Movie Reviews: 'Snitch', 'Dark Skies', 'Identity Thief', 'Safe Haven' and Last Chance to See Argo and Les Miserables and More
Movie reviews and movie times for theaters in Ames. Let Patch help you decide what you're going to see this weekend. Movies to choose from include "Dark Skies” Oscar Shorts, Argo and Les Miserables and more.
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Dark Skies
Run Time: N/A
Starring: Keri Russell , Dakota Goyo , Josh Hamilton , Annie Thurman , Trevor St. John
Director: Scott Stewart
Reviews: 'Dark Skies' and 'Snitch'
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Snitch
Run Time: 112mins.
Starring: Dwayne Johnson , Barry Pepper , Susan Sarandon
Director: Ric Roman Waugh
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"Snitch is grittily streetwise, and until its last 20 minutes fairly credible compared to other movies "inspired by" true stories." Steve Persall, Tampa Bay Times.
"Although Johnson performs admirably in the drama-heavy role — far better than many of his action-hero colleagues would manage — John Matthews is a character as boring as his name." Barbara VanDenburgh, Arizona Republic.
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Safe Haven
Run Time: 118mins.
Starring: Josh Duhamel , Julianne Hough
Director: Lasse Hallström
"A sentimental romantic thriller. But it’s a well-made sentimental romantic thriller, and that makes all the difference." Connie Ogle, Miami Herald.
"It’s hard to argue with the title here – Safe Haven, indeed. This is all about safety in the Hollywood workplace. Why make a movie when making a Hallmark-card-with-dialogue is so much less risky?" Rick Groen, The Globe and Mail.
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Identity Thief
Run Time: N/A
Starring: Melissa McCarthy , Jason Bateman , John Cho , Clark Duke , Amanda Peet
Director: Seth Gordon
"Melissa McCarthy is riveting in simply-penned moments of remorse and confession, adding tearful depth to her ace timing and formidable physical comedy." R. Kurt Osenlund, Slant Magazine
"Identity Thief is a road movie with its creative lanes clogged, and a Mack truck comedian barreling through, anyway." Steve Persall, Tampa Bay Times
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Beautiful Creatures
Run Time: 124mins.
Starring: Jeremy Irons , Jack O'Connell , Emma Thompson , Alice Englert, Viola Davis
Director: Richard LaGravenese
"Maybe there really are supernatural forces at work in this world. How else to explain Beautiful Creatures? The movie is an intriguing, intelligent enigma — three words not typically associated with teen romances." Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times. Full Review
"Beautiful Creatures springs to life whenever Irons, Thompson or Rossum is centerstage. The grown-ups get to wear all the coolest costumes and spout all the juiciest lines. Problem is, this isn't their story. It's first and foremost a semi-plodding teen romance with supernatural overtones." Chicago Sun-Times. Full Review
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Escape From Planet Earth (also in 3D)
Run Time: 86mins.
Starring: Brendan Fraser , Sarah Jessica Parker , Jessica Alba , Rob Corddry , James Gandolfini
Director: N/A
No reviews available at this time.
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A Good Day to Die Hard
Run Time: 97mins.
Starring: Bruce Willis , Jai Courtney , Sebastian Koch , Yulia Snigir , Cole Hauser
Director: John Moore
"Loud and tedious, “Die Hard 5” is a shaky-cam/Sensuround blast of bullets and bombs, digital explosions and death defying feats of defying death." Roger Moore, Movie Nation.
"Willis still packs that rapscallion charm, balancing his wisecracking, reluctant-hero shtick with the unstoppable, all-American quality that earned the original film its title. But the chemistry between him and Courtney is nonexistent, with the younger thesp, who makes co-star Cole Hauser look expressive, adding so little to the equation, one can only hope the studio doesn't plan to pass the franchise on to him." Peter Debruge, Variety.
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Beautiful Creatures
Run Time: 124mins.
Starring: Jeremy Irons , Jack O'Connell , Emma Thompson , Alice Englert, Viola Davis
Director: Richard LaGravenese
"Maybe there really are supernatural forces at work in this world. How else to explain Beautiful Creatures? The movie is an intriguing, intelligent enigma — three words not typically associated with teen romances." Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times. Full Review
"Beautiful Creatures springs to life whenever Irons, Thompson or Rossum is centerstage. The grown-ups get to wear all the coolest costumes and spout all the juiciest lines. Problem is, this isn't their story. It's first and foremost a semi-plodding teen romance with supernatural overtones." Chicago Sun-Times. Full Review
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Escape From Planet Earth (also in 3D)
Run Time: 86mins.
Starring: Brendan Fraser , Sarah Jessica Parker , Jessica Alba , Rob Corddry , James Gandolfini
Director: N/A
No reviews available at this time.
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A Good Day to Die Hard
Run Time: 97mins.
Starring: Bruce Willis , Jai Courtney , Sebastian Koch , Yulia Snigir , Cole Hauser
Director: John Moore
"Loud and tedious, “Die Hard 5” is a shaky-cam/Sensuround blast of bullets and bombs, digital explosions and death defying feats of defying death." Roger Moore, Movie Nation.
"Willis still packs that rapscallion charm, balancing his wisecracking, reluctant-hero shtick with the unstoppable, all-American quality that earned the original film its title. But the chemistry between him and Courtney is nonexistent, with the younger thesp, who makes co-star Cole Hauser look expressive, adding so little to the equation, one can only hope the studio doesn't plan to pass the franchise on to him." Peter Debruge, Variety.
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Safe Haven
Run Time: 118mins.
Starring: Josh Duhamel , Julianne Hough
Director: Lasse Hallström
"A sentimental romantic thriller. But it’s a well-made sentimental romantic thriller, and that makes all the difference." Connie Ogle, Miami Herald.
"It’s hard to argue with the title here – Safe Haven, indeed. This is all about safety in the Hollywood workplace. Why make a movie when making a Hallmark-card-with-dialogue is so much less risky?" Rick Groen, The Globe and Mail.
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Identity Thief
Run Time: N/A
Starring: Melissa McCarthy , Jason Bateman , John Cho , Clark Duke , Amanda Peet
Director: Seth Gordon
"Melissa McCarthy is riveting in simply-penned moments of remorse and confession, adding tearful depth to her ace timing and formidable physical comedy." R. Kurt Osenlund, Slant Magazine
"Identity Thief is a road movie with its creative lanes clogged, and a Mack truck comedian barreling through, anyway." Steve Persall, Tampa Bay Times
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Warm Bodies
Run Time: 97mins.
Starring: Nicholas Hoult , Teresa Palmer , Rob Corddry , John Malkovich , Dave Franco
Director: Jonathan Levine
"A well-paced, nicely directed, post-apocalyptic love story with a terrific sense of humor and the, um, guts to be unabashedly romantic and unapologetically optimistic." Chicago Sun-Times. Full Review
"Playing with genre is fine, but if you're going to create new rules, you have to play by them too, but unfortunately Warm Bodies continually subverts its own internal logic and basic, believable character motivation to keep pushing the movie along." Kevin Jagernauth, The Playlist. Full Review
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Side Effects
Run Time: 106mins.
Starring: Channing Tatum , Rooney Mara , Jude Law , Catherine Zeta-Jones
Director: Steven Soderbergh
"Ultimately, think of the movie as a puzzle box in which all the pieces fit together wonderfully well. Once you step back and take a look at how it’s all put together, you have to marvel at how cleverly constructed the whole thing is." Arizona Republic. Full Review
"The scenes pile up with frenetic intensity; as with Soderbergh's other recent exercises in the suspense genre, no single cutaway goes wasted." Eric Kohn, indieWIRE Full Review
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Hansel & Gretel Witch Hunters
Run Time: N/A
Starring: Jeremy Renner , Gemma Arterton , Famke Janssen
Director: Tommy Wirkola
"Wirkola tears through Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters with such giddy abandon, it ends up being splattery fanboy fun. Preposterous, clearly, but fun." Tom Russo of The Boston Globe.
"The blend of fairy-tale sentiment and knowing irony worked exactly once, in "The Princess Bride," and fails here. But there's enough visual ingenuity - eye candy, if you will - to make this Hansel & Gretel an intermittently tasty temptation." Richard Corliss of TIME Magazine.
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Also Playing: Les Miserables and Argo on Sunday and Wreck-It Ralph, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2, Rise of the Guardians, The Guilt Trip, Parental Guidance, A Haunted House
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Any of these spark your interest? Cinemark Movies in Ames will be showing all these flicks. Showtimes and ticket cost can be found on the theater's website.
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