Going to the movies this weekend? Check out these movie reviews for five of the top flicks in theaters this weekend.
AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON (3D and standard)
- Playing at: AMC Showplace South Bend 16 | Cinemark Movies 14 | Carmike Encore Park 14 | Linway Cinema
- Review: “The best moments in The Avengers, Marvel’s 2012 blockbuster crossover event, weren’t the ones that pitted Earth’s mightiest heroes against an army of space invaders. They were the ones that gathered the characters in a room and pitted them against each other, the inevitable war of the worlds delayed in favor of a much more entertaining war of words.” Continue reading The AV Club’s review.
- Playing at: AMC Showplace South Bend 16 | Cinemark Movies 14 | Carmike Encore Park 14 | Linway Cinema
- Review: “Overpopulation worthy of an X-Men flick is just one pothole for Furious 7, which at 137 minutes also suffers from bloating and repetition. Yet the first movie in the series to be directed by Saw’s James Wan is as zippy, playful and amiably preposterous as the best of the previous models. The filmmakers even finesse the most conspicuous problem: Walker’s November 2013 car-crash death, which occurred midway through the shoot.” Continue reading NPR’s review.
- Playing at: AMC Showplace South Bend 16 | Cinemark Movies 14 | Carmike Encore Park 14 | Linway Cinema
- Review: “The plot, taken without the software update, is horror 101. An embarrassing drunken video is uploaded online and not long after, the girl at the centre of it is cyber-bullied until she kills herself. A year on, a group of teens are haunted by her vengeful spirit through their various online profiles. It’s I Know Who You Skyped Last Summer, in other words.” Continue reading The Guardian’s review.
- Playing at: AMC Showplace South Bend 16 | Cinemark Movies 14 | Carmike Encore Park 14
- Review: “And have no doubt, this film is crude, intentionally pushes people’s buttons, and many viewers will probably feel the humor is too offensive (without a doubt, it’s frequently offensive, the question is in what way). I understand all of those reactions. But I also feel they are misreading the film, and missing some crucial satire and the targeting of social attitudes and assumptions for mockery in a way that subverts the typical approach of using these topics to elicit merely simplistic appreciation from audiences.” Continue reading Forbes’ review.
- Playing at: AMC Showplace South Bend 16 | Cinemark Movies 14
- Review: “The latest version proves that third time’s the charm, with a Cinderella that is not revisionist but plain old visionist. In the recent Disney tradition of live-action film spun off from classic cartoon features — after Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland in 2010 and, last year, the Angelina Jolie Maleficent, from Sleeping Beauty — this Cinderella plays it straight and pretty.” Continue reading TIME Magazine’s review.
