300: Rise of an Empire
They didn’t name it 600, but the Warner Bros. moviemakers certainly upped the ante in this double dose of hyper-stylized, 3-D sex, blood and guts.
Non-Stop
As passengers begin to die on a transatlantic flight, everyone onboard is a suspect, even the scruffy air marshal hero.
3 Days to Kill
No one’s saying 3 Days to Kill will alone inspire someone to be an assassin or thug, of course. Just that there are far better ways to kill a little time.
The Wind Rises
From acclaimed Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki comes a fantasy-laced biopic that flies through the life of WWII Zero engineer Jirô Horikoshi.
Pompeii
No awe. No mystery. No intelligence. Just a big overwrought mess. My own youthful ponderings seem pretty grown up compared to all this.
About Last Night
It presents a one-dimensional romcom tale in a crude, crass, offensive and completely forgettable way.
Endless Love
This remake of the 1981 Brooke Shields movie is catnip for moon-eyed teens, a sexually charged fantasy that encourages young girls to dream of sonnet-worthy relationships with the cute criminal in algebra class.
Winter’s Tale
Destiny, magic, time travel, Lucifer in Manhattan, winged souls in the stars. It all gets tossed at the screen.
RoboCop
RoboCop’s violence and other content concerns may be dialed down a bit compared to the original. But that relatively positive divergence shouldn’t be confused with any sort of energetic endorsement.
Vampire Academy
Vampire Academy’s trailer makes it look like a mash-up of Twilight and Harry Potter. And it is. But the movie’s bloodthirsty headmaster also lobs in Gossip Girl and, weirdly, Juno.