New and ongoing movies, July 27
July 25, 2012 4:30PM
A neighborhood skater kid (Johnny Pemberton, center) easily gets the better of his hapless interrogators, Evan (Ben Stiller, left) and Franklin (Jonah Hill) in the new comedy “The Watch.”
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Updated: August 28, 2012 6:07AM
NEW MOVIES
Step Up Revolution
Critic’s rating: xxxx stars
Rated: PG-13 for suggestive dancing and language.
Length: 1 hr., 39 min.
Stars: Kathryn McCormick, Ryan Guzman and Cleopatra Coleman.
Emily arrives in Miami with aspirations to become a professional dancer. She sparks with Sean, the leader of a dance crew whose neighborhood is threatened by Emily’s father’s development plans.
The Watch
Critic’s rating: xxxx stars
Rated: R for sexuality, language and violent images.
Length: 1 hr., 38 min.
Stars: Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn and Jonah Hill.
Suburban dads who form a neighborhood watch group as a way to get out of their day-to-day family routines find themselves defending Earth from an alien invasion.
Ongoing 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.
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.
Tyler Perry’s 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.
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.
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.
Moonrise Kingdom
Critic’s rating: 31/2 stars
Rated: PG for sexuality and smoking.
Length: 1 hr., 34 min.
Stars: Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward and Bruce Willis.
A pair of young lovers flee their New England town, causing a local search party to organize and try to find them.
