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: June 5-7, 2015
Wide (United States)
Entourage
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Insidious Chapter 3
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Spy
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Limited (United States)
Hungry Hearts
[New Today] Marina Antunes @ Quiet Earth
Love & Mercy
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Testament of Youth
David Bax @ Battleship Pretension
- Excerpt: despite having a passionate love story at its center, the film is no romance. Rather, it’s a sometimes potent but more often clumsy examination of the strength of a woman and the devastation of war even among those who never saw battle.
2015 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
(Dis)Honesty
Jonathan Richards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: Yael Melamede uses an Ariely lecture on lying as the connective tissue in this sometimes fascinating, sometimes sluggish look at the moral relativity we all live with.
Aloft
[New Today] James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
[New Today] Charlie Juhl @ Citizen Charlie
- Excerpt: Despair all ye who enter here
Aloha
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Avengers: Age of Ultron
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Carol
[New Today] Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: Un capolavoro. Da non perdere.
Chappie
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Clouds of Sils Maria
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The Connection
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Dark Star: HR Giger’s World
Andrew Wyatt @ St. Louis Magazine
- Excerpt: Dark Star possesses an unmistakably elegiac quality, and Giger aficionados will likely find it a stimulating but melancholy experience.
Dawn Patrol
Chris Barsanti @ Film Journal International
- Excerpt: By-the-numbers revenge drama starring Scott Eastwood as a laid-back surfer pushed too far by his family has one twist up its sleeve but waits too long to play it.
Kristen Lopez @ Cinema Sentries
Doomsdays
Andy Crump @ Birth.Movies.Death.
- Excerpt: Maybe the pre-apocalypse needn’t be so bad after all.
The Drownsman
Daniel Lackey @ The Nightmare Gallery
Ex Machina
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Felix and Meira
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Forbidden Films
MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: A frustrating movie in some ways, but an important reminder of the power of cinema to manipulate and seduce us, and not always for the better.
Furious 7
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Good Kill
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Heaven Knows What
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Cinematography by Sean Price Williams is extraordinary, overhead shots of junkies walking along a tony NYC street or a tight shot in a corner of a public library creating a specific, insular world within a diverse and distinctive city
Human Centipede III (Final Sequence)
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I’ll See You in My Dreams
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In the Name of My Daughter
- Excerpt: … a desultory mash-up of tones and styles. It doesn’t really succeed as either melodrama or mystery. Téchiné’s pacing is off and potentially incriminating information is jack-hammered into place.
Inside Out
[New Today] Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: Inside Out e’ un gioiello tra i piu’ fulgidi della storia della Pixar. Magari non stupefacente dal punto di vista dell’animazione pura, ma capace di muovere davvero, sullo schermo e nella platea, emozioni primarie, ancestrali, profondissime.
Irrational Man
[New Today] Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: Woody Allen non ce ne voglia, questo Irrational Man e’ film minore. Lo dimenticheremo presto.
It Follows
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The Japanese Dog
Donald Jay Levit @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Lost River
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Mad Max: Fury Road
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The Nightmare
[New Today] Marina Antunes @ Quiet Earth
Daniel Lackey @ Cinema Axis
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: A fascinating and creepy experience that will have you praying you never know what sleep paralysis feels like.
Phoenix
[New Today] Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: Anche qui, come ne La scelta di Barbara, il finale toglie letteralmente il fiato.
Diego Salgado @ Guía del Ocio [Spanish]
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
Chris Barsanti @ Film Journal International
- Excerpt: This loosely linked string of dolorous philosophical vignettes from Swedish surrealist Roy Andersson unspools with a deft, almost buried humor that rescues it from tedium.
Project Almanac
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Queen and Country
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Results
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The Salt of the Earth
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San Andreas
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The Seven Five
Jonathan Richards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: It’s brilliantly told and inventively edited, and it makes standard crooked cop dramas look like Turner and Hooch. You may never look at a police officer in quite the same way again.
Seventh Son
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Slow West
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Son of a Gun
Diego Salgado @ Guía del Ocio [Spanish]
George Zervopoulos @ Movies Ltd. [Greek]
Sunset Edge
- Excerpt: Review of Daniel Peddle’s narrative feature directing debut.
Survivor
MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: If there’s a thriller to be found in international travel regulations, this is not it. Makes a mockery of the unsung heroes it’s meant to celebrate.
Tomorrowland
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The Tribe
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Tu Dors Nicole
Unfreedom
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
The Water Diviner
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We Are Still Here
- Excerpt: The weather outside is frightful…and the carbonized wraiths in the basement even more so.
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: Tautly paced, beautifully acted, and insanely unsettling.
Welcome to Me
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Welcome to New York
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What We Did on Our Holiday
Diego Salgado @ Guía del Ocio [Spanish]
White God
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When Marnie Was There
Kristy Puchko @ Spinoff Online
- Excerpt: It “doesn’t offer the level of fantasy or adventure that previous Ghibli releases have. Instead, it’s a surprisingly simple tale that coolly declares loneliness may be unavoidable, but happiness is a choice.
2014 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
Begin Again
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Black Coal Thin Ice
The Way He Looks
George Zervopoulos @ Movies Ltd. [Greek]
2015 Films (Coming Soon)
Being Evel
Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
Berkshire County
- Excerpt: An exciting new entry in Canadian horror
Cub
Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
- Excerpt: Cub’ isn’t afraid to get down and dirty and mean when it needs to.
The Drop
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Das Ewige Leben
Alan Mattli @ Facing the Bitter Truth [German]
- Excerpt: The fourth entry into the cinematic ‘Brenner’ canon is a marvellous grotesque that defies the conventions of the crime genre.
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
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Green Room
[New Today] Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: Jeremy Saulnier, che qui aveva presentato il piu’ compatto Blue Ruin, sembra divertirsi a mettere in scena la mattanza. Il suo e’ cinema di genere, senza troppe pretese, sapido e beffardo come l’ultima battuta tra i due protagonisti
An Honest Liar
- Excerpt: Randi also gets bonus points for allowing the filmmakers to follow him around when he and Peña were in the middle of a horrifying crisis. Randi is clearly unhappy during these moments, but there’s something to be said for a skeptic who has the courage to admit that he’s human.
The Missionaries
George Zervopoulos @ Movies Ltd. [Greek]
The Other Side
The Sea of Trees
[New Today] Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: Il premio Oscar, per la prima volta in un lustro, sbaglia completamente copione e, pur mettendoci tutta la credibilita’ di cui e’ capace, non riesce a risollevare mai un film disgraziato e ricattatorio come pochi altri. Da evitare. Come la peste.
Second Coming
Shooting for Socrates
Snow on the Blades
Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
With Child
Betty Jo Tucker @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Excerpt: This indie gem moved me with its big heart and unusual story.
