Latest Smurfs Gives Critics the Blues
Plus, Going in Style is an unnecessary makeover, Brockmire is funny and compelling, and Your Name and Colossal are Certified Fresh.
This week at the movies, we have miniature woodland critters with the blues (Smurfs: The Lost Village, featuring the voices of Demi Lovato and Rainn Wilson), retirees with an axe to grind (Going in Style, starring Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, and Alan Arkin), and a married couple at a religious crossroads (The Case for Christ, starring Mike Vogel and Erika Christensen). What are the critics saying?
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- , about two old friends reconnecting under the specter of looming sadness, is Certified Fresh at 100 percent.
- , a documentary look at the culture of swing dancing, is at 100 percent.
- , an anime about two teens who suddenly swap bodies — and genders — is Certified Fresh at 97 percent.
- , about a father’s progressively more complicated efforts to ensure a bright academic future for his daughter, is Certified Fresh at 96 percent.
- , about a woman pressed into service writing propaganda movies for Britain during World War II, is at 92 percent.
- , about two alienated teens who form a potentially fraught bond, is at 86 percent.
- , a documentary look at the life and career of photographer Mick Rock, is at 86 percent.
- , about the supernatural chaos that erupts after a policeman discovers a dying man and rushes him to treatment, is at 80 percent.
- , writer-director Nacho Vigalondo‘s balancing act between monster movie and addiction drama, is Certified Fresh at 76 percent.
- , about the complications that develop between two friends during their school years in Warsaw, is at 75 percent.
- , a self-reflexive documentary examining director Joanna Arnow‘s life and filmmaking process itself, is at 60 percent.
- , starring Chris Evans as a man whose guardianship of his niece is threatened by the attention attracted by her prodigious intellect, is at 57 percent.
- , starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a man struggling to come to terms with the sudden death of his wife and daughter, is at 40 percent.
- , starring Dan Stevens as a man whose life is upended in unexpected ways after he regains his eyesight, is at 39 percent.
- , a Werner Herzog drama about a hostage situation starring Michael Shannon and Gael García Bernal, is at 29 percent.
- , starring Michelle Rodriguez as a hitman who undergoes forced gender reassignment surgery at the hands of a vengeful doctor (Sigourney Weaver), is at 24 percent.
- , starring Armie Hammer as a soldier stranded alone in hostile territory after a mission goes violently awry, is at 19 percent.
- , starring Nicole Kidman in a biopic about English explorer Gertrude Bell, is at 11 percent.




