Film and theater this week
MoviesOpening This WeekLola Versus After being dumped by her fiance just weeks before their wedding, a woman (Greta Gerwig) enlists her friends to help her find her place in the world as a single woman about to turn 30.Rock of Ages A romance is played out in 1980s Los Angeles with rock music setting the mood. Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Julianne Hough, and Catherine Zeta-Jones star. Safety Not Guaranteed Three journalists set out to interview a man who placed an ad for a time-travel companion.
Movies
Opening This Week
Lola Versus After being dumped by her fiance just weeks before their wedding, a woman (Greta Gerwig) enlists her friends to help her find her place in the world as a single woman about to turn 30.
Rock of Ages A romance is played out in 1980s Los Angeles with rock music setting the mood. Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Julianne Hough, and Catherine Zeta-Jones star.
Safety Not Guaranteed Three journalists set out to interview a man who placed an ad for a time-travel companion.
That's My Boy Comedy with Adam Sandler as a failed father who shows up unwanted on the eve of his son's wedding and tries to reconnect with him.
Whores' Glory A documentary looking at the lives of prostitutes around the world.
The Woman in the Fifth An American writer (Ethan Hawke) moves to Paris where he becomes involved with a woman (Kristin Scott Thomas) he begins to suspect is involved in a series of murders. English and French with subtitles.
Excellent (ssss)
Reviewed by critics Steven Rea (S.R.) and Gary Thompson (G.T.). W.S. denotes a wire service review. Moonrise Kingdom Wes Anderson returns to live-action after his stop-motion experiment Fantastic Mr. Fox, but there are more similarities than differences in this wonderful, wistful tale of 12-year-old lovers on the run. With Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward as the kids, and Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, and Tilda Swinton as the grown-ups. You figure out who's more mature. 1hr.34 PG-13 (adult themes) — S.R.
Bernie Jack Black is a bighearted, buoyant East Texas mortician on trial for killing an elderly widow the whole town hated in Richard Linklater's cheerfully twisted true-crime comedy. With Shirley MacLaine, Matthew McConaughey, and real-life Lone Star citizens with a lot to say. 1 hr. 43 PG-13 (violence, profanity, adult themes) — S.R.
Also on Screens
Battleship sssd A fleet of warships goes to battle against an alien force. 2 hrs. 13 PG-13 (profanity, violence, destruction) — G.T.
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted sssd The gang's efforts to get back to New York City continue, this time taking them through Europe. 1hr.25 PG (some mild action, rude humor) — W.S.
Prometheus ssfd An extraordinary visualist, if not visionary, Ridley Scott revisits Alien territory in his late-21st-century space thriller, in which an exploratory mission to a far-off world uncovers things profound and profoundly icky. Lots of phallic symbolism, lots of tentacles, and weighty ruminations about evolution, religion, artificial intelligence. Weighty, but maddeningly weightless, too. With Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron. 2hrs.04 R (violence, intergalactic ick, adult themes) — S.R.
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