Before you look for movie showtimes this weekend, remember to check out these movie reviews on Patch. These reviews come from Patch blogger Mark Glass and other local St. Louis critics.
Getaway
- Run Time: 90 mins.
- Starring: Ethan Hawke, Selena Gomez, Jon Voight
- Rated: PG-13
Mark Glass, Patch blogger: In two words - stay away! Still reading? OK... Ethan Hawke plays a disgraced auto racer named Brent Magna (cheesy enough for ya? ) who is coerced
ala one of the
Speed movies into boosting and driving a teched-up Shelby GT through a night of absurd chases and crashes around Sofia, Bulgaria, as part of a ridiculously complicated heist.
Read the full review.
The Grandmaster- Run Time: 130 mins.
- Starring: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Zhang Ziyi, Chen Chang, Zhao Benshan
- Rated: Not Rated
Mark Glass, Patch blogger: **½ (PG-13)The key to enjoying this epic-scale film, perhaps beyond the promise of this tepid rating, is knowing what you’re getting. Upon learning this is a sweeping biopic covering the life of the martial arts master who taught Bruce Lee, you might start drooling in anticipation of a much bigger adrenaline rush than you’re going to receive.
Read the full review.
Closed Circuit - Starring: Eric Bana, Rebecca Hall, Julis Stiles, Ciaran Hinds, Jim Broadbent
- Rated: R
Mark Glass, Patch blogger: ***½ (R)Conspiracy theorists can go bananas with speculation over the extent to which this espionage-themed thriller from England reflects THE TRUTH. A truck bomb kills 120 people in London. An anonymous tip leads to the location where the bomb was assembled and loaded, followed shortly by the arrest of a Turkish immigrant who’d leased that space.
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