Friday, May 31, 2013

Movies this weekend


Dustin Putman's Movie Reviews
Opening This Week:
After Earth
★★ (out of ★★★★)
Nationwide - Inert and curiously unimaginative. This is not the same M. Night Shymalan who gave audiences a reason to shriek in fright one minute and uncontrollably weep the next during "The Sixth Sense" and "Signs." Where has that artist gone? "After Earth" bears the mark of a work-for-hire who has all but given up.
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Before Midnight
★★★ (out of ★★★★)
Select Cities - "Before Midnight" lacks the sweeping romanticism of "Before Sunrise," replaced by the realities of one's day-to-day existence in a world where things don't always turn out the way one imagines, or hopes. Such is life.
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Now You See Me
★½ (out of ★★★★)
Nationwide - A synthetic sleight of hand that divulges plenty of tricks but never quite settles on a satisfactory endgame, "Now You See Me" moves sluggishly through its paces while managing to waste just about every actor in its top-flight ensemble.
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