 Rating: 5 out of 5 starsGenre: Drama, Crime
Run Time: 2 hours, 10 minutes, Rated PG-13 Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Tye Sheridan, Jacob Lofland, Reese Witherspoon, Sarah Paulson, Ray McKinnon, Sam Shepard, Michael Shannon Written and Directed by Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter, Shotgun Stories) With a name like Mud (opening today), it may be easy to miss. But miss Mud, and you'll be missing one of the best films to come out of the first half of 2013.
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 LD Entertainment, 2013. Rating: 4 out of 5 starsThe new film Disconnect (opening today) will one day be looked at as one of the most accurate time capsules depicting what life was like in the Facebook, social media & internet era of American society. Like many good films, it takes familiar gimmicks and plot points and presents it in a whole new light - connecting the dots, if you will - between two ideas or concepts that existed previously, creating a refreshingly new experience in the process.
 Rating: 2 out of 5 starsGenre: Science Fiction, Action, Adventure
Run Time: 2 hours, 6 minutes, Rated PG-13 Starring: Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Melissa Leo Co-Written and Directed by Joseph Kosinski (TRON: Legacy) There will always be a place for films like Oblivion (opening today), because science-fiction fans represent the most rabid of film followers. But this laborious blockbuster, filled with paragraphs of nerdy techno-babble, has to be one of the corniest and most ill-conceived sci-fi films of the decade. Yes, let the hate mail begin.  Rating: 1 out of 5 starsGenre: Horror, Thriller
Run Time: 1 hour, 41 minutes, Rated R Starring: Sheri Moon Zombie, Bruce Davison, Jeff Daniel Phillips, Ken Foree, Patricia Quinn, Dee Wallace Written & Directed by Rob Zombie (Halloween, Halloween II, The Devil's Rejects, House of 1000 Corpses) Let's not mince words, Lords of Salem (opening today) is pure evil. A horror movie and an evil movie are two different beasts and shouldn't be compared so freely. One would come to expect such an evil film from writer/director Rob Zombie, who has made a living dealing with dark subject matter. But Lords of Salem doesn't set out to scare you into jumping out of your seat. It looks to work its way into your head, feed, nest and never leave.  Rating: 4 out of 5 starsGenre: Drama, Romance
Run Time: 1 hour, 52 minutes, Rated R Starring: Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Olga Kurylenko, Javier Bardem Written and Directed by Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life, The Thin Red Line, Days of Heaven) To the Wonder (opening today) will be remembered as an important film, not necessarily because of its own merits, but rather because it was the last film to ever be reviewed by the late, great Roger Ebert.  Rating: 4 out of 5 starsGenre: Drama, Crime
Run Time: 2 hours, 20 minutes, Rated R Starring: Ryan Gosling, Eva Mendes, Mahershala Ali, Ben Mendelsohn, Bradley Cooper, Rose Byrne, Bruce Greenwood, Ray Liotta, Harris Yulin, Dane DeHaan, Emory Cohen Co-Written and Directed by Derek Cianfrance (Blue Valentine) Director Derek Cianfrance created a raw, mesmerizing and poignant character study back in 2010, with his debut film, Blue Valentine. He follows that up with The Place Beyond the Pines (opening today), an ambitious and downright daring film that shares the same tone as his first film.  Rating: 2 out of 5 starsGenre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Run Time: 1 hour, 41 minutes, Rated R Starring: James McAvoy, Vincent Cassel, Rosario Dawson, Danny Sapani Written by Joe Ahearne, John Hodge You are getting sleepy. Very sleepy. No this is not me attempting hypnosis, but rather it is the after-affects of watching Danny Boyle's latest film, Trance (in theaters today). This mind-bending thriller from the crafty Boyle (127 Hours, Slumdog Millionaire) is a messy, chaotic and under-whelming session that made me long for a therapist's fingers to snap me back to reality.  Rating: 4 out of starsGenre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Run Time: hour, minutes, Rated PG-13 Starring: Chadwick Boseman, T.R. Knight, Harrison Ford Written & Directed by Brian Helgeland (The Order, A Knight's Tale, Payback) There's no question that Jackie Robinson was one of the most important people of the Civil Rights Movement, becoming the first African American ball player in Major League Baseball (MLB). In the film 42 (opening this weekend, named after Robinson's jersey number), we learn that there were other very important, yet perhaps over-shadowed figures involved in his historic achievements on and off the field. As much as this is the Jackie Robinson Story, it is the story of several revolutionary, forward-thinking individuals who were determined to change the perceptions of popular culture at the time.  Rating: 5 out of 5 starsGenre: Documentary
Run Time: 1 hour, 42 minutes, Not Rated Directed by Rodney Ascher If you haven't seen the 1980 Stanley Kubrick classic horror film, "The Shining," then the new documentary, "Room 237," won't do you any good. But to those of us that have seen this classic film, "Room 237" is more than recommended viewing: It is essential.  Rating: 4 out of 5 starsGenre: Drama
Run Time: 1 hour, 38 minutes, Rated PG-13 Starring: Chris O'Dowd, Deborah Mailman, Jessica Mauboy, Shari Sebbens, Miranda Tapsell, Tory Kittles, Don Battee Written by Tony Briggs, Keith Thompson Directed by Wayne Blair (feauture-film debut) The best film thus far in 2013 is The Sapphires, a film that swept every major category at the Australian Film Institute Awards in its home country of Australia. The praise is well-deserved. Here is a conventional story told unconventionally, featuring the discovery (for American audiences, at least) of two undeniable future stars: One in front of the camera and one behind it. |
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