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5 FLIGHTS UP
PG-13; language and some nude
images
Time: 1:31
The considerable cinematic charms
of Diane Keaton and Morgan Freeman
are no match for the hell that is the
New York real estate market in “5
Flights Up,” a middling comedy about
getting old, trying to downsize and
running up against real estate
agents, hagglers and looky-lous. —
Roger Moore
THE AGE OF ADELINE
1/2
PG-13; suggestive comment
Time: 1:50
“The Age of Adaline” falls neatly into
a genre that includes “The Time
Traveler’s Wife,” “About Time” and
even “Somewhere in Time.” But
building this film around all the willowy,
world-weary grace that Blake
“Gossip Girl” Lively can muster pays
off. — Roger Moore
ALOHA
PG-13; some language including
suggestive comments
Time: 1:44
Cameron Crowe fans — and that
includes most movie critics — have
cut him a lot of slack over the years.
“Aloha” has been reduced to a shambling,
lurching Hawaiian comedy full
of big name actors making long,
rushed, declamatory speeches. —
Roger Moore
AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON
1/2
PG-13; intense sequences of sci-fi
action, violence and destruction,
some suggestive comments
Time: 2:21
Much of the sense of fun that has
characterized past Marvel movies is
missing this time around. If there’s
one word that best characterizes
“Avengers: Age of Ultron” it’s overkill.
And it’s exhausting. — Soren Anderson
THE DIVERGENT SERIES:
INSURGENT
1/2
PG-13; intense violence and action
throughout, some sensuality, thematic
elements and brief language
Time: 1:56
“Insurgent” doesn’t seriously diverge
from the “Divergent/Hunger Games/
Maze Runner” formula until its final
Rose Byrne and Melissa McCarthy in “Spy.”
act. As it wraps up, it picks up speed
and depth, and gives you hope that
maybe this series won’t conclude as
the copy-and-paste “Hunger Games”
it has felt like from the moment the
books were word-processed onto the
best-seller lists. — Roger Moore
ENTOURAGE
R; pervasive language, strong sexual
content, nudity and some drug use
Time: 1:44
It’s “Entourage,” a movie that plumbs
the sparkly depths of shallow. The
further adventures of the guys from
the HBO series that spawned it,
“Entourage” is too enamored of the
Hollywood excessiveness it seeks to
mock to be satirically effective. Plus,
its characters are numbingly superficial.
Result? The picture falls flat. —
Soren Andersen
EX MACHINA
R; graphic nudity, language, sexual
references and some violence
Time: 1:48
“Ex Machina” is a tense tale of artificial
love so intelligently crafted and
edgy that I adored it myself. It’s a
coherent, suspenseful film noir battle
of wills and a beauty vs. beast gender
fable. It’s an eerie futurist boy-meetsgirl
story and a stylish psychological
thriller. — Colin Covert
FAR FROM THE MADDING
CROWD
1/2
PG-13; some sexuality and violence
Time: 1:59
Thomas Hardy’s romantic Victorian
novel of class, labor and the fickle
finger of love, “Far From the Madding
Crowd” earns a stately yet earthy and
full-blooded film treatment from the
Danish director Thomas Vinterberg.
— Roger Moore
FURIOUS 7
PG-13; prolonged frenetic sequences
of violence, action and mayhem,
suggestive content and brief strong
language.
Time: 2:17
What we have here is a gazilliondollar
live-action Roadrunner cartoon,
with everything pumped up to
cartoonish extremes, from the bulging
biceps of Vin Diesel and Dwayne
“No Longer The Rock” Johnson to the
overload of villains with different
agendas using everything from high
tech (helicopters and drones) to
caveman tech (metal clubs) to try to
do our heroes harm. It’s all pretty
funny, and it’s meant to be. — Soren
Andersen
Courtesy of 20th Century Fox
I’LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS
1/2
PG-13; sexual material, drug use and
brief strong language
Time: 1:32
The actors are terrific, Blythe Danner
and Sam Elliott. It’s too bad, though,
that co-writer, editor and director
Brett Haley settles for so little. As “I’ll
See You in My Dreams” reminds us,
Danner and Elliott are masters in the
art of turning ordinary material into
little bits of truth, and life. — Michael
Phillips
INSIDIOUS CHAPTER 3
Not reviewed
PG-13; violence, frightening images,
some language and thematic elements
Time: 1:37
This chilling prequel, set before the
haunting of the Lambert family,
reveals how gifted psychic Elise
Rainier (Lin Shaye) reluctantly agrees
to use her ability to contact the dead
to help a teenage girl.
JURASSIC WORLD
1/2
PG-13; intense sequences of sciencefiction
violence and peril
Time: 2:05
Spielberg and company “spared no
expense” on the special effects in
“Jurassic World.” But it’s been 22 long
years since the original “Jurassic
Park” wowed audience with its thengroundbreaking
CG work. Today, as a
character in this latest “Jurassic”
iteration observes, “no one is impressed
with dinosaurs any more.”
We’ve seen it all before. — Soren
Andersen
KINGSMAN: THE SECRET
SERVICE
R; sequences of strong violence,
strong language, some sexual content
Time: 2:09
“Kingsman” is a cleverly constructed
homage to the Bond pictures, particularly
the early ones starring Sean
Connery, before everything got so
deadly serious in the Daniel Craig era.
It’s a comedy, though, one with gore
galore, abundant dismemberments
and literally mind-blowing violence.
— Soren Andersen
LOVE & MERCY
PG-13; thematic elements, drug
content and language
Time: 2:00
The best musical biographies give
you a moment when the hairs on the
back of your neck stand up as you
witness the miracle of a song’s creation.
“Love & Mercy” strikes all the
expected notes of hunger, creative
fervor, success, tragedy and vindication
that we expect from such movies.
But if you don’t get a little chill
hearing Paul Dano, doing his own
rehearsal singing, picking out
“Wouldn’t It Be Nice” or “In My
Room” or “God Only Knows” at the
piano, your musical tastes need
broadening. — Roger Moore
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
1/2
R; intense sequences of violence
throughout and for disturbing images
Time: 2:00
Sheer pyrotechnic insanity. We’re
talking “Mad Max: Fury Road” here.
Thirty years after the last “Max,”
“Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome,”
director George Miller proves beyond
a shadow of a doubt that he still has
it. “It” meaning an all-consuming
addiction to demento-extremo stunts
and high-octane vehicular mayhem.
— Soren Andersen
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