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Plot , no need for any of that , it's just hyper violence from the first person perspective , Sharlto Copley looked like he was having a hell of a lot of fun but this was mostly forgettable and I found the Villain to be annoying but I did like the short Tim Roth cameo with the short payoff speech and seeing the villain die was good.
Cast: Neel Sethi, Idris Elba, Ben Kingsley, Scarlett Johansson, Lupita Nyong'o, Christopher Walken, Giancarlo Esposito, Emjay Anthony, and Bill Murray
Synopsis: After a fearsome tiger threatens his life, Mowgli (Neel Sethi), a boy raised by wolves, leaves his jungle home and, guided by a stern panther (Ben Kingsley) and a free-spirited bear (Bill Murray), sets out on a journey of self-discovery.
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BARBERSHOP: THE NEXT CUT
Release: April 15, 2016
Genre: Comedy
Director: Malcolm D. Lee (Undercover Brother)
Cast: Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer, Nicki Minaj, Regina Hall, Eve, Anthony Anderson, Troy Garity, and Common
Synopsis: It's been more than 10 years since our last appointment at Calvin's Barbershop. Calvin and his longtime crew are still there, but the shop has undergone some major changes. Most noticeably, our once male-dominated sanctuary is now co-ed.
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CRIMINAL
Release: April 15, 2016
Genre: Action Thriller
Director: Ariel Vromen (The Iceman)
Cast: Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Tommy Lee Jones, Ryan Reynolds, Alice Eve, Gal Gadot, Jordi Molla, Antje Traue, Michael Pitt, Robert Davi, and Scott Adkins
Synopsis: In a last-ditch effort to stop a diabolical plot, a dead CIA operative’s memories, secrets and skills are implanted into a former death row inmate in hopes that he will complete the operative’s mission.
Rotten Tomatoes:95% approval rating (155 out of 164 critics like it)
Critics Consensus: As lovely to behold as it is engrossing to watch, The Jungle Book is the rare remake that actually improves upon its predecessors -- all while setting a new standard for CGI.
Entertainment Weekly - It's the first talking-animal movie I've seen where CGI seamlessly bridges the uncanny gap between fantasy and reality. It's also one of the few 3-D movies that actually benefits from being in 3-D. A-
Washington Post - Like all classic Disney productions, The Jungle Book possesses its share of fear, suffering and loss. But somehow the audience comes out whistling - in this case, with joy and quite a bit of awe. 3.5/4
Toronto Sun - Walt Disney Studios' splendid new version of The Jungle Book is utterly charming, absolutely gorgeous and perhaps too terrifying for the youngest and most impressionable children. 4/5
Rolling Stone - Director Jon Favreau conjures up a magical place to get lost in. And that's just one of the dazzling delights in The Jungle Book, a visual marvel that cuts a direct path to the heart. See it in reach-out-and-touch 3D if you can, and prepare to be wowed. 3.5/4
Richard Roeper - Thanks to director Jon Favreau's visionary guidance and some of the most impressive blends of live-action and CGI we've yet seen, The Jungle Book is a beautifully rendered, visually arresting take on Rudyard Kipling's oft-filmed tales. 3.5/4
Rotten Tomatoes:25% approval rating (18 out of 71 critics like it)
Critics Consensus: Despite the valiant efforts of a game and talented cast, Criminal has little to offer beyond the bare minimum expected by the most undemanding of genre enthusiasts.
Entertainment Weekly - But Criminal’s story moves like a fat cow. Criminal is all flaccid action scenes, run-on violence and even by the midway point sentimental. D
New York Daily News - Quick, what do you call it when a movie takes both of the year’s biggest breakout action stars and wastes them in a bad Kevin Costner movie? “Criminal.” It’s like the movie was written in crayon, in the margins of a comic book. 2/5
Washington Post - Like its brain-damaged protagonist, "Criminal" just shouts and shoots its way into, not out of, an oblivion of illogic, plot holes and emotionally unengaging scenery-chewing. 1/4
Richard Roeper - Given the lurid, stupid, loony and unintentionally laughable nature of this espionage thriller, I found some measure of entertainment studying the vastly different approaches taken by Costner, Jones and Oldman. 1/4
Mr Right is fun. Some of the dialogue is cheeky. I mean while the whole thing is tongue in cheek, they know they're going overboard. It's fresh and occasionally clever compared to most of the comedies that come out. Not really laugh out loud funny but entertaining. Anna Kendrick shows that she embraces awkward and still manages to be sexy.
See or miss it, it won't change your life.
Rotten Tomatoes:91% approval rating (53 out of 58 critics like it)
Critics Consensus: Heartfelt, thought-provoking, and above all funny, Barbershop: The Next Cut is the rare belated sequel that more than lives up to the standard set by its predecessors.
Entertainment Weekly - The movie ... offers what any barbershop worth its repeat customers provides: An hour or two of good company, and the feeling that you're leaving a little sharper than when you came in. B
Richard Roeper - Just about everything else clicks, thanks in no small part to the wonderful performances from the deep cast. 3.5/4
Washington Post - Just as the men and women at Calvin's Barbershop are older and have more responsibilities, so too is "Barbershop: The Next Cut" more mature than its cinematic predecessors. 3/4
Rolling Stone - It's stagey, often simplistic and it talks too damn much. But, hell, the talk has flavor and snap and a real-world sense of a community in crisis. Not bad for an escapist romp. 3/4
THE JUNGLE BOOK Scores Huge $103.6M U.S. Debut, Climbs to $291M Globally
Jon Favreau's The Jungle Book opened to a massive $103.6 million at the North American box office in another win for Disney's live-action studio as it spins classic titles into modern-day tentpoles.
Overseas, the family friendly movie is also doing enormous business, grossing $136.1 million over the weekend — including a sizeable $50.3 million bow in China — for a foreign total of $187.4 million and early global tally of $291 million.
Jungle Book's weekend worldwide tally clocked in at $240 million. In North America, Jungle Book scored the No. 1 April debut for a PG title and the No. 2 April opening of all time for any film behind last year's Furious 7 ($146.2 million).
Jungle Book, a live-action/CGI reimagining of Rudyard Kipling's eponymous book about an orphaned human boy whose guardians are animals, was buoyed by rave reviews and an A CinemaScore.
The well-reviewed Barbershop 3 placed No. 2 with $20.2 million from 2,661 theaters after earning an A- CinemaScore. The movie, from New Line and MGM, had hoped to match the $24.1 million debut of Barbershop 2: Back in Business 12 years ago, but still did solid business.
From Lionsgate and Millennium Films, Ariel Vromen's Criminal fell flat, coming in No. 6 with $5.9 million from 2,683 theaters despite a strong cast. In the film, the memories of a dead CIA operative are implanted into a death-row inmate (Costner) in hopes of stopping a dangerous threat.
Yeah , I have so many comp tickets , and I like using them on movies that I normally wouldn't pay for , and this one is in that category. Got a lot of talented actors phoning it in here for a paycheck , also odd note I'm pretty sure I was the only one in the crowd under 30 . As for the movie , Kevin Costner was decent enough and looked to be having fun , but just overall it was a dull movie.
Director: Cedric Nicolas-Troyan (feature film directorial debut)
Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron, Emily Blunt, Jessica Chastain, Nick Frost, Sheridan Smith, Rob Brydon, and Alexandra Roach
Synopsis: Ravenna (Charlize Theron) is resurrected by her sister, Freya the Ice Queen (Emily Blunt). As the evil sisters prepare to conquer the land, the only ones who can stop them are the two renegades from Freya's band of elite warriors, the Huntsmen - Eric (Chris Hemsworth), who previously aided Snow White in defeating Ravenna, and his forbidden lover, Sara (Jessica Chastain).
Was an outstanding family movie does the original justice with an excellent voice cast , beautifully crisp animation for talking animals and very good performance from a young actor that is able to capture a full scope of character growth in a nice little arc . The story isn't complicated but the interaction between Mowgli ( Neel Sehti) and basically the voices of some prominent veterans ( Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley , Idris Elba to name a few ) , is something to admire and I give credit to creative directing, definitely bring the kids , they will enjoy it
Saw THE JUNGLE BOOK a few days ago. Very entertaining family adventure film. The special effects was amazing and absolutely flawless, well maybe except for the snake's head. It's hard to imagine an FX that can top this in the future.
Yeah , I have so many comp tickets , and I like using them on movies that I normally wouldn't pay for , and this one is in that category. Got a lot of talented actors phoning it in here for a paycheck , also odd note I'm pretty sure I was the only one in the crowd under 30 . As for the movie , Kevin Costner was decent enough and looked to be having fun , but just overall it was a dull movie.
Waste of a killer cast. Reynolds should choose his projects carefully because the premise for Criminal is very similar to his other mind-swapping thriller Self/Less.
Director: Liza Johnson (Hateship Loveship, Return)
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Michael Shannon, Alex Pettyfer, Johnny Knoxville, Colin Hanks, Evan Peters, and Ashley Benson
Synopsis: The untold true story behind the meeting between the King of Rock 'n Roll and President Nixon, resulting in this revealing, yet humorous moment immortalized in the most requested photograph in the National Archives.
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A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING
Release: April 22, 2016
Genre: Comedy Drama
Director: Tom Tykwer (Cloud Atlas, Run Lola Run)
Cast: Tom Hanks, Alexander Black, Sarita Choudhury, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Ben Whishaw and Tom Skerritt
Synopsis: A failed American businessman looks to recoup his losses by traveling to Saudi Arabia and selling his idea to a wealthy monarch.
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THE MEDDLER
Release: April 22, 2016
Genre: Comedy Drama
Director: Lorne Scafaria (Seeking a Friend for the End of the World)
Cast: Susan Sarandon, Rose Byrne, J. K. Simmons, Lucy Punch, Jason Ritter, Randall Park Casey Wilson, Michael McKean, Billy Magnussen, Cecily Strong, Sarah Baker, Rebecca Drysdale, and Jerrod Carmichael
Synopsis: An aging widow (Susan Sarandon) from New York City follows her daughter (Rose Byrne) to Los Angeles in hopes of starting a new life after her husband passes away.
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HOLIDAYS
Release: April 22, 2016
Genre: Horror Anthology
Director: Kevin Smith (Tusk), Gary Shore (Dracula Untold), Scott Stewart (Dark Skies), Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer (Starry Eyes), Sarah Adina Smith (The Midnight Swim), Nicholas McCarthy (The Pact), Adam Egypt Mortimer (Some Kind of Hate), and Anthony Scott Burns (Darknet)
Cast: Seth Green, Lorenza Izzo, Michael Gross, Andrew Bowen, Ruth Bradley, and Clare Grant
Synopsis: Ravenna (Charlize Theron) is resurrected by her sister, Freya the Ice Queen (Emily Blunt). As the evil sisters prepare to conquer the land, the only ones who can stop them are the two renegades from Freya's band of elite warriors, the Huntsmen - Eric (Chris Hemsworth), who previously aided Snow White in defeating Ravenna, and his forbidden lover, Sara (Jessica Chastain).
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TALE OF TALES
Release: April 22, 2016
Genre: Fantasy Horror Romance
Director: Matteo Garrone (Gomorrah, Reality)
Cast: Salma Hayek, John C. Reilly, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones, Bebe Cave, Shirley Henderson, Hayley Carmichael, Christian Lees, Jonah Lees, and Stacy Martin
Synopsis: Once upon a time there were three neighboring kingdoms each with a magnificent castle, from which ruled kings and queens, princes and princesses. One king was a fornicating libertine, another captivated by a strange animal, while one of the queens was obsessed by her wish for a child. Sorcerers and fairies, fearsome monsters, ogres and old washerwomen, acrobats and courtesans are the protagonists of this loose interpretation of the celebrated tales of Giambattista Basile.
Rotten Tomatoes:18% approval rating (26 out of 147 critics like it)
Critics Consensus: The Huntsman: Winter's War is visually arresting and boasts a stellar cast, but neither are enough to recommend this entirely unnecessary sequel.
Entertainment Weekly - There needs to be urgency, shape, and emotional investment. In a word, a script. Otherwise, it's just a two-hour Vogue fashion shoot highlighted by Emily Blunt riding bareback on a polar bear. C+
Washington Post - While the funny, action-packed sequences are the best parts, they are indicative of the film's main problems: an inability to focus and an overly complicated plot. 2/4
Toronto Sun - The Huntsman: Winter's War is as beautiful as its macho lead actor Chris Hemsworth is handsome. The movie is also as vacuous, silly and boring as Hemsworth is awkward and awful in the title role. 1.5/5
Rolling Stone - The script lifts so much plot from Disney's animated Frozen that it could qualify as a remake. No one sings "Let It Go," but my advice to audiences is to do just that. 1/4
James Berardinelli - By cramming far too much material into 114 minutes, The Huntsman: Winter's War feels rushed and incomplete. It doesn’t help that the screenplay is at times awful, forcing accomplished actors to recite excruciatingly bad dialogue while maintaining a straight face. 2/4
Rotten Tomatoes:74% approval rating (60 out of 81 critics like it)
Critics Consensus: Elvis & Nixon may not do much to expand on its absurdly iconic photographic source material, but it's rarely less than engaging thanks to its talented starring duo.
Entertainment Weekly - As a surreal slice of history served up nearly half a century later, it feels oddly satisfying: A reminder not just of simpler times, but of all the other wild untold stories we may never know, just because no camera was there to capture them. B+
New York Daily News - So why is the movie version, Elvis & Nixon, so deathly boring and soul-crushingly earnest? Because rookie director Liza Johnson blew it. That’s the only possible explanation when you take a great cast and a sure-fire premise and botch it so dramatically. 2/5
Rolling Stone - Even when I didn't buy a word being said, I went with the flow. Why? Michael Shannon as Elvis and Kevin Spacey as Tricky Dick. Watching great actors swing for the fences is something special. 2.5/4
Richard Roeper - Elvis & Nixon is one of the most entertaining movies I've seen this year - a whip-smart slice of strange history bolstered by pitch-perfect period-piece references, two excellent, offbeat performances and a brisk sense of pacing. 3.5/4
Rotten Tomatoes:62% approval rating (42 out of 68 critics like it)
Critics Consensus: A Hologram for the King amiably ambles through a narrative desert, saved by an oasis of a performance from the ever-dependable Tom Hanks.
Entertainment Weekly - If it sounds like Hologram is basically about a middle-aged white guy getting his groove back in the Middle East, well, yes, it is that. But if you squint hard enough, it's also a little bit more. B
New York Daily News - After a first act that seems to promise a biting comedy, the film gets lost in the desert - literally and figuratively. 3/5
Toronto Star - Tom Hanks exerts such a gravitational force in his movies, sometimes to his detriment, it's fascinating to watch him struggle for equilibrium in Tom Tykwer's A Hologram for the King. 3/4
Rolling Stone - Not even the mighty Tom Hanks can save this scattershot adaptation of Dave Eggers' lost-soul novel. The major themes that rose naturally from Eggers' clean prose feel shoehorned in by Tykwer. 2/4
Rotten Tomatoes:76% approval rating (35 out of 46 critics like it)
Critics Consensus: Visually splendid and narratively satisfying, Tale of Tales packs an off-kilter wallop for mature viewers in search of something different.
Entertainment Weekly - Garrone's previous films (including 2008's harrowing Gomorrah about the Neapolitan mafia) haven't hinted at the sort of playful, mischievous whimsy found in Tale of Tales. B
IndieWire - Monty Python by way of Tim Burton and The Princess Bride, Italian director Matteo Garrone's first English language feature Tale of Tales is a nutty compendium of outrageous fairy tales unfolding within the constraints of a single unseemly kingdom. B
IGN Movies - Grimm-like, grim and gorgeous, Tale of Tales is a fine reminder that fairy tales weren't always only, you know, for kids. 7.5/10
Rolling Stone - What Garrone & co. have concocted is a Grand Guignol pop-up storybook, full of metaphorical dark woods and morality plays. 3/4
THE HUNTSMAN Flops with $20M; THE JUNGLE BOOK Roars with $61M
Without Kristen Stewart as Snow White, Universal's The Huntsman: Winter's War flopped at the North American box office, grossing $20.1 million from 3,792 theaters despite a net budget of $115 million.
Rather, The Jungle Book remained king of the multiplex as it raced past the $500 million mark globally. The film continued to defy expectations in its second weekend, falling a scant 41 percent to $60.8 million from 4,028 theaters for a 10-day domestic total of $191.5 million.
Overseas, Jungle Book roared to another $96 million for a foreign total of $337 million and global haul of $528.5 million. Huntsman took in $32.1 million offshore for a foreign total of $80.2 million (it began rolling out internationally two weeks ago) and global cume of $100.3 million.
Jungle Book's performance further solidifies Disney's prowess in spinning classic tales into live-action tentpoles. Other studios are having a much harder go of it, including Universal. In the 2012 film Snow White and the Huntsman, Stewart starred as Snow White. Instead of making a sequel to that film, Universal decided to go in a different direction, banking on Hemsworth's star power, as well Charlize Theron, Emily Blunt and Jessica Chastain.
The move didn't pay off. Huntsman came in more than 64 percent behind the domestic debut of Snow White and the Huntsman ($56.2 million), and marks the latest disappointment for Chris Hemsworth who, outside of playing Thor, hasn't clicked as a leading man.
Rotten Tomatoes:79% approval rating (26 out of 33 critics like it)
Critics Consensus: The Meddler transcends its cutesy title and familiar premise with a heartfelt look at family dynamics that's honored by a marvelous performance from Susan Sarandon.
Entertainment Weekly - The movie really does hang on Sarandon. When the script isn’t skimming along on sitcom-mom clichés, there’s something tenderly affecting in her saucer-eyed vulnerability and tentative steps towards independence. B
New York Daily News - "The Meddler" isn't as wild as her last film, the ambitious and under-seen "Seeking a Friend at the End of the World." Byrne's character is a little too whiny, and the film wraps things up a little too easily. But it is sweet, and funny and quietly upbeat. Take a chance on it — and take your mom. 4/5
New York Obsersver - Charming, insightful and funny, The Meddler takes familiar material (the mother from Hell and the daughter from Hunger) and infuses it with affectionate, slap-your-thigh humor. It also crowns Susan Sarandon with one of her most endearingly irresistible roles in years. 3.5/4
Rolling Stone - Susan Sarandon is a star shining on her highest beams in a movie that the gifted writer-director Lorene Scafaria turns into something far less clichéd and more nuanced than the anatomy of a bossypants. 3/4
Rotten Tomatoes:76% approval rating (35 out of 46 critics like it)
Critics Consensus: Visually splendid and narratively satisfying, Tale of Tales packs an off-kilter wallop for mature viewers in search of something different.
Entertainment Weekly - Garrone's previous films (including 2008's harrowing Gomorrah about the Neapolitan mafia) haven't hinted at the sort of playful, mischievous whimsy found in Tale of Tales. B
IndieWire - Monty Python by way of Tim Burton and The Princess Bride, Italian director Matteo Garrone's first English language feature Tale of Tales is a nutty compendium of outrageous fairy tales unfolding within the constraints of a single unseemly kingdom. B
IGN Movies - Grimm-like, grim and gorgeous, Tale of Tales is a fine reminder that fairy tales weren't always only, you know, for kids. 7.5/10
Rolling Stone - What Garrone & co. have concocted is a Grand Guignol pop-up storybook, full of metaphorical dark woods and morality plays. 3/4
I may have posted in the movie discussion thread immediately after I saw it, I wanted people to see it. It really had that European fairy tale feel, first movie like this in decades.
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