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Release date: April 9 Rotten Tomatoes score: 22% Melissa McCarthy is an effortlessly hilarious comedian and an Oscar-nominated actress, and yet the comedies she makes with her husband, Ben Falcone, tend to be unbelievably terrible. Remember Tammy? Or Life of the Party? Or Superintelligence? No? Anyway, their latest, Thunder Force, continues the trend, a curiously flat superhero farce that’s about as funny as a Thanos snap. It’s set in
an alternate universe wherein genetically altered supervillains known as Miscreants are wreaking havoc in all the world’s cities, and McCarthy and Octavia Spencer are childhood friends who are injected with super-serum and become a crimefighting duo. The movie has some surreal touches (like Jason Bateman as a mutant with crab arms) that suggest a weirder, more esoteric movie, but it mostly consists of McCarthy desperately mugging and Spencer looking lost and confused. VERDICT: Avoid it like kryptonite n
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A college-aged musician on a semester abroad in Ireland has a meet-cute with a fresh-faced movie star, and an unlikely romance blossoms. (NW) Rated PG Shot entirely on computer screens, this film follows an investigative journalist who creates a fake social media persona to ensnare some ISIS recruiters. (NW) Rated R
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From director Taylor Sheridan, a ticking-clock thriller about a teenage murder witness running from men who want him dead, if a raging forest fire doesn’t get them all first. (NW) Rated R
Wanna head back to the danger zone? 1986’s highest grossing film zooms back onto Dolby screens in anticipation of November’s long-awaited sequel. (NW) Rated PG A documentary that examines how students became activists in the aftermath of the 2018 shooting at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Not Rated
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Based on a series of YA sci-fi novels, two teenage misfits (Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley) find each other on a telepathic, mostly male planet on the brink of civil war. (NW) Rated PG-13
DEMON SLAYER THE MOVIE: MUGEN TRAIN
A feature-length follow-up to the popular anime series, which has already broken box-office records in its native Japan. (NW) Rated R
FATIMA
In 1917 Portugal, children who reported having visions of the Virgin Mary inspire furor and fervency in their small shepherding village. (NW) Rated PG-13
GODZILLA VS. KONG
Like Batman and Superman before them, cinema’s most famous giant ape and radioactive lizard duke it out while the world watches. Also streaming on HBO Max. (NW) Rated PG-13
HERE TODAY
Billy Crystal directs himself as a comedy veteran who strikes up an unorthodox friendship with an aspiring singer played by Tiffany Haddish. (NW) Rated PG-13
MINARI
Writer-director Lee Isaac Chung borrows from his own life in this delicate
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The new chapter in the Saw franchise stars Chris Rock as a cop investigating a series of murders that follow the same M.O. as the crafty serial killer Jigsaw. (NW) Rated R
story of Korean immigrants who settle onto a rural Arkansas farm in the early ’80s. (NW) Rated PG-13
can see. (NW) Rated R
MORTAL KOMBAT
A charming documentary about the creation of the groundbreaking children’s TV series. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated PG
The popular video game returns to the big screen, in properly gory fashion this time, with all your favorite characters delivering one fatality after another. Also streaming on HBO Max. (NW) Rated R
NOBODY
A new riff on the Death Wish formula, starring Bob Odenkirk as a meek suburban father who goes into full-on revenge mode after his family is attacked. (NW) Rated R
THE PAPER TIGERS
Comic kung-fu action abounds in this tale of three aging fighters who put aside their personal lives to avenge the murder of their former master. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated PG-13
RAYA & THE LAST DRAGON
The latest Disney animated feature, a multicultural fable that follows a teenage warrior’s hunt for the titular creature. Also streaming on Disney+. (NW) Rated PG
SEPARATION
After the death of her mother, a little girl at the center of a custody battle is visited by ghostly figures that only she
STREET GANG: HOW WE GOT TO SESAME STREET
TOGETHER TOGETHER
A single man with baby fever develops an unusual friendship with the young woman who agrees to be his surrogate mother. Ed Helms and Patti Harrison star. (NW) Rated R
THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS
This eccentric documentary follows a group of Italian octogenarians (and their dogs) who spend their days searching for an elusive white truffle. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated PG-13
WOLFWALKERS
This Oscar-nominated animated feature is a family-friendly Irish folktale about two girls — one a hunter, the other a lycanthropic forest dweller. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated PG
WRATH OF MAN
The latest thriller from Guy Ritchie stars Jason Statham as a shadowy figure who becomes the guard of an armored truck. Expect explosive action and plenty of F-bombs. (NW) Rated R n
