Now In Theaters
Downton Abbey
You have either put in the work and will be rewarded with a feature-length trip to an era you believe superior to most, or you are a Downton pagan and will be treated like the barbarian you are with minimal clues on who is related to whom, who is dead, who is beloved, and who is loathed.
Drama - 122 Minutes
You have either put in the work and will be rewarded with a feature-length trip to an era you believe superior to most, or you are a Downton pagan and will be treated like the barbarian you are with minimal clues on who is related to whom, who is dead, who is beloved, and who is loathed.
Drama - 122 Minutes
Hustlers
Through an overly familiar three act structure of rise, peak, and fall, Hustlers will excite many for its behind the scenes look at the exploitation of strip club dancers, the greasy men who slither through the door, and Jennifer Lopez putting on a show, but the pacing drags after the shock and awe wears off and the story is not as audacious and mind-blowing as you’re led to believe.
Comedy/Crime/Drama - 109 Minutes
Through an overly familiar three act structure of rise, peak, and fall, Hustlers will excite many for its behind the scenes look at the exploitation of strip club dancers, the greasy men who slither through the door, and Jennifer Lopez putting on a show, but the pacing drags after the shock and awe wears off and the story is not as audacious and mind-blowing as you’re led to believe.
Comedy/Crime/Drama - 109 Minutes
The Goldfinch
Crowley went out and scored one of Hollywood’s best cinematographers and signed on the likes of Nicole Kidman, Jeffrey Wright, Sarah Paulson, and a stable of young up-and-comers. Even these moves cannot save The Goldfinch. It is stale, off-putting, awkward at the best of times, and a thorough chore to sit through at a glacial two-and-a-half hours.
Drama - 149 Minutes
Crowley went out and scored one of Hollywood’s best cinematographers and signed on the likes of Nicole Kidman, Jeffrey Wright, Sarah Paulson, and a stable of young up-and-comers. Even these moves cannot save The Goldfinch. It is stale, off-putting, awkward at the best of times, and a thorough chore to sit through at a glacial two-and-a-half hours.
Drama - 149 Minutes
It Chapter Two
The episodic "face your inner demon" scenes needlessly extend the story diluting the horror in the process. Muschietti stills knows how to cinematically murder children, but Pennywise and company lack the spit and vigor from Chapter 1.
Horror - 169 Minutes
The episodic "face your inner demon" scenes needlessly extend the story diluting the horror in the process. Muschietti stills knows how to cinematically murder children, but Pennywise and company lack the spit and vigor from Chapter 1.
Horror - 169 Minutes
Official Secrets
While director Gavin Hood makes no excuses for Bush and his clan, his direct ire and vitriol accuses Blair and the British government of high crimes against the British people. He is angry and here in 2019 to ensure you do not forget the audacity and ineptitude of 2003.
Biography/Drama/Romance - 112 min
While director Gavin Hood makes no excuses for Bush and his clan, his direct ire and vitriol accuses Blair and the British government of high crimes against the British people. He is angry and here in 2019 to ensure you do not forget the audacity and ineptitude of 2003.
Biography/Drama/Romance - 112 min
Brittany Runs A Marathon
Brittany’s arc from drunken party girl to lonely island to trying to maintain life balance like the rest of us is what will most likely connect this Sundance-winner with audiences looking to root for an example of someone who confronts the worst, running and self improvement, and comes out the other side.
Comedy/Drama - 103 Minutes
Brittany’s arc from drunken party girl to lonely island to trying to maintain life balance like the rest of us is what will most likely connect this Sundance-winner with audiences looking to root for an example of someone who confronts the worst, running and self improvement, and comes out the other side.
Comedy/Drama - 103 Minutes
Angel Has Fallen
The script is really trying to say something about corporations benefiting from conflict and political warhawks feeling more comfortable fighting than searching for peace, but it has no idea what to do with any of it. Look at the movie poster. Banning stares down at a tattered American flag. Banning is America. He’s under threat. He’s hurting. But what is causing the pain? Who is the enemy? Corporations? Imperialist neo-conservatives? You will find no answers here.
Action - 120 Minutes
The script is really trying to say something about corporations benefiting from conflict and political warhawks feeling more comfortable fighting than searching for peace, but it has no idea what to do with any of it. Look at the movie poster. Banning stares down at a tattered American flag. Banning is America. He’s under threat. He’s hurting. But what is causing the pain? Who is the enemy? Corporations? Imperialist neo-conservatives? You will find no answers here.
Action - 120 Minutes
Ready or Not
Peek behind the absurd, farcical, and blood-soaked veneer, and Ready or Not is a study in brute class warfare where the predators do not anticipate the prey to retaliate in kind. Samara Weaving is fun to watch skitter around the house making the most of her scream time and shriek skills.
Horror/Mystery/Thriller - 95 Minutes
Peek behind the absurd, farcical, and blood-soaked veneer, and Ready or Not is a study in brute class warfare where the predators do not anticipate the prey to retaliate in kind. Samara Weaving is fun to watch skitter around the house making the most of her scream time and shriek skills.
Horror/Mystery/Thriller - 95 Minutes
Good Boys
What used to be elder teenagers like Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall, then Michael Cera and Jonah Hill, are now real 12 year-olds. There are times I cannot believe how the filmmakers and the kids' parents had to explain to them exactly what was so funny about the sex toy they were holding or what that CPR doll was really for.
Adventure/Comedy - 89 Minutes
What used to be elder teenagers like Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall, then Michael Cera and Jonah Hill, are now real 12 year-olds. There are times I cannot believe how the filmmakers and the kids' parents had to explain to them exactly what was so funny about the sex toy they were holding or what that CPR doll was really for.
Adventure/Comedy - 89 Minutes
The Peanut Butter Falcon
Shia LaBeouf and Zak Gottsagen Huck Finn their way on a raft down the Outer Banks in humidity so thick you can see it toward a man named Salt Water Redneck. The film's atmosphere and sharp sense of place outweigh its simple story of redemption on the road.
Adventure - 93 Minutes
Shia LaBeouf and Zak Gottsagen Huck Finn their way on a raft down the Outer Banks in humidity so thick you can see it toward a man named Salt Water Redneck. The film's atmosphere and sharp sense of place outweigh its simple story of redemption on the road.
Adventure - 93 Minutes
Blinded by the Light
Springsteen’s words are universal. Director Gurinder Chadha, known for feel-good stories where minority teenagers chase dreams reserved for other ethnicities and social classes, creates a coming-of-age story anybody can identify with and celebrates the power of music to motivate and push one to reach for things long thought unattainable.
Comedy/Drama/Music - 117 Minutes
Springsteen’s words are universal. Director Gurinder Chadha, known for feel-good stories where minority teenagers chase dreams reserved for other ethnicities and social classes, creates a coming-of-age story anybody can identify with and celebrates the power of music to motivate and push one to reach for things long thought unattainable.
Comedy/Drama/Music - 117 Minutes
Dora and the Lost City of Gold
There is no keeping up with the original TV audience, 16 year-olds are not going to see Dora on a Friday night, but for the young ones, Dora is packed with fart jokes, unrelenting pep, a song about pooping, and dire warnings of how awful high school will be. Six year-olds are going to love it.
Adventure/Family - 102 Minutes
There is no keeping up with the original TV audience, 16 year-olds are not going to see Dora on a Friday night, but for the young ones, Dora is packed with fart jokes, unrelenting pep, a song about pooping, and dire warnings of how awful high school will be. Six year-olds are going to love it.
Adventure/Family - 102 Minutes
The Kitchen
What has all the ingredients for a juicy, female-empowered crime drama, complete with an accomplished cast and superior production design, emerges as a God-awful mess of mish-mashed scenes, choppy pacing, and downright laughable attempts to shock and surprise.
Action/Crime/Drama - 102 min
What has all the ingredients for a juicy, female-empowered crime drama, complete with an accomplished cast and superior production design, emerges as a God-awful mess of mish-mashed scenes, choppy pacing, and downright laughable attempts to shock and surprise.
Action/Crime/Drama - 102 min
The Art of Racing in the Rain
The Art of Racing in the Rain fails not because it tries its hardest to turn on the waterworks, which it will for a large portion of the theater, but because its methods are so overt and land with all the subtlety of an anvil on top of someone’s head. No stranger to shaping narrative arcs to break audiences emotionally in two, director Simon Curtis adapts a runaway New York Times bestseller into a This Is Us episode.
Comedy/Drama - 109 min
The Art of Racing in the Rain fails not because it tries its hardest to turn on the waterworks, which it will for a large portion of the theater, but because its methods are so overt and land with all the subtlety of an anvil on top of someone’s head. No stranger to shaping narrative arcs to break audiences emotionally in two, director Simon Curtis adapts a runaway New York Times bestseller into a This Is Us episode.
Comedy/Drama - 109 min
Mike Wallace Is Here
Avi Belkin’s probing documentary, Mike Wallace is Here, searches for answers. Did Wallace transform investigative journalism and loft it to new heights? Or did this pitchman/low-grade actor peddle an early form of “gotcha” journalism - more show business than pure reporting?
Documentary/Biography - 90 Minutes
Avi Belkin’s probing documentary, Mike Wallace is Here, searches for answers. Did Wallace transform investigative journalism and loft it to new heights? Or did this pitchman/low-grade actor peddle an early form of “gotcha” journalism - more show business than pure reporting?
Documentary/Biography - 90 Minutes
Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood
This unembellished Los Angeles is smog-choked, garishly neon, and socially cleaved between the elite and their private drives and everyone else. In a way, it’s Tarantino’s Roma. 1969 Los Angeles may have been filthy, corrupt, and transitioning from an older age into the next, but it was Tarantino’s filth, corruption, and transition – there is beauty is them there scrap yards and blemished boulevards.
Comedy/Drama - 161 Minutes
This unembellished Los Angeles is smog-choked, garishly neon, and socially cleaved between the elite and their private drives and everyone else. In a way, it’s Tarantino’s Roma. 1969 Los Angeles may have been filthy, corrupt, and transitioning from an older age into the next, but it was Tarantino’s filth, corruption, and transition – there is beauty is them there scrap yards and blemished boulevards.
Comedy/Drama - 161 Minutes
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