupid they are.
Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: Forty years ago or so it might have passed muster; now it comes across like a well-preserved genre antique.
Boy and the World
Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
- Excerpt: ‘Boy and the World’ is this year’s surprise animated Oscar nominee, but it more than earns its spot with a unique style and captivating story.
Bridgend
Carol
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Chi-Raq
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Creed
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The Danish Girl
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The Daughter
- Excerpt: A hidden gem from last year’s festival circuit.
Dirty Grandpa
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The End of the Tour
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Exposed
Betty Jo Tucker @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Excerpt: This gloomy film is confusing and very difficult to follow.
Felt
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The Forest
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Goosebumps
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Guilty
The Hateful Eight
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Infinitely Polar Bear
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Ip Man 3
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James White
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Jim: The James Foley Story
Donald Jay Levit @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Joy
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Kyaa Kool Hain Hum 3
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Lazer Team
Kristin Dreyer Kramer @ NightsAndWeekends.com
The Lazarus Effect
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Love & Mercy
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Mad Max: Fury Road
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The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
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Mojave
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Monster Hunt
- Excerpt: Do me a favor: just rent “Willow” instead. “Monster Hunt” is a garbled mess.
Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: An oddball mélange of action, slapstick, sentimentality and ghoulishness, all wrapped up into one big, galumphing package. It’s more a curiosity than a delight, but the adventurous might want to give the sweet-and-sour dish a try.
Mustang
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Noble
One and Two
Our Brand Is Crisis
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Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
- Excerpt: Chic new doc about the ‘Mistress of Modern Art’.
Point Break
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Daniel Lackey @ The Nightmare Gallery
- Excerpt: The novelty of combining classic romance fiction with horror elements can only carry the film so far, and the other elements can’t make up the rest of the distance.
The Revenant
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Room
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Sisters
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Son of Saul
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Spotlight
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2016 Films (Coming Soon)
Belgica
Stephen Saito @ The Moveable Fest
- Excerpt: The “Broken Circle Breakdown” director returns with the story of the kind of nightclub that only exists in dreams…or the movies.
Cain’s Children
Devil’s Mistress
- Excerpt: She was the Czech version of Marlene Dietrich, but this campy Third Reich melodrama doesn’t do her justice
Eat That Question
The Elite
The Fencer
Good Morning Karachi
How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town
- Excerpt: Writer/director Jeremy Lalonde manages to balance the sweet and the crass in this look at small-town sex.
The Land of the Enlightened
Jordan M. Smith @ IONCINEMA.com
- Excerpt: In De Pue’s eyes, this is a country still in the dark ages, set back centuries by war and foreign occupation, and still looked down upon with scorn, even as militarized troops are sent by the thousands as aids to suppress the terrorist cells still lurking within its borders. By giving his film the provocative title The Land of the Enlightened, the filmmaker implies that the nation’s seeming naïveté is in fact a sort of simple sophistication in which they could live relatively happy lives, if uncomplicated by the greater interests of the world at large. – See more at: http://www.ioncinema.com/reviews/the-land-of-the-enlightened-review#sthash.VgG4vCvI.dpuf
Magicarena
- Excerpt: Is it magic that makes the opera bright?
Marvel Renaissance
Narodni heroj Ljiljan Vidic
Dragan Antulov @ Draxblog Film Reviews
One Floor Below
Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
- Excerpt: ‘One Floor Below’ takes a common, adrenaline-fuelled plot and turns it into a slow burning thriller in which the anxiety gradually increases until it reaches the boiling point.
Plaza de La Soledad
Jordan M. Smith @ IONCINEMA.com
- Excerpt: As an aesthetically elementary, yet emotionally complex account of prostitution among the aged in a Mexican metropolis, Plaza de la Soledad speaks volumes on the contradictions implicit in the human heart and community acceptance. – See more at: http://www.ioncinema.com/reviews/plaza-de-la-soledad-review#sthash.YcMttAfU.dpuf
Sand Storm
Stephen Saito @ The Moveable Fest
- Excerpt: A refreshing new multigenerational family drama from the edge of Israel.
Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo Qiang
Stephen Saito @ The Moveable Fest
- Excerpt: Sundance couldn’t have asked for more fireworks for their opening night than this.
Trash Fire
Stephen Saito @ The Moveable Fest
- Excerpt: A warped family tale from the director of “Excision.”
