This Week at the Movies, Part 1 (Feb. 21-23, 2014)

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: Feb. 21-23, 2014

Wide (United States)

3 Days to Kill

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Pompeii

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Limited (United States)

Child’s Pose

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Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me

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In Secret

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The Wind Rises

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2014 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas

About Last Night

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Date and Switch

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Easy Money: Hard to Kill

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Endless Love

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Enemy

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Gloria

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I, Frankenstein

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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

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Kids for Cash

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The Lego Movie

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Lucky Bastard

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The Monuments Men

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Nurse 3D

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The Returned

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RoboCop

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Stalingrad

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The Galapagos Affair

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The Grand Budapest Hotel

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Vampire Academy

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Visitors

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Winter’s Tale

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2013 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas

12 Years a Slave

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All Is Lost

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Battle of the Year

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Captain Phillips

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Carrie

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The Counselor

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The Croods

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Diana

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Dirty Wars

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Grudge Match

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Her

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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

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It’s a Disaster

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Last Vegas

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Magic Magic

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Nebraska

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Philomena

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The Spectacular Now

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Tim’s Vermeer

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Village at the End of the World

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Violeta Went to Heaven

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The Wolf of Wall Street

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2014 Films (Coming Soon)

Almost Human

Mark Harris @ About.com

Awful Nice

Dustin Jansick @ Way Too Indie

  • Excerpt: Attempts to fill 90 minutes with roughly 30 minutes worth with of material.

Calvary

Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog

  • Excerpt: It won’t have mass appeal…

The Girl from the Wardrobe

Jennie Kermode @ Eye For Film

I Am Yours

Bev Questad @ It’s Just Movies

  • Excerpt: The interplay of sexual desire, acceptance, love and the confusion of these very primal desires at the core of our human essence is brilliantly presented in an elevated, thoughtful production.

The M Word

Betty Jo Tucker @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Mary Queen of Scots

Bev Questad @ It’s Just Movies

  • Excerpt: Assuming his audience knows the complicated background history, Imbach delves into a more hypothetical profile, investigating Mary’s possible wrestle with royal calling and psychological conflicts.

Oh Boy

Simon Miraudo @ Quickflix

Sick Birds Die Easy

Dustin Jansick @ Way Too Indie

  • Excerpt: An absolute trip in every sense of the word.

Wolf Creek 2

Simon Miraudo @ Quickflix

A World Not Ours

Bev Questad @ It’s Just Movies

  • Excerpt: Just like the Israelis keep some aspect of the Holocaust alive each year in the arts, so do the Palestinians keep their forced diaspora alive. This is one story about the consequences of that implacable resistance.

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