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: May 29-31, 2015
Wide (United States)
Aloha
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San Andreas
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Limited (United States)
Gemma Bovery
[New Today] David Bax @ Battleship Pretension
- Excerpt: Men, even kind and gentle ones like Martin, have a tendency to cast the women in their lives in perfunctory roles. In this way, despite having a man as its lead, Gemma Bovery is a film about women, about how men see women and about the minimizing effect that can have on women’s lives.
Heaven Knows What
Donald Jay Levit @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Results
[New Today] Stacia Kissick Jones @ She Blogged By Night
Dustin Jansick @ Way Too Indie
- Excerpt: Social awkwardness fails to add to a stagnant romantic comedy.
[New Today] Stefan Pape @ HeyUGuys
2015 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
Backcountry
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Bessie
[New Today] Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema
Beyond the Reach
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Carol
[New Today] Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema
Child 44
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Cinderella
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Clouds of Sils Maria
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The Cobbler
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The Connection
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: In their couple of scenes together, Dujardin and Lellouche, light and dark but so alike, make the screen crackle with their intensity.
Kristen Lopez @ Awards Circuit
[New Today] Stefan Pape @ HeyUGuys
Danny Collins
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Dawg Fight
Blake Howard @ Graffiti With Punctuation
The Duke of Burgundy
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Escobar: Paradise Lost
Goerge Zervopoulos @ Movies Ltd. [Greek]
Every Secret Thing
[New Today] Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema
Far from the Madding Crowd
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Fifty Shades of Grey
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Forbidden Empire
[New Today] Mark Harris @ About.com
Good Kill
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Gueros
[New Today] Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema
Hot Pursuit
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Hot Tub Time Machine 2
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The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence)
MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: I have a terrible suspicion that filmmaker Tom Six would be delighted to learn that someone in the real world had tried to create a human centipede.
Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: At the end of the year, it won’t be hard to think of a more morally and socially bankrupt endurance test whose sole reason for existence is to gross you out and repel you.
[New Today] James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
I Am Big Bird
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Iris
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Jupiter Ascending
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A Little Chaos
Alan Mattli @ Facing the Bitter Truth [German]
- Excerpt: Slight to the point of weightlessness, Alan Rickman’s sophomore directing effort is a pleasant enough stroll through Louis XIV’s royal gardens.
The Loft
MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Plausibility isn’t in the cards for this odious excuse for a thriller. This is all about sexy danger, for sociopathic, misogynistic values of “sexy danger.”
Love At First Fight
George Zervopoulos @ Movies Ltd. [Greek]
Mad Max: Fury Road
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Maggie
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Mortdecai
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Nightingale
[New Today] Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema
Of Horses and Men
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Pernicious
Pitch Perfect 2
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Poltergeist
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Run All Night
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Sicario
[New Today] Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema
Spy
Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog
- Excerpt: I spy a winner…
[New Today] Amir Siregar @ Amir at the Movies [Indonesian]
Strange Magic
MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Apparently this was inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream, but it has about as much in common with that as Burger King does with Macbeth.
Sunshine Superman
- Excerpt: Sunshine Superman puts wind in your hair and awe in your chest as Strauch lets the audience live the experience for which Carl was a champion.
Survivor
Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: Routine post-9/11 espionage thriller that leansd far too heavily on ticks taken from far better Hitchcock films.
Tomorrowland
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The Water Diviner
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Welcome to New York
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When Marnie Was There
[New Today] Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: As would be expected from a hand drawn Ghibli film, the animation is stunning, with water and light coming to life and complex emotions rendered expertly and precisely on Anna’s face.
[New Today] Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: This is an understated affair, but the screenplay … understands Anna’s dilemma and communicates it with clarity.
Donald Jay Levit @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Wild Tales
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Woman in Gold
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2014 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
Banksy Does New York
Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
- Excerpt: ‘Banksy Does New York’ is a record of how the city reacted to the artist’s 31-day residency that included a variety of multimedia art with a political undertone.
Blood Ties
Diego Salgado @ Guía del Ocio [Spanish]
Cake
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The Captive
João Pinto @ Portal Cinema [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: The Captive has a good idea, but a bad execution
Chronic
[New Today] Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema
Deep Web
[New Today] Dustin Jansick @ Way Too Indie
- Excerpt: With a lot to say on drug-sales platform Silk Road, encryption, digital rights, and Ross Ulbricht this doc struggles to form a unified narrative.
Good People
Dragan Antulov @ FAK [Croatian]
Goodbye to Language
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The Hundred-Foot Journey
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Let Us Prey
[New Today] Mark Harris @ About.com
The Lobster
[New Today] Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema
Louder Than Bombs
[New Today] Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema
Love
[New Today] Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema
Man Up
[New Today] Stefan Pape @ HeyUGuys
Mia Madre
[New Today] Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema
Mommy
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Our Little Sister
[New Today] Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema
The Possession of Michael King
João Pinto @ Portal Cinema [Portuguese]
A Promise
George Zervopoulos @ Movies Ltd. [Greek]
The Sea of Trees
[New Today] Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema
Son of Saul
[New Today] Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema
Standing Tall
[New Today] Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema
Sword of Vengeance
[New Today] Stefan Pape @ HeyUGuys
Valley of Love
[New Today] Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema
Welcome 2 Karachi
[New Today] Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Wild
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Youth
[New Today] Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema
2015 Films (Coming Soon)
Chic!
Goerge Zervopoulos @ Movies Ltd. [Greek]
Demonic
George Zervopoulos @ Movies Ltd. [Greek]
From What Is Before
- Excerpt: I feel it will require a second and possibly a third viewing before the film’s entirety comes to light but, for my money, it is a superior film.
Grace of Monaco
Dragan Antulov @ FAK [Croatian]
Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Simplistic and trivial, it’s a dreary, dull mishmash…
Macondo
Goerge Zervopoulos @ Movies Ltd. [Greek]
Meeting Dr. Sun
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Excerpt: It’s virtually impossible to enjoy a close-up in the theatre without juggling a pair of opera glasses but her A Midsummer Night’s Dream offers the complete experience of Shakespeare’s fantastical comedy by punctuating it with reaction shots and vantage points one would not be able to see from a seat in the theatre.
Pasolini
Panagiotis Gkaris @ Movies Ltd. [Greek]
