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. 28-30, 2014
Wide (United States)
Cesar Chavez
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Noah
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Sabotage
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Expanding (United States)
Bad Words
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The Grand Budapest Hotel
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Limited (United States)
Breathe In
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Finding Vivian Maier
[New Today] Donald Levit @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Locker 13
MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Nothing here is terribly haunting, but at least someone is trying to make something like a horror movie these days that isn’t about buckets of gore and inventive torture.
The Raid 2
Rangga Adithia @ http://raditherapy.com [Indonesian]
David Bax @ Battleship Pretension
- Excerpt: In expanding his scope to include a dozen shopworn crime story clichés, Evans has spread thin, leaving gaps in the undeniable acceleration that marked The Raid: Redemption. What we’re left with is a sequel that is both bigger and lesser than its predecessor.
Simon Miraudo @ Quickflix
2014 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
The Best Offer
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Bethlehem
[New Today] Josh Spiegel @ Sound on Sight
Big Men
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
- Excerpt: A hard-hitting documentary about oil, money, globalism, international finance, corruption and greed.
A Birder’s Guide to Everything
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
Boys of Abu Ghraib
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
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Cheap Thrills
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Child’s Pose
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Divergent
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Enemy
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G.B.F.
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God’s Not Dead
Mike McGranaghan @ Film Racket
- Excerpt: While it most certainly has some very good qualities, it is ultimately undone — at least for general audiences — by a completely unsubtle desire to do more than simply tell a meaningful story; it wants to rock the world.
It Felt Like Love
Jodorowsky’s Dune
[New Today] Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: The film is a wealth of anecdotes … told by people who are still enthusiastic about the project and still in disbelief that it failed to come to fruition.
Like Father, Like Son
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The Lunchbox
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Maladies
Candice Frederick @ Reel Talk
Travis Hopson @ Punch Drunk Critics
[New Today] Josh Spiegel @ Sound on Sight
Muppets Most Wanted
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Non-Stop
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Nymphomaniac: Volumes 1 & 2
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On My Way
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: This offbeat gem of a road trip film…is a love letter to France’s reigning queen of cinema and a more satisfying experience than Spain’s highly touted “Gloria.”
Only Lovers Left Alive
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The Raid 2: Berandal
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Under the Skin
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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
All Is Lost
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Blue Jasmine
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Ernest & Celestine
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Her
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Labor Day
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Last Vegas
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The Past
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Sarah’s Room
The Starving Games
- Excerpt: Latest in a long string of entirely disappointing film spoofs that might have succeeded had they been directed with a keen since of comic timing.
We Are What We Are
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The Wolf of Wall Street
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2014 Films (Coming Soon)
Aberdeen
[New Today] James Marsh @ Twitch
- Excerpt: Pang Ho Cheung delivers a beautifully observed portrait of a modern Hong Kong family that fuses social commentary with fantastical imagery and his trademark cheeky humour to wonderful effect.
Aya of Yop City
[New Today] Andrew Wyatt @ Look/Listen (St. Louis Magazine)
- Excerpt: Observing the dysfunctional folk of Yop City soldier on through misunderstandings and mishaps is a distinctive pleasure.
Bald Mountain
- Excerpt: The sheer scope of this Brazilian film is stunning.
A Brand New You
- Excerpt: Cloning comedy is a true original
The Congress
Tiago Ramos @ Split Screen [Portuguese]
The Ideal City
Leave the World Behind
Donald Levit @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
A Long Way Down
MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: A suicide-club meet-cute? It shouldn’t work, but it does, as wonderfully sardonic British humor and as a reminder that you’re not alone in being messed up in this insane world.
One Third
[New Today] James Marsh @ Twitch
- Excerpt: Shinagawa Hiroshi follows up Slapstick Brothers with a fast-paced, light-on-its-feet caper that cruises on its bulging ensemble cast even when the convoluted plot threatens to combust under the weight of its myriad twists and double crosses.
Ragini MMS 2
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
La Selva Tranquila
Donald Levit @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Starred Up
MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Could be the most realistic depiction of the horribleness and the ineffectiveness of institutional incarceration — on levels that impact both the individual and society on the whole — that I’ve ever seen.
