Movie Reviews: 'Fast & Furious 6', 'Epic', 'The Hangover Part III' and More

Movie information aggregated from MovieFone.com

Epic (also in 3D)

• Run Time: 102mins.
• Starring: Voices of Amanda Seyfried , Josh Hutcherson , Colin Farrell , Beyoncé Knowles , Johnny Knoxville
• Director: Chris Wedge
• Trailer

"Epic isn't quite destined for the “Again, again!” re-watchability of some of the Pixar classics, but for a satisfying explosion of color on a lazy summer day, it does the trick." Stephan Lee, Entertainment Weekly.

"A reasonably entertaining, adeptly crafted kidpic whose biggest crime is its near pathological reliance on overfamiliar tropes and trappings." Andrew Barker, Variety.

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Fast & Furious 6

• Run Time: 130mins.
• Starring: Vin Diesel , Paul Walker , Dwayne Johnson , Michelle Rodriguez , Gina Carano
• Director: Justin Lin
• Trailer

"Everyone involved at last seems to understand that the mode here is comic. Previous entries suffered from self-important glumness that gummed up the fun whenever the cars weren’t racing." Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice. Full Review

"Justin Lin strives to approximate something like Ocean's Eleven for petrosexuals, but testosterone outweighs wit and cleverness at every turn in Chris Morgan's starched script." Chris Cabin, Slant Magazine. Full Review

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The Hangover Part III

• Run Time: 100mins.
• Starring: Bradley Cooper , Ed Helms , Zach Galifianakis , Ken Jeong , Heather Graham
• Director: Todd Phillips
• Trailer

"You should stick around for the end credits because there's a Helms sight gag that's absolutely priceless. The movie could've used more laughs like that one." Entertainment Weekly. Full Review

"Nothing about this rote exercise feels remotely fresh. It's a re-tread of the 2009 original, sans the inspired lunacy." Claudia Puig, USA Today. Full Review

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Star Trek Into Darkness

• Run Time: 129 mins.
• Starring: Chris Pine , Zachary Quinto , Karl Urban , Benedict Cumberbatch , Zoe Saldana
• Director: J.J. Abrams
• Trailer

"The film is densely plotted, occasionally bordering on the convoluted, but the clarity and inventiveness of the direction keeps the drama and the action constantly percolating." Slant Magazine. Full Review

"Spectacular special effects, superbly crafted action sequences, plenty of humor and terrific performances render it a cut above most summer blockbusters." Claudia Puig, USA Today. Full Review

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The Great Gatsby (also in 3D)

• Run Time: N/A
• Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio , Tobey Maguire , Carey Mulligan , Isla Fisher , Joel Edgerton
• Director: Baz Luhrmann
• Trailer

"Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby is the first must-see film of Hollywood’s summer season, if for no other reason than its jaw-dropping evocation of Roaring ’20s New York — in 3-D, no less." Lou Lumenick, New York Post. Full Review

"The acting is really good, particularly Leonardo DiCaprio as Gatsby. But boy, with a running time of nearly 21/2 hours and a near-constant bombardment of visual overstimulation, it’s exhausting." Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic. Full Review

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Iron Man 3

• Run Time: 130mins.
• Starring: Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Gwyneth Paltrow, Robert Downey Jr.
• Director: Shane Black
• Trailer

"Besides rehabbing a hero who overcomes anxiety to save the world and defeat the terror-industrial complex by the simple matter of cloning his body armor, the movie proves that there’s still intelligent life on Planet Marvel. As you’re propelled out of the theater on IM3′s hydraulic lift of pleasures, you’re likely to say, “That is how it’s done.” Richard Corliss, Time.

"Given the keys to the franchise and a role in the writing, Black has massively upped the verbal sparring and kept the broad inventiveness of comic-book malleability in mind. “I’m a mechanic,” Stark says to the boy in a moment of self-doubt. That’s 100% Black, that line, a tidy code of craft, and the jitters pass." Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York.

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Any of these catch your fancy? 

All or most of these movies should be at theaters in the Iowa City area this weekend. Here are Iowa City movie show times from Google. 

Marcus Sycamore Cinema

Marcus Coral Ridge Cinema

For other suggestions, try the Bijou Theater (University of Iowa)