New and ongoing movies, April 27
April 25, 2012 4:40PM
Catherine Chan plays Mei and Jason Statham is Luke Wright in "Safe."
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Updated: May 28, 2012 8:02AM
New Movies
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 mild 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 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.
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.
Ongoing Movies
Chimpanzee
Critic’s rating: 3 stars
Rated: G
Length: 1 hr., 18 min.
Disneynature’s newest True Life Adventure that 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.
The Cabin
in the Woods
Critic’s rating: 3 stars
Rated: R for violence,
gore, language, drug use, sexuality and nudity.
Length: 1 hr., 35 min.
Stars: Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison and Fran Kanz.
Five friends go to a remote cabin in the woods and bad things happen. But if you think you know this story, think again.
The Three
Stooges
Critic’s rating: 21/2 stars
Rated: PG for slapstick action violence, and rude and suggestive humor.
Length: 1 hr., 32 min.
Stars: Sean Hayes, Will Sasso, Chris Diamantopoulos and Jane Lynch.
Out to save their childhood home, the Three Stooges become embroiled in an oddball murder plot while also stumbling into starring in a successful television reality show.
Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day
Critic’s rating: Not reviewed
Rated: PG-13 for mature thematic material, violence, sexuality, drug and alcohol content, and language.
Length: 1 hr., 41 min.
Stars: Blair Underwood, Sharon Leal, Nicole Beharie and Nicoye Banks.
David and Kari seem to have a perfect life until their daughter is kidnapped and they begin uncovering secrets that could rip their marriage and lives apart.
American
Reunion
Critic’s rating: 3 stars
Rated: R for crudeness, sexuality, nudity, language, drug use and teen smoking.
Length: 1 hr., 50 min.
Stars: Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan, Chris Klein, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Tara Reid, Seann William Scott, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Mena Suvari and Natasha Lyonne.
The characters from “American Pie” return home for their high school reunion.
Mirror Mirror
Critic’s rating: 21/2 stars
Rated: PG for fantasy action and rude humor.
Length: 1 hr., 35 min.
Stars: Julia Roberts, Lily Collins, Armie Hammer and Sean Bean.
A funny and fresh retelling of the Snow White legend with Snow White a princess in exile while an evil queen ruthlessly rules her captured kingdom.
Wrath of
the Titans
Critic’s rating: 21/2 stars
Rated: PG-13 for fantasy violence and action.
Length: 1 hr., 39 min.
Stars: Sam Worthington, Gemma Arterton, Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes.
A decade after the defeat of the monstrous Kraken, Perseus is attempting to live a quiet life as a fisherman and father. Meanwhile, a struggle for supremacy rages between the gods and the Titans.
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.
21 Jump Street
Critic’s rating: 3 stars
Rated: R for violence, crudeness, sexuality, language, drug material and teen drinking.
Length: 1 hr., 49 min.
Stars: Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum and Brie Larson.
A pair of underachieving cops are sent to a local
high school to blend in
and bring down a synthetic drug ring.
Bully
Critic’s rating: 3 stars
Rated: PG-13 for language.
Length: 1 hr., 34 min.
Over the course of a school year, the documentary follows five families whose lives have been affected by bullying.
Titanic (3-D)
Critic’s rating: 4 stars
Rated: PG-13 for disaster-related peril and violence, nudity, sexuality and language.
Length: 3 hr., 15 min.
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane and Kathy Bates.
The 1997 James Cameron-directed epic is back on the big screen.
Lockout
Critic’s rating: 21/2 stars
Rated: PG-13 for violence, action, and language including sexual references.
Length: 1 hr., 50 min.
Stars: Guy Pearce, Maggie Grace, Peter Stormare and Vincent Regan.
A falsely convicted ex-government agent’s one chance at freedom lies in rescuing the president’s daughter from an outer space maximum-security prison.
