![]() ![]() Special Forces soldier who joins a private contracting firm. The Contractor (R) Chris Pine stars in this thriller as a U.S. ![]() Also with Jeffrey Wright, Andy Serkis, Jayme Lawson, Peter McDonald, Con O’Neill, Alex Ferns, Rupert Penry-Jones, Charlie Carver, Max Carver, Barry Keoghan, and Peter Sarsgaard. Still, it’s the Riddler who captures your attention as an incel torturer with a gruesome sense of humor who undermines faith in Gotham’s institutions that makes this a Batman movie for our time. ![]() The film has terrific supporting turns from Farrell, John Turturro as an icy mob boss, and Zoë Kravitz as a slinky bisexual Catwoman pursuing a grudge. Director/co-writer Matt Reeves does his finest work to date, especially with a great car chase when the Penguin (Colin Farrell, unrecognizable under a prosthetic fat suit) causes a chain-reaction pileup to deter the pursuing Batman. ![]() Robert Pattinson takes over the role of Bruce Wayne as he deals with a villain who murders Gotham’s fantastically corrupt city officials and leaves behind clues and severed body parts. The Batman (PG-13) This reboot’s biggest achievement might just be forcing us to take the Riddler (Paul Dano) seriously as a villain. Also with Garret Dillahunt, Keir O’Donnell, Jackson White, Olivia Stambouliah, Moses Ingram, Colin Woodell, Cedric Sanders, Wale, Jose Pablo Cantillo, and A Martinez. Even the meatheads in the audience have moved on to other things. This is a remake of a similarly titled 2005 Danish thriller, and it goes bigger in all the wrong ways, losing the original’s focus and brevity in favor of making every shot look like it’s from a TV commercial. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II plays a hard-up Marine veteran who turns to his shady adoptive brother (Jake Gyllenhaal) for a loan, only to be roped into acting as getaway driver for a bank robbery, then hijacking an ambulance with an EMT (Eiza González) and a wounded cop on board. Staying true to his style is either a mark of artistic integrity or a sign that he has run out of ideas. (Opens Friday in Dallas)Īmbulance (R) Michael Bay still makes movies the same way, with cameras wheeling around the actors when not photographing them from low, heroic angles. Also with Bobby O’Neill, Michael Jibson, Isabella Jonsson, Darcey Ewart, Geoffrey Palmer, and Conleth Hill. To Olivia (NR) Hugh Bonneville and Keeley Hawes star in this biographical drama about the tumultuous marriage between children’s author Roald Dahl and actress Patricia Neal. (Opens Friday at América Cinemas Gran Plaza) Also with Eric Wiegand, Scott Gremillion, Rick LaCour, Quinn Nehr, Timothy McKinney, and Cameron Inman. Room 203 (NR) This horror film stars Francesca Wuereb and Viktoria Vinyarskaya as roommates who are terrorized by the evil spirits lurking in their new apartment. Also with Daniel Giménez Cacho, Elkín Díaz, Juan Pablo Urrego, and Jeanne Balibar. Memoria (PG) Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul makes his English-language debut about a Scottish woman (Tilda Swinton) who experiences a strange sensory syndrome while traveling in Colombia. Also with Sanjay Dutt, Srinidhi Shetty, Raveena Tandon, Prakash Raj, Ramachandra Raju, Achyuth Kumar, and Rao Ramesh. K.G.F.: Chapter 2 (NR) The sequel to the 2018 period action film stars Yash as a hero who fights against the exploitation of India’s gold miners. Also with Mel Gibson, Jacki Weaver, Ronnie Gene Blevins, Annet Mahendru, Winter Ave Zoli, Teresa Ruiz, and Ned Bellamy. Stuart Long, a self-destructive boxer who found salvation in the priesthood. (Opens Friday in Dallas)įather Stu (R) Mark Wahlberg stars in this drama based on the life of Fr. Also with Aaron Paul, Beulah Koale, Kristofer Gummerus, and Theo James. Dual (R) This science fiction-comedy stars Karen Gillan as a woman who’s ordered by a court to fight her genetic clone to the death. ![]()
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