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Why it's great: In a year that promised a lot of movie musicals coming to the screen, In the Heights kicked things off in spectacular fashion. Chu ( Crazy Rich Asians)Ĭast: Anthony Ramos, Corey Hawkins. Where to watch it: Rent on Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, and YouTube ( Watch the trailer) Warner Brosĭirector: Jon M. Mostly, you leave feeling a towering affection for these weirdos and their weirdo music, which is, I assume, exactly what Wright intended. (Wright has a great time with the chyrons identifying these talking heads.) There are animated recreations, recreations acted out by the elder Maels, and tons of archival footage. It's meticulous and also enormously funny, featuring insight from the Maels themselves as well as devoted fans like Flea, Weird Al, and Mike Myers. The director methodically goes through the Maels' discography, highlighting their pop experiments and deeply amusing and bizarre lyrics. Wright sets out to explain the underground phenomenon behind Sparks, which has weaved in and out of the public eye since the early 1970s. Why it's great: I knew practically nothing about the band Sparks, made up of the brothers Russ and Ron Mael, going into Edgar Wright's loving and long documentary, but I emerged a fan, which is some of the highest praise I can give a film like this one. Where to watch: Rent on Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, and YouTube ( Watch the trailer) But, with Lin throwing everything he's got at the screen, F9 delivers the goods when it comes to the huge set-pieces, particularly any time a magnet is involved, and Diesel, rumbling with each line reading, remains a fascinating screen presence in these films, which still feel personal to him despite their ridiculous scale and unapologetic cheesiness.
The plot is mostly nonsense John Cena is not a particularly compelling villain the "comedy" bits stop the movie in its tracks.
If you find these proudly melodramatic, unrepentantly goofy movies tedious, F9 will not be the one to win you over.
#Best movies in theaters now series#
He's clearly doing some necessary tune-up work here, stripping the series for parts (say goodbye to The Rock!) and futzing with the engine (say hello to some surprisingly compelling flashbacks to Dom's teenage years!). Why it’s great: After the bloated Fate of the Furious, which found the Fast franchise careening off the icy cliff of self-parody and into the freezing waters of self-indulgence, F9 serves as a necessary course correction courtesy of filmmaker Justin Lin, who helmed the best entry in the series with Fast Five and saved it from direct-to-DVD purgatory with Tokyo Drift. Cast: Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris "Ludacris" Bridgesĭirector: Justin Lin ( Fast and Furious 6)
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