New and ongoing movies, Jan. 18
January 16, 2013 4:18PM
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Updated: January 16, 2013 4:26PM
New movies
Broken City
Critic’s rating: 3 stars
Rated: R for violence, sexuality and language.
Length: 1 hr., 49 min.
Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
An ex-cop sees a chance for redemption when New York’s powerful mayor calls upon him for a special job.
The Last Stand
Critic’s rating: Not reviewed
Rated: R for language and violence.
Length: 1 hr., 46 min.
Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Peter Stormare, Forest Whitaker and Johnny Knoxville.
A sheriff’s peaceful life fighting what little crime takes place in a sleepy border town is shattered when a drug kingpin escapes from an FBI prisoner convoy.
Mama
Critic’s rating: 3 stars
Rated: PG-13 for violence and terror.
Length: 1 hr., 40 min.
Stars: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Jessica Chastain.
Two sisters vanish in the woods and are found five years later in a decaying cabin. Their uncle and his girlfriend are thwarted at their attempts to reintroduce the children to a normal life.
Ongoing movies
Zero Dark Thirty
Critic’s rating: 3 stars
Rated: R for violence, language and disturbing images.
Length: 2 hr., 37 min.
Stars: Joel Edgerton, Jessica Chastain, Edgar Ramirez and Kyle Chandler.
An elite group of intelligence and military operatives devotes itself to finding Osama bin Laden.
The Impossible
Critic’s rating: 4 stars
Rated: PG-13 for disaster sequence, disturbing injury images and nudity.
Length: 1 hr., 43 min.
Stars: Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland, Samuel Joslin, Oaklee Pendergast, Marta Etura, Sönke Möhring and Geraldine Chaplin.
Based on a true story, this movie is the account of a family caught, with tens of thousands of strangers, in the mayhem of one of the worst natural catastrophes of our time — the 2004 tsunami in the Pacific Basin.
Gangster Squad
Critic’s rating: 2 stars
Rated: R for language and violence.
Length: 1 hr., 53 min.
Stars: Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin, Michael Peña, Anthony Mackie and Emma Stone.
Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in 1949 L.A., reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and — if he has his way — every wire bet placed west of Chicago.
A Haunted House
Critic’s rating: Not reviewed
Rated: R for rude and sexual content, language and drug use.
Length: 1 hr., 26 min.
Stars: Marlon Wayans, Cedric the Entertainer, Essence Atkins, David Koechner, Nick Swardson and Affion Crockett.
As a young couple settle in to their dream house, they learn they’re not alone. But it’s not the house that’s haunted, it’s the woman.
Texas Chainsaw 3-D
Critic’s rating: Not reviewed
Rated: R for violence and language.
Length: 1 hr., 32 min.
Stars: Alexandra Daddario, Scott Eastwood, Tania Raymonde, Tremaine “Trey Songz” Neverson and Keram Malicki-Sanchez.
A young woman learns she has inherited Texas property from an unknown relative, and she is unaware of horrors that await in the mansion’s dank cellar.
Promised Land
Critic’s rating: 3 stars
Rated: R for language
Length: 1 hr., 40 min.
Stars: Matt Damon, Hal Holbrook, John Krasinski, Frances McDormand and Rosemarie DeWitt.
Corporate salespeople arrive in a small town to secure drilling rights for their natural-gas company.
Not Fade Away
Critic’s rating: 3 stars
Rated: R for sexuality, language and drug use.
Length: 1 hr., 57 min.
Stars: John Magaro, Will Brill, Jack Huston, Bella Heathcote, James Gandolfini and Molly Price.
It’s 1964, the Rolling Stones appear on television and three best friends from the suburbs of New Jersey decide to form a rock band.
Les Misérables
Critic’s rating: 21/2 stars
Rated: PG-13 for suggestive and sexual material, violence and thematic elements.
Length: 2 hr., 38 min.
Stars: Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Eddie Redmayne, Amanda Seyfried, Samantha Barks, Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter.
Les Misérables tells a story of broken dreams and love, passion, sacrifice and redemption — a timeless testament to the survival of the human spirit.
The Guilt Trip
Critic’s rating: 2 stars
Rated: PG-13 for language and risque material.
Length: 1 hr., 33 min.
Stars: Barbra Streisand, Seth Rogen, Brett Cullen, Colin Hanks, Nora Dunn and Kathy Najimy.
Before embarking on a once-in-a-lifetime road trip, a man visits his overbearing mother and caves in under pressure to take her along for the ride.
Django Unchained
Critic’s rating: 4 stars
Rated: R for graphic violence, a vicious fight, language and nudity.
Length: 2 hr., 5 min.
Stars: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington, Dennis Christopher and Don Johnson.
Prior to the Civil War, Django is a slave whose history with his former owners puts him face-to-face with a German-born bounty hunter.
Parental Guidance
Critic’s rating: Not reviewed
Rated: PG-13 for rude humor.
Length: 1 hr., 45 min.
Stars: Billy Crystal, Bette Midler, Marisa Tomei, Tom Everett Scott and Bailee Madison.
Grandparents agree to baby-sit their grandkids when their parents go away for work.
This is 40
Critic’s rating: 21/2 stars
Rated: R for language, crude humor, sexuality and drug material.
Length: 2 hrs., 14 min.
Stars: Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann, Megan Fox, Albert Brooks and Chris O’Dowd.
As Pete struggles to keep his record label afloat, he and his wife, Debbie, navigate a three-week course of sex and romance, career victories and financial hardships, aging parents and maturing children.
Monsters, Inc. 3-D
Critic’s rating: 3 stars
Rated: G
Length: 1 hr., 32 min.
Voices by: John Goodman, Billy Crystal and Mary Gibbs.
After two “Toy Story” films and “A Bug’s Life,” the award-winning computer animation company Pixar delves into the realm of monsters.
The Hobbit: An
Unexpected Journey
Critic’s rating: 2 stars
Rated: PG-13 for fantasy action violence and frightening images.
Length: 2 hr., 49 min.
Stars: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Andy Serkis and Elijah Wood.
An unexpected journey follows title character Bilbo Baggins, who is swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor, which was long ago conquered by the dragon Smaug.
Life of Pi
Critic’s rating: 4 stars
Rated: PG for emotional thematic content, peril and scary action.
Length: 2 hr., 5 min.
Stars: Suraj Sharma, Irfan Khan, Tabu, Rafe Spall and Gérard Depardieu.
The story of an Indian boy who finds himself with a hyena, zebra, orangutan and a tiger after a shipwreck sends them adrift.
Silver Linings Playbook
Critic’s rating: 3½ stars
Rated: R for sexuality, nudity and language.
Length: 2 hr., 2 min.
Stars: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver and Chris Tucker.
Life doesn’t always go according to plan. A man has lost everything — his house, his job, and his wife. He now finds himself living back with his parents after spending eight months in a state institution.
Rise of the Guardians
Critic’s rating: 3 stars
Rated: PG for thematic content and scary action.
Length: 1 hr., 37 min.
Voices: Chris Pine, Hugh Jackman, Jude Law, Alec Baldwin, Isla Fisher and Dakota Goyo.
When an evil spirit called Pitch becomes bent upon taking over the world by inspiring fear in the hearts of kids everywhere, a group of our greatest heroes — Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, the Sandman and Jack Frost — band together for the first time.
Lincoln
Critic’s rating: 4 stars
Rated: PG-13 for war violence, images of carnage and language.
Length: 2 hr., 29 min.
Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, David Strathairn, Tommy Lee Jones, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, Blake Nelson, Jackie Earle Haley and Jared Harris.
In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, President Abraham Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery.
Argo
Critic’s rating: 4 stars
Rated: R for language and violent images.
Length: 2 hrs.
Stars: Ben Affleck, Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Bryan Cranston and Taylor Schilling.
Amid the chaos of Iranian revolutionaries storming the U.S. embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, 1979, taking 52 Americans hostage, six Americans manage to slip away and find refuge with the Canadian ambassador.
The Sessions
Critic’s rating: 3½ stars
Rated: R for nudity, sexual situations and clinical sexual terminology.
Length: 1 hr., 35 min.
Stars: John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy, Moon Bloodgood, Annika Marks.
Based on the poignantly optimistic autobiographical writings of California-based journalist and poet Mark O’Brien, this movie tells the story of a man confined to an iron lung who is determined — at age 38 — to lose his virginity.
