Green Room (A24, R)
It does a good job of planting seeds that make you think you know where the movie’s going, only for it to not ever go there.
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From Up on Poppy Hill (GKIDS, PG)
It’s hard to blame anyone but Goro Miyazaki for this mess; he just seems to be lacking the overall flair needed to be a successful director of animation
Like Crazy (Paramount Vintage, PG-13)
When Jacob and Anna are apart, it is painful, not just for them but for us, as well. We want to see them together—no, we need to.
Fright Night (Walt Disney Studios, R)
Director Craig Gillespie does a terrific job of balancing serious storytelling with the fact that a vampire hiding out in Las Vegas is absolutely absurd.
The Beaver (Summit Entertainment, PG-13)
After yet another drunken night culminating in two unsuccessful suicide attempts, he wakes up to find himself communicating through a fuzzy hand puppet.
Terminator Salvation (Warner Bros., PG-13)
But of course, people don’t go to a Terminator film hoping for plausible plots and Oscar-worthy acting, they go to see malevolent robots and larger than life action.