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: Mar. 14-16, 2014
Wide (United States)
Need for Speed
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Tyler Perry’s The Single Moms Club
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Limited (United States)
Bad Words
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U Want Me 2 Kill Him?
Frank Ochieng @ Focus of New York Magazine
- Excerpt: Director Andrew Douglas’s cyberspace teen crime caper Uwantme2KILLhim? is refreshingly imaginative and quite compelling in its suspenseful skin…a twisted treat of teen torment and acceptance.
[New Today] Stacia Kissick Jones @ Spectrum Culture Online
[New Today] Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: A slick, taut, reality-based little cyber-thriller that may be a mite dated in technological terms but still fascinates because of its sheer luridness.
Veronica Mars
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Le Week-End
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2014 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
300: Rise of an Empire
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Bethlehem
Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: Might not offer new insights into a terrible conflict, but depicts the human cost on the ground with often startling power.
Better Living Through Chemistry
Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Featherweight, subtly idosyncratic black comedy, most memorable for its clever, slightly raunchy one-liners.
[New Today] Josh Spiegel @ Sound on Sight
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
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The Face of Love
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: in the Barbara Bel Geddes role, Robin Williams is more a creepy neighbor than wanna-be-more-than-platonic friend, as if he hasn’t shaken one of his serial killer roles.
The Grand Budapest Hotel
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Grand Piano
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The Island of St. Matthews
Carson Lund @ In Review Online
- Excerpt: It would be misguided and insensitive to disparage this more-than-noble exercise. It’s equally debatable, however, to suggest that its good-natured ambitions and unconventional form alone constitute a cinematic success.
The Monuments Men
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Mr. Peabody & Sherman
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Muppets Most Wanted
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Nymphomaniac: Volumes 1 & 2
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Only Lovers Left Alive
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The Railway Man
- Excerpt: With echoes of Bridge on the River Kwai and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, the WWII POW scenes are easily the most effective aspect of The Railway Man.
RoboCop
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The Rocket
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Son of God
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2013 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
Frozen
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Fruitvale Station
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Hellbenders
- Excerpt: Clancy Brown leads the multi-denominational dirty half-dozen, a band of badass kamikaze exorcists who behave more like a motorcycle gang than ordained priests. Even their name sounds like a gang: The Augustine Interfaith Order of Hellbound Saints.
Labor Day
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Philomena
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People of a Feather
- Excerpt: Canadian doc features some outstanding underwater cinematography
Post Tenebras Lux
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Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer
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Teenage
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
- Excerpt: A creative, daring, and enlightening documentary about the twists and turns taken by youth who during the last century sought to find their place in a confusing and war-despoiled world.
The Wind Rises
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2014 Films (Coming Soon)
The Auction
- Excerpt: Gabriel Arcand gives a performance of subtle power.
The Autobiography of Karl Krogstad
Bev Questad @ It’s Just Movies
- Excerpt: For those not yet exposed to Krogstad’s more than 60 films since the 1960s, this autobiography is a great introduction to Seattle’s most creative filmmaker and artist.
Bewakoofiyaan
[New Today] Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
The Cold Lands
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
- Excerpt: A likeable drama about an eleven-year old who survives living on his own in the forest but finds it more difficult to get by when he returns to civilization.
Domestic
- Excerpt: Romanian comedy is a quirky delight.
Guilty of Romance
[New Today] Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee Coffee and more Coffee
Gun Woman
- Excerpt: Capitalising on a spirited central performance from Japanese actress Asami as the eponymous heroine, Mitsutake Kurando’s blood-soaked US-based crime thriller rises above its budgetary limitations in suitably sleazy style.
Himizu
Kenji Fujishima @ Slant Magazine
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Ignasi M.
Diego Salgado @ Fandigital [Spanish]
Jodorowsky’s Dune
David Bax @ Battleship Pretension
- Excerpt: Frank Pavich’s documentary, Jodorowsky’s Dune, early on gives some background on the films of Alejandro Jodorowsky before moving on to a film that the man did not make. Perhaps this film is as much a passion project as its subject but it ultimately amounts almost to nothing more than a piece of fluffy fandom.
Miron
[New Today] Jean-François Vandeuren @ Panorama-cinema.com [French]
Queen
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Remote Area Medical
Bev Questad @ It’s Just Movies
- Excerpt: “RAM” shows us a forgotten America where the invisible live in a culture without hope or access to basic care.
La Selva Tranquila
Under the Starry Sky
- Excerpt: Senegalese drama is a touching story about migration and globalisation
