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Friday, May 3, 2013

Robert Downey Jr. is Back in "Iron Man 3': Movie Reviews

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Editor's Note: All reviews and information aggregated from Moviefone and RottenTomatoes. Want to catch a movie this weekend? Here's Patch's roundup of movies playing at theaters near Richfield: Southdale AMC and Theaters at Mall of America. Iron Man 3 One sentence plot: Marvel's "Iron Man 3" pits brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. Rotten Tomatoes viewer score: 99 Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 80 Reviews: "But for all the clanking armies of iron knights on display to dazzle the eager kid in each of us, this summer epic rings hollow. There's no one home inside the suit." Rolling Stone Full Review "This installment actually flirts with satire, sending its hero-in-a-can on a …

Friday, April 12, 2013

Movie Reviews: Harrison Ford in Jackie Robinson Biopic '42'

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Editor's Note: All reviews and information aggregated from Moviefone and RottenTomatoes. Want to catch a movie this weekend? Here's Patch's roundup of movies playing at theaters near Richfield: Southdale AMC and Theaters at Mall of America. 42 One sentence plot: "42" tells the story of two men-the great Jackie Robinson and legendary Brooklyn Dodgers GM Branch Rickey-whose brave stand against prejudice forever changed the world by changing the game of baseball. Rotten Tomatoes viewer score: 97 Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 68 Reviews: "It's a sports film nonsports fans can love; it's a family film that never preaches; it's a biopic that also takes in the world and people around its subject." New York Daily News Full Review "'42' can feel …

Friday, March 1, 2013

New Movie Reviews: Jack the Giant Slayer, Phantom, Snitch

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Editor's Note: All reviews and information aggregated from Moviefone and RottenTomatoes. Want to catch a movie this weekend? Here's Patch's roundup of movies playing at theaters near Richfield: Southdale AMC and Theaters at Mall of America. Phantom One sentence plot: Ed Harris plays the captain of a Cold War Soviet missile submarine who has recently been suffering from seizures that alter his perception of reality. Rotten Tomatoes viewer score: 83 Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 20 Reviews: "To sustain tension, you need the kind of claustrophobic camera movement, high-strung talk and gritty character development that are badly needed in any submarine movie and are sadly missing in Phantom." New York Observer Full Review "The potential for …

Friday, February 22, 2013

Movie Reviews: Snitch, A Good Day to Die Hard, Beautiful Creatures

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Editor's Note: All reviews and information aggregated from Moviefone and RottenTomatoes. Want to catch a movie this weekend? Here's Patch's roundup of movies playing at theaters near Richfield: Southdale AMC and Theaters at Mall of America. Snitch One sentence plot: In the fast-paced action thriller 'Snitch', Dwayne Johnson stars as a father whose teenage son is wrongly accused of a drug distribution crime and is looking at a mandatory minimum prison sentence of 10 years. Rotten Tomatoes viewer score: 96 Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 67 Reviews: "'Snitch' is more of a dramatic thriller than an action movie, and director Ric Roman Waugh fills it with close-ups, dark interiors and tense faces." Seattle Times Full Review "This movie executes …

Friday, February 1, 2013

Movie Reviews: Bullet to the Head, Warm Bodies & Zero Dark Thirty

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Editor's Note: All reviews and information aggregated from Moviefone and RottenTomatoes. Want to catch a movie this weekend? Here's Patch's roundup of movies playing at the theaters in the Richfield area: Southdale AMC and Theaters at Mall of America. Bullet to the Head One sentence plot: A hitman (Sylvester Stallone) and a New York cop team up to get revenge on the killers who murdered their old partners in this action thriller from veteran tough-guy filmmaker Walter Hill  Moviefone viewer score: 55 Reviews: "Like the amped up comeback tour of two rockers who had their heyday sometime in the mid-'80s, Sylvester Stallone and director Walter Hill (48 HRS., The Warriors) join forces for a hard-hitting exercise in beefy, brainless fun with …

Saturday, January 26, 2013

Movie Reviews: Parker, Hansel and Gretel, Mama

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Editor's Note: All reviews and information aggregated from Moviefone and RottenTomatoes. Want to catch a movie this weekend? Here's Patch's roundup of movies playing at theaters near Richfield: Southdale AMC and Theaters at Mall of America. Parker One sentence plot: Parker (Jason Statham) is a professional thief who lives by a personal code of ethics: Don't steal from people who can't afford it and don't hurt people who don't deserve it. Moviefone viewer score: 85 Reviews: "How does Hackford fall so far off the rails with the pedestrian crime thriller Parker, based on the 19th book in the Parker series by the late Donald E. Westlake (no slouch himself, with scripting credits on The Grifters and The Stepfather)? For starters, Westlake didn’…

Friday, January 18, 2013

Movie Reviews: Mama, Broken City, Gangster Squad & Zero Dark Thirty

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Editor's Note: All reviews and information aggregated from Moviefone and RottenTomatoes. Want to catch a movie this weekend? Here's Patch's roundup of movies playing at theaters near Richfield: Southdale AMC and Theaters at Mall of America. Mama One sentence plot: Guillermo del Toro presents 'Mama', a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. Moviefone viewer score: 84 Reviews: "What's under the bed? Who's behind that door? What's making those vaguely satanic noises? These and other thought-provoking questions are entertained in Mama, a visually polished but overly repetitive chiller." Variety. Full Review "It never hits the high notes of Mr…

Friday, January 11, 2013

Movie Reviews: Gangster Squad, Zero Dark Thirty, Django Unchanged, Les Miserables

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Editor's Note: All reviews and information aggregated from Moviefone. Want to catch a movie this weekend? Here's Patch's roundup of movies playing at theaters near Richfield: Southdale AMC and Theaters at Mall of America. Gangster Squad One sentence plot: Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and--if he has his way--every wire bet placed west of Chicago. Moviefone viewer score: 90 Moviefone critic score: 43 Reviews: “The cops play things as dirty as the crooks in Gangster Squad, an impressively pulpy underworld-plunger that embellishes on a 1949 showdown between a dedicated team of LAPD officers and Mob-connected Mickey …

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