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Movie Reviews: Elysium and Planes Open Friday
Movie reviews and movie times for theaters in the Brookfield area, including 2 Guns and Wolverine. Let Patch help you decide what you're going to see this weekend.
Elysium and Planes are two of the new films coming up this weekend. Check out reviews and more below.
Elysium
- Run Time: 109mins.
- Starring: Sharlto Copley , Matt Damon , Jodie Foster , Wagner Moura , William Fichtner
- Director: Neill Blomkamp
- Trailer
"While the movie may not, in the end, be so effective in tapping into our current class anxieties, that hardly seems to matter. Like a trip to Elysium, it’s a wild ride." — New York Observed Full Review
"A cheekily gruesome and genuinely urgent entertainment, Blomkamp's latest nevertheless can't help but beg the question: Where's Snake Plissken when you need him?" — Chris Cabin, Slant Magazine Full Review
"Unfortunately, Elysium devolves. It doesn’t address the ramifications of making everyone healthy for eternity, or what it is on Earth they’re making or digging up that fuels whatever economy is left on the space station. For such a well thought-out premise, there’s not a mention of how capitalism works in this futureworld." — Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News Full Review
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Planes
- Run Time: 92mins.
- Starring: Jon Cryer , Stacy Keach , Dane Cook , Carlos Alazraqui , Val Kilmer
- Director: Klay Hall
- Trailer
2 Guns
- Run Time: 109mins.
- Starring: Mark Wahlberg , Denzel Washington , Bill Paxton , James Marsden , Paula Patton
- Director: Baltasar Kormákur
- Trailer
"2 Guns is a much-needed reminder that the best summer surprises can come when you least expect them." — Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly Full Review
"By its conclusion the story has worked so hard to be twisting and clever that it runs out of steam and becomes outlandish, marked by a surplus of violence — too often casual and gratuitous — for what essentially is a buddy cop movie." — Claudia Puig, USA Today Full Review
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Wolverine
- Run Time: 136mins.
- Starring: Hugh Jackman , Will Yun Lee , Hiroyuki Sanada , Hal Yamanouchi
- Director: James Mangold
- Trailer
"Good thing the Aussie star has the role down to a science, since the rest of The Wolverine is a howler." — Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News Full Review
"This turgid return papers over the previous film’s narrative, but creates little in the way of a fresh character arc." — Guy Lodge, Time Out London Full Review
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The Smurfs 2
- Run Time: 105mins.
- Starring: Christina Ricci , J.B. Smoove , Neil Patrick Harris , Brendan Gleeson , Hank Azaria
- Director: Raja Gosnell
- Trailer
"Only adults with 'Smurf-holm syndrome' could love this film." — The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Full Review
"The Smurfs 2 probably isn’t any worse than you might expect. On the other hand, it’s almost certainly not any better. It’s just a matter of figuring out how much punishment you’re willing to endure for the sake of the small child you’re taking to the movies." — Bruce IngramChicago Sun-Times Full Review
"This insipid, and sometimes awkward, blend of animation, computer generation and live action wastes a ton of talent and lacks a true sense of whimsy." — Claudia Puig, USA Today Full Review
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The Conjuring
- Run Time: 112mins.
- Starring: Vera Farmiga , Patrick Wilson , Ron Livingston , Lili Taylor , Hayley McFarland
- Director: James Wan
- Trailer
"The net result is an entertainingly frightening film that keeps the audience in a state of alarmed, but eager, anticipation." — Claudia Puig, USA Today Full Review
"Though The Conjuring claims to be based on a true story, in truth it's based on every horror film that's come before it." — Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine Full Review
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Despicable Me 2
- Run Time: 98mins.
- Starring: Steve Carell , Russell Brand , Miranda Cosgrove , Steve Coogan
- Director: Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin
- Trailer
"Guaranteed to charm anyone who’s out of school and already bored." Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News Full Review
"The minions give good mayhem and the twig-armed animation’s lovely. Despite the coolest submarine-car since Bond’s Lotus Esprit, though, Despicable Me 2 is light on gadgets – and surprises, too." — Total Film Full Review
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