Film reviews

Time Out goes to the movies to bring you film reviews from the latest showings in theaters and the newest releases on DVD.

New in theaters

The Hangover Part III

  • Rated as: 1/5

The new (and hopefully final) chapter has curiously little interest in being even remotely funny.
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Fast & Furious 6

  • Rated as: 3/5

We’re a long way from the grease-stained cred of this series’s 2001 originator.
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Epic

  • Rated as: 2/5

Bring on the colorful-yet-kid-friendly carnage, as well as the celebrity voices.
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The English Teacher

  • Rated as: 2/5

It’s too soon to see Julianne Moore in the role of a dowdy spinster.
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Star Trek Into Darkness

  • Rated as: 2/5

Kirk and company return in a pandering, pseudoprovocative sequel.
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Frances Ha

  • Rated as: 3/5

Noah Baumbach’s latest, a breeze, feels a lot less self-absorbed than usual.
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Black Rock

  • Rated as: 2/5

A trio of yoga-toned gal pals take to grungy survivalist chic well in this lame, phony-feminist thriller.
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Augustine

  • Rated as: 4/5
  • Critics choice

The power struggle between a 19th-century neurologist and his exploited female patient adds erotic frisson to this historical French drama.
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The Great Gatsby

  • Rated as: 2/5

Now that Baz Luhrmann’s 3-D adaptation is finally here, the dissection and disembowelment can begin.
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Sightseers

  • Rated as: 5/5
  • Critics choice

A vacationing British couple lets its buried criminal impulses run wild in this top-notch black comedy from filmmaker Ben Wheatley.
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Peeples

  • Rated as: 2/5

The great David Alan Grier deserves to headline a big-time summer comedy—superior to this one.
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Iron Man 3

  • Rated as: 3/5

Zooming into its third chapter, the series has playfulness in mind.
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