Movie Openings
CHERI. Starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Friend, Kathy Bates and Felicity Jones. An older woman—a former courtesan— falls in love with a wealthy young man in 1920s Paris. 100 minutes. (RatedRfor sexual content and some drug use.)★★½ (Christopher Schobert) Opened Wednesday in area theaters.
FOOD, INC. Documentary built on the investigative reporting of Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser detailing the price the United States is paying for cheap food. Directed by Robert Kenner. 94 minutes. (Rated PG.)★★★★ Opens today in the Dipson Eastern Hills. See review on Page 11.
ICE AGE:DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS. Ray Romano, Queen Latifah, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary and Simon Pegg voice the characters in Carlos Saldanha’s third installment of the animated tale of the rag-tag prehistoric animal family that wanders the world before humans. Available in 3-D. “Don’t let the sluggardly first 20 minutes fool you. It’s eventually every bit as delightful as that first happy ‘Ice Age’ animation that took everyone by such surprise. This one is all about the sweetnesses of having a new family for the woolly mammoth couple voiced by Ray Romano and Queen Latifah, and for prehistory’s wacked-out mangy sloth (a slushy John Leguizamo) who adopts some baby dinosaurs. It’s also about the terrors of a world where there always seems to be one dinosaur bigger and scarier than the last one.” 96 minutes. (Rated PG for some scary creatures.) ★★★½ (Jeff Simon) Opened Wednesday in area theaters.
PUBLIC ENEMIES. Johnny Depp, Martion Cotillard, Christian Bale, Stephen Lang, Giovanni Ribisi and Jason Clarke in Michael Mann’s tale of the blood-soaked game of cat and mouse played by legendary ’30s bank robber John Dillinger and the law enforcement that couldn’t seem to hold him even when they caught him. “A good movie about one of the truly great American subjects. So let’s split the difference and call it ‘very good’ for those who want their movie news in two words or less. I don’t know that I believe John Dillinger was anything like Johnny Depp, but it’s Depp’s charisma that makes this movie run. He gives the most magnetic James Dean performance that Dean never lived long enough to give. Giving the movie soul is Marion Cotillard as his girlfriend. A movie of cumulative power and wit, to be sure. But also a severe and somewhat muted one, too.” 146 minutes. (RatedRfor some sex, many bullets and much bloodshed.)★★★½2 (Jeff Simon) Opened Wednesday in area theaters.
WHATEVER WORKS.Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood, Michael McKean, Patricia Clarkson and Ed Begley Jr. in Woody Allen’s first New York City film in years about a misanthropic, self-styled, Nobel-level “genius” who meets and marries a simple-hearted young Southern girl and finds himself re-engaged with life against his will. 92 minutes. (Rated PG-13 for sex talk and nongraphic sexual situations.) ★★½ Opens today in area theaters. See review on Page 4.
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