New and ongoing movies, May 4
May 2, 2012 4:54PM
Jason Segel and Emily Blunt are shown in a scene from "The Five-Year Engagement." | Universal Pictures
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Updated: June 5, 2012 8:04AM
New Movies
The Avengers
Critic’s rating: 3 stars
Rated: PG-13 for 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.
Ongoing 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 action, rude humor and language.
Length: 1 hr., 27 min.
Stars: Hugh Grant, Brendan Gleeson, Martin Freeman and David Tennant.
A pirate captain and
his ragtag crew want to
beat their rival for the coveted Pirate of the Year Award.
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 cage fighter’s family is murdered by the Russian mafia.
Chimpanzee
Critic’s rating: 3 stars
Rated: G
Length: 1 hr., 18 min.
Oscar is 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.
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 men whose lives are shaken up after the women they are pursuing buy Harvey’s book and start taking his advice.
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.
The Three Stooges become embroiled in an oddball murder plot while also stumbling into starring in a successful television reality show.
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.
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 Baltimore detective teams up with Poe to get inside the killer’s mind.
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 Iraq with the photo he found of an unknown woman. He locates her and, despite her initial mistrust, a romance develops between them.
