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10 New NYC Movie Openings, weekend of December 10-12
December 10th, 2010 by gothamfilm received Comments OffOscar movie release season is in full swing in New York! Here’s a complete rundown of what’s opening, where it’s playing in the city, and how it’s doing with critics:
1. THE TEMPEST
The best thing about Taymor’s Tempest is also the worst: It’s not stunning but it is sturdy, a handsome-enough showcase of a film that never really comes to life. It plays like a challenge politely declined. (AV Club)
Angelika in Greenwich Village: 11:15am 12:15 1:45 2:45 4:15 5:15 6:45 7:45 9:15 10:15 11:45pm
Lincoln Plaza on the UWS: 11:05am 1:20 3:40 6:00 8:20 10:35pm
2. THE TOURIST
Cinema-as-shoplifting is okay, as long as you still get the feeling it’s for a greater good. But that’s something The Tourist is sorely missing. (Washington Post)
Playing all over the city. NY showtimes here.
3. THE COMPANY MEN
The movie is realistic enough to make all corporate climbers, but especially men over 50, quake in their boots. If you are what you do, what are you if you’re no longer doing it? (S Holden, NY Times)
Loews Lincoln Square on the UWS: 10:25am 1:15 4:30 7:20 10:20pm 12:25am
4. THE FIGHTER
Russell has always excelled at finding new ways to use familiar actors, and every performance in The Fighter is noteworthy if not outstanding.
Loews Lincoln Center on the UWS: 10:30am 12:30 1:25 4:20 6:15 7:15 10:10pm 12:40am
5. AND EVERYTHING IS DOING FINE
Soderbergh imposes a shape until the film begins to feel less like puzzle pieces in search of their place and more like one seamless picture: with this collage of the artist’s past work, he’s created an entirely new final monologue for Gray. (NPR)
IFC Center in the West Village: 12:50 2:30 4:25 6:25 8:30 10:30pm
6. THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER
Another mixed Narnian offering which, while it doesn’t bust through the series’ three-star ceiling, at least gives us its best FX, biggest monsters and finest child actor yet. (Empire)
Playing all over the city. NY showtimes here.
7. VENGEANCE
Mr. To certainly delivers bullets and bodies in “Vengeance.” Yet there are also pockets of calm here when he lingers over this group of men simply enjoying one another’s company, which suggests he might have been rewatching some late Howard Hawks. Mostly, both newcomers to Mr. To and longtime admirers should be prepared for a master class in directing. (M Dargis, NY Times)
IFC Center in the West Village: 4:30 9:55pm 12:05am
8. YOU WON’T SEE ME
For all its many irritations, You Wont Miss Me has undeniable punch, a frayed energy that feels janglingly unstable. (J Catsoulis, NY Times)
Cinema Village in Greenwich Village: 3:10 7:00 9:10pm
9. SAINT MISBEHAVIN: THE WAVY GRAVY MOVIE
Saint Misbehavin’: The Wavy Gravy Movie is a celebration and something of a scrapbook too, a collection of memories without much in the way of questions. (Popmatters)
IFC Center in the West Village: 11:30am 1:20 3:20 5:20 7:25 9:35pm
10. RABBIT A LA BERLIN (+ LOSS)
Cunningly fashioning found footage into a rabbit’s-eye view of events, Polish helmer Bartek Konopka creates a chillingly apt political allegory in Rabbit a la Berlin. (Variety)
Film Forum in the West Village: 1:00 2:45 4:30 6:15 8:00 10:00pm
