In theaters this week we have two new wide releases. First is the disaster movie "San Andreas" starring Dwayne Johnson. The film has been getting a rather mixed critical reception, but I suppose the trailers are really enough for anyone to know if it's the kind of spectacle that they can enjoy. The second is Cameron Crowe's romantic dramedy "Aloha", which unfortunately is not the comeback everyone was expecting from the director of "Jerry Maguire". In limited release two noteworthy films are the teen action comedy "Barely Lethal" starring Hailee Steinfeld, Samuel L. Jackson and Jessica Alba, and the dramedy "Gemma Bovery" starring Gemma Arterton and Fabrice Luchini. More about each movie after the jump.
Synopses, details, critical reception, trailers, clips and more after the jump.
SAN ANDREAS
Official Synopsis
After the infamous San Andreas Fault finally gives, triggering a magnitude 9 earthquake in California, a search and rescue helicopter pilot (Dwayne Johnson) and his estranged wife make their way together from Los Angeles to San Francisco to save their only daughter. But their treacherous journey north is only the beginning. And when they think the worst may be over…it’s just getting started.
Film Details
- Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, Alexandra Daddario, Archie Panjabi, Paul Giamatti, Ioan Gruffudd, Kylie Minogue, Hugo Johnstone-Burt, Will Yun Lee, Colton Haynes
- Director: Brad Peyton
- Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
- Running Time: 114 min.
- Rating: PG-13 for intense disaster action and mayhem throughout, and brief strong language
Critical Reception
- Rottentomatoes: 50% (65 fresh, 64 rotten, score: 5.2/10).
- Metacritic: 42 out of 100 (10 positive, 16 mixed, 12 negative).
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ALOHA
Official Synopsis
In Aloha, a celebrated military contractor (Bradley Cooper) returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs – the US Space program in Honolulu, Hawaii – and reconnects with a long-ago love (Rachel McAdams) while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Force watchdog (Emma Stone) assigned to him. From Academy Award®-winner Cameron Crowe, the writer-director behind such films as Jerry Maguire and Almost Famous, Aloha also stars Bill Murray, John Krasinski, Danny McBride, and Alec Baldwin.
Film Details
- Starring: Bradley Cooper, Rachel McAdams, Emma Stone, Bill Murray, John Krasinski, Danny McBride, Alec Baldwin, Ivana Milicevic
- Director: Cameron Crowe
- Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama
- Running Time: 105 min.
- Rating: PG-13 for some language including suggestive comments
Critical Reception
- Rottentomatoes: 18% (19 fresh, 78 rotten, score: 4.3/10).
- Metacritic: 39 out of 100 (2 positive, 18 mixed, 9 negative).
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BARELY LETHAL
Official Synopsis
Megan Walsh (Hailee Steinfeld) is a teenage special ops agent who yearns for a normal adolescence. After faking her own death she assumes the role of an exchange student and quickly learns that surviving the treacherous waters of a typical American high school can be even more difficult than international espionage. Also starring Samuel L. Jackson, Jessica Alba, Sophie Turner, Dove Cameron, and Thomas Mann.
Film Details
- Starring: Hailee Steinfeld, Samuel L. Jackson, Jessica Alba, Sophie Turner, Jaime King, Toby Sebastian, Steve-O
- Director: Kyle Newman
- Genre: Action, Comedy, Adventure
- Running Time: 96 min.
- Rating: PG-13 on appeal for sexual material, teen drinking, language, drug references and some action violence
Critical Reception
- Rottentomatoes: 15% (2 fresh, 11 rotten, score: 4.3/10).
- Metacritic: 46 out of 100 (1 positive, 6 mixed, 1 negative).
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GEMMA BOVERY
Official Synopsis
Life begins to imitate art in uncanny ways when earthy British beauty Gemma (Gemma Arterton) and her furniture restorer husband Charles Bovery (Jason Flemyng, X-Men: First Class, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) move to the very same Norman village where the graphic novel was written. Local baker and Flaubert fan Martin Joubert (Fabrice Luchini) falls for the lovely and charming newcomer and sets out to be her mentor. It doesn't take long before his wild imagination leads him to draw parallels between the literary and real life woman, as he insinuates himself into her life. She soon finds herself at a crossroads that seems to be fulfilling Joubert's worst fears that her destiny is mirroring that of Flaubert's doomed heroine. Director Anne Fontaine's clever adaptation of the graphic novel is at once a cheeky literary mash-up, a sensuous romance, a witty feminist commentary, and a heady celebration of French provincial life.
Film Details
- Starring: Fabrice Luchini, Gemma Arterton, Jason Flemyng, Elsa Zylberstein, Mel Raido
- Director: Anne Fontaine
- Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
- Running Time: 99 min.
- Rating: R for sexuality/nudity and language
Critical Reception
- Rottentomatoes: 58% (21 fresh, 15 rotten, score: 6.3/10).
- Metacritic: 58 out of 100 (9 positive, 7 mixed, 1 negative).
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