Because of embargoes, 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: Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 2015

Wide (United States)

Burnt

[New Reviews Today] For member reviews of this film, follow this link

Our Brand Is Crisis

[New Reviews Today] For member reviews of this film, follow this link

Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

[New Today] Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies

• Excerpt: One must grudgingly admit that the movie knows exactly what it wants to be …It’s just that it’s a bland, anonymous, and crude state of being.

[New Today] Courtney Howard @ FreshFiction.tv

• Excerpt: Wanting badly to be as smart, charming and genuinely funny as SHAUN OF THE DEAD and ZOMBIELAND, the raunch-zom-com falls far short of a film with any modicum of brains.

[New Today] Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
[New Today] Kristy Puchko @ Pajiba

• Excerpt: Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse feels like an artifact. If you found a dust-covered VHS tape of it in your parents’ garage, you might chuckle at its sophomoric brand of humor and cringe-inducing sensibilities for being a product of their time. But as a new release, the only thing shocking about it is that it was made in the past decade.

Limited (United States)

Love

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

The Wonders

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

2015 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas

5 to 7

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

All Things Must Pass

Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage

• Excerpt: All Things Must Pass is therefore as much about the rise and fall of the music industry moving from vinyl to digital as it is Russ Solomon’s legacy. The latter is unblemished in the aftermath as he stayed true to himself and employees until financial troubles and wide eyes took their toll.

The Assassin

Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews

• Excerpt: features scene after scene of heart stopping beauty, all set to one of the year’s most inventively evolving scores…It’s all simply glorious.

[New Today] Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies

• Excerpt: This is less a narrative than it is a pageant.

[New Today] Charlie Juhl @ Citizen Charlie

• Excerpt: An assassin with a heart of gold, balancing work vs. love, The Assassin is an opportunity for a certain cinephile sect to relish color-saturated art direction and ignore narrative, because trying to understand any of it is futile.

Avengers: Age of Ultron

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

Beasts of No Nation

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

Beyond the Reach

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

Black Mass

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

Black Souls

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

Blackhat

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

Bone Tomahawk

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

Breathe

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

Bridge of Spies

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

Bound to Vengeance

Stefan Pape @ HeyUGuys

Carol

Hugo Gomes @ http://cinematograficamentefalando.blogs.sapo.pt [Portuguese]

Chappie

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

Cop Car

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

Crimson Peak

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

The Cut

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

Danny Collins

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

The Divergent Series: Insurgent

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

Dope

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

Eden

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

Escobar: Paradise Lost

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

Ex Machina

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

Experimenter

[New Today] Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com

• Excerpt: Cinematic portrait of a provocative psychologist…

Extraordinary Tales

Kevin Carr @ 7M Pictures

• Excerpt: the definitive works of Edgar Allan Poe on the big screen

Felix and Meira

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

Fifty Shades of Grey

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

Finders Keepers

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

Focus

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

The Forbidden Room

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

Girlhood

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

Heart Like a Hand Grenade

Don Lewis @ Flick Nation

Heart of a Dog

Josh Brunsting @ The CriterionCast

Heaven Knows What

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

Hotel Transylvania 2

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

I Smile Back

Candice Frederick @ Reel Talk Online

Jane B. for Agnes V.

Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema

Jason and Shirley

Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema

Julia

Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema
Glenn Lovell @ CinemaDope.com

• Excerpt: … studied and stylish — in a very self-conscious way. We’ve seen it all before, in ‘Ms .45,’ ‘Basic Instinct’ and other feminist revenge fantasies.

Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet

[New Today] Jared Mobarak @ BuffaloVibe

• Excerpt: I’m partial to Moore and Plympton for no other reason than being familiar with their work, but Sfar’s hyper real tango, Harib’s soft watercolor, and Socha’s surrealistic grain are standouts too. Compiling them together is the perfect way to bring Gibran’s words to life—attractive images for otherwise sententious content.

The Keeping Room

[New Reviews Today] For member reviews of this film, follow this link

Labyrinth of Lies

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

The Last Witch Hunter

[New Reviews Today] For member reviews of this film, follow this link

The Martian

[New Reviews Today] For member reviews of this film, follow this link

Meadowland

Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema

Mississippi Grind

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

Pan

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension

[New Reviews Today] For member reviews of this film, follow this link

Pay the Ghost

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

Rock the Kasbah

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

Room

[New Reviews Today] For member reviews of this film, follow this link

The Russian Woodpecker

David Bax @ Battleship Pretension

• Excerpt: Gracia can’t decide between a straight-faced, informational approach or a more fantastical one that matches the personality of his human subject as well as the Soviet thinking that led to the Woodpecker in the first place. As a result, the film never gels, leaving the audience to do little more than shrug when they should want to run and tell their friends about this fascinating, massive thing known as the Russian Woodpecker.

Sicario

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

Some Kind of Hate

Jennie Kermode @ Eye For Film

The Sound and the Fury

Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema

Spectre

Rob Daniel @ Electric Shadows

• Excerpt: Ultimately what carries Spectre is Daniel Craig

MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com

• Excerpt: After a truly spectacular and fresh opening sequence, everyone might as well be enacting a Bond puppet show, which is sometimes unpleasantly retro-icky.

Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog

• Excerpt: His word is his Bond.

Spotlight

Courtney Small @ Cinema Axis

Steve Jobs

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

Straight Outta Compton

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

Stung

Jennie Kermode @ Eye For Film

Suffragette

[New Reviews Today] For member reviews of this film, follow this link

Taxi

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

(T)ERROR

[New Today] Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies

• Excerpt: (T)ERROR becomes a frightening story about how even the most inept among the powerful still wield a tremendous amount of power.

Tokyo Tribe

[New Reviews Today] For member reviews of this film, follow this link

The Transporter Refueled

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

Truth

[New Reviews Today] For member reviews of this film, follow this link

The Vatican Tapes

Stefan Pape @ HeyUGuys

The Walk

For member reviews of this film, follow this link

Zhong Kui: Snow Girl and the Dark Cryatl

Edgar Chaput @ PopOptiq

2015 Films (Coming Soon)

9999

Jennie Kermode @ Eye For Film

Cub

Daniel Lackey @ The Nightmare Gallery

The Demolisher

Edgar Chaput @ PopOptiq

Un dia perfecte per volar

Diego Salgado @ Guía del Ocio [Spanish]

In the Dark

Jared Mobarak @ Jared Mobarak Reviews

• Excerpt: While Spaltro and his team definitely upped the ante to excel at the scares and make-up in darkened spaces, his talkie indie sensibility remains. Whether skeptic against believer or human versus demon, the dialogue is as potent as the visuals.

Marshland

Edgar Chaput @ PopOptiq

Men & Chicken

Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema

My Great Night

Diego Salgado @ Guía del Ocio [Spanish]

Scratch

Edgar Chaput @ PopOptiq

Titli

Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood

Under Electric Clouds

Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema

Under Milk Wood

Stefan Pape @ HeyUGuys