There’s not much in “The November Man” that you haven’t seen before, usually done better somewhere else. Compared to the franchises it seems to be striving for, as Bond it’s bland, and as Bourne it’s a bore.
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Here’s a look at the new movies “The November Man,” “As Above/So Below,” “Land Ho!,” “Saints and Soldiers: The Void” and “Cantinflas”:
The Fourth of July is a huge moviegoing day. Christmas is so big, New Year’s is left open to give everyone time to catch up. But Labor Day? Nothing. Zilch. It’s as though Hollywood wants you to — gasp! — go outside this weekend.
As part of its customer appreciation night, the West Wind Drive-In is offering free admission on Thursday to see “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” “Maleficent,” “How to Train Your Dragon 2” and “Think Like a Man Too.”
The big question at the heart of the movie is a big no-brainer. But high school senior Mia Hall (Chloe Grace Moretz), comatose and clinging to life, is torn by the choice in “If I Stay.”
“The Giver” takes place in a world without memories. If only audiences could enter that realm for 97 minutes so that the movie wouldn’t feel so very familiar in the wake of other young adult adaptations ranging from “The Hunger Games” and “Divergent” to “Ender’s Game” and next month’s “The Maze Runner.”
Three of the actor’s four Oscar-nominated performances, as well as his “Happy Days” introduction as Mork, can be found on TV starting Friday.
The Boston gangster, convicted a year ago Tuesday, is the subject of “Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger.”
Here’s a look at this week’s new movies, “The Giver,” “The Expendables 3,” “Magic in the Moonlight” and “What If” (“Let’s Be Cops” opened Wednesday):
You buy a ticket for a movie like “Into the Storm” — aka, “Twister 2: Let’s Twist Again, Like We Did in the Summer of ’96” — for the tornadoes. And they, at least, do not disappoint.
Here’s a look at this week’s new movies, “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” “Into the Storm,” “Step Up All In,” “The Hundred-Foot Journey,” “Boyhood,” “Deepsea Challenge 3D” and “I Origins”:
I took 164 minutes out of a recent vacation and dropped $32.54 to see “Boyhood.” It was worth every second. And every penny.
