New and ongoing movies, July 20
July 18, 2012 5:00PM
Andrew Garfield stars as Spider-Man in "The Amazing Spider-Man," also starring Emma Stone (not shown). | Columbia Pictures
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Updated: August 21, 2012 6:20AM
New Movies
The Dark Knight Rises
Critic’s rating: 3 stars
Rated: PG-13 for
violence, language and sexuality.
Length: 2 hr., 45 min.
Stars: Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotilliard and Michael Caine.
Batman returns to Gotham City, the city that has branded him an enemy, this time to battle two new threats — a catburglar and a masked terrorist.
Ongoing Movies
Ice Age:
Continental
Drift 3-D
Critic’s rating: 2 stars
Rated: PG-13 for rude humor and action/peril.
Length: 1 hr., 34 min.
Stars: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary and Queen Latifah.
Scrats’ nutty pursuit of the cursed acorn has world-changing consequences.
The Amazing Spider-Man
Critic’s rating: 31/2 stars
Rated: PG-13 for action and violence.
Length: 2 hr., 16 min.
Stars: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifan and Denis Leary.
After Peter Parker discovers a mysterious briefcase that belonged to his father, he begins a quest to understand his parents’ disappearance.
Katy Perry:
Part of Me
Critic’s rating: Not reviewed
Rated: PG for suggestive content, language, thematic elements and smoking.
Length: 1 hr., 35 min.
A backstage look at the world of Katy Perry.
Savages
Critic’s rating: 31/2 stars
Rated: R for violence, sexuality, nudity, drug use and language.
Length: 1 hr., 50 min.
Stars: Taylor Kitsch, Aaron Johnson, Blake Lively, Benicio Del Toro and Salma Hayek.
Two low-key marijuana manufacturers must face off against a Mexican cartel after their shared love interest is kidnapped.
Madea’s Witness Protection
Critic’s rating: Not reviewed
Rated: PG-13 for crude sexual remarks and drug references.
Length: 1 hr., 54 min.
Stars: Tyler Perry, Eugene Levy, Percy Romeo Miller and Denise Richards.
When a CFO learns that his firm has been operating a mob-backed Ponzi scheme, and that he’s been set up to take the fall, he and his family are put in witness protection at the house of the federal prosecutor’s Aunt Madea.
Magic Mike
Critic’s rating: 31/2 stars
Rated: R for sexuality, nudity, language and drug use.
Length: 1 hr., 50 min.
Stars: Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Matt Bomer and Joe Manganiello.
Set in the steamy
world of male strippers,
the story follows Mike,
who takes a young dancer called The Kid under his wing.
People Like Us
Critic’s rating: 21/2 stars
Rated: PG-13 for language, drug use and sexuality.
Length: 1 hr., 55 min.
Stars: Chris Pine, Elizabeth Banks and Olivia Wilde.
When a 20-something, fast-talking salesman is called home to put his father’s estate in order, he discovers he has a 30-year-old sister he never knew about.
Ted
Critic’s rating: 31/2 stars
Rated: R for crudeness, sexuality, language and drug use.
Length: 1 hr., 46 min.
Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Seth MacFarlane and Joel McHale.
A grown man must deal with the cherished teddy bear who came to life as the result of a childhood wish and who hasn’t left his side since.
To Rome
With Love
Critic’s rating: 3 stars
Rated: R for sexuality.
Length: 1 hr., 52 min.
Stars: Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Ellen Page and Jesse Eisenberg.
A comedy that follows a group of people in one of the world’s most enchanting cities.
Brave
Critic’s rating: 3 stars
Rated: PG for scary action and rude humor.
Length: 1 hr., 33 min.
Stars: Kelly Macdonald, Billy Connolly, Emma Thompson and Julie Walters.
Merida, a skilled archer and daughter of the king, defies an age-old custom to carve out her own
path in life. Her actions inadvertently unleash chaos and she has to learn the true meaning
of bravery to undo a beastly curse.
Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted
Critic’s rating: 2 stars
Rated: PG for action and rude humor.
Length: 1 hr., 33 min.
Stars: Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer and Jada Pinkett Smith.
The gang is still fighting to get home to their beloved Big Apple, a journey that takes them through Europe where they find the perfect cover — a traveling circus.
Snow White and the Huntsman
Critic’s rating: 21/2 stars
Rated: PG-13 for violence,
action and sexuality.
Length: 2 hr., 7 min.
Stars: Kristen Stewart, Charlize Theron, Chris Hemsworth and Viggo Mortensen.
The Evil Queen is unaware that Snow White has been training in the art of war with a huntsman who has been dispatched to kill her.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Critic’s rating: Not reviewed
Rated: R for violence and sexuality.
Stars: Benjamin Walker, Dominic Cooper, Anthony Mackie and Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
The secret life of one of the country’s favorite presidents as history’s greatest hunters of the undead.
Prometheus
Critic’s rating: 4 stars
Rated: R for violence and language.
Length: 2 hr., 4 min.
Stars: Noomi Rapace,
Michael Fassbender,
Charlize Theron and Guy Pearce.
A team of explorers discovers a clue that may
reveal the origins of mankind on Earth.
