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. 21-23, 2014
Wide (United States)
Divergent
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Muppets Most Wanted
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Expanding (United States)
The Grand Budapest Hotel
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Limited (United States)
The French Minister
Kenji Fujishima @ Slant Magazine
The Missing Picture
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Nymphomaniac: Volumes 1 & 2
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2014 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
3 Days to Kill
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300: Rise of an Empire
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About Last Night
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Adult World
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Almost Human
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The Art of the Steal
Stacia Kissick Jones @ Spectrum Culture Online
Bad Words
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier
[New Today] Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog
- Excerpt: America, $£#! Yeah!
Cuban Fury
Simon Miraudo @ Quickflix
The Den
Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: Before it falls into a more standard slasher pattern with a ton of camera-shaking and a scintilla of torturous bloodletting akin to a “Saw” movie, “The Den” is a pretty effective cautionary tale.
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
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Enemy
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The Face of Love
Betty Jo Tucker @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Excerpt: Annette Bening makes another movie character seem real and true in this suspenseful romantic drama.
Finding Vivian Maier
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
I, Frankenstein
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In Fear
Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: Building on the primal power of apprehension and leaving much to the imagination, especially in the first half, “In Fear” forces the viewer to not only be scared for the two lead characters, but we become scared ourselves.
Interior. Leather Bar.
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It Felt Like Love
Dustin Jansick @ Way Too Indie
- Excerpt: The kind of film that a lot of people try to make, yet few rarely succeed in making.
Jodorowsky’s Dune
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: like the ne plus ultra of blu-ray extras for a film that was never made.
The Lunchbox
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The Lego Movie
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The Monuments Men
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Mr. Peabody & Sherman
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Need for Speed
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Noah
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Non-Stop
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On My Way
Kent Turner @ Film-Forward.com
Patrick
Patrick
Jeremy Kibler @ Diabolique Magazine
- Excerpt: If Patrick won’t have you recoiling in fright, it will surely slap an ear-to-ear grin on one’s face as a giddily old-school treat in Grand Guignol style.
The Raid 2: Berandal
[New Today] Blake Howard @ Graffiti with Punctuation
- Excerpt: The Raid and now The Raid 2: Berandal are action cinema evolving; everything else must adapt or die.
Ride Along
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Snowpiercer
José Arce @ LaButaca.net [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Fantástico salto al panorama internacional de Joon-ho Bong, que propone una película tan divertida como demoledora en sus lecturas. El futuro distópico clásico subraya sus diferencias de clase a bordo de un tren que no puedes perder.
Stay
Tyler Perry’s The Single Moms Club
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Vampire Academy
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Veronica Mars
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Le Week-End
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2013 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
12 Years a Slave
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About Time
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Blue Caprice
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
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Dallas Buyers Club
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Ernest & Celestine
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Frankenstein’s Army
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Glickman
Stacia Kissick Jones @ She Blogged By Night
Gravity
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Her
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
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Homefront
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Labor Day
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Saving Mr. Banks
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Tim’s Vermeer
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We’re the Millers
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The Wind Rises
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2014 Films (Coming Soon)
9-Month Stretch
- Excerpt: The high court of Cinemablographer finds this film guilty on the charge of unfunny sexism.
Beauty and the Beast
José Arce @ LaButaca.net [Spanish]
- Excerpt: La fábula del amor sin barreras regresa a los cines en una nueva versión soporífera y desfasada. El perrete digital y la delicada muchachita se rondan sin interés ninguno, a la espera de que la historia se repita. Pues vale.
Coherence
José Arce @ LaButaca.net [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Joya de culto instantánea que marca el interesantísimo debut tras las cámaras de James Ward Byrkit. Una ciencia-ficción maquiavélica e hipnótica, interesante y atrapante a partes iguales. Cuando llega el cometa Miller, llega el terror.
Fashion Tension
Dragan Antulov @ Croatian [Croatian]
The John Hines Show
- Excerpt: Talking movies with WCCO-Minneapolis host John Hines.
Longwave
- Excerpt: George Gershwin music drives this delightful pastiche of classic cinema and cultural revolutions.
No Clue
- Excerpt: Affable crime comedy starring Brent Butt and Amy Smart.
Starred Up
Michael Pattison @ Sight & Sound
The Zero Theorem
[New Today] Matthew McKernan @ FilmWhinge
- Excerpt: The overall effect of The Zero Theorem is the feeling that something out of the ordinary has just been seen and that it might require some work, and possibly a liberal dose of one’s own creativity, to satisfactorily decode, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
