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: Feb. 27-Mar. 1, 2015
Wide (United States)
Focus
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The Lazarus Effect
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Limited (United States)
Everly
- Excerpt: If Pam Grier had starred in a 1970’s version of Oldboy directed by Jack Hill, it probably would’ve looked something like Everly
The Hunting Ground
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
- Excerpt: A hard-hitting and disturbing documentary about the treatment of women who have been sexually assaulted on U. S. College campuses.
Donald Levit @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Maps to the Stars
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The Salvation
Chris Barsanti @ Film Journal International
- Excerpt: A brawny and bullet-pocked Danish oater in which Mads Mikkelsen tries on a variety of scowls while battling the scum who killed his family; nothing that hasn’t been seen before.
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Jens Schlosser’s cinematography is stunning, at least until [director] Levring goes style crazy at the film’s midpoint, fetishizing the visuals until his film bears more in common with “Sin City” than “Dodge City.”
2015 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
All the Wilderness
Ballet 422
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: …offers many insights into what goes on behind the scenes, but it presents an environment with minimal conflict and a ballet seen in sketches.
Blackhat
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The Boy Next Door
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Drunktown’s Finest
- Excerpt: The performances here are generally unrefined, with most of the actors–including Wilson and Moore–barely going beyond rote line readings.
The DUFF
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Fifty Shades of Grey
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Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: The power of the film’s critique is in the overall sensation of a claustrophobic, seemingly endless, and Kafkaesque nightmare from which no one can escape because of its circular logic.
James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
- Excerpt: Gett: The Trial Of Viviane Amsalem’ Is Not Just Another Standard Courtroom Drama
Hard to Be a God
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Without knowledge of the source material, a 60s novel by ‘Stalker’ authors Arkadiy and Boris Strugatskiy, the movie can be inscrutable in its early goings, but give yourself over to this singular art film and you will be richly rewarded.
Hot Tub Time Machine 2
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Jauja
Jupiter Ascending
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Kingsman: The Secret Service
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Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
The Last Five Years
Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: There’s a tendency to try to assign blame in the aftermath of a failed romance, but The Last Five Years won’t or, maybe, can’t do such a thing.
Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: If anything, Kendrick and Jordan get to showcase their stuff, carrying the music and the emotional beats of their story with aplomb, while the film itself remains curiously insular and doesn’t feel as emotionally gutting as it should for a sweeping romance.
Match
McFarland, USA
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Mortdecai
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Out of the Dark
Betty Jo Tucker @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Predestination
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Project Almanac
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Queen and Country
- Excerpt: a more reserved, less sensational treatment than those familiar with Boorman’s earlier film will most likely be expecting
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
- Excerpt: A sequel to Hope and Glory set in postwar England that proves to be an impressive coda to English writer/director John Boorman’s illustrious career.
The Rewrite
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
- Excerpt: A funny and charming portrait of a burnt-out, middle-aged screenplay writer
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog
- Excerpt: Check out time.
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
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Timbuktu
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VANish
Stacia Kissick Jones @ She Blogged By Night
What We Do in the Shadows
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Wild Tales
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The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death
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2014 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
Alive Inside
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American Sniper
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Beneath
Daniel Lackey @ The Nightmare Gallery
The Best of Me
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Birdman
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Black Coal, Thin Ice
The Book of Life
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Cake
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Calvary
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The Circle
Citizenfour
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Deliver Us from Evil
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Devil’s Knot
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Foxcatcher
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The Gambler
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Hercules
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Honeymoon
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How to Train Your Dragon 2
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Ida
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The Imitation Game
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In Fear
Daniel Lackey @ The Nightmare Gallery
Into the Woods
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John Wick
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Leviathan
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Long Way Down
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Magic in the Moonlight
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National Gallery
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Nightcrawler
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Red Army
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Rosewater
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Selma
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Song of the Sea
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The Two Faces of January
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Whiplash
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2015 Films (Coming Soon)
3 Holes and a Smoking Gun
Betty Jo Tucker @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
All This Mayhem
Sarah Ward @ Trespass Magazine
Aussie Rules the World
Sarah Ward @ Trespass Magazine
Beyond Clueless
Bluebird
- Excerpt: Dramatically restrained, Edmands deftly navigates the sadness of disconnect in our daily lives, and how terrible circumstances are often the impetus for waking up from that slumber.
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
- Excerpt: Drama about how a tragic incident in a working-class Maine town reverberates in the lives of six people.
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: this little indie is worth a look for Amy Morton’s fine work and its regional production design, photographed by cinematographer Jody Lee Lipes (“Ballet 422”) like a mournful ballad.
Dustin Jansick @ Way Too Indie
- Excerpt: Small-town tragedy wracks guilt in this muted character piece.
Boys
Catch Me Daddy
Coming Home
Common Denominator
A Dark Reflection
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
- Excerpt: It is, as per usual for Hartley, a giddy, lightning-paced celebration of cheerfully terrible movies.
Family Goldmine
Henri Henri
- Excerpt: Henri Henri might only be a 60 watt bulb, but it always looks like 100.
The Keeper of Lost Causes
Sarah Ward @ Concrete Playground
Life in a Fishbowl
Man from Reno
Candice Frederick @ Reel Talk Online
Me, Myself and Mum
Sarah Ward @ Trespass Magazine
Once My Mother
Sarah Ward @ Concrete Playground
The Samurai
Sea Without Shore
Stray Dog
Suite Francaise
Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog
- Excerpt: Not so Suite.
What We Did On Our Holiday
Sarah Ward @ Concrete Playground
Young Bodies Heal Quickly
- Excerpt: Suiting its self-consciously strange, decidedly non-commercial bent, Young Bodies Heal Quickly aims to function more as provocation than big statement, but its lack of dramatic specificity places it in a precarious middle ground between exacting character study and ethereal parable.
