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: Jun. 26-28, 2015
Wide (United States)
Max
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Ted 2
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Limited (United States)
Batkid Begins
Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Sweet, heartwarming and uplifting…
The Little Death
2015 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets
Stacia Kissick Jones @ Next Projection
Any Body Can Dance 2
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Creep
Dark Star: H.R. Giger’s World
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Deli Man
Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
- Excerpt: ‘Deli Man’ is a documentary that demonstrates the distinctiveness of the delicatessen, as well as the devotion of those who eat at and run them.
- Excerpt: A Hearty meal.
Dope
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Entourage
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Escobar: Paradise Lost
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Faith of Our Fathers
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: No matter who made Faith of Our Fathers/To the Wall and for what purpose, this is a bad movie – really bad, laughably bad. The production values seem borrowed “The Beverly Hillbillies” up to, and including, the moving back projection during the driving scenes. The screenplay is all over the place. Every development is painfully convenient and the story moves back and forth between pathos and slapstick comedy almost at random, dealing with two characters that are so badly written and acted that they seem like Looney Tunes characters.
Gabriel
Stacia Kissick Jones @ Next Projection
Gemma Bovery
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Heaven Knows What
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I’ll See You in My Dreams
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Infinitely Polar Bear
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Inside Out
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Into the Grizzly Maze
Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: Run-of-the-mill “Jaws”-on-land potboiler.
Jurassic World
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Mad Max: Fury Road
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Madame Bovary
Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Superficially faithful – and quickly forgettable…
Match
- Excerpt: Lack of cinematic spectacle is offset by good performances and writing
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
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Minions
MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: I love the Minions and I thought they totally deserved their own movie. But I was wrong. Or, at least, this movie is not the movie they deserve.
Natural Resistance
Nymph
Of Horses and Men
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The Overnight
Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: For all its supposed edginess,…it winds up being little more than mildly naughty.
Run All Night
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Saint Laurent
Jonathan Richards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: Bertrand Bonello’s biopic of the great designer is full of glitz and beautiful gowns, but in the end it’s like a magician’s trick of spewing colored scarves across a stage, a riot of visual exuberance but without much coherent to say.
The Salvation
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San Andreas
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Set Fire to the Stars
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Slow West
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Spy
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Sunshine Superman
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Testament of Youth
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Timbuktu
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Tomorrowland
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Welcome to Me
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White God
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The Wolfpack
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2014 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
American Sniper
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Life Itself
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Mr. Turner
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The Pyramid
Red Army
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Still Alice
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2015 Films (Coming Soon)
In Football We Trust
David Bax @ Battleship Pretension
- Excerpt: This pull quote won’t fit on a poster or anything but what Hoop Dreams did for poor, black, basketball playing teens from the south side of Chicago, Tony Vainuku and Erika Cohn’s In Football We Trust does for poor, Polynesian-American, football playing, Mormon teens from Utah. With twice the number of subjects and at half the running time, this new documentary may not quite achieve the air of epic tragedy of Steve James’ masterpiece but it is a film that is moving and potently human nonetheless.
The Kindergarten Teacher
José M. Robado @ CineCrítico [Spanish]
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Donald Jay Levit @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Port of Call
Donald Jay Levit @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Sitting on the Edge of Marlene
- Excerpt: Suzanne Clément does a whole lot of acting in Sitting on the Edge of Marlene, and it’s pretty darn spectacular.
SPL2: A Time for Consequences
- Excerpt: A sequel in name only to Wilson Yip’s 2005 film, Soi Cheang’s SPL2: A Time For Consequences nevertheless recaptures the exhilarating energy of the original, expanding from Hong Kong to encompass Thailand’s criminal underworld. Showcasing a raft of top-tier martial artists, including Tony Jaa, Wu Jing and Max Zhang, Cheang’s film should transcend its narrative flaws to play strongly, both at home and to broad genre-loving audiences internationally.
Victoria
Alan Mattli @ Facing the Bitter Truth [German]
- Excerpt: Without a single cut, director Sebastian Schipper and DP Sturla Brandth Grøvlen have created a stunning odyssey through the night of Berlin. ‘Victoria’ is a striking drama in the vein of Matthieu Kassovitz’s ‘La haine’.