Fantastic Four Is Fatally Flawed
Plus, Shaun the Sheep is Certified Fresh; Ricki and the Flash carries a decent tune; The Gift is a terrifically tense thriller; and Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp is Certified Fresh.
This week at the movies, we’ve got a quartet of superheroes (Fantastic Four, starring Miles Teller and Michael B. Jordan); runaway livestock (the stop-motion animated feature Shaun the Sheep); a veteran rocker (Ricki and the Flash, starring Meryl Streep and Mamie Gummer); and a creepy acquaintance (The Gift, starring Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall). What do the critics have to say?
What’s Hot On TV:
93%
Also Opening This Week In Limited Release
- , a noirish thriller about a down-on-his-luck man who gets ensnared by a con artist, is at 100 percent.
- , the latest installment of the venerable anime franchise, is at 100 percent.
- , starring Bel Powley and Kristen Wiig in a coming-of-age drama about a promising young artist with a growing drug problem and a host of family issues, is at 92 percent.
- , a documentary portrait of standup comic-turned-activist Barry Crimmins, is at 80 percent.
- , a drama about a mysterious fainting epidemic at an all-girls boarding school in Britain, is at 80 percent.
- , starring Kevin Bacon and Shea Whigham in a thriller about a pair of teenagers who face dire consequences after taking a police car for a joyride, is at 78 percent.
- , an omnibus animated film that dramatizes the poems from the bestselling spiritual text, is at 67 percent.
- , a documentary about obsessive athletic shoe collectors, is at 60 percent.
- , starring Charlize Theron and Nicholas Hoult in a thriller about a woman still suffering deep emotional scars from the murder of her family years before, is at 33 percent.
- , starring Nicolas Cage and Connie Nielsen in a drama about a politician whose attempts to deal witht the BP oil spill are stymied by scandal, is at 31 percent.
