New movie reviews: Critics' picks

Check out the best new movies, as reviewed by Time Out's critics, then find showtimes and buy movie tickets.

The Bling Ring: movie review

Rated as: 4/5
Critics choice

The first thing you notice: These are some really bad burglars. Vaulting over a gated fence in security-cam footage, they’re less stealthy than awkward: a lame assembly of bumblers that even a sleepy dog would notice. They slam into doors with profane grunts. Maybe keep it down a little? Amazingly,

Wed Jun 19 - Mon Jun 24

The East: movie review

Rated as: 4/5
Critics choice

Brit Marling, the mile-a-minute thinker at the heart of the ominous indie spy thriller The East, probably won’t find a comfortable niche in Hollywood. Even in her quieter moments with Richard Gere in last year’s Arbitrage, she refused to simply be seen; there was always a nervy edge to her.

Wed Jun 19 - Mon Jun 24

Stories We Tell: movie review

Rated as: 5/5
Critics choice

She used to be one of the more alluringly damaged actors in movies (e.g., The Sweet Hereafter; a strong remake of Dawn of the Dead), but Sarah Polley has evolved into a director who can’t settle for mere feel-badness. That’s something to applaud in itself. While watching Stories We Tell, Polley’s

Wed Jun 19 - Mon Jun 24

Pride @ DMAC

Price band: 1/4
Critics choice

The Duo Multicultural Arts Center showcases films, performance, dance and paintings at this Pride Month celebration of queer culture.

Duo Multicultural Arts Center 62 E 4th St, between Bowery and Second Ave
Wed Jun 19 - Sat Jun 22

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Dirty Wars: movie review

Rated as: 4/5
Critics choice

Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines: We all know the basic branches of the U.S. military (even if many of us have the Village People to thank for that), and let’s throw in the Coast Guard to boot. But judging from this eye-opening, frequently devastating exposé of recent foreign conflicts, another

Wed Jun 19 - Thu Jun 20

Rushmore

Critics choice
Free

Anderson’s semiautobiographical second feature finds him refining his quirky, hermetic worldview (albeit one that would eventually prove to be claustrophobic). Jason Schwartzman was a real find, but it’s Bill Murray, in the most soulful performance of his career, who gives the film its underlying

Tompkins Square Park Ave A, between 7th and 10th Sts
Thu Jun 20

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Augustine: movie review

Rated as: 4/5
Critics choice

Long before it became a favorite pejorative of intolerant husbands, “hysteria” was filling 19th-century French sanatoriums with females suffering from fits, outbursts and other assorted rebellions of the body. One such working-class girl, Augustine (Soko), is interned in a prisonlike hospital due

Wed Jun 19 - Thu Jun 20

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Critics choice
Free

You’re next! You’re next! Listen to me! You’re next!

Bryant Park Sixth Ave, between 40th and 42nd Sts
Mon Jun 24

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42: movie review

Rated as: 4/5
Critics choice

Jackie Robinson’s story is so blue-sky heroic and transcendent, it becomes hard for any filmmaker to run the bases without falling into emotional goo. (Tellingly, the first attempt, in 1950, starred Robinson himself and still felt like a fantasy.) Writer-director Brian Helgeland has somehow found a

Wed Jun 19 - Thu Jun 20

The Apartment

Price band: 1/4
Critics choice

Poor Jack Lemmon—all he wants to do is head home after work and relax, but his rise up the corporate ladder is dependent upon his willingness to let his superiors use his apartment as a secret love nest. One of the few Best Picture Oscar winners that really deserved the award, this is Hollywood