Kubo and the Two Strings Is Certified Fresh
Plus, War Dogs plays it a little too safe, and Ben-Hur is an unnecessary remake.
This week at the movies, we’ve got a kid with magic powers (Kubo and the Two Strings, with voice performances by Charlize Theron and Matthew McConaughey), rogue arms dealers (War Dogs, starring Jonah Hill and Miles Teller), and a fallen prince (Ben-Hur, starring Jack Huston and Morgan Freeman). What do the critics have to say?
Also Opening This Week In Limited Release
- , about a young Guatemalan girl on the verge of an arranged marriage, is at 100 percent.
- , a Werner Herzog documentary about the internet’s growing role in human society, is at 92 percent.
- , starring Craig Robinson in a rare dramatic role as a single father living with his son in Heidelberg, Germany, is at 91 percent.
- , about a young Korean man’s sexual awakening, is at 90 percent.
- , starring Daniel Radcliffe as an FBI agent going undercover in an effort to bring down a white supremacist terrorist group, is at 79 percent.
- , about a German attorney’s morally conflicted quest to bring a former Nazi to justice, is at 67 percent.
- , a period drama from debuting writer-director Natalie Portman about one family’s experience in Jerusalem during the years before Israeli statehood, is at 52 percent.


