Movie Reviews: 'The Place Beyond the Pines' 'Oblivion', '42', and 'Scary Movie V'

"Hey Girl" Ryan Gosling's 'The Place Beyond the Pines' opens at Cinemark Movies 12 Friday. And the rest of this post is aggregated from MovieFone.com

The Place Beyond the Pines

• Run Time: 140 mins.
• Starring: Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes, Rose Byrne,
• Director: Derek Cianfrance

Trailer

"A riveting crime thriller, it's also a multi-generational familial saga that approaches Greek tragedy. Full Review"

"Cool, violent, a cigarette dangling from his mouth, Gosling reprises his inexorable-loner routine from “Drive.” Cianfrance and the screenwriters Ben Coccio and Darius Marder wrote thirty-seven drafts of the script, but gave him almost nothing to say. He rides, he smokes, he knocks over banks, he loves his baby, and that’s it. Full Review"

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Oblivion

• Run Time: 126mins.
• Starring: Tom Cruise , Olga Kurylenko , Morgan Freeman , Andrea Riseborough , Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
• Director: Joseph Kosinski
• Trailer

"The good news: Here's a lavish, serious science-fiction picture, one that on occasion transcends big-budget hit-making convention to glance against grandeur...Which brings us to Tom Cruise, the not-necessarily-good news. However engaging its end-times mysteries, Oblivion is still a Tom Cruise movie." Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice. Full Review

"A moderately clever dystopian mindbender with a gratifying human pulse, despite some questionable narrative developments along the way." Justin Chang, Variety. Full Review

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42

• Run Time: 88 mins.
• Starring: Chadwick Boseman , Harrison Ford , Christopher Meloni
• Director: Brian Helgeland
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"One of the all-time great sports movies — primarily because it's one of the all-time great sports stories." Steve Persall, Tampa Bay Times.

"42 is competent, occasionally rousing and historically respectful — but it rarely rises above standard, old-fashioned biography fare. It’s a mostly unexceptional film about an exceptional man." Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times.

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Scary Movie 5

• Run Time: N/A
• Starring: Lindsay Lohan , Ashley Tisdale , Charlie Sheen , Regina Hall , Anthony Anderson
• Director: Malcolm D. Lee
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"Somehow, it actually looks cheaper than "Paranormal Activity." It's less funny, too." Darren Franich, Entertainment Weekly. Full Review

"This latest installment of the horror movie spoof franchise is mainly notable for its Charlie Sheen/Lindsay Lohan cameos." Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter.  Full Review

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Jurassic Park 3D

• Run Time: 127mins.
• Starring: Sam Neill , Laura Dern , Jeff Goldblum , Richard Attenborough , Bob Peck
• Director: Steven Spielberg
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"One great monster movie. [11 June 1993, Daily Notebook, p.C1]" Mike LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle.

"The suspense and technical wizardry are the only reason to watch Jurassic Park. In a summer movie, that's more than enough, of course. But screenwriter Michael Crichton, adapting his popular novel with David Koepp, slashes almost everything that made the book an entertaining read." Desson Thomas, Washington Post.

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G.I. Joe: Retaliation

• Run Time: 110mins.
• Starring: Dwayne Johnson , Channing Tatum , D.J. Cotrona , Adrianne Palicki , Ray Stevenson
• Director: Jon M. Chu
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"It's not enough to call this the rare franchise action movie to bring the goods; it's the even rarer one whose creators seem to understand what the goods even are." Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice.

"The directive behind this sequel, clearly, was non-stop action. Let's think about that phrase a second. Do we really want our action movies to deliver action that does not stop? Ever? I get a little tired of action sequences that won't stop." Michael Phelps, Chicago Tribune.

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The Croods (3D)

• Run Time: 98mins.
• Starring: Nicolas Cage , Ryan Reynolds , Emma Stone , Catherine Keener , Clark Duke
• Director: Kirk De Micco, Chris Sanders
• Trailer

"This Chris Sanders fellow knows how to craft a heart-warming animation, and if not for a few minor problems this would have had a legitimate shot at the best animated movie of 2013." Laremy Legel, Film.com

"The movie is at its most interesting and amusing when riffing on how cavemen might have reacted to new experiences and ideas, like fire and shoes. Whether the kiddies will appreciate that is unclear, but they’ll certainly like the voice work done by Emma Stone as Eep." Neil Genzlinger, The New York Times.

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Olympus Has Fallen

• Run Time: N/A
• Starring: Gerard Butler , Morgan Freeman , Aaron Eckhart , Angela Bassett , Melissa Leo
• Director: Antoine Fuqua
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"While Olympus Has Fallen breaks no major new ground in the political thriller genre, Fuqua has directed a sharp, very taut adventure that keeps you engrossed from start to finish." Bill Zwecker, Chicago Sun-Times.

"Perhaps every generation gets the movie stars it deserves. “Olympus” has quite a bit to say about the current state of our country. Intentions aside, not all of it is entirely flattering." Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News.

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Evil Dead

• Run Time: 91mins.
• Starring: Jane Levy , Shiloh Fernandez , Lou Taylor Pucci , Jessica Lucas , Liz Blackmore
• Director: Fede Alvarez
• Trailer

"A gore-for-broke affair that strips the flesh off Sam Raimi's cult-beloved comic-horror franchise and exposes the demons at its core." John DeFore, The Hollywood Reporter. Full Review

"An ode to the strength of onscreen horror even in its less inspired state, the new Evil Dead primarily succeeds at illustrating how the originals have managed to stand the test of time." Eric Kohn, IndieWIRE. Full Review

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The Host

• Run Time: 125mins.
• Starring: Saoirse Ronan , William Hurt , Max Irons , Jake Abel , Diane Kruger
• Director: Andrew Niccol
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"An 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' retread told from a postoccupation vantage point, this adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s YA romance novel unfolds in a dystopian future when alien parasites have nearly won the battle for Earth." Ben Kenigsberg, Time Out New York.

"The Host is a step up from the endless metaphorical lectures and gaping plot holes of Niccol’s last film, In Time, but its muffled emotions, delivered with Twilight-esque blank-eyed calm, put it in the same category of a creative idea hamstrung in execution." Tasha Robinson, The AV Club.

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Admission

• Run Time: 117mins.
• Starring: Tina Fey , Paul Rudd , Nat Wolff , Wallace Shawn , Michael Sheen
• Director: Paul Weitz
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"Admission has some sublime moments, most of them involving Fey and Rudd dancing around their inevitable romance. The problem is in the foundation." Chicago Sun-Times. Full Review

"It’s as if Weitz knows he’s got a corpse of a film on his hands -- never trust a movie when it feels as though you can see the director clasping the defibrillator." Gabe Toro, The Playlist. Full Review

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The Call

• Run Time: N/A
• Starring: Halle Berry , Abigail Breslin , Morris Chestnut , Michael Eklund , Michael Imperioli
• Director: Brad Anderson
• Trailer

"The Call for the most part is a tense, extreme-jeopardy thriller that delivers the intended goods." Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter.

"Rare is the thriller that goes as completely and utterly wrong as The Call does at almost precisely the one hour mark. Which is a crying shame, because for an hour, this is a riveting, by the book kidnapping." Roger Moore, Movie Nation.

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Oz the Great and Powerful

• Run Time: 130mins.
• Starring: James Franco , Mila Kunis , Rachel Weisz , Michelle Williams , Joey King
• Director: Sam Raimi
• Trailer

"Raimi manages to keep things engaging, which is a very real act of wizardry in and of itself." Jordan Hoffman, Film.com. Full Review

"This trip isn’t so notable. It’s not bad. Some bits are enjoyable. But ultimately, other than some genuinely impressive visuals, it never makes a compelling-enough case to justify its existence." Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic. Full Review

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 Also playing

North Grand Five: Argo, Warm Bodies,Identity Thief A Good Day to Die Hard and The Last Exorcism Part II

Any of these spark your interest? Cinemark Movies 12 in Ames will be showing all these flicks. Showtimes and ticket cost can be found on the theater's website.