Channing Tatum’s best-reviewed movies In collaboration with Rotten Tomatoes and its parent company, Flixster, The Chronicle presents the critical consensus of Channing Tatum’s best-reviewed films. The figure listed is the percentage of critics who have rated the film positively, based on reviews listed at rottentomatoes.com.
Worth seeing at the movies The Incredible Burt Wonderstone This comedy about Las Vegas magicians, starring Steve Carell, would be a borderline case were it not for Jim Carrey, who is hysterically funny in the supporting role of a crazy, masochistic street magician.
New on DVD and Blu – ray , March 22 Bachelorette Three skinny, self-absorbed, drug-snorting snots (Kirsten Dunst, Lizzy Caplan and Isla Fisher) accidentally tear the wedding dress of an overweight friend (Rebel Wilson) and set off on a wee-hours crusade to fix it. The Big Picture Based on Douglas Kennedy’s 1997 novel, this ambitious French thriller focuses on a Parisian lawyer (Romain Duris) who …
New on DVD and Blu – ray , March 15 An Autobiography About Love, Death & Technology Tiffany Shlain’s documentary uneasily mixes an optimistic view of new technology (“The Internet is rewiring our brains to think interdependently”) with a touching tribute to her late father, the surgeon and author Leonard Shlain.
“Koch,” a documentary about the late New York City Mayor Edward Koch, is playing in area theaters. Photo: Contributed Photo Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch died at age 88 on Feb.
Which movies to see this weekend, March 8 Beautiful Creatures This story of a mortal boy and the witch girl he loves, based on the popular novel, presses all the teenage-angst buttons that would seem to guarantee commercial success. Side Effects Steven Soderbergh’s well-acted, nicely plotted thriller tells the story of a young woman (Rooney Mara) whose psychiatrist (Jude Law) prescribes a mood …
DVD review: ‘The Jazz Singer’ Historically, the most important scene in the film is the one in which Al Jolson, as a cantor’s son turned secular entertainer, ad libs dialogue as he plays the piano and sings for his mother. The naturalness of that interchange followed by the stiffness of the silent sequence that followed was said to have doomed silent films.
New on DVD and Blu-ray, March 1 The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare This well-crafted documentary by Matthew Heineman and Susan Froemke offers an X-ray of what’s wrong with this nation’s health care system and suggests solutions – among them, that the medical industry needs to switch its focus from intervention to prevention and that patients should change their lifestyles.
DVD review: ‘Smash: Season One’ “Smash hit” is the only way to describe this visually compelling show depicting the struggle to produce a musical about Marilyn Monroe and get it to Broadway. this set with 15 episodes comes just when executive producer Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” is up for numerous Academy Awards
DVD review: ‘The Duellists’ The film was considered a low-budgeter of limited popularity by the releasing company, Paramount. what made the movie for critics were its impeccable Napoleonic-era costumes and pastoral settings, and photography resembling paintings of the early 19th century