Special screenings
DCI Tour Premiere
6/23, live broadcast of Drum Corps International Competition, 5:30 p.m., $12.50. Theaters: COL, SP, ST, VS. Info: fathomevents.com.
Dive-In Movies
Mon, 7:30 p.m., $5, free for hotel guests. 6/27, The Bourne Identity. Boulevard Pool at the Cosmopolitan, 702-698-7000.
Family-Friendly Summer Matinee
Wed, 11 a.m., free. 6/29, The Good Dinosaur. Summerlin Library, 1771 Inner Circle Drive, 702-507-3863.
Las Vegas Classic Film Theater
Classic, indie and arthouse films, times vary, $5 per screening. 6/25, Night of the Living Dead, 1:30 p.m. 6/26, Tarzan’s Revenge, 1:30 p.m. 6/27, The Naked Kiss, 7 p.m. 6/29, His Girl Friday, 7 p.m. Baobab Stage, Town Square, 702-369-6649, baobabstage.com.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live
6/29, Donizetti’s L'Elisir d'Amore encore, 7 p.m., $12.50. Theaters: VS. Info: fathomevents.com.
Midnight Brewvies
Mon, movie plus popcorn, midnight, free. Elixir, 2920 N. Green Valley Parkway, Henderson, 702-272-0000.
Movie Night
Thu, sundown, free. 6/23, Avengers: Age of Ultron. 6/30, Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Downtown Container Park, 707 Fremont St., downtowncontainerpark.com.
The MST3K Reunion Show
6/28, broadcast featuring all cast members of Mystery Science Theater 3000, 8 p.m., $10.50-$12.50. Theaters: CAN, COL, SP, ST, VS. Info: fathomevents.com.
Saturday Movie Matinee
6/25, 1 p.m., free. Spring Valley Library, 4280 S. Jones Blvd., 702-507-3821.
Sci Fi Center
Sun, Game of Thrones viewing party, 7:15 p.m., free. Mon, Cinemondays, 8 p.m., free. 6/25, Attack of the Giant Leeches, 10:30 p.m., $5. 5077 Arville St., 855-501-4335, thescificenter.com.
Summer Screen Series
Thu, dusk, free. 6/23, The Peanuts Movie. 6/30, Captain America: The First Avenger. Park Centre Drive, Downtown Summerlin, downtownsummerlin.com.
TCM Big Screen Classics
6/26, 6/29, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory plus introduction from Turner Classic Movies, 2 & 7 p.m., $5-$14. Theaters: CAN, COL, ORL, SP, ST, VS. Info: fathomevents.com.
Tuesday Afternoon at the Bijou
Tue, 1 p.m., free. 6/28, Thoroughly Modern Millie . Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 702-507-3400.
New this week
Matthew McConaughey, Keri Russell, Gugu Mbatha-Raw. Directed by Gary Ross. 139 minutes. Rated R. This historical drama tells the fascinating story of a Confederate deserter who led an uprising in Mississippi, but it expands the narrative too far, jumping forward in time and diluting the power of its unique hook. McConaughey is strong as insurgent leader Newton Knight, but the character is a one-dimensional savior. —JB
Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, COL, DTS, FH, ORL, PAL, RP, SC, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS
Independence Day: Resurgence (Not reviewed)
Liam Hemsworth, Jessie Usher, Jeff Goldblum. Directed by Roland Emmerich. 120 minutes. Rated PG-13. Twenty years after fighting off an alien invasion, Earth is attacked again.
Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, DI, DTS, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS
Elle Fanning, Jena Malone, Bella Heathcote. Directed by Nicholas Winding Refn. 117 minutes. Rated R. Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives) tackles America’s oppressive standards of female beauty—and their connection to violence—in this visually hypnotic but overly blunt tale of a teen model (Fanning) who pays a high price for becoming LA’s new It Girl. —MD
Theaters: AL, COL, PAL, ST, TS, VS
The Shallows (Not reviewed)
Blake Lively, Óscar Jaenada, Brett Cullen. Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. 87 minutes. Rated PG-13. A surfer is trapped just offshore by a shark.
Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, COL, DI, FH, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS
Louis Koo, Wallace Chung, Zhao Wei. Directed by Johnnie To. 87 minutes. Not rated. In Cantonese with English subtitles. The latest from Hong Kong auteur To takes a long time to get to his signature dazzling action, spending most of its running time on a circuitous hospital-set morality play, as a criminal mastermind refuses potentially life-saving brain surgery. The eventual stunning action climax is not quite worth the drawn-out setup. —JB
Theaters: TS
Now playing
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Sacha Baron Cohen. Directed by James Bobin. 113 minutes. Rated PG. This sequel to Tim Burton’s 2010 Alice in Wonderland has much of the same design, strange makeup effects and funny performances, but it doesn’t have Burton, and it lacks the element of surprise. The effects-driven storytelling can’t overcome a general sense that no one cares. —JMA
Theaters: DI, RR
Voices of Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride. Directed by Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly. 97 minutes. Rated PG. The movie version of the mega-popular mobile game (about birds being flung at pigs via slingshot) attempts to create a story around a series of basic, repetitive actions. The explanations are both boring and largely nonsensical, and expanding the game into a cohesive, family-friendly movie proves too difficult a task. —JB
Theaters: COL, RR, ST, VS
Barbershop: The Next Cut (Not reviewed)
Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer, Regina Hall. Directed by Malcolm D. Lee. 112 minutes. Rated PG-13. The crew at Calvin’s Barbershop come together to help revitalize their neighborhood.
Theaters: TC
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Jesse Eisenberg. Directed by Zack Snyder. 151 minutes. Rated PG-13. Starting with its ridiculous title, this superhero epic is bursting with overwrought self-importance, crammed with so many characters and incidents that it ends up horribly disjointed. All the empty bluster obscures how little actually happens in the power struggle among heroes Batman (Affleck) and Superman (Cavill) and villain Lex Luthor (Eisenberg). —JB
Theaters: TC
Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Bell, Peter Dinklage. Directed by Ben Falcone. 99 minutes. Rated R. A disgraced business mogul (McCarthy) has to team up with her former assistant (Bell). McCarthy nearly exhausts herself carrying the movie on her own. There are a handful of funny moments, but they’re few and far between in a movie that never quite figures out what kind of joke it’s trying to make. —JB
Theaters: TC
Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson. Directed by Joe Russo and Anthony Russo. 147 minutes. Rated PG-13. Civil War sets up a battle between factions of superheroes led by Captain America (Evans) and Iron Man (Downey), who disagree on whether the Avengers should submit to government oversight. The story’s deeper meaning takes a backseat to a cluttered narrative (overstuffed with Marvel characters) and some rousing, well-crafted action sequences. —JB
Theaters: AL, GVR, ST, TS, VS
Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Amy Ryan. Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber. 114 minutes. Rated PG-13. Hart is in familiar territory as a put-upon accountant very reluctantly recruited by his former high school classmate (Johnson) to join a CIA mission. Johnson ends up as the comedic highlight of the film, and the character work is stronger than the inconsistent jokes and especially the lackluster action sequences. —JB
Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, DI, DTS, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS
Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Frances O’Connor. Directed by James Wan. 134 minutes. Rated R. Once again based loosely on one of the actual cases investigated by real-life ghost hunters Ed and Lorraine Warren (Wilson and Farmiga), this sequel features a handful of effectively scary moments spread out over 134 minutes of a fairly dull haunted-house story. —JB
Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, DI, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TS, TX
Directed by Louise Osmond. 85 minutes. Rated PG. This entertaining, rousing documentary focuses on residents from a working-class Welsh town who pooled their money to purchase a racehorse. It’s one of those remarkable underdog sports stories that sound too good to be true, and Osmond knows how to get out of the way and let the people involved tell it. —JB
Theaters: SC
The Darkness (Not reviewed)
Kevin Bacon, Jennifer Morrison, Lucy Fry. Directed by Greg McLean. 92 minutes. Rated PG-13. A family returns from a Grand Canyon trip with a supernatural entity after them.
Theaters: TC
Voices of Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Hayden Rolence. Directed by Andrew Stanton. 103 minutes. Rated PG. Forgetful fish Dory decides to track down her long-lost parents in this animated sequel to Pixar’s Finding Nemo. While Dory is thoroughly charming and enjoyable, with funny supporting characters and often gorgeous animation, it’s also a bit formulaic and repetitive, especially during the drawn-out third act. —JB
Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, COL, DI, FH, GVL, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TS, TX
Chris Hemsworth, Jessica Chastain, Emily Blunt. Directed by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan. 114 minutes. Rated PG-13. The Snow White-free sequel to Snow White and the Huntsman adds a second evil queen (Blunt) and a warrior love interest (Chastain) for the huntsman (Hemsworth), but never comes up with an interesting story. Much of Winter’s War looks garish and plastic, with its style ripped off from other, more popular fantasy franchises. —JB
Theaters: TC
Neel Sethi, Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley. Directed by Jon Favreau. 105 minutes. Rated PG. The latest Disney live-action remake of an animated classic is a fairly faithful retelling of its source material, about a young boy raised in the jungle. The tone is an awkward mix of savage jungle naturalism and cuddly animal antics, and there’s a sort of prefab blandness to the amazing photo-realistic CGI. —JB
Theaters: COL, SC
Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, Method Man. Directed by Peter Atencio. 98 minutes. Rated R. The first movie outing for sketch-comedy duo Key and Peele finds them joining a street gang in order to recover a stolen kitten. Alas, there are only so many laughs to be wrung from the spectacle of two nerds desperately, clumsily trying to be gangsta, and Keanu has little else to offer. —MD
Theaters: TC
Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Olivia Colman. Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. 118 minutes. Rated R. The third film by Greek director Lanthimos (Dogtooth, Alps) stars Farrell as a newly single man in a dystopian world where people are given 45 days to find a new mate, and get turned into an animal of their choice if they fail. Endlessly creative, allegorically frustrating. —MD
Theaters: COL, VS
Kate Beckinsale, Xavier Samuel, Chloë Sevigny. Directed by Whit Stillman. 92 minutes. Rated PG. Stillman’s adaptation of an early Jane Austen novella stars an excellent Beckinsale as Lady Susan Vernon, a beautiful and self-absorbed high-society widow whose favorite pastime is playing with others’ affections. Lady Susan is an entertaining sociopath, and Stillman’s screenplay is full of bone-dry humor and some hilarious one-liners. —JB
Theaters: COL, SC
Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke, Julianne Moore. Directed by Rebecca Miller. 98 minutes. Rated R. This dramedy about a love triangle among NYC academics never figures out a proper tone or narrative approach, mixing aggressively whimsical comedy with angsty relationship drama. The arch, literate tone aims to emulate Woody Allen or Noah Baumbach, but the jokes aren’t clever or incisive enough to get to that level. —JB
Theaters: VS
Emilia Clarke, Sam Claflin, Janet McTeer. Directed by Thea Sharrock. 110 minutes. Rated PG-13. Clarke tries way too hard as Louisa, a working-class young woman who falls in love with Will (Claflin), the wealthy quadriplegic and former playboy she’s hired to take care of. The romance takes far too long to get going, and Clarke’s overstated performance is more exhausting than endearing. —JB
Theaters: BS, COL, FH, RR, SC, SP, SS, TS
George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jack O’Connell. Directed by Jodie Foster. Rated R. 98 minutes. A disgruntled investor (O’Connell) takes a cable financial-advice personality (Clooney) and his crew hostage live on the air in this uneven thriller. The tense stand-off in the confined space is well-constructed, but the movie loses momentum in the third act, and the social commentary is entirely superficial. —JB
Theaters: FH, SC
Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne, Zac Efron, Chloë Grace Moretz. Directed by Nicholas Stoller. 92 minutes. Rated R. After the barely passable 2014 original made an unholy amount of money, this sequel seems expelled from some collective digestive tract. Not one character is smart or even lifelike, and though it’s sometimes satisfying to see them pummeled in lifeless slapstick gags, there’s not one genuine laugh here. —JMA
Theaters: TC
Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, Angourie Rice. Directed by Shane Black. 116 minutes. Rated R. Crowe and Gosling play a pair of disreputable private investigators in 1977 LA who find themselves caught in a conspiracy as they investigate a missing young woman. Black balances the serious, sometimes violent mystery with a barrage of one-liners and physical comedy, and The Nice Guys is consistently funny from beginning to end. —JB
Theaters: COL, RR, VS
Mark Ruffalo, Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Lizzy Caplan. Directed by Jon M. Chu. 115 minutes. Rated PG-13. This time around the outlaw stage magicians known as the Four Horsemen are basically just a group of thieves, hired to steal a piece of ultra-powerful tech. The plot is just as convoluted and belabored as the first time, without the added panache of the Four Horsemen’s stage productions. —JB
Theaters: AL, BS, CH, COL, DTS, FH, ORL, PAL, RP, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, Tim Meadows. Directed by Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer. 86 minutes. Rated R. Samberg stars as pop star Conner4Real in this parody of pop-music documentaries from comedy troupe The Lonely Island. The songs are catchy and creative, but the joke is stretched thin over feature length, with a bare-bones story and a lot of mild humor from celebrity guest stars. —JB
Theaters: TC
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
Megan Fox, Stephen Amell, Tyler Perry. Directed by Dave Green. 112 minutes. Rated PG-13. The sequel to the 2014 TMNT live-action reboot vastly overcorrects for the first movie’s seriousness and intensity by turning into a grating, childish and overlong version of the old TMNT cartoon series. The plotting is ridiculous, the dialogue is terrible, and the in-your-face style is completely mind-numbing. —JB
Theaters: BS, CAN, CH, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SF, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS
Udta Punjab (Not reviewed)
Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Alia Bhatt. Directed by Abhishek Chaubey. 150 minutes. Not rated. In Hindi and Punjabi with English subtitles. People from various walks of life deal with drug abuse in Punjab, India.
Theaters: VS
Travis Fimmel, Paul Patton, Ben Foster. Directed by Duncan Jones. 123 minutes. Rated PG-13. At once ponderous and extravagantly goofy, this adaptation of the Warcraft video-game franchise, depicting a battle royale between orcs and humans, is no cynical cash grab (it was co-written and directed by Duncan Jones, who previously made Moon and Source Code), but that only makes its failure all the more painful. —MD
Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, COL, FH, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS
Jennifer Lawrence, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Oscar Isaac. Directed by Bryan Singer. 144 minutes. Rated PG-13. The latest adventure of the mutant superheroes reintroduces familiar characters in slightly new forms, and spends far too much time on set-up. World-ending villain Apocalypse (Isaac) is ridiculous and ineffective, and the overstuffed cast pushes too many new and/or reimagined characters to the margins. Even the big action climax is underwhelming. —JB
Theaters: AL, FH, GVR, PAL, RR, SP, ST, TS, TX, VS
Voices of Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba. Directed by Byron Howard and Rich Moore. 108 minutes. Rated PG. Disney’s latest animated feature is a winning, gorgeously animated story about anthropomorphic animals living in relative harmony in a bustling metropolis. The team-up between a police officer rabbit and a small-time criminal fox provides a thoroughly engaging mystery with some satisfying twists and turns. —JB
Theaters: TC
JMA Jeffrey M. Anderson; JB Josh Bell; MD Mike D’Angelo
Theaters
(AL) Regal Aliante
7300 Aliante Parkway, North Las Vegas, 844-462-7342 ext. 4011
(BS) Regal Boulder Station
4111 Boulder Highway, 844-462-7342 ext. 269
(PAL) Brenden Theatres at the Palms
4321 W. Flamingo Road, 702-507-4849
(CAN) Galaxy Cannery
2121 E. Craig Road, North Las Vegas, 702-639-9779
(CH) Cinedome Henderson
851 S. Boulder Highway, Henderson, 702-566-1570
(COL) Regal Colonnade
8880 S. Eastern Ave., 844-462-7342 ext. 270
(DI) Las Vegas Drive-In
4150 W. Carey Ave., North Las Vegas, 702-646-3565
(DTS) Regal Downtown Summerlin
2070 Park Center Drive, 844-462-7342 ext. 4063
(FH) Regal Fiesta Henderson
777 W. Lake Mead Parkway, Henderson, 844-462-7342 ext. 1772
(GVR) Regal Green Valley Ranch
2300 Paseo Verde Parkway, Henderson, 844-462-7342 ext. 267
(GVL) Galaxy Green Valley Luxury+
4500 E. Sunset Road, Henderson, 702-442-0244
(ORL) Century Orleans
4500 W. Tropicana Ave., 702-889-1220
(RP) AMC Rainbow Promenade
2321 N. Rainbow Blvd., 888-262-4386
(RR) Regal Red Rock
11011 W. Charleston Blvd., 844-462-7342 ext. 1756
(ST) Century Sam’s Town
5111 Boulder Highway, 702-547-1732
(SF) Century Santa Fe Station
4949 N. Rancho Drive, 702-655-8178
(SHO) United Artists Showcase
3769 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 844-462-7342 ext. 522
(SP) Century South Point
9777 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-260-4061
(SC) Century Suncoast
9090 Alta Drive, 702-869-1880
(SS) Regal Sunset Station
1301-A W. Sunset Road, Henderson, 844-462-7342 ext. 268
(TX) Regal Texas Station
2101 Texas Star Lane, North Las Vegas, 844-462-7342 ext. 271
(TS) AMC Town Square
6587 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-362-7283
(TC) Regency Tropicana Cinemas
3330 E. Tropicana Ave., 702-438-3456
(VS) Regal Village Square
9400 W. Sahara Ave., 844-462-7342 ext. 272