New and ongoing movies, May 25
May 23, 2012 4:44PM
Jason Segel and Emily Blunt are shown in a scene from "The Five-Year Engagement." | Universal Pictures
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Updated: June 29, 2012 8:07AM
New Movies
Men in Black 3
Critic’s rating: 3 stars
Rated: PG-13 for sci-fi action violence and brief suggestive content.
Length: 1 hr., 45 min.
Stars: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin and Jemaine Clement.
When Agent K’s life and the fate of the planet are put at stake, Agent J travels back in time to put things right.
Chernobyl Diaries
Critic’s rating: Not reviewed
Rated: R for violence, some bloody images and pervasive language.
Length: 1 hr., 30 min.
Stars: Ingrid Bolso Berdal, Dimitri Diatchenko, Olivia Taylor Dudley and Devin Kelley.
Looking for adventure, six young vacationers visit the former home of the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. The group soon finds themselves stranded and discovers that they are not alone.
Ongoing Movies
Battleship
Critic’s rating: 2 1/2 stars
Rated: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence, action and destruction, and for language.
Length: 2 hr., 10 min.
Stars: Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgard, Rihanna and Brooklyn Decker.
An epic-size battle across the seas, the skies and over land as humans fight against a superior force.
The Dictator
Critic’s rating: 3 stars
Rated: R for crudeness, sexuality, nudity, language and violent images.
Length: 2 hr.
Stars: Sacha Baron Cohen, Anna Faris, Ben Kingsley and Jason Mantzoukas.
North African dictator who risks his life to ensure democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.
What To Expect When You’re
Expecting
Critic’s rating: 2 1/2 stars
Rated: PG-13 for crudeness, sexuality, thematic elements and language.
Length: 1 hr., 50 min.
Stars: Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Lopez, Elizabeth Banks and Anna Kendrick.
A group of couples handle impending parenthood in different ways.
Dark Shadows
Critic’s rating: 2 1/2 stars
Rated: PG-13 for comic horror violence, sexuality, drug use, language and smoking.
Length: 1 hr., 53 min.
Stars: Johnny Depp, Bella Heathcote, Michelle Pfeiffer and Eva Green.
Barnabas has the world at his feet until he breaks the heart of a witch who gets her revenge by turning him into a vampire and burying him alive. Two centuries later, he escapes and discovers a very different world in 1972.
The Avengers
Critic’s rating: 3 stars
Rated: PG-13 for sci-fi violence, action and a drug reference.
Length: 2 hr., 22 min.
Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson and Chris Hemsworth.
A team of super heroes unites to fight an unexpected enemy that threatens global safety.
The Five-Year Engagement
Critic’s rating: 2 stars
Rated: R for sexuality and language.
Length: 2 hr., 4 min.
Stars: Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Alison Brie and Chris Pratt.
An engaged couple keeps getting tripped up on the long walk down the aisle.
Pirates! Band
of Misfits
Critic’s rating: 3 stars
Rated: PG for action, rude humor and language.
Length: 1 hr., 27 min.
Stars: Hugh Grant, Brendan Gleeson, Martin Freeman and David Tennant.
An animated comedy following a pirate captain who, along with his ragtag crew, wants to beat his rivals for the coveted Pirate-of-the-Year Award.
The Raven
Critic’s rating: 2 stars
Rated: R for violence and grisly images.
Length: 1 hr., 43 min.
Stars: John Cusack, Luke Evans, Brendan Gleeson and Alice Eve.
When a madman begins committing horrific murders inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s tales, a young Baltimore detective teams up with Poe to get inside the killer’s mind.
Chimpanzee
Critic’s rating: 3 stars
Rated: G
Length: 1 hr., 18 min.
Disneynature’s newest True Life Adventure follows Oscar, a baby chimp whose playful curiosity lights up the African forest until a twist of fate leaves him to fend for himself with a little help from an unexpected ally.
The Lucky One
Critic’s rating: 21/2 stars
Rated: PG-13 for sexuality and violence.
Length: 1 hr., 41 min.
Stars: Zac Efron, Blythe Danner, Taylor Schilling and Jay R. Ferguson.
A U.S. Marine sergeant returns from his third tour of duty in Iraq with the photo he found of an unknown woman. He locates her and, despite her initial mistrust, a romance develops between them.
Think Like a Man
Critic’s rating: 2 stars
Rated: PG-13 for sexuality, crude humor and drug use.
Length: 2 hr., 2 min.
Stars: Steve Harvey, Gabrielle Union, Kevin Hart and Michael Ealy.
Based on Steve Harvey’s best-selling book, the movie follows four interconnected and diverse
men whose lives are shaken up after the women
they are pursuing buy
Harvey’s book and start taking his advice to heart.
Safe
Critic’s rating: Not reviewed
Rated: R for violence and language.
Length: 1 hr., 35 min.
Stars: Jason Statham, Catherine Chan, Chris Sarandon and Robert John Burke.
After he blows a rigged fight, a second-rate cage fighter’s family is murdered by the Russian mafia.
The Hunger Games
Critic’s rating: 3 stars
Rated: PG-13 for violence and disturbing images all involving teens.
Length: 2 hr., 22 min.
Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth.
Set in a future where the Capitol selects a boy and girl from the 12 districts to fight to the death on live television, Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her younger sister’s place for the latest match.
