Ted 2 (Seth MacFarlane) is one minute shorter than Seth MacFarlane’s last feature film, A Million Ways To Die In The West, and does not physically feature the writer/director/star. As in the first Ted, he’s present onscreen only as the voice of its computer-generated hero, a foul-mouthed teddy bear. These are the movie’s good points. The second instalment catches up with the aforementioned stuffed animal and his human BFF, John Bennett (Mark Wahlberg, coasting), a while after the events of the first film. Ted is newly wed to his human girlfriend, Tami-Lynn (Jessica Barth). (Read the full review here).
Rating: N (NW)
Opens June 26. See listing.
Eden (Mia Hansen-Løve) is set during the years 1992 to 2013, where Parisian Paul (Félix de Givry) embraces electronic dance music as a teenager, becomes a DJ and does everything he can to remain one – which is to say, he does nothing else. The subject matter may seem a strange choice for Mia Hansen-Løve, director of such tender life studies as The Father Of My Children and Goodbye First Love, but it’s based on the experiences of her brother Sven, who co-wrote the screenplay. (Read the full review here).
Rating: NNN (NW)
Opens Friday June 26. See listing.
7 Minutes (Jay Martin) jumps back and forth in time between a botched robbery and the circumstances that lead three desperate friends (Luke Mitchell, Jason Ritter, Zane Holtz) to plan their criminal act. (Read the full review here).
Rating: NN (NW)
Opens Friday June 26. See listing.
The Great Museum (Johannes Holzhausen) is a sumptuous documentary that pays tribute to Vienna’s Kunsthistorische Museum, its staff – from director to cleaners – and its legacy. Holzhausen’s crew heads underground to the archives, into the boardrooms where the executive committee makes major decisions and the workshops where restorers lovingly attend to hundreds of historical artifacts. (Read the full review here).
Rating: NNN (SGC)
Opens Friday June 23. See listing.
The Overnight (Patrick Brice) stars Adam Scott and Taylor Schilling as a couple newly arrived in Los Angeles and looking to make new friends. So naturally, they’re delighted to be invited to dinner by the parents (Jason Schwartzman, Judith Godrèche) of their son’s playmate… only to discover these hipster sophisticates have some very odd expectations for the evening. (Read the full review here).
Rating: NNNN (NW)
Opens friday June 26. See listing.
Max (Boaz Yakin) makes American Sniper look like a complex, nuanced portrait of American patriotism. It’s shameless, one-dimensional “entertainment” aimed straight at heartland audiences primed to applaud the flag, support the troops and cross the street when they see someone swarthy. (Read the full review here).
Rating: N (NW)
Opens Firday June 26. See listing.
Glass Chin (Noah Buschel) is familiar story of a struggling ex-boxer who winds up in bed with a mobster, Noah Buschel’s Glass Chin tries to spin a 1930s B movie premise into a contemporary art film. And it almost works. (Read the full review here).
Rating: NNN (NW)
Opens Friday June 26. See listing.
The Little Death (Josh Lawson) is an Australian sex comedy and can be called a pervert’s take on Love Actually. In an attempt to strengthen their relationships, multiple couples explore their depraved fetishes. These include somnophilia (sex with someone who’s asleep), dacryphilia (involving tears or sobbing), traditional role-playing and rape. (Read the full review here).
Rating: NN (Radheyan Simonpillai)
Opens Firday June 26. See listing.
