Friday, May 17, 2013
Movie reviews and movie times for theaters in Ankeny and Des Moines. Let Patch help you decide what you're going to see this weekend. Movies to choose from also include "42".
Movie information aggregated from MovieFone.com Star Trek Into Darkness "The film is densely plotted, occasionally bordering on the convoluted, but the clarity and inventiveness of the direction keeps the drama and the action constantly percolating." Slant Magazine. Full Review "Spectacular special effects, superbly crafted action sequences, plenty of humor and terrific performances render it a cut above most summer blockbusters." Claudia Puig, USA Today. Full Review Do you plan on seeing this movie? Leave a review of the film with a comment below after you do. - - - - - The Great Gatsby (also in 3D) "Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby is the first must-see film of Hollywood’s summer season, if for no other reason than its jaw-dropping …
Friday, May 10, 2013
Movie reviews and movie times for theaters in Ankeny and Des Moines. Let Patch help you decide what you're going to see this weekend. Movies to choose from include "Pain & Gain", "42", and "The Croods."
Movie information aggregated from MovieFone.com The Great Gatsby (also in 3D) "Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby is the first must-see film of Hollywood’s summer season, if for no other reason than its jaw-dropping evocation of Roaring ’20s New York — in 3-D, no less." Lou Lumenick, New York Post. Full Review "The acting is really good, particularly Leonardo DiCaprio as Gatsby. But boy, with a running time of nearly 21/2 hours and a near-constant bombardment of visual overstimulation, it’s exhausting." Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic. Full Review Do you plan on seeing this movie? Leave a review of the film with a comment below after you do. - - - - - Iron Man 3 "Besides rehabbing a hero who overcomes anxiety to save the world and defeat …
Friday, May 3, 2013
Movie reviews and movie times for theaters in Ankeny and Des Moines. Let Patch help you decide what you're going to see this weekend. Movies to choose from include "Oblivion," "42," and "The Croods."
Movie information aggregated from MovieFone.com Iron Man 3 "Besides rehabbing a hero who overcomes anxiety to save the world and defeat the terror-industrial complex by the simple matter of cloning his body armor, the movie proves that there’s still intelligent life on Planet Marvel. As you’re propelled out of the theater on IM3′s hydraulic lift of pleasures, you’re likely to say, “That is how it’s done.” Richard Corliss, Time. "Given the keys to the franchise and a role in the writing, Black has massively upped the verbal sparring and kept the broad inventiveness of comic-book malleability in mind. “I’m a mechanic,” Stark says to the boy in a moment of self-doubt. That’s 100% Black, that line, a tidy code of craft, and the jitters pass." …
Friday, April 26, 2013
Movie reviews and movie times for theaters across Ankeny and Des Moines. Let Patch help you decide what you're going to see this weekend. Movies to choose from include "Oblivion", "42", "Scary Movie 5" and more.
Movie information aggregated from MovieFone.com The Big Wedding "There’s not a bad performance in this movie. De Niro, Keaton and Sarandon are particularly good, what a surprise. But it feels as if all the guests at “The Big Wedding” are wearing ID tags telling us their one Plot Point." Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times. "There is nothing about the movie that isn’t utterly predictable. You meet a character, and it’s immediately obvious what’s going to happen to him (or her). And then it happens. Maybe it’s meant to make you feel good about your deductive reasoning skills or something. But mostly it just makes you want to see something else." Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic. Do you plan on seeing this movie? Leave a review of the film …
Friday, April 19, 2013
Movie reviews and movie times for theaters across Ankeny and Des Moines. Let Patch help you decide what you're going to see this weekend. Movies to choose from include "Scary Movie 5", "Jurassic Park 3D" and more.
Movie information aggregated from MovieFone.com Oblivion "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 Do you plan on seeing this movie? Leave a review of the film with a comment below after you do. - - - - - 42 "One of the all-time great sports movies — primarily because it…
Friday, April 12, 2013
Movie reviews and movie times for theaters across Ankeny and Des Moines. Let Patch help you decide what you're going to see this weekend. Movies to choose from include "The Host", "The Croods" and more.
Movie information aggregated from MovieFone.com 42 "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. Do you plan on seeing this movie? Leave a review of the film with a comment below after you do. - - - - - Scary Movie 5 No reviews are available yet for this film. Do you plan on seeing this movie? Leave a review of the film with a comment below after you do. - - - - - Evil Dead "A gore-for-broke affair that strips the flesh …
Friday, April 5, 2013
Movie reviews and movie times for theaters across Ankeny and Des Moines. Let Patch help you decide what you're going to see this weekend. Movies to choose from include "GI Joe: Retaliation", "The Croods" and "Olympus Has Fallen."
Movie information aggregated from MovieFone.com Evil Dead "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 Do you plan on seeing this movie? Leave a review of the film with a comment below after you do. - - - - - Jurassic Park 3D "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 …
Friday, March 29, 2013
Movie reviews and movie times for theaters across Ankeny and Des Moines. Let Patch help you decide what you're going to see this weekend. Movies to choose from include "The Croods", "Olympus Has Fallen" and more.
Movie information aggregated from MovieFone.com The Host "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. Do you plan on seeing this movie? Leave a review of the film with a comment below after you do. - - - - - G.I. Joe: Retaliation "It's …
Friday, March 22, 2013
Movie reviews and movie times for theaters across Ankeny and Des Moines. Let Patch help you decide what you're going to see this weekend. Movies to choose from include "Olympus Has Fallen", "Oz the Great and Powerful", "Identity Thief" and more.
Movie information aggregated from MovieFone.com Admission "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 Do you plan on seeing this movie? Leave a review of the film with a comment below after you do. - - - - - The Croods (3D) "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." …
Friday, March 15, 2013
Movie reviews and movie times for theaters across Ankeny and Des Moines. Let Patch help you decide what you're going to see this weekend. Movies to choose from include "Dead Man Down", "Jack the Giant Slayer", "Safe Haven and more.
Movie information aggregated from MovieFone.com The Call "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. Do you plan on seeing this movie? Leave a review of the film with a comment below after you do. - - - - - The Incredible Burt Wonderstone "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone draws a lot of goodwill from the basic likability of its star performers." Marjorie Baumgarten, Austin Chronicle. Full Review "The …
Pete Vielhaber
5:05 pm on Saturday, May 4, 2013
Caught IM3-2D at Springwood 9 today at 1pm and it was packed. Solid performances, decent visual effects and lots of action. Seemed like something was missing and it was definitely over-hyped. Still, it was certainly worth seeing at the theater on the big screen. more ›