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greenbaypressgazette.com Bay Thursday, 13 eeee Excellent eee Good ee Fair Poor RATINGS WI-5001806158 material involving drug use and drinking, fight. Bay Park Cinema. The Duff (PG-13) eeg Ahigh school senior (Mae Whitman) is devastated to find out her pals refer to her as (Designated Ugly Fat Friend) behind her back. a paint-by-numbers romantic comedy. But Whitman clicks with her co-stars and handles the zingers and the roll voice-over narration her character spouts.

101mins. Crude and sexual material throughout, some language and teen partying. Bay Park Cinema, Marcus Cinema Green Bay East. 50 Shades of Grey (R) Jamie Dornan is the billionaire with kinky sexual tastes who eaches a college student (Dakota Johnson) a thing or two in this eagerly awaited adaptation the novel by E. L.

James. one thing to read about the bondage-enabled sexual awakening of a virgin. quite another to see it depicted on screen. In trying to please everyone, Shades of has stripped away the fun and settled on palatable. 125 mins.

Strong sexual content including dialogue, some unusual behavior, graphic nudity, language. Bay Park Cinema, Marcus Cinema Green Bay East. Focus (R) eg The trouble with movies about Big is that they ondition us to not believe anything we see up on screen relationships, who is conning hom, deaths, etc. one-ups that by pushing a romance to the fore, one that is supposed to be fun, sexy and cute. But when we buy the veteran con man (Will Smith) in love with the hot young acolyte (Margot Robbie), well, what is here to cling to? 104 mins.

Language, some sexual content a nd brief violence. Bay Park Cinema, Marcus Cinema Green Bay East. Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (R) eg Adam Scott replaces John Cusack in this sequel to the 2010 comedy about a group of friends (Rob Corddry, Clark Duke a nd Craig Robins) who wreak havoc on the present by using he eponymous device to travel to the past. 93 mins. Crude sexual content and language throughout, graphic nudity, drug use and some violence.

Bay Park Cinema. Jupiter Ascending PG-13) eg Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum and Eddie Redmayne star in the latest mind-bending sci-fi fantasy from Matrix creators Lana and Andy Wachowski. an excruciatingly empty chunk of eye candy that spends over two hours trying to convince us not ripping off 127 mins. Violence, sequences of sci-fi action, suggestive content, artial nudity. Bay Park Cinema, Marcus Cinema Green Bay East.

Kingsman: The Secret ervice (R) ee Director Matthew Vaughn adapts another comic book, this one centering on a secret service agent (Colin Firth) who recruits a street kid into his top-secret crime-fighting organization. Often, a droll riff on spy movies and what a fine tailored (bespoke) suits and the clash of lasses evident by the posh a ccents the movies so often attach to British secret agents. 1 29 mins. Sequences of strong violence, language, sexual content. Bay Park Cinema, arcus Cinema Green Bay East.

The Lazarus Effect (PG-13) eeg Atrio of university researchers discover a way to bring the dead ack to like. Then they find out resurrecting a corpse is always a bad idea. Lazurus is alean and unfussy horror tale built on sharply drawn characters and spare, uncluttered dialogue. 82 mins. Intense sequences of horror violence, terror and some sexual references.

Bay Park Cinema, Marcus Cinema Green Bay East. McFarland USA (PG) eeg is an earnest feel-good sports dramedy, a imple culture clash story that is well-intentioned to a fault. The fact that it works can be laid at he feet of Kevin Costner, who plays another unfussy, flawed and totally real white guy who akes a journey past stereo- ypes to understanding another people, another culture. 128 mins. Violence and language.

ay Park Cinema, Marcus Cinema Green Bay East. Paddington (PG) eee Ben Whishaw provides the voice for the eponymous talking bear, who gets taken in by a family of humans (including Nicole Kidman, Julie Walters, Sally Hawk ins and Jim Broadbent). brings book ero Paddington Bear to the screen in a movie as sweet as orange marmalade, as sentimental as a stuffed toy from hildhood. 94 mins. Mild action a nd rude humor.

Bay Park inema, Marcus Cinema reen Bay East. The SpongeBob ovie: Sponge Out of ater (PG) eeg The beloved Nickelodeon character enters the live-action world, where he squares off against a pirate (Antonio Banderas). What his movie lacks in originality or freshness it comp ensates for in loopiness. 90 mins. Mild action, rude humor.

Bay Park Cinema, Marcus Cinema Green Bay East. Still Alice (PG-13) eee Oscar nominee Julianne Moore taps into baby boomer fears with her mesmerizing portrayal a professor stricken with arly-onset disease. Just the idea of such a fate can be scarier than the most terrifying horror movie, yet treats the subject with grace and compassion. portrayal of 50-year-old Alice Howland is one of the best of her career. 101 mins.

Mature themes, language, sexual reference. Bay Park Cinema. Second-Run Annie (PG) eeg The venerable Broadway smash gets a reinvention, with Quvenz- Wallis taking over as the adorable moppet being raised by a mean foster mom (Cameron Diaz). Jamie Foxx plays the tycoon who takes an interest in improving the life. 118 mins.

Mild language, rude humor. Budget Cinemas. Big Hero 6 (PG) eee Based on Marvel comic book haracters, a story-driven id-pleasing mashup of plots, ituations and ideas from scads earlier tales of misfits battling asuper villain. 102 mins. Action and peril, rude humor.

Budget inemas. The Hobbit: The attle of the Five A rmies (PG-13) eeg Peter Jackson sends this not- really-a-trilogy off in style. That means stuffing in everything the fans want, or that Jackson thinks the fans want out of these films made from the novel that came before Lord of the So is bookended by two epic fights the duel to the death with the dragon Smaug, and the finale, with its pikes and pickaxes, fluttering flags and phalanxes. 140 mins. Intense fantasy action violence, frightening images.

Budget Cinemas. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (PG-13) eee Jennifer work grows even stronger as she commands attention with each word, phrase and breath. Lawrence who elevates the movie above the fodder that is this norm in this genre. Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Donald Sutherland. 125 mins.

Violence, disturbing images. Budget From Page W12 AP From left, Craig Robinson, Rob Corddry and Clark Duke get eady for a soak in Tub Time Machine.